February 7, 2017

ALAN KEYES — "I was deeply saddened to hear the new administration say something along the lines of upholding the rights of the LBGTQ community. It was my relearning of the lesson about not putting your trust in princes....... (more)

February 6, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — In a recent article, "Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges," The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American students. The percentage of foreign students enrolling in both public and private colleges and universities has skyrocketed.... (more)

February 6, 2017

NEWSMAX — Some Republicans are slamming President Donald Trump for his kind words about Vladimir Putin. Trump in an interview that aired Sunday during the Fox Super Bowl pre-game show said he had respect for the Russian president and asked whether the U.S. was innocent when Fox News' Bill O'Reilly called Putin a killer.... (more)

February 6, 2017

BYRON YORK — James Robart, the U.S. district judge in Washington State, offered little explanation for his decision to stop President Trump's executive order temporarily suspending non-American entry from seven terror-plagued countries. Robart simply declared his belief that Washington State, which in its lawsuit against Trump argued that the order is both illegal and unconstitutional, would likely win the case when it is tried.... (more)

February 6, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — The only U.S. senator on President Trump's list of potential candidates to be on the U.S. Supreme Court bench is hailing Trump's selection of Neil Gorsuch of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to fill seat. On Tuesday, Trump named Gorsuch to fill the seat open since the sudden February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia.... (more)

February 6, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — Everyone knows about the tens of millions of dollars various George Soros front groups poured into Hillary Clinton's failed presidential efforts in 2016, but the Republicans he supported -- from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and his predecessor, John Boehner, have received less attention.... (more)

February 6, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — Anarchy takes many forms. There is street violence, like that at the University of California at Berkeley last Wednesday, a microcosm of the anti-Trump rioting all over the country. A mob protesting a planned speech by Breitbart writer and self-styled iconoclast Milo Yiannopoulos turned ugly as 1,500 gathered.... (more)

February 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — More than half of IRS employees found to have intentionally cheated on their taxes last year were allowed to keep their jobs, according to numbers released by the inspector general that suggest the agency is still reluctant to punish its own staffers for breaking tax laws.... (more)

February 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The climate change debate went nuclear Sunday over a whistleblower's explosive allegation that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association manipulated data to advance a political agenda by hiding the global warming "pause." In an article on the Climate Etc. blog, John Bates, who retired last year as principal scientist of the National Climatic Data Center, accused the lead author of the 2015 NOAA "pausebuster" report of trying to "discredit" the hiatus through "flagrant manipulation of scientific integrity guidelines and scientific publication standards."... (more)

February 6, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump has broken a modern day presidential record for action, moving faster than any chief executive since Harry Truman to put his agenda in play.... (more)

February 5, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A former Defense Department official under the Obama administration has raised the specter of a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from power. In an editorial penned for Foreign Policy, senior Pentagon policy official Rosa Brooks publicly suggested a military insurrection against the Trump administration may be the only option to oust one of the most divisive presidents in American history.... (more)

February 5, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — Donald Trump is about to get a tough test of his presidential leadership, with no true-or-false or multiple-choice questions. Every new president gets the test, usually administered by international creeps and bad guys. There's no fudging the answers. Reality is the teacher, grading on a steep curve, and presidents pass or fail. There's no soft grading.... (more)

February 5, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — From time to time over the years, the eminent historian Daniel Pipes has lamented that treason, not just as a crime but as a concept, appears defunct in the West. The question of bringing treason charges against jihadists has been raised from time to time. Often its very asking proves Dr. Pipes's point: Most radical Islamic terrorists are not American citizens; as to them, treason is not a cognizable offense because traitorous conduct is central to the crime.... (more)

February 5, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for the first time since moving into the White House on Saturday, as violence in eastern Ukraine has spiked over the past week.... (more)

February 4, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — No one's interested in trying to save Obamacare's centerpiece as it faces certain death. Even as the healthcare industry heavily lobbies Republicans to keep the Affordable Care Act's other main components, such as its subsidies and Medicaid expansion, doctors, hospitals and insurers are stepping away from the law's individual mandate for people to buy insurance or pay a fine.... (more)

February 4, 2017

NEWSMAX — A federal judge in Boston on Friday declined to extend a temporary restraining order that allowed some immigrants into the United States from certain countries despite being barred by U.S. President Donald Trump's recent executive order.... (more)

February 4, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered a temporary nationwide restraining order to halt President Trump's executive order that bans refugees and asylum seekers from seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa.... (more)

February 4, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Justice Department will ask for an emergency stay to honor President Trump's executive action on immigration admissions, the White House's Office of the Press Secretary said in a statement late Friday.... (more)

February 4, 2017

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — There are many people to thank for the coming accession of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Donald Trump for winning the election. Hillary Clinton for losing it. Mitch McConnell for holding open the High Court seat through 2016, resolute and immovable against furious (and hypocritical) opposition from Democrats and media. And, of course, Harry Reid.... (more)

February 4, 2017

NEWSMAX — An executive order to overturn Obama administration's LGBT workplace rights -- which President Donald Trump said he never had any intention to sign or impose -- was kiboshed by Jared Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump before reaching the Oval Office, Politico reported.... (more)

February 4, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The House voted Friday to repeal an Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing methane emissions from fracking. Lawmakers voted 221-191 in favor of a resolution disapproving of the Obama-era rule from the Department of the Interior. Federal law allows Congress to override recently approved regulations under the Congressional Review Act.... (more)

February 4, 2017

THE COUNTER JIHAD REPORT — Stephen Coughlin arguably understands the enemy threat doctrine and how our enemy is strategically operating at a global level better than anyone else in America. In 2008, Coughlin -- an attorney with an expertise in international law and a Major in the U.S. Army (reserves) specializing in intelligence and strategic communications -- was called to the Pentagon after 9/11 and worked as a contractor for the Directorate for Intelligence at the Pentagon under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Peter Pace (USMC) as the Islamic Law expert for the Department of Defense.... (more)

February 3, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — At the March for Life, Vice President Mike Pence said, "Life is winning through the steady advance of science that illuminates when life begins, more and more, every day." White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said, "Science and medicine have joined religion and morality in causing many Americans to rethink just how fragile and how triumphant human life truly is."... (more)

February 2, 2017

JOAN SWIRSKY — A day or two before the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2017, I watched a reporter interviewing five attractive, intelligent, articulate women from California, who were all making the long cross-country trip to the Women's March on Washington on January 21st. Amazingly, not one woman was able to express a persuasive or even rational reason for the trip, but instead resorted to time-worn platitudes, bromides, and leftist talking points about "unity" and "solidarity" and "getting the message out." Um...what message?... (more)

February 2, 2017

GEORGE WILL — With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, "If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence," but "there is no such philosophizing in our Constitution," which is "a practical and pragmatic charter of government."... (more)