May 8, 2017

ALAN KEYES — The famous English historian Edward Gibbon took the view that the rise of Christianity played a critically important role in the fall of both the Western and Eastern divisions of the Roman Empire. Christianity's rise among the common folk of the Empire and its elites encouraged the depreciation of pagan piety.... (more)

May 8, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — After chants of "Lock Her Up," a peaceful pro-Trump protester was harassed, assaulted, and then arrested at the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 29. Police told me to back off as I recorded their rough treatment of Rita Solon, a local resident, who was simply holding a "Make America Great Again" banner and walking back and forth.... (more)

May 8, 2017

JOSEPH FARAH — Do you recall what the Republican excuse was in 2009 for not stopping Obamacare? The Democrats had control of the House of Representatives. So, in the 2010 election, Americans gave Republicans control of the House. Do you remember what the excuse was in 2011-2013 for business as usual and for giving Barack Obama carte blanch on spending bills that would run up the deficit to record levels?... (more)

May 8, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Defeating Marine Le Pen by a heavy margin, Emmanuel Macron is now France's president-elect. This isn't just a Macron victory. It's a clear defeat for those who believed Le Pen was Europe's Trump (she never was). Nor was Le Pen the candidate of French independence. Supporting Brexit and opposing Le Pen are not mutually exclusive.... (more)

May 8, 2017

GARTH KANT — Statistics contained within an official government report indicate the Obama administration requested the unmasking of almost three times as many Americans under surveillance during the election year of 2016 than during the year before.... (more)

May 8, 2017

NEWSMAX — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday night signed what he calls a ban on so-called "sanctuary cities" that allows police to ask about a person's immigration status and threatens sheriffs with jail if they don't cooperate with federal authorities. He did so over intense opposition from immigrant-rights groups and Democrats, who say the law echoes Arizona's immigration crackdown in 2010 that prompted national controversy and lawsuits.... (more)

May 7, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Failing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in the Senate would be "catastrophic," Sen. Ted Cruz said Saturday. The Hill reported Cruz, R-Texas, said he anticipates passing the American Health Care Act, or another healthcare reform bill, through the Senate will be a difficult task with only 52 Republicans in the Senate.... (more)

May 6, 2017

YOUR NEWS WIRE — Oxford University claims that parents should be allowed to kill newborn babies because their lives are "morally irrelevant" and killing them is no different than an abortion. According to a group of medical ethicists at the prestigious University, newborn babies are not "actual persons" and they have "no moral right to life."... (more)

May 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Rand Paul has issued formal requests with the White House and the U.S. intelligence community to see if he was ever targeted for surveillance by the Obama administration. Charges that former President Barack Obama may have politicized intelligence agencies was in the news again on Friday when Mr. Paul announced a personal inquiry into the matter. The Republican gave an exclusive interview with Breitbart News and informed his 1.2 million Twitter followers of his concerns.... (more)

May 6, 2017

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Now that the House has passed a bill to repeal and replace the healthcare law known as Obamacare, Republican senators will begin putting their stamp on the legislation as early as this week.... (more)

May 6, 2017

BYRON YORK — The House's narrow passage of a partial repeal of Obamacare dominated media coverage Thursday. Happening at the same time, but receiving little coverage, was the Senate's approval of a $1.1 trillion spending bill that was far more divisive than Obamacare among Republicans in both houses of Congress.... (more)

May 6, 2017

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Jean Pierre Planchart, a year old, has the drawn face of an old man and a cry that is little more than a whimper. His ribs show through his skin. He weighs just 11 pounds.... (more)

May 6, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The FBI is under mounting pressure from the Senate to explain the circumstances behind a terrorist attack in Garland, Texas in 2015, although it's still far from clear whether the FBI intends to explain why an FBI agent was at the scene and did nothing.... (more)

May 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Following through on an executive order signed by President Trump last week, the Interior Department on Friday released a list of the 21 national monuments and five marine monuments now under federal review. The list includes sites dating all the way back to 1924's Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho up through the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, established late in former President Obama's term. Other notable monuments under review include Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante, Hanford Reach in Washington, Grand Canyon-Parashant in Arizona, the Papahanaumokuakea marine monument off the coast of Hawaii, and a host of others.... (more)

May 5, 2017

REUTERS — U.S. President Donald Trump, on his third try at overhauling Obamacare, sent no tweets attacking fellow Republicans, set no deadlines and issued no public ultimatums. Lawmakers who met with him said he spoke with them, not at them.... (more)

May 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill to repeal Obamacare on Thursday, handing Republican President Donald Trump a victory that could prove short-lived as the healthcare legislation heads into a likely tough battle in the Senate.... (more)

May 5, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — The Republicans in the House finally did what they said they wanted to come to Washington to do. They voted Thursday to repeal Obamacare, but by the slimmest of margins. Speaker Paul D. Ryan needed 216 votes and he turned out 217.... (more)

May 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump praised Australia's government-funded universal healthcare system moments after touting GOP House passage of bill criticized for leaving millions uninsured, The Washington Post reported.... (more)

May 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz Thursday called on his Republican colleagues to "continue to improve" the revised American Health Care Act that was approved by the House by four votes.... (more)

May 5, 2017

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Senate Republicans said Thursday they won't vote on the House-passed bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, but will write their own legislation instead.... (more)

May 5, 2017

PHILIP KLEIN — After an earlier iteration of the House healthcare bill was pulled from the floor for lack of support, I excoriated Republicans, calling their failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, the "biggest broken promise in political history."... (more)

May 5, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — President Donald Trump has a new executive order in the works, one to open the doors for churches to endorse political candidates without losing tax exempt status. Freedom From Religion Foundation -- exit, stage left. Don't let the door hit you. And here, take a Bible for the long walk home.... (more)

May 5, 2017

BOB UNRUH — A school district that employs a "gay" F-bombing assistant principal who was captured on an 18-minute video berating two pro-life advocates on a public sidewalk has been warned to make amends or face legal consequences.... (more)

May 5, 2017

WALL STREET JOURNAL — No one exposed to the seductions of the bewitching "Spy in the Wild"--the "Nature" series about an undercover team of robotic creatures transmitting intelligence on the lives and works of members of the animal communities they infiltrated--will be surprised at anything that goes on in this film thick with agents who go by names like Spy Turtle, Spy Dolphin, Spy Squid and Spy Puffer, to name just a few.... (more)

May 4, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in "recent weeks" touting the lurid fake "Trump dossier." He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI's investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election -- months after the FBI had already assessed the "dossier" as non-credible.... (more)