April 14, 2017

SIENA HOEFLING — "That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. That was a horrible, horrible thing." – President Donald Trump, April 6, 2017. When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly used chemical weapons against his own people, U.S. President Donald Trump answered with punitive missiles. Assad violated previous agreements, said Trump, and the United States had a security interest "to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons."... (more)

April 13, 2017

A Special Report from the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism; Cliff Kincaid, Director

CLIFF KINCAID — Ever since President Trump's missile strike on Syria on April 6, which angered Russia's Vladimir Putin, the Washington Post has ever-so-subtly backed away from its robotic "Russian interference to help elect Trump" claims, asserted with absolute certainty. The Post now, on April 7, calls it the "alleged" Russian efforts to "interfere in the 2016 presidential race." The Post no longer sounds so sure of itself and its anonymous anti-Trump intelligence agency sources.... (more)

April 13, 2017

BOB UNRUH — News headlines on Wednesday included Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Russia as well as that nation's veto of a United Nations resolution against Syria over its sarin gas attack on citizens. But the biggest headline, talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh said, is the one that confirmed the FBI obtained a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser during the 2016 presidential race.... (more)

April 13, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republican lawmakers made their first official inquiry into opening an investigation of reports the Obama administration's national security adviser and others "unmasked" several Trump campaign officials swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against foreign targets during last year's presidential election campaign.... (more)

April 13, 2017

GEORGE WILL — With a mellifluous name suggesting bucolic tranquility, Representative Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, is an unlikely object of the caterwauling recently directed at him and the House Freedom Caucus he leads. The vituperation was occasioned by the HFC's role rescuing Republicans from embracing an unpopular first draft of legislation to replace Obamacare.... (more)

April 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — It is "infinitely safer" for President Donald Trump to keep chief strategist Steve Bannon inside the White House rather than boot him amid reported infighting, according to political commentator Charles Krauthammer.... (more)

April 13, 2017

CAL THOMAS — Nearly three dozen men sit on death row in Arkansas, where capital punishment has been suspended since 2005. Unless clemency is granted, seven of them -- an eighth man was granted a temporary reprieve -- will be given lethal injections all within a 10-day period, between April 17 and 27.... (more)

April 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steamed towards the region.... (more)

April 13, 2017

FOX NEWS — The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, senior law enforcement, Border Patrol, and congressional sources told Fox News.... (more)

April 13, 2017

LEO HOHMANN — A government watchdog agency has filed a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives seeking records related to a proposed rule change that would ban certain types of AR-15 ammunition.... (more)

April 12, 2017

NEWSMAX — The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of Donald Trump adviser Carter Page as part of a probe of possible links between Russia and the Trump campaign, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.... (more)

April 12, 2017

GARTH KANT — The White House press secretary was visibly amused by the suggestion from a network reporter that Russian President Vladimir Putin was snubbing the Trump administration, after months of the mainstream media advancing the Democrats' narrative that the Russian had been colluding with the Trump team.... (more)

April 12, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — He has supported Donald Trump since the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign, but former presidential adviser and presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan believes the president acted "rashly" when he decided to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield in response to a suspected chemical gas attack by the regime of Bashar al-Assad.... (more)

April 12, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — As pressure builds on the Trump administration to articulate a clear strategy for U.S. involvement in Syria, White House officials have attempted to straddle the line between supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad's removal and opposing the commitment of American military forces to his ouster.... (more)

April 12, 2017

BYRON YORK — Belligerence is in the air in Washington. President Trump is enjoying (extremely rare) bipartisan praise for a cruise-missile attack on Syria. There's tough talk from some Republicans about more. And even tougher talk about Russia. North Korea, too.... (more)

April 12, 2017

NEWSMAX — Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., called for House Speaker Paul Ryan to take a new "direction" or step down, CNN reported. "We need either a change in direction from this speaker, or we need a new speaker," Amash said during a town hall meeting in Cedar Springs, Mich., when answering questions about the gridlock in Congress.... (more)

April 12, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump needs to learn the identity of the man or woman leaking embarrassing information about infighting between White House staffers and fire them immediately, veteran political commentator Michael Reagan says.... (more)

April 12, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared "a new era" in immigration enforcement on Tuesday, saying his prosecutors will try to bring stiffer criminal charges against repeat illegal immigrants and smugglers as part of President Trump's crackdown. Mr. Sessions said his enforcement priorities will end the "catch and release" practices of the Obama administration and give the Justice Department a more active role in stemming illegal immigration.... (more)

April 12, 2017

BOB UNRUH — The American Center for Law and Justice on Tuesday declared victory over the Internal Revenue Service -- at least for one of its clients -- after a Washington state group with "tea party" in its name was approved by the federal agency to receive tax-exempt status as a lobbying organization. It took seven years.... (more)

April 12, 2017

BOSTON GLOBE — In the world of important political documents -- from the Magna Carta to the Pentagon Papers -- there are also those known for more pedestrian reasons. Count Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" in that category.... (more)

April 12, 2017

CHERYL K. CHUMLEY — CNN's Don Lemon made national headlines just recently when he refused to cover Susan Rice, and the matter of her unmasking of names of those tied to President Donald Trump. He said it was a non-story -- and the conservative world, rightly so, reacted with accusations of bias. That fiasco came on the heels of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's long-winded, ridiculous report on Trump's taxes -- a 20-plus minute annoyance that ended with a revelation, basically, that went like this: Trump filed.... (more)

April 12, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Oh, how nice, leave it to the intellectuals to once again, make lemons out of lemonade -- freedom out of Communism. MIT Press, that supposed bastion of scientific thought, the place where the brainiacs flock and fly -- meaning, this wasn't an "oops, my bad" moment -- has just put out a new book aimed at the kiddie market. It's called "Communism for Kids." And it's hitting the "best-seller" Amazon lists for the "communism and socialism" section -- yes, that's truly a section.... (more)

April 12, 2017

NATIONAL REVIEW — Your local PBS station might seem like an unlikely place to find a documentary critical of public education, but that is exactly what viewers get this week with the late Andrew Coulson's new documentary School, Inc. The film doesn't attack public schools. Rather, it asks why education has yet to behave like other industries have in the last 200 years or so -- and why it has failed to achieve comparable gains.... (more)

April 10, 2017

ALAN KEYES — "The Trump administration rewarded Border Patrol agents for their support of Trump as president by picking an Obama holdover whom they despise to be their boss.... Many expressed regret for having supported Trump in the first place and for having believed he would actually listen to them and care about what they experienced while risking their lives for other Americans....... (more)

April 10, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — The mainstream media have not challenged the claim that chemical weapons were used by Syrian and/or Russian forces. Hence, they have been forced to explain how they were used when Obama officials previously claimed they had been removed from Syria. It's another new low for a press corps that was eager to regurgitate whatever the Obama administration had claimed as a success in foreign policy.... (more)