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March 30, 2017
CLIFF KINCAID As someone who goes back decades with Accuracy in Media, I remember the days when Ted Koppel, then with ABC News and host of "Nightline," would cover serious matters and treat his conservative critics with respect. So Koppel's attack on Sean Hannity of Fox News was a shocker. Something has happened to journalism, and the problem is not with Hannity, it's with Koppel.... (more)
March 30, 2017
WASHINGTON EXAMINER President Trump accused three conservative lawmakers in a series of tweets Thursday of stalling the legislative process on healthcare and tax reform. "If Reps. Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and Raul Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts and reform," Trump tweeted just after 5 p.m. ET.... (more)
March 30, 2017
WASHINGTON EXAMINER The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus argued Thursday that President Trump is "not being well served" by attacking members of the group after they broke with the GOP over healthcare reform last week.... (more)
March 30, 2017
WASHINGTON EXAMINER House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's concerned that President Trump might strike a deal with Democrats should Republican lawmakers fail to come up with a follow-up to the failed American Health Care Act.... (more)
March 30, 2017
GARTH KANT A former Obama official appears to have inadvertently confirmed the former president's administration spied on then President-elect Donald Trump's transition team for political purposes. Speaking on MSNBC March 2, Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, confirmed that not only was the previous administration collecting intelligence on the Trump team, it was attempting to share it as far and wide as possible.... (more)
March 30, 2017
ASSOCIATED PRESS House Republicans are taking aim at the Environmental Protection Agency, targeting the way officials use science to develop new regulations.... (more)
March 30, 2017
NEWSMAX An ethics lawyer who worked under former President Barack Obama said Wednesday he believes Ivanka Trump's official role at the White House violates federal law. Norman Eisen appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" and was asked about President Donald Trump's daughter taking a job at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of the fact she is not accepting a salary for it.... (more)
March 30, 2017
LEO HOHMANN President Trump has decided not to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, at least for now, according to published reports citing pressure from the U.S. State Department and the King of Jordan.... (more)
March 30, 2017
BOB UNRUH U.S. Air Force officials at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas have been warned by a law firm that they need to withdraw punitive notations from an officer's personnel file concerning his view of homosexual behavior or face legal action, because they were added on the whim of another officer.... (more)
March 29, 2017
CLIFF KINCAID The Heritage Foundation article "We Don't Have to Choose Between Putin and George Soros" is a very effective rebuttal to claims in the media that conservatives who oppose the influence of billionaire George Soros in foreign affairs are therefore siding with another billionaire, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.... (more)
March 29, 2017
JOAN SWIRSKY It's easy to deride the aberrant behavior of the leftists we've been unhappily witness to, both over the course of the presidential campaign and particularly since Donald J. Trump ascended to the presidency on November 8th, 2016. After all, they've never recovered from the Bush v Gore race of 2000!... (more)
March 29, 2017
SUSAN FERRECHIO Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate aren't ready to walk away from efforts to pass legislation repealing and replacing Obamacare, even if it means compromise among conservatives or working with Democrats.... (more)
March 29, 2017
TIMOTHY P. CARNEY The Art of the Deal didn't work. The Trump White House tried simply commanding the intransigent conservatives on healthcare. The conservatives didn't follow orders. Trump tried heckling the resisters on Twitter, but that just alienated them. Trump repeatedly, though indirectly, threatened to work against the re-election of no votes.... (more)
March 29, 2017
NEWSMAX President Donald Trump's declaration he is willing to work with Democrat lawmakers to move his agenda forward is "a rookie idea" that will not end well, former House majority leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, told Newsmax TV.... (more)
March 29, 2017
JOSEPH FARAH May I speak frankly about what we just endured over recent weeks with regard to the House debate over Ryancare? House Speaker Paul Ryan is simply a non-smoking, better-looking, non-alcoholic version of John Boehner who had no desire to overturn Obamacare because he is an establishment Republican who detests conservatives more than Democrats and is a sellout to the insurance companies with little regard for the American people who would be hit with skyrocketing health-care insurance premiums had the bill he crafted been passed by Congress and signed by President Trump. That was a mouthful, but it needed to be said in one deep breath.... (more)
March 29, 2017
ART MOORE Despite his support for the failed House health-care bill, President Trump knew when to walk away from a "bad deal," according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer. At the daily briefing Monday, Spicer was asked if the president could still work with the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which led the opposition to the American Health Care Act.... (more)
March 29, 2017
NEWSMAX House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says he will not be heeding the call of the panel's ranking Democrat to recuse himself from its probe of attempted Russian interference in the presidential election.... (more)
March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES A central piece of President Trump's executive order Tuesday nixes the federal government's use of the obscure "social cost of carbon" calculation, ending an Obama-era experiment that put an official price tag on greenhouse gas emissions.... (more)
March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES President Trump's executive action Tuesday to begin unraveling the Clean Power Plan may also signal America's de facto exit from the landmark Paris climate treaty
March 29, 2017
BOB UNRUH A coalition of experts on civil rights is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to clean up the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division by removing political activists from leadership, ridding the office of "ideological rot" and stopping its bureaucrats from abusing their authority.... (more)
March 29, 2017
WORLDNETDAILY U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that jurisdictions must demonstrate they are not sanctuary cities to receive financial grants from the Justice Department. He said he's carrying out a policy laid out by the Obama administration last year, which identified three grant programs
March 29, 2017
CHRISTIAN POST The Islamic State terrorist group has kidnapped nearly 200 children and reportedly plans to use them as human shields in its battle against Iraqi-led coalition forces in Mosul.... (more)
March 27, 2017
ALAN KEYES These days, the logic of statements made by our politicians and government officials often defies reason. Take this statement, made by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, justifying the cuts the Trump administration wants Congress to make in the U.S. State Department's budget:... (more)
March 27, 2017
CLIFF KINCAID BuzzFeed, described by Wikipedia as "a liberal American internet media company based in New York City," is in the "donor spotlight" at the national news museum in Washington, D.C., known as the Newseum. The "honor" demonstrates how the media have changed and how low they have sunk.... (more)
March 27, 2017
THE RESURGENT Representative Mo Brooks, a Republican from the 5th Congressional District in Alabama, has filed a one-sentence bill to completely repeal Obamacare.... (more)
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