July 4, 2017

Thoughts on the nature of true freedom

ALAN KEYES — These days, we celebrate the Fourth of July as Independence Day. Actually, it's the day when the first American patriots declared their decisions to break away from the people of Great Britain and stand thenceforth as the people of the United States of America. The Declaration includes, as it were, a bill of impeachment against the king of Great Britain. But it does not begin with a statement of grievances. It begins by stating the convictions, in respect of right, rights, and justice, upon which its signers concluded that the actions of the king's government were violations of the highest Sovereign's will, grave enough to justify the war that had already begun.... (more)

July 4, 2017

DAILY WIRE — Much to the White House's credit, President Trump is supporting Sen. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee's proposal to add more health insurance choices to the Senate health care bill. The Cruz/Lee proposal also might exclude some of the Affordable Care Act's protections for pre-existing conditions.... (more)

July 4, 2017

CHELSEA SCHILLING — Will President Trump help medically transport a 10-month-baby from London to the U.S. before the government and his doctors pull the plug on his life support? That's the question being raised on Twitter Monday. And it wouldn't be the first time Trump has intervened to medically transport a sick child for treatment.... (more)

July 3, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — Frustrated by its inability to win elections, the left is attempting to silence opponents through intimidation, either in the streets or in the courts. The latest example is the hijacking of Guidestar USA by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).... (more)

July 3, 2017

BYRON YORK — In the run-up to the Iraq war, a Bush White House official explained to me that 9/11 had changed the way we read national security intelligence. There was a relaxed way to read intelligence, he said, and there was an alarmed way to read intelligence. September 11 proved that we had to read intelligence -- say, on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction -- in an alarmed way to avoid another disaster. Therefore, we had to invade Iraq.... (more)

July 3, 2017

LISA BOOTHE — As someone who has worked in Republican politics throughout my career, I have experienced media bias firsthand for years. But during the Trump era it has reached a new level of hysteria.... (more)

July 2, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Senate Republicans should jump back on board a plan they all backed 18 months ago and vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act in full if they cannot find a deal on the Senate GOP healthcare bill.... (more)

July 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump administration on Sunday declared "we're getting close" to having the votes needed to pass a health care overhaul bill in the Senate while reiterating that the president is open to a repeal-only measure if Republicans can't agree on exactly how to replace Obamacare.... (more)

July 2, 2017

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz's proposal to allow insurance companies to sell non-Obamacare compliant plans as long as they also sell at least one Obamacare-compliant plan is being given a hard look by Senate Republicans, Axios reported Saturday.... (more)

July 2, 2017

BYRON YORK — People who get into fights with Donald Trump often end up diminished by it. Just ask Marco Rubio, who in February 2016 broke some sort of ground when he introduced the "small hands" attack into presidential politics. "And you know what they say about guys with small hands," Rubio told crowds during the days he decided to transform himself from GOP contender into anti-Trump insult comic.... (more)

July 2, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Talk of the media town lately has focused on the bias of the press, the fake news of the mainstream and whether journalism as an above-the-fray art is dead. My two cents? Dead as a doornail. Dead as dead can be. I know full well. I was fired for just the type of news bias that President Donald Trump blasts on a near-daily basis.... (more)

July 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two conservative-leaning cable news outlets have gained permanent seats in the press-briefing room of the White House, Politico reported Friday. Newsmax will have the center chair in the next-to-last row while One America News Network (OAN) will share an assigned seat in the very last row with BBC News, according to a chart provided Politico by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA).... (more)

July 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — An Oregon bill requiring insurers to provide their customers with free abortions--including illegal immigrants--has advanced to the state Senate after winning approval Saturday in the state House with no Republican votes. House Democrats pushed through the Reproductive Health Equity Act after a nearly two-hour debate over the bill, which would allocate $10.2 million for services related to contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, including vasectomies and abortions, in the 2017-19 budget period.... (more)

July 2, 2017

THE HILL — President Trump on Monday offered to help a critically ill British child who has become a flashpoint in the U.K. debate over whether the government should have a say in individual matters pertaining to life and death.... (more)

July 2, 2017

NATIONAL REVIEW — Charlie Gard, an infant, is going to die without a treatment that his parents wish to deploy against his mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a treatment that they can afford thanks to the generosity of others. The highest court in Europe has sided with the English hospital's wishes that Charlie "die with dignity" over his parents' wish that he be released into their custody to try an experimental treatment in America. Further, it is decided by the principalities and powers that Charlie is going to die in that hospital even though his parents would at least wish for him to come home with them.... (more)

July 2, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A new poll by Morning Consult shows many Americans agree with some of Vice President Mike Pence's "philosophy" about how to relate with the opposite sex while at work, especially in social settings.... (more)

July 1, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Since AIM founder Reed Irvine hired me out of college in 1978, amazing changes have taken place in the media landscape. Reed's penetrating analysis of liberal media bias encouraged the search for alternatives. People became skeptical of what was piped into their homes. The days when world government advocate and anti-defense liberal Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America faded fast.... (more)

July 1, 2017

JEFF LUKENS — I often think about Bob Seger's song 'Against the Wind.' To be a change agent, we must be running 'against the wind,' both culturally and politically. As conservatives, it is what we are called to do.... (more)

June 30, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump weighed in early Friday morning on the Senate's struggle to pass healthcare reform before vacation, urging GOP Senators to "immediately REPEAL" Obamacare and replace it "at a later date."... (more)

June 30, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — A key member of the House Freedom Caucus says the Senate health-care bill drifts too far towards the existing framework and that the smartest approach would be to repeal Obamacare and then get to work on a replacement, although he does not expect GOP leaders to choose that path.... (more)

June 30, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — American liberals often gaze across the Atlantic with admiration, viewing Europe as the model for our future. They covet Europe's rail systems, green-energy subsidies, social liberalism, secularism, welfare states and government-run healthcare.... (more)

June 30, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — As far as conservative organizations are concerned, being labeled a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center isn't just annoying -- it's dangerous.... (more)

June 30, 2017

NEWSMAX — It's looking more and more likely that Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed in a May airstrike, with an ISIS preacher breaking down in tears Friday after mentioning his name.... (more)

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)