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June 6, 2017
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Tabitha Korol

June 5, 2017
ALAN KEYES — So, the other shoe has finally dropped on Mr. Trump's pledge to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, as U.S. law requires. Like Barack Obama and all the other presidents before him, he has signed a waiver postponing compliance with that requirement, which the law also allows.... (more)


June 5, 2017
CLIFF KINCAID — Under the Graham family, the previous owners of the Washington Post, it was always a liberal Democratic Party newspaper. Everyone knew that. Under Amazon's Jeff Bezos, it has become a left-wing rag, running stories against the Trump administration that are so extreme as to be laughable. The paper's descent is something to see, especially in regard to Iran's aggressive and terroristic behavior in the Middle East.... (more)


June 5, 2017
BBC NEWS — Two of the three men who carried out Saturday night's terror attack in London have been named by police. They said Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, of Barking, London, had been known to police and MI5 but there had not been any intelligence about an attack.... (more)


June 5, 2017
NEWSMAX — British police arrested a dozen people Sunday in a widening terrorism investigation after attackers using a van and large knives turned a balmy evening of nightlife into a bloodbath and killed seven people in the heart of London. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.... (more)


June 5, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES — The gruesome van-and-knife rampage in London spurred calls Sunday on both sides of the Atlantic for further homefront offensives in the war on terrorism, with Prime Minister Theresa May endorsing a crackdown on pockets of Islamic extremism in the United Kingdom and President Trump renewing his push for a temporary travel ban in the U.S.... (more)


June 5, 2017
MCCLATCHY DC — Washington will be riveted this week by the drama surrounding former FBI Director James Comey's expected congressional testimony. But Republicans elsewhere in the country say they couldn't care less. Interviews with GOP activists across the country, including around a dozen attendees at this weekend's North Carolina Republican convention, reveal deep mistrust of Comey, who was investigating possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign before the president fired him.... (more)


June 5, 2017
NEWSMAX — Former Vice President Al Gore warned that President Donald Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement would likely lead to the end of the world, The Washington Times reported Sunday.... (more)


June 5, 2017
BOB UNRUH — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, known for his blunt talk on social issues, once remarked that the purpose of a military is to "kill people and break things." The U.S. military's reason for existence is now in view as it deals with the social-engineering that took place under President Obama.... (more)


June 4, 2017
WASHINGTON TIMES — Suspected terrorists driving a van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge late Saturday, and stabbed other victims in a nearby London market neighborhood, British police said. Britain's Sun newspaper said there were as many as six fatalities and more than 20 people wounded. The BBC reports that at least 30 individuals have been taken to the hospital with others treated by medics on the scene.... (more)


June 4, 2017
DAILY MAIL — Police are today seeking the identities of three Jihadi terrorists who were shot dead by armed police after killing seven people and injuring dozens of others in a horrific van and knife rampage through central London last night. The men, described as being 'of Mediterranean origin', mowed down up to 20 revellers as they careered across London Bridge in an 'S shape' at 50mph before they began 'randomly stabbing' people in nearby Borough Market.... (more)


June 4, 2017
WORLDNETDAILY — London Bridge was evacuated Saturday night after a van crossed a curb and plowed into crowds and at least three terrorists exited and went on a stabbing rampage.... (more)


June 4, 2017
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — When did the definition of "leadership" in America become "the courage and foresight to ignore the United States Constitution"? The fact that the sun rose again this morning was less predictable than the media-Democrat hysteria over President Trump's entirely reasonable decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Convention on climate change.... (more)


June 4, 2017
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Listen closely to the cant and jargon of modern environmentalism, and in the empty invocations of "science," you are witnessing the rites of a religious faith. If the screams after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement seemed overwrought, it's because Trump hadn't merely adopted a policy the other side disagreed with; he'd committed a secular, liberal, sacrilege.... (more)


June 4, 2017
GEORGE WILL — As changing technologies and preferences make government-funded broadcasting increasingly preposterous, such broadcasting actually becomes useful by illustrating two dismal facts. One is the immortality of entitlements that especially benefit those among society's articulate upper reaches who feel entitled. The other fact is how impervious government programs are to evidence incompatible with their premises.... (more)


June 4, 2017
NEWSMAX — Comedian Alec Baldwin reached out to Kathy Griffin to offer words of consolation in light of the backlash she received over her photo shoot where she held a fake bloody severed head of President Donald Trump, the Washington Examiner reported Saturday.... (more)


June 3, 2017
CLIFF KINCAID — A top official of the Communist Vietnamese dictatorship spoke on Wednesday at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. The speech was entitled "Opportunities and Challenges to Peace, Security, Cooperation and Development in the Asia-Pacific and the Growth of Vietnam -- U.S. Comprehensive Partnership." It was advertised on the Heritage website with a beautiful scenic photo, apparently of Vietnam, carrying the caption "In the midst of complex issues, Vietnam is working to find the best path forward to guarantee the prosperity and security of its people." It sounds like heaven on earth.... (more)


June 3, 2017
ASSOCIATED PRESS — A former top spy agency official who was the target of a government leak investigation says the National Security Agency conducted blanket surveillance in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, according to court documents.... (more)


June 3, 2017
BBC NEWS — Leo Varadkar is set to become the Republic of Ireland's next taoiseach (prime minister) after winning the leadership of the Fine Gael party. The 38-year-old will become the first gay taoiseach and will also be the country's youngest ever leader.... (more)


June 3, 2017
NEWSMAX — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Friday said President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate pact was a "dishonor" to God and wondered how he would explain the impact to his grandchildren, The Washington Free Beacon reported Friday.... (more)


June 3, 2017
NEWSMAX — North Korea is accelerating its push to acquire a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States and other nations, and the U.S. regards this as a "clear and present danger," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday.... (more)


June 3, 2017
JOE WILSON — In the aftermath of President Trump's announcement Thursday afternoon that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate-change accord, a fierce debate has raged between globalist climate-change activists and American economic pragmatists over whether the decision is right for America and for the world at large.... (more)


June 3, 2017
WORLDNETDAILY — Since well before former President Barack Obama signed onto it as an executive agreement (because he knew the Senate wouldn't ratify it), a number of large American corporations have supported the Paris climate accord. As the time neared when President Donald Trump would announce whether he would keep his campaign promise to withdraw from it, some signed an open letter advising him not to.... (more)


June 3, 2017
CHERYL CHUMLEY — Kathy Griffin, the sometimes comedian who was just ousted from her sometime CNN hosting slot -- and fired from New Year's Eve broadcasting duties -- after she posed for pictures while holding a faux bloodied head of President Donald Trump, may have apologized for her outrageous behavior.... (more)


June 2, 2017
WESLEY PRUDEN — Uncle Sugar doesn't live here any more, and he didn't leave a forwarding address. This is the message, spoken loud and clear by Donald Trump Thursday in the White House Rose Garden, and it's just now getting through to the easy riders out there.... (more)


June 2, 2017
ART MOORE — He prayed alongside well-known Muslim Brotherhood figures, including the leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.... (more)

 
 
 
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