April 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans triggered the "nuclear option" Thursday, changing the filibuster rules and paving the way for Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's first Supreme Court pick, to be approved later this week.... (more)

April 6, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES — For the first 10 weeks of President Trump's administration, no adviser loomed larger in the public imagination than Stephen K. Bannon, the raw and rumpled former chairman of Breitbart News who considers himself a "virulently anti-establishment" revolutionary out to destroy the "administrative state."... (more)

April 6, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — On Tuesday, in a National Review Online column, I contended that the reported involvement of former national-security adviser Susan Rice in the unmasking of Trump officials appears to be a major scandal -- it suggests that the Obama White House, of which she was a high-ranking staffer, abused the power to collect intelligence on foreign targets, by using it to spy on the opposition party and its presidential candidate.... (more)

April 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Congress's top tax expert led Republicans Wednesday in demanding President Trump fire IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, saying the tax agency cannot be repaired as long as he's at the helm. "Trust in the IRS is hitting rock-bottom," the Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a letter calling on Mr. Trump to take action.... (more)

April 6, 2017

KATHERINE TIMPF — On Tuesday, the Boston Globe published an article examining Melania Trump's official White House photo, and promoted it with a tweet asking: "So what's with the crossed arms?"... (more)

April 6, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The world's Muslim population grew much faster than Christians over the past five years, and their births will outnumber those of Christian moms for the first time in 2030, signaling a tremendous global religious shift, according to a new survey.... (more)

April 5, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — A very disturbing report has come out from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Fox News that Hillary Clinton and six top staffers kept their Top Secret and/or Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearances after she left her Secretary of State position in 2013. And they also kept their physical access to TS/SCI facilities and databases, which required those TS/SCI clearances, possibly up through the 2016 election and beyond.... (more)

April 5, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The thing to bear in mind is that the White House does not do investigations. Not criminal investigations, not intelligence investigations. Remember that.... (more)

April 5, 2017

GARTH KANT — At the very least, Susan Rice lied about what she did, what she knew and when she knew it. That is by her own admission. The question is, how big a lie was it?... (more)

April 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — Seeing former national security adviser Susan Rice's name in headlines is nothing new, said Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who dubbed her "the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration foreign policy," for her central role in several scandals.... (more)

April 5, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — When Fox News revealed that it was Susan Rice who "unmasked" the identity of incoming Trump officials in surveillance data gathered by U.S. intelligence agents, it surprised no one.... (more)

April 5, 2017

CHARLES HURT — Well, that explains the deafening silence from President Obama. All these months, it turns out, it was his right-hand hatchet gal and exposed serial prevaricator Susan Rice who was behind the scenes in his administration working all the levers of the most powerful espionage machine on planet Earth to spy on Mr. Obama's political enemies.... (more)

April 5, 2017

ART MOORE — The reactions in Washington to the revelation that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice sought to unmask the identities of Americans connected with President Trump's campaign and transition who were mentioned in foreign surveillance intelligence reports predictably has fallen largely along partisan lines.... (more)

April 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — If former President Barack Obama ordered or knew about names of incoming President Donald Trump's transition staff being unmasked after they were gathered during surveillance activities, that is a "big deal," Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday.... (more)

April 5, 2017

BYRON YORK — Tuesday brought a much-anticipated chance to hear Susan Rice address reports she requested the "unmasking" of what might be called Trump persons caught in U.S. intelligence intercepts. The only problem was, Rice did not address reports she requested the unmasking of Trump persons caught in U.S. intelligence intercepts.... (more)

April 5, 2017

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — After the healthcare repeal bill failed, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was proud of the bill and of the "long, inclusive, member-driven process that we had." Freedom Caucus members chafed at this characterization.... (more)

April 5, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Illegal immigration across the southwest border is down more than 60 percent so far under President Trump, officials revealed Tuesday, even before the first new agent is hired or the first mile of his promised border wall is constructed. Mr. Trump took a victory lap over the "record reductions" in illegal crossers, saying he is already saving Americans' jobs by preventing them from having to compete with unauthorized workers.... (more)

April 5, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Three prominent House liberals have called for what amounts to a mass burning of books and DVDs that question global warming and sent to 200,000 K-12 teachers, a ban rejected as an "April Fool's joke" by the science institute that provided the materials for free.... (more)

April 4, 2017

GARTH KANT — Multiple reports indicate former National Security Adviser Susan Rice was the Obama administration official who requested the unmasking of incoming Trump administration officials.... (more)

April 3, 2017

FOX NEWS — Multiple sources tell Fox News that Susan Rice, former national security adviser under then-President Barack Obama, requested to unmask the names of Trump transition officials caught up in surveillance.... (more)

April 3, 2017

NEWSBUSTERS — A massive revelation in the alleged surveillance of President Trump's aides broke Monday morning when Bloomberg reported that "[f]ormer National Security Adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign."... (more)

April 3, 2017

DAILY CALLER — GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he believes former National Security Advisor Susan Rice should testify before Congress on her request to unmask the names of Trump transition officials collected during routine intelligence-gathering operations.... (more)

April 3, 2017

BYRON YORK — Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has been sharply critical of the panel's Republican chairman, Devin Nunes, for visiting the White House to view classified documents that Nunes says show the Obama administration intercepted the communications of Donald Trump associates before the president took office in January.... (more)

April 3, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — Kim Jong-un may be "a crazy fat kid" with a goofy haircut, but he is doing what his father and his grandfather never could. With nuclear weapons to play with, he frightens the West enough to make it start thinking about doing something about the most dangerous crazy fat kid on earth.... (more)

April 3, 2017

ALAN KEYES — To say the least, the Obama administration was not notable for respecting the "special relationship" that is supposed to exist between the United States and Great Britain since the two countries led the Allies to victory in World War II.... (more)