June 8, 2017

GARTH KANT — Testifying under oath before the Senate Intelligence committee Thursday morning, James Comey submitted remarks confirming the key assertion made repeatedly by President Trump that he had not pressured the former FBI director to drop the Russia investigation.... (more)

June 8, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — The highly anticipated testimony of former FBI Director James Comey delivered devastating blows to the legal accusations against President Trump Thursday, but a former federal prosecutor says the political damage inflicted by Comey and the overall investigation could end up being a major wound.... (more)

June 8, 2017

PAT BUCHANAN — Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never met him. ... Have you all lost your senses over there?" Yes, Vlad, we have.... (more)

June 8, 2017

DAILY CALLER — Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general under Barack Obama, pressured former FBI Director James Comey to downplay the Clinton email server investigation and only refer to it as a "matter," Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.... (more)

June 8, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Those who think that Russia-gate is a witch-hunt or a hoax that will run out of gas need to think again. As we are about to see with the live coverage of former FBI Director James Comey's testimony, this is an opportunity for the media to have enormous fun, generate ratings, and make money bashing another Republican president.... (more)

June 8, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday that he will nominate Christopher Wray as the new FBI director. The former assistant attorney general will take the place of former FBI director James Comey, whom Trump fired on May 9.... (more)

June 8, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — With his nomination of Christopher Wray to become the next director of the FBI, President Trump has put Democrats in a bind and made opposition to the pick all but impossible.... (more)

June 8, 2017

BYRON YORK — The special election to replace Republican Tom Price in Georgia's Atlanta-area 6th Congressional District has become a contemporary politics version of World War I, with both sides dug into fixed positions, both pouring people and money into the effort -- it will be by far the most expensive House race in history -- and no one holding much hope the results will settle anything.... (more)

June 8, 2017

PAUL BEDARD — Booming American businesses are expanding at such a pace that the number of job openings -- 6 million -- has reached an all-time high, according to government statistics.... (more)

June 8, 2017

MICHAEL BARONE — "Too many people are going to college," writes my American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray. That's not a response to the mob of students that attacked him and the liberal professor who had invited him to speak back in March at Middlebury College. It's the title of the third chapter in his 2008 book Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality.... (more)

June 8, 2017

ALICIA POWE — It's perhaps the simplest question in the Seth Rich murder mystery that everyone involved in the case won't answer: What hospital admitted and treated the DNC staffer before a physician pronounced him dead on that fateful morning of July 10, 2016?... (more)

June 8, 2017

MICHAEL J. NEW — Last month, the Guttmacher Institute released a policy analysis claiming that many state pro-life laws have no scientific basis. The analysis considers various categories of state-level pro-life laws and concludes that 53 percent of women of childbearing age live in a state with at least two restrictions "that conflict with the scientific evidence." In the news release that accompanied the policy analysis, one author claims that "the antiabortion movement has long been an evidence-free zone and many of its signature initiatives and proposals are devoid of any factual foundation."... (more)

June 7, 2017

MCCLATCHY DC — A small revolt in corners of the Republican Party bedevils plans for reauthorization this year of surveillance capabilities considered the "crown jewels" of the U.S. intelligence community.... (more)

June 7, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump's approval rating is slightly higher than Bill Clinton's at 138 days into the Democrat's first term in the White House, according to poll averages reported Tuesday.... (more)

June 7, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Democratic Party has become "a sideshow circus-car full of clowns" hell bent in taking down President Donald Trump rather than rebuilding its weakened power base, onetime Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff told Newsmax TV on Tuesday.... (more)

June 7, 2017

ART MOORE — London Mayor Sadiq Khan -- who wants the U.K. to cancel Donald Trump's upcoming state visit because the president's "policies go against everything we stand for" -- once tried to overturn Britain's ban on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.... (more)

June 7, 2017

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — When President Trump announced American withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, the criticisms of him were hardly muted, often hysterical and typically flawed. Among the many vapid attacks on Trump's decision, however, the worst was that big business opposed him.... (more)

June 7, 2017

BOB UNRUH — A massive worldwide malware attack called "Fireball" is being reported by experts who estimate it already has infected and taken over 250 million computers. And it's growing.... (more)

June 7, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — On the 73rd anniversary of the D-Day invasion, black and white photos newly rendered in color bring history to life. Brazilian artist Marina Amaral used Photoshop to color both iconic and unfamiliar images of the largest amphibious invasion in history for the June 6 anniversary.... (more)

June 6, 2017

PUBLIUS HULDAH — "...of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." Federalist No. 1 (5th para), Alexander Hamilton.... (more)

June 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — One of the men responsible for Saturday's terror attack in London previously appeared in a 2016 BBC documentary titled "The Jihadis Next Door" and was known to authorities. The Metropolitan Police confirmed Monday the identities of two men involved in last weekend's massacre near London Bridge, which killed at least seven and wounded dozens of others. Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, were both shot and killed by police after mowing down victims with a vehicle and stabbing others.... (more)

June 6, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — If Robert Mueller concludes, after a $100 million investigation into whether Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 election, that there was no "there" there, then what? Will the liberals then organize a lynch mob to go after Mr. Mueller? He can't count on escaping a little tar and feathers, if not the rope. The Democrats are already drooling in anticipation.... (more)

June 6, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — London is in chaos. And the left's response to this latest Islam-tied terror attack on innocence and the West? Condemn President Donald Trump -- not the terrorists. It's such a skewed, dangerous way of thinking. Here's how it goes.... (more)

June 6, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The Western schizophrenia about radical Islam is on full display in Britain, in the aftermath of the latest jihadist atrocity, the third in just the past three months.... (more)

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)