May 29, 2017

ALAN KEYES — "I wonder, though, whether as I come to the end of my exploration, I have changed my mind about declaring myself an atheist. With my definition of God as that which we cannot know, to declare myself an atheist would mean that I believe there is nothing we cannot know.... In some sense I think I have proved that this God does exist. The challenge now is to explore what quality this God has."... (more)

May 29, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Josh Gerstein's Politico story about the owners of a Russian bank suing BuzzFeed for publishing the "Trump Dossier" containing "unproven claims" doesn't go far enough. These "unproven" and even disproven claims that have guided the FBI's dead-end investigation of President Donald Trump are one reason that former Director James Comey deserved to be fired.... (more)

May 29, 2017

BILL FEDERER — Southern women scattered spring flowers on graves of both northern Union and southern Confederate soldiers of the Civil War in which over a half-million died. Many places claimed to have held the original Memorial Day, such as:... (more)

May 29, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Americans across the country will be attending parades and firing up their barbecue grills for the long Memorial Day weekend, but 21 U.S. service members won't be around to mark the holiday.... (more)

May 29, 2017

NATIONAL REVIEW — Memorial Day is of course when we remember those who died serving their country in our armed services. There was a time when America's movie industry took pride in honoring American servicemen, both the living and the dead; there are a few actors and directors in Hollywood who still do. But since movies about Americans at war have largely gone in the opposite direction since Vietnam, this weekend it might be worthwhile going back to see seven movies that deal with war in an honest but not defeatist way. These works portray serving one's country in uniform as something to be revered and respected, not dismissed or derided.... (more)

May 29, 2017

DAILY MAIL — A teenager has become the latest suspect to be arrested in connection with the Manchester terror attack. The 19-year-old was detained in the Gorton area of the city on suspicion of terror offences by officers, who have been conducting raids throughout the day, as police continue to close in on Salman Abedi's terrorist ring.... (more)

May 29, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Most Americans, including Democrats, think voter fraud is a real problem and don't mind voter ID laws as a solution, according to academic research that suggests Republicans are winning the argument over voting rights and suppression.... (more)

May 29, 2017

PAUL BEDARD — The public's view of former President Bill Clinton as one of America's most admired has taken a huge hit, and now just 6 percent want him as their "next president," according to a new survey.... (more)

May 29, 2017

ALAN DERSHOWITZ — Special Counsel Robert Mueller was commissioned to investigate not only crime, but also the entire Russian "matter." That is an ominous development that endangers the civil liberties of all Americans.... (more)

May 28, 2017

BILL FEDERER — The earliest human records appeared about 3,000 or 4,000 B.C. -- Sumerian cuneiform on clay tablets in the Mesopotamian Valley. This was followed by Egyptian hieroglyphics on papyrus, and Chinese characters in bamboo books.... (more)

May 28, 2017

GEORGE WILL — When in the Senate chamber, Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, sits by choice at the desk used by the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. New York's scholar-senator would have recognized that Sasse has published a book of political philosophy in the form of a guide to parenting.... (more)

May 28, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — A new video about Memorial Day has been released by Bill Heid, an entrepreneur and the executive producer of Heirloom Audio Productions, that not only explains why the holiday is important, but connects it to the biblical heritage of America.... (more)

May 28, 2017

LIFEZETTE — Another Washington Post anonymously sourced hit job dropped on the Trump White House -- this one about Jared Kushner asking the Russian ambassador for a "secret channel." It landed just in time to greet the president upon his return from his first international trip and shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged to "put an end to" the rampant leaks coming from within the government.... (more)

May 28, 2017

BREITBART — White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs banking executive, has reopened the U.S. government's war on coal in direct contravention of directions from President Donald Trump.... (more)

May 28, 2017

BREITBART — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a Democratic U.S. Senator from the heart of coal country in West Virginia, told Breitbart News exclusively that he was shocked and disappointed in White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn's anti-coal comments in Europe this week.... (more)

May 28, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling against President Trump's so-called travel ban empowers both radical Islam and judicial imperialism. The combination portends lasting damage to the United States.... (more)

May 28, 2017

JOSEPH FARAH — I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of unaccountable federal judges overruling lawful executive orders by the president of the United States. I'm also sick and tired of unaccountable federal judges overruling the First Amendment! Let me name names: U.S. District Judge William Orrick.... (more)

May 28, 2017

NATIONAL REVIEW — Yesterday evening, the Center for Medical Progress undercover footage -- recorded at the 2014 and 2015 National Abortion Federation conventions -- was removed from YouTube, supposedly for a violation of the site's Terms of Service agreement.... (more)

May 28, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Planned Parenthood executives joked about decapitated fetuses, admitted to altering abortion procedures to preserve fetal organs and said clinics have a financial incentive to sell human tissue in a new undercover video released Thursday.... (more)

May 28, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by relatives of two Americans killed during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.... (more)

May 28, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Hillary Clinton, during delivery of a Wellesley College commencement speech, may have inadvertently made Hillary history -- by telling a truth that quite possibly nobody will dispute. What was it she said? That she hit the bottle a bit hard in the days following her lost bid for the White House to Donald Trump.... (more)

May 27, 2017

MIAMI HERALD — U.S. intelligence agencies conducted illegal surveillance on American citizens over a five-year period, a practice that earned them a sharp rebuke from a secret court that called the matter a "very serious" constitutional issue. The criticism is in a lengthy secret ruling that lays bare some of the frictions between the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and U.S. intelligence agencies obligated to obtain the court's approval for surveillance activities.... (more)

May 27, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — The government in exile -- the real one, according to the media -- has had a busy week at home and abroad. "President Obama" has given up leading from behind and presumes now to lead from overseas. His secretary of state has a new mission, as missionary to the safe places where snowflakes fall.... (more)

May 27, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump resisted some intense lobbying by leaders of other industrialized nations Friday to back the Paris climate-change agreement at a G-7 summit in Sicily, Italy. After hours of discussions, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters that the U.S. position on the Paris accord remains an "open question."... (more)

May 26, 2017

WES VERNON — The mainstream media apparently have decided the bungling Democrat Party (and some scared rabbits in the GOP) are doing an inadequate job of getting President Trump booted from the White House. Therefore, they themselves (those same media types) want to be the de facto engine to bring forth the charges (i.e., new "facts") that will bring our 45th president to his supposedly deserved doom.... (more)