August 10, 2017

NEWSMAX — Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice acknowledged Thursday that three previous administrations "failed" in stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions, as President Donald Trump asserted in his stepped-up rhetoric against the regime.... (more)

August 10, 2017

WES PRUDEN — Who knew that Kim Jong-un and his distinguished generals grew their skin so thin? A lot of people, mostly affrighted diplomats and denizens of assorted newsrooms on the Atlantic seawall, are still beside themselves in fear and loathing of President Trump's fiery warning of what North Korea can expect if it gets big ideas about playing nuclear games.... (more)

August 10, 2017

NEWSMAX — Eddie Calvo, the governor of the U.S. territory of Guam, praised President Donald Trump's remarks about taking on North Korea. "As far as I'm concerned, as an American citizen, I want a president that says that if any nation such as North Korea attacks Guam . . . that they will be met with hell and fury," Calvo said Wednesday on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."... (more)

August 10, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Democratic National Committee was not hacked by Russia -- nor by anyone else -- but instead was "an inside job by someone with access to the DNC's system," according to a report in The Nation.... (more)

August 10, 2017

CHELSEA SCHILLING — A federal judge has ordered the State Department to search government email accounts of Hillary Clinton's aides for information concerning the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks that took the lives of four Americans.... (more)

August 10, 2017

BYRON YORK — Some Democrats and their advocates in the press have been quick to denounce the RAISE Act, the new immigration reform bill proposed by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue and endorsed by President Trump.... (more)

August 10, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It seems very unlikely that Sundar Pichai is stupid. The man is the CEO of Google. He holds many academic degrees including a Masters of Science from Stanford. At Wharton, where Pichai got his MBA, he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.... (more)

August 10, 2017

MICHAEL BARONE — Would a fair society have exactly the same percentage of men and women, of whites and blacks and Hispanics and Asians, in every line of work and occupational category? If your answer is yes, and you think that any divergence from these percentages must necessarily result from oppression, then you qualify for a job at Google.... (more)

August 10, 2017

LA TIMES — Before the age of compact cars, laptop computers and pocket telephones, there were miniature nuclear warheads. For as long as there have been engineers, they have been working on making complicated things smaller and better. Weapons are no exception.... (more)

August 10, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Responding Monday to new U.N. sanctions, North Korea threatened a nuclear attack on the United States. Speaking at the ASEAN summit in Manila, North Korea's foreign minister spoke of "intercontinental attack capabilities" that meant his nation could teach the U.S. a "severe lesson with its nuclear strategic force." Doubling down, North Korea's state news agency suggested that "There is no bigger mistake than the United States believing that its land is safe across the ocean."... (more)

August 10, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The State and Defense departments provided backup Wednesday to President Trump's threat a day earlier to rain down "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if North Korea did not curb its nuclear programs, but there was little sign Pyongyang was seeking to ease its threats against the U.S. and its allies in the region.... (more)

August 9, 2017

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has "a coherent strategy" -- though "inartfully executed" with Tuesday's rhetoric -- on stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions.... (more)

August 9, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD — President Trump matched Kim Jong-un hyperbole for hyperbole Tuesday, answering the crazy fat kid boast for boast in a mutual pursuit of nuclear nouns, verbs and adjectives. "Packs of wolves are coming in attack to strangle a nation," the government in Pyongyang said. "They should be mindful that [North Korea's] strategic steps accompanied by physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength."... (more)

August 9, 2017

BOB UNRUH — Establishment media outlets on Wednesday cast dark shadows over revelations that the FBI went to onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's home and took documents for the investigation of so-far unsubstantiated allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.... (more)

August 9, 2017

NEWSMAX — Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's close aide at the Department of Justice suggested edits to the FBI about the high-profile meeting between Lynch and former President Bill Clinton last year, The Washington Free Beacon reports.... (more)

August 9, 2017

NEWSMAX — Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., is calling on President Donald Trump to rescind his endorsement of the GOP senator he is running against next year. Trump tweeted his support of Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., Tuesday evening. The endorsement seemed out of the blue at first, but then it became clear that Brooks is one of several Republicans who will run against Strange's reelection effort.... (more)

August 9, 2017

BOB UNRUH — The U.S. Air Force is being sued for refusing to release the results of its investigation into an incident in which Air Force personnel dragged away a retired military officer, allegedly because he mentioned "God" in an airman's retirement ceremony.... (more)

August 9, 2017

JOSEPH FARAH — So, you think it's not a big deal that Google fired one of its engineers for company speech code violations? Let me beg to differ. This is how freedom is lost -- not in one big bite, not always through the sweeping edicts of a tyrannical state, not even with the heavy hand of people with "bad intentions."... (more)

August 9, 2017

CHELSEA SCHILLING — D'oh! "Fake news" has apparently struck again at the New York Times this week -- this time over a leaked climate science report that, well, wasn't so leaked. In fact, the report has been available to the public for as many as seven months.... (more)

August 9, 2017

MARISA MARTIN — The Forty Years War between the New York Times and reality is revisiting old war scenes and once again stirring contention. Now they are using art critics for ammunition -- specifically writer Jason Farago. Recently Farago reviewed "Operation Finale," an exhibit on the capture and trial of Adolph Eichmann, the major SS officer streamlining the "Final Solution" of Jews during World War II.... (more)

August 9, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — London's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, wants to address rising violence and unrest in the U.K. capital with a campaign of censorship, calling on YouTube to take down videos about gang violence and knife crime.... (more)

August 9, 2017

JOE WILSON — An episode of a Disney cartoon for preschoolers normalizes homosexual relationships. LifeSiteNews.com reports an Aug. 5 episode of the Disney Junior channel show "Doc McStuffins" featured a family headed by two lesbian "moms."... (more)

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)