August 7, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Many people who helped the GOP win nominal control of both houses of Congress and the presidency are unhappy with the results. At the moment, Congress's failure to implement the promise to reverse Obamacare's socialist government takeover of the U.S. health sector is the most obvious reason for this unhappiness.... (more)

August 7, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — To what should be the surprise of no one, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has tried to defend his conferral of boundless jurisdiction to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of President Donald Trump. But the conferral is indefensible because Rosenstein failed to adhere to regulations that require a clear statement of the basis for a criminal investigation. This failure is not cured by the DAG's stubborn insistence that there really are limits to Mueller's jurisdiction . . . just not limits he can talk about.... (more)

August 7, 2017

BYRON YORK — As part of what he calls a "redesign" of the State Department, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has surveyed more than 35,000 State employees on the most fundamental questions facing the organization. And Tillerson -- or, more accurately, a consulting firm hired by the secretary -- has found that large blocs of State workers do not agree on what the department's mission should be.... (more)

August 7, 2017

NEWSMAX — USDA office staff have been instructed to drop the term "climate change" from their published writings and correspondence and use the term "weather extremes" instead, The Guardian reported exclusively Monday.... (more)

August 7, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" drew a lukewarm response from moviegoers, ranking 15th at the box office in its first weekend of wide release and earning tepid reviews from audiences. The sequel to Mr. Gore's influential 2006 climate-change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" has earned about $1 million since its limited release July 28, prompting one critic to say Paramount Pictures "effectively sabotaged" the rollout.... (more)

August 7, 2017

JOSEPH FARAH — I've been saying it for more than 30 years. "If racial and sex diversity is a noble goal for employers, why isn't ideological diversity?" Now, one of America's most "progressive" companies is facing the same question from an anonymous senior software engineer who has posted a well-reasoned 10-page treatise on the subject.... (more)

August 7, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — What is "reasonable" when preventing vote fraud? While Bill Clinton may still be pondering the meaning of the word "is," a federal court in Miami is trying to define what the word "reasonable" means. The ruling in this historic case could well determine how secure elections are all over the United States for years to come.... (more)

August 7, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A boy whose letter to President Trump made national headlines last month reportedly wanted a pro-Trump cake for his birthday party, but his mother was unable to find a baker willing to fulfill the order. At the July 26 White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a letter from a boy named Dylan who said Mr. Trump was his favorite president. When she later released the letter publicly, the boy's last name was blacked out. The only identifying clue was that everyone called him "Pickle."... (more)

August 7, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's work alias -- "Elizabeth Carlisle" -- was confirmed Monday as a result of multiple Freedom of Information Act requests and persistent citizens. The infamous election-season tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Ms. Lynch on June 27, 2016, sparked a wave of FOIA requests by Judicial Watch, the American Center for Law, and others.... (more)

August 6, 2017

LA TIMES — The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved a sanctions resolution that the United States said was the strictest imposed "on any country in a generation,'' banning North Korea from exporting many of its most lucrative products, ranging from coal to iron ore to seafood and even some of its artwork. The tough new sanctions would slice $1 billion from North Korea's total annual exports of $3 billion, the State Department said.... (more)

August 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — White House renovators didn't waste any time overhauling the West Wing once President Trump left for a 17-day vacation Friday. Renovations at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue began hardly an hour after Mr. Trump boarded Air Force One en route to Bedminster, New Jersey, according to his social media manager, Dan Scavino. The president is scheduled to spend the next two and a half weeks at his golf resort there as the White House receives a well deserved makeover.... (more)

August 6, 2017

ART MOORE — It seems clear that everyday conversation in America has become coarser in recent years, but it doesn't mean that the typical Hollywood film laced with language your grandmother would have punished with soap reflects reality or even makes good economic sense, contends a prominent film critic.... (more)

August 5, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — There's new news that Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation again into Whatever, and has empaneled a grand jury to indict someone once he and his team of expensive lawyers can find someone to indict. He already has one grand jury at the ready in Alexandria, empaneled months ago to pursue Michael Flynn, the first national security adviser to the president, but that's across the Potomac 10 miles away and the traffic in Washington is so fatiguing. Besides, the good restaurants are north of the river, and you can't expect a $500-an-hour lawyer take lunch in a down-market restaurant without a white cloth on the table.... (more)

August 5, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — HBO's Bill Maher on Friday night poked fun at Al Gore for his loss in the Florida recount against President George W. Bush in the 2000 election.... (more)

August 4, 2017

PAUL BEDARD — At the height of his first week promoting and selling his new book detailing the Democratic Party's "cozy" relationship with Nazism, author Dinesh D'Souza's Facebook page was hacked, blocking key sales, and the social media giant was slow to fix the costly problem.... (more)

August 4, 2017

ASSOCIATED PRESS — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he's switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump visited the increasingly conservative state. Justice told about 9,000 Trump supporters at a rally in Huntington that he will be changing his registration Friday. He recently visited the White House twice with proposals on manufacturing and coal, neither he nor Trump are politicians and they both ran to get something done, he said.... (more)

August 4, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — With tonight's switch by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice from Democrat to Republican, the GOP expanded its dominance of state governments. The Republican Party now controls the governorships and the state legislatures of 26 states (including Nebraska's supposedly nonpartisan legislature). Altogether, the populations in these states account for 48 percent of the U.S. population, according to 2016 Census estimates.... (more)

August 4, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Sen. John McCain is getting most of the blame from the right and praise from the left for his vote to scuttle Senate legislation to repeal parts of Obamacare, but another GOP member is coming under fire for reneging on her vow to repeal the law and offering a weak explanation for her reversal.... (more)

August 4, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration "misled" Americans into thinking signing up for Obamacare would be cheaper than it really was, according to an inspector general's report Thursday that said the IRS dramatically understated the actual cost of enrolling.... (more)

August 4, 2017

SEN. MIKE LEE — When Democrats passed Obamacare on a party-line vote in March 2010, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that by 2016, 21 million people would receive health insurance through the law's exchanges. In reality, just 10 million people did.... (more)

August 4, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury to issue subpoenas and compel witness testimony as he probes Russian interference in the presidential election, including a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer, according to news reports.... (more)

August 4, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Is "unmasking" the Republican version of "collusion": dramatic huffing and puffing in lieu of something truly worth huffing and puffing about? I wonder. I've watched the story closely but I haven't written about it for a while because I can't get past a nagging question: Why must we speculate about whether the Obama administration abusively exploited its foreign-intelligence-collection powers in order to spy on Donald Trump's political campaign? After all, Trump is president now. If he was victimized, he's in a position to tell us all about it.... (more)

August 3, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — In the time period of 2007-2008, two journalists – Trevor Loudon, a blogger from New Zealand, and America's Survival President Cliff Kincaid – tried to interest the public and the media in what they considered the story of their lifetimes. It was how a first-term largely unknown Senator from Illinois was a covert communist with backing from Russia who was poised to win the presidency of the United States. But the "fake news media" were not interested in the facts about then-Senator Obama, or the security risk he posed that would polarize and destabilize a nation -- and they covered up the story of Obama's communist mentor, suspected Soviet espionage agent Frank Marshall Davis. Here, for the first time in print, is how Loudon and Kincaid unraveled the story of America's first Marxist President. Kincaid says, "The smoking gun evidence of Barack Hussein Obama's deep personal relationship with suspected Soviet espionage agent and Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis is the real Russia-gate scandal."... (more)

August 3, 2017

GARTH KANT — The entire Russia collusion story was a fiction made up by intelligence chiefs who lied about President Trump, and lied to President Obama and the media, according to a person on a just-released audio recording who is almost certainly legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.... (more)

August 3, 2017

BRYAN FISCHER — The Founders frequently cited outside authorities in their public political writings to support, amplify, and confirm their positions. Of all these outside citations, 34% came from the Bible. The source cited next most frequently, Montesquieu, clocked in at a mere eight percent. There is simply no historical argument against the proposition that our new nation was founded on principles articulated in the word of God.... (more)