July 24, 2017

Health system should be based on 'private, voluntary associations'

ALAN KEYES — The GOP's purported effort to repeal and replace Obamacare appears to have reached an impasse. The maneuvering to deal with that impasse reveals (that is to say, unveils yet also hides) the fact that that effort is itself questionably sincere. The word "repeal" conveys the sense of calling back what was previously set forth, so that things return, insofar as possible, to what they once were.... (more)

July 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — The parents of Charlie Gard tearfully gave up their legal battle to keep their terminally ill baby alive on Monday, saying his condition had deteriorated too far for any possible recovery, in a case they said had touched the world.... (more)

July 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — Forbes' opinion editor Avik Roy is shredding the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's evaluation of the Republican healthcare bill. His comments come in a column for Forbes analyzing the CBO reports on the GOP bill.... (more)

July 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "single payer is on the table" regarding health care legislation as he announced Democrats would roll out a new economic agenda this week.... (more)

July 24, 2017

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Democrats are in a tizzy about their latest and brightest prospect for the 2020 White House -- Kamala Harris, the senator from California who made a name for herself bullying Jeff Sessions during his attorney general confirmation hearings.... (more)

July 24, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Senate Republicans appear unable to pass a straight repeal of Obamacare or a more comprehensive plan, and one of the most fiscally conservative members of Congress says the GOP either needs to do what it promised or prepare to watch the rest of the Trump agenda wither away.... (more)

July 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump angrily sidelined the State Department and assigned trusted White House staffers with making the potential case for withholding certification at the next review of the Iran nuclear deal, Foreign Policy reported.... (more)

July 24, 2017

NEWSMAX — A Kansas makeup artist says she won a national contest sponsored by Kat Von D Beauty but was later disqualified because of an Instagram post supporting Donald Trump's presidential candidacy.... (more)

July 24, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Trump administration is in the beginning stages of forming an adversarial "red team" to play devil's advocate in a plan to debate the facts behind global warming and take on what skeptics call climate alarmism.... (more)

July 23, 2017

NEWSMAX — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to schedule a vote Tuesday to bring legislation to repeal Obamacare outright to the floor for debate in hopes of forcing Republicans to own their positions.... (more)

July 23, 2017

BOB UNRUH — A team of property rights advocates, lawyers and state lawmakers has joined forces for a nationwide campaign to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court.... (more)

July 23, 2017

BOB UNRUH — There are some 90 million members of China's Communist Party, and all of them now have been banned from having religious beliefs.... (more)

July 23, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — The police knew there was a problem in the Women's Medical Society of Philadelphia, but they didn't realize just what the problem was until they got there.... (more)

July 23, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — President Donald Trump's rant against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in an interview with the New York Times, is a foolish bit of revisionist history. Sessions erred in the rashness and overbreadth of his recusal from the Russia investigation, but the president has himself to blame for the appointment of a special counsel.... (more)

July 23, 2017

BYRON YORK — The Republican president has a job approval rating around 40 percent. The GOP has an unfavorability rating around 56 percent. And Republicans trail Democrats by nine points in an average of "generic ballot" polls.... (more)

July 22, 2017

NEWSMAX — Hawaii has begun planning for a potential North Korean nuclear attack through educating the public and dusting off Cold War-era training manuals. Hawaii News Now reports that the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is urging residents of the island state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to be prepared if the rogue nation decides to attack the U.S.... (more)

July 22, 2017

GARTH KANT — The new White House communications director's very first challenge was to communicate that his own hiring had not put the West Wing into turmoil. New York financier Anthony Scaramucci appeared at the White House daily press briefing to try to put to rest widespread reports in the media that his appointment had been strenuously opposed by top presidential aides, especially Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who resigned Friday after just six months on the job.... (more)

July 22, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — In another White House staff shakeup, President Trump appointed friend and New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director Friday, a move that prompted press secretary Sean Spicer to resign.... (more)

July 22, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's decision to put Anthony Scaramucci in charge of the White House communications shop has rocked the West Wing and raised questions about how the shake-up will shape Trump's messaging machine.... (more)

July 22, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — A lot of snakes and scorpions live with the alligators in the swamp, and there are even more dangerous monsters there. No swamp creature is deadlier than a Washington lawyer.... (more)

July 22, 2017

THE INDEPENDENT — A High Court judge has asked people protesting about the Charlie Gard case not to upset other visitors to Great Ormond Street hospital, where the critically ill baby is on life support.... (more)

July 22, 2017

BOB UNRUH — An executive agency of the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a report recommending that seminaries include "queer theology" in their courses and that even Sunday schools teach "LGBTI beliefs."... (more)

July 22, 2017

BOB UNRUH — The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been in the spotlight recently for its practice of designating conservative non-profits as "hate groups," has gone on defense. For adhering to a biblical perspective on homosexuality, for one thing. The Family Research Council, wrote Cohen, has a "long track record of using dehumanizing language and outright lies to portray LGBT people as sick, evil, and a danger to children and society. As stated on its website, it opposes the acceptance of homosexuality 'in the law, in the media, and in the schools.'"... (more)

July 22, 2017

BOB UNRUH — A federal judge who sent Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis to jail for refusing to violate her faith now has awarded nearly $223,000 in state taxpayer funds to American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who sued Davis.... (more)

July 22, 2017

THE LOCAL — An influential German institute has studied thousands of article published by daily newspapers during the refugee crisis. Their conclusion: journalists lost their objectivity and drove a wedge through society. As hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Germany in 2015 and early 2016, daily newspapers took on the role of "public educators" rather than objective critics of public policy, a team of researchers at the Otto Brenner Institute conclude, according to a report in Die Zeit this week.... (more)