May 18, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Years ago, I agreed to be interviewed for a film which was included in an exhibit for the national museum in Washington, D.C. known as the Newseum. It was on the use of anonymous sources. In the film, which is still playing, I cautioned about their use, saying that they can be inaccurate or even non-existent, and that they reduce trust in the news media.... (more)

May 18, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — A recent National Review article asked, "How Do You Keep False Information Away from the President?" Unfortunately, another article on the same site by editor Rich Lowry, a Fox News commentator, began by quoting from the Washington Post, but added the qualifier, "if true."... (more)

May 18, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller Wednesday as a special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into allegations that Russia and Donald Trump's campaign collaborated to influence the 2016 presidential election, giving Mueller sweeping powers and the authority to prosecute any crimes uncovered in the probe.... (more)

May 18, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — Former FBI Director James Comey's decision last year to clear Hillary Clinton of gross negligence in handling classified information was met with so much frustration within the FBI that Comey felt compelled to put out a bureau-wide memo to employees defending his actions.... (more)

May 18, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Democrats, media figures and even some Republicans suggest President Trump's alleged request for former FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation into fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn amounts to obstruction of justice, but a former federal prosecutor says what we know thus far does not rise to that level and is no different than Barack Obama's efforts to exonerate Hillary Clinton.... (more)

May 18, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Mueller will investigate 'any links and/or coordination' between Russia and Donald Trump. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as "special counsel" for purposes of the so-called Russia investigation underscores a point I have made through the years, whenever the subject of special prosecutors or independent counsels rears its head.... (more)

May 18, 2017

BYRON YORK — Ten months into the FBI's investigation of the Trump-Russia affair, and four months into a bipartisan probe by the Senate Intelligence Committee, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has decided to appoint a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to investigate the case. Here are several reasons why it is a bad move:... (more)

May 18, 2017

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Republicans are withholding their judgment on whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice by firing FBI Director James Comey until they hear directly from Comey, and are most ignoring efforts by Democrats to label Trump "guilty" until then.... (more)

May 18, 2017

BOB UNRUH — WND reported last month when Dr. James Dobson, the pioneering radio voice of Christian and family values for tens of millions through Focus on the Family and now Family Talk, called for his supporters to flood the telephones lines of two U.S. lawmakers and the secretary of defense to protest plans to impose the military draft on women.... (more)

May 17, 2017

BOB UNRUH — Only a day after the White House was put on the defensive by a Washington Post report based on a leak from an unnamed source, the New York Times joined the chorus. The Times reported Tuesday that Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to "let go" of the investigation of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.... (more)

May 17, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, threatened to use his subpoena power to obtain a memo from former FBI Director James Comey that said President Trump pressured him to drop a probe into ousted national security adviser Mike Flynn.... (more)

May 17, 2017

GARTH KANT — It's the story no one want to touch because it is so potentially explosive. And it's the murder mystery that could throw a wrench into the narrative that Russia hacked the Democratic Party's emails during the 2016 presidential election in order to influence the presidential election. WND made numerous inquiries to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, to the White House, Washington police and others, but received scant comment.... (more)

May 17, 2017

ALICIA POWE — A top Democratic National Committee official has contacted Washington, D.C., police and the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich demanding to know why a homicide detective is examining the unsolved case, a private investigator told WND Tuesday.... (more)

May 17, 2017

GARTH KANT — On the heels of a bombshell revelation that indicated it might have been a Democratic staffer rather than the Russians who hacked the party's emails, a top investigative reporter is even more puzzled by the FBI's curious lack of curiosity in perhaps the prime piece of evidence.... (more)

May 17, 2017

NEWSMAX — Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox Business Monday that the late Justice Antonin Scalia told him "that he often thought that the court was being surveilled" roughly four or five years ago.... (more)

May 16, 2017

FOX5 DC — It has been almost a year since Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now. Rich was shot and killed last July in Northwest D.C and police have suggested the killing in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood was a botched robbery. However, online conspiracy theories have tied the murder to Rich's work at the DNC.... (more)

May 15, 2017

ART MOORE — Robert Spencer, known for his exposure of the role of Islamic theology in global jihad, says he was poisoned by a leftist in Iceland who recognized him at a restaurant after he had given a speech in the island nation's capital.... (more)

May 15, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump administration announced a massive expansion Monday of the pro-life Mexico City Policy, issuing guidelines that will strip billions of dollars in aid from international groups that perform or promote abortion. Originally a ban covering roughly $600 million in family planning money, the Trump policy now applies to all international health care aid doled out by the U.S. government -- nearly $9 billion.... (more)

May 15, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Obamacare's small business outreach has been such a flop that the Trump administration announced Monday it was nixing part of the federal HealthCare.gov website aimed at helping those companies enroll in the health law. The companies will still be able to get tax credits to help offer plans to their employees, but won't be able to use the website to enroll their employees.... (more)

May 15, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — If you're a Democrat, lost in a restoration fantasy of taking over the Congress next year, now is the time to dream big. Reality, with its talent for smashing the fanciful, will arrive soon enough. Democratic pundits, trying to cheer up a home team that needs a lot of cheering up, have begun talking up "the wave," a mysterious gathering storm of public opinion that sweeps everything before it into the Sea of Oblivion. Waves don't happen often; the last one swept dozens of Democratic incumbents and others out to sea in 2010, when the Republicans gained a stunning 63 seats.... (more)

May 15, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Petitions and boycotts against ABC are building after the network unexpectedly canceled its hit "Last Man Standing," a move critics believe was prompted by star Tim Allen's outspoken conservative politics and support for President Trump.... (more)

May 15, 2017

ALAN KEYES — "Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who was confirmed by a 96 to 4 vote in the Senate on April 25, wrote the letter recommending that Comey should be fired: 'The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement,' wrote Rosenstein."... (more)

May 15, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Changing academia has been much more difficult than changing the media. However, there is hope: President Donald Trump has asked Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to head a White House task force on reforming the U.S. higher education system.... (more)

May 15, 2017

BYRON YORK — Calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the Russia-Trump affair have multiplied in the days since President Trump fired FBI director James Comey. Almost invariably, Democrats and others calling for a prosecutor say such a step is needed to "get to the bottom" of the matter.... (more)

May 15, 2017

NEWSMAX — Final score: Republicans 14, Barack Obama's last-minute regulations, one. Congressional Republicans anxious to show voters they can get something done are hailing their reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulations on guns, the internet and the environment.... (more)