March 14, 2017

Trump never promised to free health care from government control

ALAN KEYES — As things are going right now, it looks like sincere conservatives who accepted the "lesser-of-evils" reasoning to vote for Donald Trump will soon be choking down its consequences when it comes to policy. President Trump is praising the bill to "repeal and replace" Obamacare offered by the GOP's House Leadership.... (more)

March 13, 2017

LARRY KLAYMAN — This morning I turned on Fox News only to watch Rep. Peter King of New York trash some in the Republican Party and the so-called "far right," undoubtedly meaning yours truly, over our outrage at the apparent misuse of the nation's intelligence agencies to not only wiretap President Trump and his associates, like Gen. Michael Flynn, but also to conduct surveillance on the populace as a whole.... (more)

March 13, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — One of The Washington Post's big disclosures on Sunday was a front-page story about President Donald Trump's choice of a cemetery. It was the latest contribution from reporter David A. Fahrenthold, whose job it is to probe every aspect of the life of the new President, no matter how esoteric and trivial.... (more)

March 13, 2017

GARTH KANT — The woman who is perhaps the nation's top investigative journalist is fighting back against Big Brother. Sharyl Attkisson shared with WND a detailed and harrowing description of what it was like to experience a reality straight out of Orwell: The reporter claims she was spied on by the Obama administration while investigating its scandals.... (more)

March 13, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Sunday warned House Republicans could pay the ultimate price in the 2018 elections if they vote in support of the Obamacare replacement bill.... (more)

March 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — The American Health Care Act does not repeal Obamacare, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Sunday, and he wants to know why Republican lawmakers do not put the clean repeal order they voted for just over a year ago on President Donald Trump's desk rather than agree to House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan.... (more)

March 13, 2017

LEO HOHMANN — American intelligence agencies have growing evidence that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group maintains a network of sleeper cells in the United States, according to a new report. Though Hezbollah has not conducted a major attack on U.S. soil, the group could decide to strike key American sites should U.S.-Iran relations deteriorate substantially, according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism.... (more)

March 12, 2017

PAUL BREMMER — President Trump made his view clear during his Feb. 28 address to Congress: Obamacare is a "disaster" which must be repealed and replaced. However, House Republicans are wracked by divisions over how to go about repealing and replacing the health-care law.... (more)

March 12, 2017

SUSAN FERRECHIO — House Republican leaders next week will continue to sell conservatives on their proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare as their controversial legislation churns through a third committee, and government number crunchers provide a much-anticipated price tag.... (more)

March 12, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Commerce Department is investigating claims by one of its former scientists that an Obama administration climate change study was rushed out using "unverified" data.... (more)

March 11, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — It was a case of incredibly bad timing on the part of CBS News. On the same day we learned that there had been a massive leak of classified information engineered through President Obama's CIA, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley featured one of Obama's former CIA directors arguing that Trump was being irrational by criticizing the intelligence community.... (more)

March 11, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump reportedly dished out a threat to Republicans who do not support the House GOP's Obamacare replacement bill: back the bill or I won't support your reelection.... (more)

March 11, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The political nonprofit group aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is targeting conservative holdouts with television ads urging them to "vote with President Trump" and support the party's legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare.... (more)

March 11, 2017

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL — Republicans' long-anticipated Obamacare replacement has received a less than warm reception, even within the party itself. Among the disappointed is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who now says he's found a decades-old rule that he hopes will allow Republicans to pass a more thorough, far-reaching health care reform bill.... (more)

March 11, 2017

NEWSMAX — An American Bar Association committee has given Judge Neil Gorsuch its top rating, the association announced in a letter Thursday. The ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary rated Gorsuch "well qualified" to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, its highest rating. The ABA announced the rating in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Iowa's Chuck Grassley, and ranking member Dianne Feinstein of California.... (more)

March 11, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump praised the Secret Service Saturday for apprehending a "troubled person" who breached White House security late Friday night. Agents "did a fantastic job" in stopping the man with a backpack near the south entrance of the White House shortly before midnight, Mr. Trump said.... (more)

March 10, 2017

CNBC — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has called on Congress to raise the United States debt limit "at the first opportunity." In a letter to congressional leaders dated Wednesday, Mnuchin said the Treasury will stop issuing certain state and local securities on March 15, when the most recent suspension of the debt limit expires.... (more)

March 10, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — With unmatched hostility to the political establishment and an energy unlike anything seen before in modern American politics, Donald Trump promised swift and fundamental change on the campaign trail. After a few months on the job, though, the populist president appears pacified.... (more)

March 10, 2017

NEWSMAX — Vice President Mike Pence can overrule a Senate parliamentarian and bulk up the House healthcare bill to include conservative-favored reforms, like letting insurance companies sell across state lines, according to Sen. Ted Cruz.... (more)

March 10, 2017

NEWSMAX — Pope Francis says the church must study whether it's possible to ordain married men to minister in remote communities facing priest shortages. In an interview published Thursday with Germany's Die Zeit, Francis stressed that removing the celibacy rule is not the answer to the Catholic Church's priest shortage.... (more)

March 9, 2017

CHELSEA SCHILLING — Americans are expressing outrage after a CNN host ate a cooked human brain with a group of cannibals in India for the Sunday premiere of the network's show, "Believer." "Want to know what a dead guy's brain tastes like? Charcoal," CNN host and religion scholar Reza Aslan wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. "It was burnt to a crisp! #Believer."... (more)

March 9, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — On "Fox & Friends," President Donald Trump declared, in regard to the protests against him, "I think that President Obama's behind it because his people are certainly behind it." Once again, Trump has struck gold. It's "gold" in the form of taxpayer money. In addition to funding from billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros, we find a federal financial connection to some of the anti-Trump protests.... (more)

March 9, 2017

BRYAN FISCHER — Well, now we know why the GOP establishment kept their ObamaCare replacement package locked in a room where not even GOP senators could read it. Everyone naturally wondered what they were hiding, and now we know. They were hiding it because it is a horrible, no good, very bad piece of legislation.... (more)

March 9, 2017

DAN POPP — The "Republicans" have introduced an antidote for Obamacare, and -- surprise! -- it isn't the Constitution. Or free markets. Our old Marxist pal Paul Ryan, who once ran for Vice President on the promise to "save" FDR's lawless Ponzi scheme, has cooked up a "replacement" for the ACA.... (more)

March 9, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat said if Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act with legislation just approved by two key House committees, they will make the same mistakes as Democrats and face voters' wrath.... (more)