July 19, 2017

NEWSMAX — Leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday that they will take steps to force fellow Republicans to vote for a straight repeal of Obamacare.... (more)

July 19, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — It's full-steam ahead on health-care reform for President Trump, even if the U.S. Senate can't seem to get its act together. While Trump says he's disappointed in the Senate's failure to pass a health-care bill, the president added that he doesn't "think it's dead."... (more)

July 19, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump has reached out to Sen. Mike Lee, the conservative who helped deal what appeared to be a fatal blow to the Senate healthcare bill, as part of a last ditch effort to revive the legislation.... (more)

July 19, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — In unusually strong language about his predecessor, President Trump called President Obama a liar Wednesday on the thorny subject of Obamacare."Obamacare was a big lie," Mr. Trump said in a White House meeting with Republican senators seeking to craft a new health care plan.... (more)

July 19, 2017

TUCSON.COM — U.S. Sen. John McCain revealed Wednesday evening that he has a brain tumor. The announcement follows a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix last Friday, where a pathology report revealed the glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor.... (more)

July 19, 2017

JOE WILSON — In a gesture of solidarity with 11-month-old Charlie Gard, a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives just approved an amendment granting Charlie and his parents permanent residency in the United States.... (more)

July 19, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Supreme Court dealt President Trump a partial victory Wednesday in the legal battle over his travel ban, allowing the administration to restore strict limits on refugees that were blocked last week by a federal judge in Hawaii. The win for Mr. Trump, however, was tempered by the high court's decision to uphold the same judges' ruling that exempted grandparents and other relatives of U.S. citizens from the administration's travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries.... (more)

July 19, 2017

FOX NEWS — Rosie O'Donnell is encouraging her Twitter followers to play an online game that allows players to push President Trump off of a cliff. "Push Trump Off A Cliff Again," O'Donnell tweeted along with a link to the game. The game's name is a riff off of Trump's campaign slogan "Make American Great Again."... (more)

July 19, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Bill Nye specifically targeted the elderly this week as he spoke out against climate change deniers, saying that climate science will start to advance when old people start to "age out," according to a report. The "Science Guy" said that generationally, the majority of climate change deniers are older.... (more)

July 19, 2017

PAUL BEDARD — President Trump's administration, on orders to kill two regulations for every new one, ripped up the playbook during its first six months, eliminating 16 old rules for every new one, according to top officials.... (more)

July 18, 2017

ROLL CALL — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing mounting criticism from politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle after the collapse of the Republican health care overhaul bill. Before the bill was pulled Monday night, Sen. Ron Johnson told a local newspaper that McConnell's conflicting statements to different members of his caucus were a "significant breach of trust."... (more)

July 18, 2017

NEWSMAX — It's full speed ahead on an Obamacare repeal -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asaid the GOP will move forward with their plan in a vote next week.... (more)

July 18, 2017

PHILIP KLEIN — With the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare currently dead, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. vowed to revive the 2015 bill that repealed much of Obamacare's taxes and spending (while leaving regulations intact), and then deal with the thorny negotiations about replacement after. Back in 2015, the partial repeal bill passed the Senate with a 52-vote majority.... (more)

July 18, 2017

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — It's happened again. The Republican Party promised voters the world and failed to deliver -- and some in the media are plopping the blame on conservatives.... (more)

July 18, 2017

BYRON YORK — On Monday morning I texted a conservative Republican senator for the latest on the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. "If the bill moves any further left, Obamacare will be the conservative alternative!" he wrote back.... (more)

July 18, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Senate Conservatives Fund on Tuesday vowed to mount primary challenges next year to Republican senators who vote against repealing Obamacare next week.... (more)

July 18, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump on Tuesday urged Senate Republicans to change the chamber's rules to eliminate legislative filibusters, saying it was the only way to break Democratic obstruction and move the country forward.... (more)

July 18, 2017

LEO HOHMANN — Questions continue to mount about the strange shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond at the hands of a Minnesota cop.... (more)

July 18, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A Pew Research Center survey published last week revealed that voters are growing apart in their support of numerous institutions. Most interestingly, the survey showed that 58 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now say that colleges and universities now have a negative effect on the way things are going in the country these days.... (more)

July 17, 2017

ALAN KEYES — In the debate over homosexual marriage, much is made of the emotional bond established by mutual consent. But all human friendship involves such a bond. No institution is required to regulate emotionally formed human friendships.... (more)

July 17, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump told GOP Senators Monday night they should go ahead and simply vote to repeal Obamcare now, then work out a replacement.... (more)

July 17, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two Senate Republicans late Monday said they oppose the Republican health care bill, effectively stopping in its tracks the push to replace Obamacare and pushing GOP strategy toward an outright repeal without a replacement. Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas simultaneously announced their opposition, meaning four Republicans have declared that they will vote against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's bill, forcing both President Trump and Mr. McConnell toward "Plan B."... (more)

July 17, 2017

NEWSMAX — The U.S. Navy already has deployed lasers that can take out land- and air-based targets, and is developing second-generation weapons to hit missiles at the speed of light, CNN reported.... (more)

July 17, 2017

USA TODAY — The good news on America's report cards: More high school teachers are handing out A's. But the bad news is that students aren't necessarily learning more.... (more)

July 17, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES — The condition for which Senator John McCain had surgery on Friday may be more serious than initial descriptions have implied, and it may delay his return to Washington by at least a week or two, medical experts said on Sunday.... (more)