August 15, 2017

WES VERNON — That kid who rammed his car into a crowd that was protesting a racist rally in Charlottesville will likely get the chair. Assuming he first gets to state his case before the bar of justice, he will meet his just desserts in this world and the next. Never mind that a rally -- even a racist one -- is protected speech, however repugnant. Of course, then you run into the question of inciting to riot. I'll let the lawyers fight that one out in court.... (more)

August 14, 2017

ALAN KEYES — The headline read "Trump-McConnell smackdown foreshadows fury in 2018 primaries." But toward the end of the story comes a telling observation: A funny thing just happened on the way to this 2018 showdown, however. While pro-Trump Republicans Roy Moore and Mo Brooks are challenging appointed GOP Sen. Luther Strange in this month's Republican primary in the special election in Alabama to complete the term of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Strange just won Trump's enthusiastic endorsement.... (more)

August 14, 2017

Delivering on his promises, decimating the opposition

JOAN SWIRSKY — Hard to know which body is held in lower esteem, Congress or the media. But for a long time, the media thought they were invincible, based largely on their success after forming the JournOlist in 2007 -- a cabal of 400 leftists who vowed to destroy anyone who said a single bad word about the poseur "president" Barack Obama.... (more)

August 14, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of Christ, arrived in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday morning expecting that there might be violence. She did not expect things to get out of hand so quickly.... (more)

August 14, 2017

WASHINGTON POST — On Saturday afternoon, shortly before her camera captured a car plowing through left-wing activists in Charlottesville, killing one and injuring more than a dozen others, Faith Goldy warned that the left was spinning out of control.... (more)

August 14, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES — James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio was charged with second-degree murder in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday after the authorities said he smashed a car into a line of cars in an episode that left a 32-year-old woman dead and injured at least 19 other people who were protesting a rally staged by white nationalists.... (more)

August 14, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — Several Republican governors have joined President Trump in an exclusive but growing club: They are being sued by left-wing organizations for removing persistent critics from their Facebook or Twitter pages. In many cases, we're talking about trolls, the people who post inflammatory, irrelevant or offensive comments. The latest to face the trolls' wrath is Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued last Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine on behalf of two clients who say they were unconstitutionally blocked from Mr. LePage's Facebook page.... (more)

August 14, 2017

NEWSMAX — U.S. intelligence officials are pretty sure North Korea can put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental missile that could reach the United States. But experts aren't convinced the bomb could make it all that way intact. They cite lingering questions about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's nuclear know-how.... (more)

August 14, 2017

DAILY CALLER — I'm not a big fan of James Franco's work, other than Freaks and Geeks and the first 20 minutes of Pineapple Express. But I've always kind of admired his eclectic interests. He doesn't let Hollywood tell him what "movie stars" should and shouldn't do, and he gets himself into all sorts of weird, esoteric stuff.... (more)

August 14, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Republican race to fill a Utah congressional seat abandoned by Jason Chaffetz is pitting the party establishment, which is backing a popular mayor with a Democratic past, against further-right conservatives who are divided between two candidates with support from national GOP heavy-hitters.... (more)

August 14, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Al Gore's latest flick, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," is now being shown in movie theaters across America. Yes, I didn't notice either. And the same goes for the millions of Americans who took in a movie this past weekend.... (more)

August 14, 2017

MRC-TV — A new study reveals that people who smoke marijuana are at three times higher risk of dying from high blood pressure than those who have never used the drug. Published on Wednesday in the European Journal of Preventative Cardiology, the study drew its findings from an analysis of about 1,200 people. The study's co-lead author, Barbara Yankey said, "Support for liberal marijuana use is partly due to claims that it is beneficial and possibly not harmful to health."... (more)

August 13, 2017

DAILY MAIL — A 20-year-old Ohio man was charged with murder on Saturday after being accused of plowing his vehicle into a crowd of anti-fascists at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one woman and injuring 19 others, which caused the FBI to open a civil rights investigation.... (more)

August 13, 2017

POLITICO — National security adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday that the car attack that left one dead at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday may meet "the definition of terrorism." "I certainly think any time that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism. It meets the definition of terrorism," McMaster said on ABC's "This Week," asked by George Stephanopoulos whether the attack qualifies as domestic terrorism.... (more)

August 13, 2017

TWITCHY — As is always the case, there were a lot of conflicting reports regarding the car that mowed down several pedestrians in Charlottesville, Va. Some eyewitnesses said the car had no plates, while photos very clearly showed a license number. Some internet sleuths traced that number to what looks to be the wrong person and have since retracted the story.... (more)

August 13, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The 32-year-old woman killed when a car drove into a crowd of people in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday is Heather Heyer, according to a GoFundMe account and multiple media reports.... (more)

August 13, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — Anthony Scaramucci, the shortest-serving White House communications director in U.S. history, is doing the rounds on the anti-Trump media and dishing what they want to hear. On Sunday, he appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, beating up the president for not attacking the white supremacists in the Charlottesville horror and linking his senior strategist Steve Bannon with white nationalism.... (more)

August 13, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Violent crime is on the rise this year in some of the country's biggest cities, according to statistics, which find Chicago still leads as the deadliest city while homicide cases have spiked in Baltimore and New Orleans. The 62 police departments that provided data for the Major Cities Chiefs Association's midyear crime survey reported 3,081 homicides in the first six months of the year, an increase of 3 percent over the same time last year.... (more)

August 13, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Hillary Clinton email fiasco isn't ending anytime soon, with State Department officials saying they have no idea when they will finish sorting though and releasing the previously hidden messages. More classified documents that the former secretary of state improperly handled keep coming to light.... (more)

August 13, 2017

LIAM CLANCY — It's no surprise to hear that America's education system is in disarray, with Common Core dumbing down young students, faith absent from education and underpaid teachers increasingly unfit to serve as effective educators.... (more)

August 13, 2017

THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS — Next month delegations of state lawmakers will travel to Phoenix, Arizona, to attend what organizers say will be the first formal convention of states since the Civil War. They'll gather at the capitol, inside the turquoise-carpeted House chamber, and draw up rules for a hoped-for future meeting: a convention to draft an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.... (more)

August 12, 2017

BOB UNRUH — Talk-radio superstar Rush Limbaugh says while many Democrats now are admitting it wasn't Donald Trump and it wasn't Russia who "hacked" Democratic National Committee computer files during the 2016 election, the issue won't go away because party loyalists simply can't get past Hillary Clinton's election loss.... (more)

August 11, 2017

BREITBART — After liberal protesters set up a 30-foot inflatable chicken outside the White House, President Trump's supporters joyfully appropriated the image for their memes.... (more)

August 11, 2017

DAILY WIRE — LGBT site PinkNews hailed Prince George as a "gay icon" late last month after the young boy, just one day before his fourth birthday, was photographed on a helicopter with his hands on his face. To most sane people, the photograph showed a young boy excited about helicopters; to some on the Left, the photo revealed a three-year-old's sexuality. Of course, beyond being wildly inappropriate (he just turned four!), this is some heavy stereotyping coming from the crowd that allegedly loathes stereotypes.... (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)