March 2, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — "Be a leader, not a Tweeter," is the advice offered to President Trump by Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD). However, the survey of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found that 70 percent of respondents favor Trump's use of Twitter to communicate.... (more)

March 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The script on the immigration debate flipped once again this week. Now it's a Republican president offering to reach a deal on a grand bargain that includes legalizing illegal immigrants, and it's Democrats who are balking, saying they can't trust the president to be an honest broker.... (more)

March 2, 2017

THE EDITORS OF THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump promised again on Tuesday night that Republicans would repeal and replace Obamacare. It was good to hear this expression of resolve, for achieving the desirable goal will require persistence and follow through.... (more)

March 2, 2017

BYRON YORK — Before President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress, I asked several Republican operatives, professionals who both opposed and supported Trump in the GOP primaries, to let me know what they thought.... (more)

March 2, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump has withdrawn the nomination of former Federal Communications Commission Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel. The withdrawal was listed Tuesday on the U.S. Senate website. Her renomination had been announced by former President Barack Obama in January just weeks before leaving office. It was the second time Obama tried to cue Rosenworcel for a new five-year term.... (more)

March 2, 2017

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Establishment furor over the six-week-old Trump administration is growing. Outraged New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently compared President Trump's victory to disasters in American history that killed and wounded thousands such as the Pearl Harbor surprise bombing and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.... (more)

March 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick of Judge Neil Gorsuch may just garner the 60 votes he needs to be confirmed to the bench. After heavy pressure from outside groups, some Democratic senators from red states applauded when Mr. Trump touted Mr. Gorsuch in his address to Congress on Tuesday. Among them were Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Jon Tester of Montana, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, and Angus King of Maine, who is registered as an independent but caucuses with the Democrats.... (more)

March 2, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — They've taken down General Michael Flynn. The former Trump national-security adviser resigned under fire when a false narrative -- his purported collusion with election-hacking Russians -- was inflamed by criminal intelligence leaks, exacerbated by his poor judgment (or, at the least, poor execution of his duty to brief senior administration officials). Now, the swamp is after its next scalp, Sebastian Gorka, a White House counterterrorism adviser. If the White House is wise, they won't get it.... (more)

March 2, 2017

NATIONAL REVIEW — Climate-change alarmists who have been largely unchallenged by the media over the past decade have finally met their match in Fox News host Tucker Carlson. And it ain't pretty.... (more)

March 2, 2017

TELEGRAPH — It built its reputation on princesses finding their prince, living happily ever after in storylines which set the benchmark for romance for generations of children. Now, Disney is to move firmly into a new era as it introduces its first "exclusively gay moment", disclosing the new version of Beauty and the Beast will star a manservant exploring his sexuality.... (more)

March 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — When Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall asked the state's 133 local governments to provide numbers on noncitizens and jury pools, Loudoun County produced some hefty figures. Between 2009 and 2014, the Washington, D.C., exurb of more than 350,000 residents had disqualified more than 9,000 of them for jury duty because they were not U.S. citizens.... (more)

March 1, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Seeking to jump-start his legislative agenda, President Trump stood before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night and demanded that lawmakers work with him to crack down on illegal immigration, increase economic growth and rebuild the U.S. military -- sticking to the campaign promises that resonated with blue-collar Americans and put him in the White House.... (more)

March 1, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump over the course of one hour on Tuesday delivered a remarkably well-crafted, conventional speech to a joint session of Congress that could reset the political contours of his young presidency and boost support for his agenda.... (more)

March 1, 2017

RICH LOWRY — I agree with everyone that it was the best Trump speech yet. It's been mystifying for a while why Trump wouldn't just do a few simple things to sound a little more unifying and normal, and tonight he did them. He denounced bigotry, struck an optimistic tone, invoked the American story, associated himself with many sympathetic people in the balcony and ended by saying God created us equal.... (more)

March 1, 2017

NEWSMAX — Tears streaming down her face, the wife of slain Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens was recognized by President Donald Trump during his Tuesday night speech to Congress -- eliciting a more than 2-minute-long applause.... (more)

March 1, 2017

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump "became president of the United States" when he recognized the widow of slain Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens, CNN commentator Van Jones said Tuesday.... (more)

March 1, 2017

PHILIP KLEIN — When Barack Obama was president and Republicans raised alarms over the mounting federal debt, there was always a question of whether they'd be just as willing to fight for fiscal restraint when a Republican was president. Tonight, we started to get an answer.... (more)

March 1, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A majority of online and social media defenders of Obamacare are professionals who are "paid to post," according to a digital expert. "Sixty percent of all the posts were made from 100 profiles, posting between the hours of 9 and 5 Pacific Time," said Michael Brown. "They were paid to post."... (more)

March 1, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Roughly two dozen pro-life activists, students and clergy held a prayer vigil outside a Planned Parenthood facility in the nation's capital on Tuesday, kicking off an international campaign to hold around-the-clock outreach efforts outside abortion clinics during the season of Lent.... (more)

March 1, 2017

NEWSMAX — A total of 225 companies so far have expressed interest in participating in building the border wall, The Hill reports. Large construction companies such as Caddell and engineering firms like Raytheon have added their names to a federal website to be included in the bidding process. Smaller companies also are on the list, and, according to The Hill, 20 are owned by Hispanic Americans.... (more)

February 28, 2017

WES VERNON — In selecting Tom Perez to head the Democrat National Committee, anti-American leftists have chosen the man to keep the fight going full-speed in their effort to make their capture of the Democrat Party complete.... (more)

February 28, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Bill Gates was recently quoted as saying that bioterrorism could kill more people than nuclear war, but that Western governments are not ready to deal with it. The situation may be worse than he thinks. What news stories about his remarks at the Munich Security Conference did not explain is that the FBI has still failed to resolve the question of who carried out the post-9/11 anthrax attacks on America.... (more)

February 27, 2017

NEWSMAX — Three high-profile Republican senators said Monday night they want to see a full repeal and replace of Obamacare, not merely a fix. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, and Rand Paul of Kentucky said on their individual Twitter accounts they'd like the 2010 Affordable Care Act wiped from the books so a replacement law can be put in its place.... (more)

February 27, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The leader of the conservative Freedom Caucus won't vote for an Obamacare repeal bill that includes refundable tax credits, a key part of potential legislation to gut the law.... (more)

February 27, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Houston, we have a (bigger) problem. Although it received little attention, this week total federal debt surpassed an incredible $20 trillion. To put that in perspective, that's larger than the entire economies of China, Japan, and Germany combined.... (more)