July 14, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Senate GOP leaders hope offering more money for reducing insurance premiums for poor people is enough to get centrists to support their healthcare bill after they were cool to the latest version. Republican leadership released a new version of the healthcare bill that adds $70 billion to a stability fund to stabilize the individual market and $45 billion for fighting opioid abuse. However, leadership faces a monumental task of winning support from several key centrists, especially after leaving in place more than $700 billion in Medicaid cuts.... (more)

July 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — Tuesday's release of photos of a chance encounter between evangelicals and President Donald Trump in the White House, which shows leading evangelicals laying hands on and praying for the president of the United States in the Oval Office, has touched off an angry backlash on Twitter and in the mainstream media.... (more)

July 13, 2017

BOB UNRUH — So the media claim there are links between President Trump's campaign and Russia. They make wild claims about a "set-up" that had Donald Trump Jr. meet last year with a woman claiming to have information from Russia about Hillary Clinton.... (more)

July 13, 2017

RALPH Z. HALLOW — President Trump is facing the double standard with which the left-wing press and Democrats have been soiling American politics for many years. Absurdity is now the norm in the left's drive to undermine the public's confidence in the institutions that have made this the go-to country for seekers of opportunity and freedom all over the world for more than two centuries.... (more)

July 13, 2017

MICHAEL BARONE — Overreach. President Trump seems to have an uncanny knack for provoking it in his opponents and critics. This often hurts him and the country. But it has the potential to hurt those doing the overreach as well.... (more)

July 13, 2017

ALICIA POWE — Members of the House Freedom Caucus are demanding GOP leaders cancel the annual August recess so they can tackle top-line policy issues, including the debt ceiling, repealing the Affordable Care Act, a tax overhaul and building a wall along the nation's southern border.... (more)

July 13, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Senate Republican leaders are still scrambling to craft a health-care bill capable of attracting 50 GOP votes, and while success appears elusive right now, a prominent House conservative still believes a good bill can get passed thanks to the pressure from voters and the resolve of President Trump.... (more)

July 13, 2017

MCCLATCHY DC — Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., has introduced formal articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing him of obstruction of justice. Sherman, who first drafted the articles in June, formally introduced H.R. 438 on the House floor on Wednesday.... (more)

July 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — Almost three-fourths of Democrats would give up drinking alcohol for the rest of their lives if President Donald Trump could be impeached tomorrow, according to a survey conducted by Detox.net.... (more)

July 13, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two-dozen House Republicans broke with their pro-defense brethren Thursday and helped Democrats kill an amendment that would have barred the military from funding transgender sex reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies.... (more)

July 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Obama Justice Department allowed the Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. into the country for a court case months before the meeting occurred, The Hill reported.... (more)

July 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — Evangelist leader Franklin Graham called it "unfathomable" that the parents of British baby Charlie Gard have been denied the right to bring him to the United States for treatment, calling it "one of the dangers of socialized medicine."... (more)

July 13, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo, has joined the pro-life leaders expressing support for Charlie Gard in his struggle to live. Gard is an 11-month-old British infant who suffers from a rare genetic mutation of mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. The infant has brain damage, is blind and deaf, and needs a ventilator to breathe.... (more)

July 13, 2017

LEO HOHMANN — If there were any issue that Republicans and Democrats could agree on in the current, brutal political climate, one might think it would be female genital mutilation and the need to ban it. Not a chance.... (more)

July 13, 2017

THE BLAZE — One Fort Lauderdale police officer is facing disciplinary action after he "mis-gendered" a transgender person on a reckless driving ticket issued in late January. Four days after being pulled over for drag racing a Ford Mustang in a Chevrolet Camaro, Shelby Kendall, who was born male but began identifying as a woman in 2014, filed a complaint with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department's Internal Affairs, according to The Sun-Sentinel.... (more)

July 13, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — An admissions letter from Harvard University was once considered cause for celebration, but in conservative households, that may be changing. David M. Whalen, provost of Hillsdale College, a school with a conservative reputation, said he has noticed an uptick in the number of parents who send their children to Hillsdale to avoid colleges where conservative thought is met with ridicule, suppression and violence.... (more)

July 12, 2017

BYRON YORK — Could there be a dumber, more obvious come-on than the one Rob Goldstone, described in press reports as a British-born publicist and former tabloid reporter, sent to Donald Trump Jr. on June 3, 2016?... (more)

July 12, 2017

NEWSMAX — New York City Police officers attending the funeral of one of their own Tuesday turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio in protest when he spoke.... (more)

July 12, 2017

NEWSMAX — Doctors, parents and others involved in female genital mutilation in Michigan will face up to 15 years in prison under new laws signed Tuesday that were sparked by an ongoing criminal case involving six young girls.... (more)

July 12, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Top-rated Fox talker Sean Hannity piled on CNN's lackluster ratings Tuesday, belittling the cable for ranking behind nightly kiddy shows. Hannity, who scored a scoop interview Donald Trump Jr. Tuesday night, tweeted his mock with a special dig that CNN will likely end up airing his Q&A with Trump.... (more)

July 11, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Earlier this week, I wrote a column questioning why our contemporary political discourse makes so little reference to the common good. The United States was the first nation in human history that acknowledged humanity itself to be the formal premise for the common identity of the people who comprised it.... (more)

July 10, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday hit back at Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer for labeling his latest health proposal a "hoax," saying Democrats made a series of promises about their signature health program that have fallen flat.... (more)

July 10, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — Unless you went to some lengths to access President Trump's stunning address in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday instead of relying on media coverage, you missed a remarkable event. Garnering repeated applause and even chants of "Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!" the president declared his and America's admiration for the Polish people, made a commitment to ensure their liberty, and promised to eradicate terrorism and preserve the West.... (more)

July 10, 2017

RICH LOWRY — magine that President Donald Trump gave a speech praising a strong Europe. Imagine that he called forthrightly on Russia to stop its aggression in Ukraine and join the community of responsible nations. Imagine that he embraced the mutual defense commitment, so-called Article 5, of NATO.... (more)

July 10, 2017

BYRON YORK — President Trump's performance at the G-20 summit in Germany produced a wave of commentary claiming the United States has abdicated its role as world leader.... (more)