June 29, 2017

YAHOO — U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries went into effect late Thursday, after Supreme Court decision allowed it to go forward following a five-month battle with rights groups.... (more)

June 29, 2017

BLOOMBERG — The Trump administration's revised travel ban faced a new court challenge as soon as it took effect Thursday after the president's signature immigration policy already weathered months of protests, legal wrangling and delays.... (more)

June 29, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a "close" family or business tie to the United States. The move came after the Supreme Court partially restored President Donald Trump's executive order that was widely criticized as a ban on Muslims.... (more)

June 29, 2017

NEWSMAX — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward chided the media for opting to engage in biased coverage of President Donald Trump rather than doing the hard work of investigative White House reporting.... (more)

June 29, 2017

NEWSMAX — Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times could bring the newspaper's "libel lawsuit winning streak" to a screeching halt, according to a legal expert.... (more)

June 29, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has weathered yet another round of calls for her ouster, but fellow House Democrats are beginning to look beyond her tenure and cast about for a list of successors.... (more)

June 29, 2017

JOE KOVACS — The U.S. Secret Service agent who said she would not "take a bullet" for President Trump is not suffering the same punishment that other agents received for "similarly serious or lesser misconduct," says a report from the Washington Free Beacon.... (more)

June 29, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI agent charged Wednesday with lying about firing his gun during a deadly confrontation during the 2016 Oregon-Bundy standoff may be only the tip of the iceberg.... (more)

June 29, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — CNN was hit Wednesday with a second undercover video, this one featuring regular political contributor Van Jones calling the Russia controversy a "nothing burger."... (more)

June 29, 2017

PAUL BEDARD — The media is taking it on the chin in the era of "fake news." According to Gallup, less than three in 10 Americans have "confidence" in TV news and newspapers -- and that is better than it was last year.... (more)

June 29, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — In their condemnation of the Senate's health-insurance bill, Democrats are seizing on the Congressional Budget Office's conclusion that 22 million Americans would lose their health insurance if the legislation passed in its current form.... (more)

June 28, 2017

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Republicans are making "steady progress" on healthcare, noting Tuesday the end goal is to lower the cost of premiums. "It's gonna take more discussions," Cruz said. "The most critical question is how do we lower premiums? That's been my central focus from the beginning."... (more)

June 28, 2017

PROJECT VERITAS — Project Veritas has released a video of CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN's Russia narrative.... (more)

June 28, 2017

BOB UNRUH — Whether it indicates Republicans are giving in, giving up or just concealing their opinions for fear of being sued, a new poll shows that for the first time, Republicans now are evenly divided on the issue of same-sex marriage.... (more)

June 28, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz wants extra housing cash for lawmakers -- in the form of a $2,500 monthly stipend. Thank goodness Chaffetz is already leaving office. Saves the trouble of drumming him out of D.C. His request represents everything that's wrong with Congress, with politicians in general and with the flip-flop that's taken place in U.S. politics in recent years that's relegated the taxpayers to the role of public servant.... (more)

June 28, 2017

SACRAMENTO BEE — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a voter-approved California law that would have forced gun owners to get rid of high-capacity ammunition magazines by this Saturday.... (more)

June 28, 2017

DALLAS NEWS — Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true. An eight-paragraph Washington Post article on page 10A reported on a national study about kids and guns. The last sentence said 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.... (more)

June 28, 2017

NEWSMAX — The GOP representative from Montana who assaulted a reporter raised $116,000 the day after the incident, The Guardian reported. Greg Gianforte in May body slammed a reporter from the Guardian and broke his glasses. He was charged with assault on election eve but still won the special election.... (more)

June 28, 2017

ST. GEORGE NEWS — An FBI agent has been indicted on accusations that he lied about firing at rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum in 2016 when officers arrested leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.... (more)

June 28, 2017

NPR — Less than a day after a monument of the Ten Commandments was installed outside the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, it was destroyed when a man smashed a car into the stone.... (more)

June 28, 2017

NEWSMAX — A new report claims the Islamic State (ISIS) served a mother the remains of her 1-year-old son without her knowledge. The New York Post cites a Middle East Media Research Institute translation as saying the woman was a Yazidi sex slave.... (more)

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

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)