July 27, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Cultural conservatives were pleased -- and Democrats, LGBT activists and even some Republicans were infuriated -- Wednesday when President Trump reinstated the ban on transgenders serving in the U.S. military.... (more)

July 27, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The push for a "clean" repeal of Obamacare died Wednesday after Senate Republicans were unable to rally the votes, forcing leaders to turn to watered-down proposals that would repeal only some of the onerous parts of the troubled health care law.... (more)

July 27, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — We all knew what Watergate was. We knew what Iran-Contra was. And the Lewinsky scandal. And the purported outing of Valerie Plame. Up until now, each time a special prosecutor has been sicced on a presidential administration, we've known what the allegations were. Our views about whether the conduct involved warranted such debilitating scrutiny may have diverged sharply. But at least we knew what the investigations were about, what the presidents and/or their subordinates were accused of doing.... (more)

July 27, 2017

CNN — Matt Drudge has been in the White House an awful lot these days -- "all the time," as one senior administration official puts it. He's met with President Donald Trump, spent time with Ivanka Trump, and doled out advice to Jared Kushner.... (more)

July 27, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was discharged from the hospital Tuesday after spending six weeks in the hospital following a shooting in Alexandria, Va., on June 14.... (more)

July 27, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Debbie Wasserman Schultz's top information technology guy, the Pakistani-born Imran Awan -- who was under investigation by the FBI for theft and cybersecurity-tied abuses -- was arrested at Dulles International Airport as he tried to flee the country.... (more)

July 27, 2017

DAILY MAIL — The breath-taking moment that an anti-ballistic missile was launched into the night sky has been caught on camera by a stunned pilot, who described it as a 'once in a lifetime event'. Dutch Pilot Christiaan van Heijst, 34, cannot resist pulling his camera out whenever possible in the cockpit of a Boeing 747-8 Freighter.... (more)

July 26, 2017

Six Republicans who backed plan in 2015 balk

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Senate rejected a "clean" Obamacare repeal bill Wednesday, walking back a core campaign promise as Republicans barreled through a free-wheeling debate on the Democrats' 2010 overhaul without a clear path to killing it.... (more)

July 26, 2017

BOB UNRUH — One of the most shocking and potentially destructive orders from former President Barack Obama -- opening up the U.S. military to transgender individuals -- Wednesday was reversed by President Donald Trump.... (more)

July 26, 2017

POLITICO — Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to open debate on repealing Obamacare, dramatically reviving an effort that many GOP lawmakers left for dead just a few days ago.... (more)

July 26, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to begin the debate on how to overhaul Obamacare, overcoming a series of false starts and setting up a weeklong showdown over options ranging from a full repeal to a complicated Republican replacement.... (more)

July 26, 2017

THE HILL — Republicans on Tuesday cleared a crucial hurdle to begin the Senate healthcare debate, but now face the danger of a circular firing squad if they are unable to unify around a single proposal.... (more)

July 26, 2017

TRUNEWS — Speaking on a panel to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer with former DNI chief James Clapper, John Brennan effectively called for a coup against the president if he should give the order to fire the DOJ appointed investigator.... (more)

July 26, 2017

THE HILL — The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies' ability to obey their own rules.... (more)

July 26, 2017

NEWSMAX — Vice President Mike Pence is working to reverse the Pentagon's transgender policy covering sexual reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for service members who are transitioning, sources have told Foreign Policy.... (more)

July 26, 2017

GARTH KANT — Federal agents arrested the top suspect in a major Democratic hacking scandal at Dulles Airport in Virginia as he tried to flee the U.S. Tuesday and fly to the Mideast.... (more)

July 26, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — A British hospital, after staging a months-long court fight against a plan by the parents of Charlie Gard to obtain him experimental treatment, continued on Tuesday to fight with the parents.... (more)

July 26, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A strict D.C. gun law that prevents most firearms owners from carrying concealed handguns in public in the nation's capital is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday, saying the city government cannot demand citizens prove a "good reason" before being issued permits.... (more)

July 25, 2017

NEWSMAX — Steve Scalise, the House majority whip who was shot during a congressional baseball practice in June, called into the GOP whip meeting Monday and seemed to be in good spirits, according to sources who spoke with Politico.... (more)

July 25, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — In a lengthy and detailed rebuttal, White House aide and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner made a public and private declaration of his innocence and said the charges of Russian collusion with the Trump presidential campaign were intended solely to ridicule the president's millions of supporters.... (more)

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

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)