June 26, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Someone recently asked me what I thought of the effort by a black American senior at James Madison Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin, who is circulating a petition to change the name of the school, "citing the past president's history as a slaveholder." I responded that, however ironically, her effort may provide evidence that she's doing the right thing, but for the wrong reason: "Any high school that produces seniors with so little understanding of their own and their nation's history doesn't deserve to be named after James Madison."... (more)

June 26, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — The latest propaganda piece from The Washington Post, "Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault," is based, as usual, mostly on anonymous sources determined to make former President Barack Obama look good. The gist is that Obama tried his best to punish Russia for alleged interference in the 2016 election, but he fell short and left the matter in the hands of President Donald Trump, who has done nothing.... (more)

June 26, 2017

BYRON YORK — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia investigation -- that Schumer said the president was under investigation after he, Schumer, had been specifically told by the FBI that Trump was not -- is shedding new light on the events that led to the president's rising frustration over the Russia probe, the FBI, and Democrats who sought to make political hay out of Trump's troubles.... (more)

June 26, 2017

ALICIA POWE — Lawyers and plaintiffs suing the Democratic National Committee for rigging the 2016 presidential election say they're being harassed with threatening messages and "freaky" encounters and they fear for their safety -- particularly in the wake of the mysterious and unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich -- but a federal court has denied their request for protection.... (more)

June 26, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Progressives expecting a comforting anti-Trump presence Saturday morning on MSNBC were spewing their corn flakes after finding instead conservative Hugh Hewitt in his debut as host of a weekly show on the liberal network.... (more)

June 26, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — The Georgia election of Republican Karen Handel over Democrat Jon Ossoff has brought out the gnashing of teeth, the weeping and wailing and collective flailing of the far left -- the puzzled expressions and anguished faces that simply scream the torturous question: What went wrong?... (more)

June 26, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — That's the dilemma of the Democrats, forlorn, despondent and walking in circles like the goose hit on the head with a long-handled wooden spoon. They're asking questions for which there are no happy answers in the wake of their fourth straight loss in a round of special elections.... (more)

June 25, 2017

NEWSMAX — Leaders from the influential Koch political network expressed concern Saturday about the Senate Republican plan to reshape the nation's health system, saying as they met with donors at a Colorado resort that the measure isn't sufficiently conservative.... (more)

June 25, 2017

NEWSMAX — Steve Scalise, the Louisiana lawmaker shot last week at a U.S. congressional baseball team practice, is no longer in the intensive care unit of the hospital where he is being treated and remains in fair condition, the hospital said on Friday.... (more)

June 25, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The "collusion" narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won't take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion's successor, the "obstruction" narrative, is a perversion.... (more)

June 25, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — House intelligence committee sources say career officials at the National Security Council are slow-walking the delivery of subpoenaed records on former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice's handling of classified information and the "unmasking" of Trump campaign workers -- material from the Russian hacking probe that middle-level NSC managers claim was transferred to President Obama's library and could "remain closed to the public for five years."... (more)

June 25, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — At first glance it looked as if a dozen pilgrims had a problem with Vice President Mike Pence's speech Friday at Focus on the Family, but the women wearing red cloaks and white bonnets had nothing to do with Thanksgiving. They were dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale," the Hulu series that premiered April 26 based on the 1985 feminist dystopian novel that has been embraced by the left, fueling a recent rash of costumed protests aimed at reviving the "war on women" message.... (more)

June 25, 2017

CHRISTIAN POST — Paul Williams, who led the conservative church planting organization Orchard Group for 20 years, has publicly come out as a transgender woman named Paula Stone Williams.... (more)

June 25, 2017

KTLA — Camille Geraldi runs a tight house in Ellijay, Georgia. The children all have special needs and Geraldi and her husband, Mike, have adopted all of them. In fact, in the last four decades, the couple has adopted 88 children, when all of them were infants.... (more)

June 24, 2017

PHILIP KLEIN — Senate Republicans owe their majority to their seven-year pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. But the draft legislation unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., reads less like an Obamacare repeal bill and more like an Obamacare rescue package.... (more)

June 24, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Conservative Sen. Mike Lee further explained his opposition to Senate Republican's healthcare bill in a statement Friday night in which he called the effort "far short" of an Obamacare repeal.... (more)

June 24, 2017

BYRON YORK — The Georgia 6th District results don't tell us what will happen in 2018. But they do tell us what is happening right now. In a conversation two weeks before the GA06 election, a Republican strategist involved in the fight mused on the possibility that all the money spent, all the doors knocked, all the phones called, all the accusations hurled -- that it might mean nothing when it comes to the crucial question of who will win control of the House of Representatives in 2018.... (more)

June 24, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It wasn't a good week for the Democrats. After losing the most promising of several competitive special congressional elections this year in Georgia's 6th District, party activists formed a circular firing squad and began taking pot shots at one another.... (more)

June 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for information regarding the FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation and whether there was any political interference involved in the matter.... (more)

June 24, 2017

ART MOORE — During the Obama administration, a Senate hearing on the federal government's approach to Islamic terrorism was titled "Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism."... (more)

June 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — Johnny Depp has apologized for joking about assassinating President Donald Trump and says he meant no malice. The actor released a statement to People magazine Friday in which he called his remarks Thursday night at the Glastonbury Festival a bad joke and said it was in poor taste.... (more)

June 24, 2017

LIFE NEWS — The nation's leading source of information on U.S. charities faces mounting criticism for using a controversial "hate group" designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.... (more)

June 24, 2017

WEEKLY STANDARD — Even in famously abortion-friendly California there is justice for abortion foes. On June 21, the San Francisco County Superior Court threw out 14 of the 15 felony counts that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra had brought against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the anti-abortion activists who had made widely circulated undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials haggling and joking over the compensation they expected to receive for supplying the organs of fetuses aborted at Planned Parenthood clinics to for-profit "tissue-procurement" companies.... (more)

June 24, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Within the last month, a Canadian soldier killed an ISIS fighter with a 3,540 meter shot. That's 2.2 miles -- a new world record for a confirmed combat sniper kill. We can be confident of the report's accuracy. The Canadian military confirmed the kill to The Globe and Mail newspaper. Military authorities are careful before recognizing sensational stories such as this one.... (more)

June 22, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — The FBI may not be able to detect and prevent left-wing violence directed at Republicans playing baseball. But it sure knows how to pander to and entertain the LGBTQ community with a full-blown conference featuring discussions about the oppressive "identity hierarchy."... (more)