August 17, 2017

JUDI CALER — There may not be a question more difficult to answer for Mark Meckler, President of Citizens for Self-Governance and spokesman for its Convention of States Project (COS), than this: Since the federal government ignores the Constitution as now written, why would it obey an amended Constitution?... (more)

August 17, 2017

DAVID HOROWITZ — The tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, could have been an occasion to stop and consider how the tolerance for politically correct violence and politically correct hatred is leading the nation toward civil war.... (more)

August 17, 2017

CHELSEA SCHILLING — The organizer of the violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was until recently a Barack Obama supporter and was also a member of the leftist radical Occupy Wall Street Movement, according to a report from a hard-left activist group.... (more)

August 17, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — While the debate rages on about the violence and ideology on display in Charlottesville last Saturday, a prominent black conservative is fuming over the lack of an appropriate police presence to prevent the clashes and says preventing a replay in other American cities likely depends upon the politics of the political leaders there.... (more)

August 17, 2017

BOB UNRUH — The Alliance Defending Freedom is calling out two news organizations in Arizona for making "defamatory" claims copied from the far-left and terror-linked Southern Poverty Law Center. "For the sake of its own integrity and the safety of Arizonans, 12 News and The Arizona Republic should issue an apology to ADF and retract their defamatory stories," ADF said in a statement Wednesday.... (more)

August 17, 2017

GARTH KANT — Leftists claim they are fighting hate and violence, and they cite the deadly protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a prime example. But the evidence indicates the left is actually spreading hate and violence. Those are the conclusions of writers for two prominent left-leaning news outlets, the BBC and the Atlantic.... (more)

August 17, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Members of the national media are disputing President Trump's decision to blame the "alt-left" for engaging in acts of violence, and many say there is no such thing even though the term has been used for months.... (more)

August 17, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump disbanded two of his economic advisory councils Wednesday, faced with the embarrassing resignations of numerous business leaders amid rising condemnation over his comments about violence at a white nationalist rally and a liberal pressure campaign.... (more)

August 17, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump's question to reporters on Tuesday about the possibility of tearing down historical monuments has been answered by a Chicago pastor: "It's time."... (more)

August 17, 2017

LIAM CLANCY — President Donald Trump has said that "both sides" are to blame for violence at the Charlottesville, Virginia, "Unite the Right" rally last weekend, naming the "alt-left" as equally responsible for the violence as the "alt-right."... (more)

August 17, 2017

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — Blaming "identity politics" for the bloodshed and chaos in Charlottesville misses the point. It's like blaming "greed" for the recession or blaming gravity for a plane crash.... (more)

August 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A defiant President Trump doubled down Tuesday on his initial claim that activists on both the left and the right were responsible for violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he warned that eradicating public monuments linked to slavery could diminish the legacies of Founders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.... (more)

August 16, 2017

NEWSMAX — Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik told Newsmax TV on Tuesday that both the racist groups who participated in Saturday's deadly Charlottesville rally, as well as the counter-protestors who clashed with them, must be investigated by the feds because "there are lunatics on both sides."... (more)

August 16, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza says there were fascists on both sides of the violence in Virginia on Saturday and he posits that Democrats and their allies in the media are now focused on painting all Republicans and conservatives as responsible for the racism that still exists in the United States.... (more)

August 16, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES — Roy S. Moore, a former chief justice of the State Supreme Court, and Senator Luther Strange emerged from a crowded Republican field on Tuesday in a special Senate primary in Alabama, according to The Associated Press. They will face off for their party's nomination next month in a runoff election, a contest that will test President Trump's clout in a deeply conservative state.... (more)

August 16, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES — John Curtis, the mayor of Provo, Utah, won the Republican primary on Tuesday to fill the United States House seat vacated by Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who resigned from Congress on June 30.... (more)

August 16, 2017

HERMAN CAIN — You want to denounce Nazis? Here you go, America. Don't tell me again about the moral imperative to denounce Nazis if you're going to let this slide. As Rob mentioned to me when we were discussing who would write this up, the essence of Hitler's eugenics program was to filter out children who didn't have the traits deemed optimal for the Aryan race. Horrifying? Obviously. You'd have a fit if they started aborting babies for having brown skin, or - if there was some way you could tell - for being gay. And you should have that fit.... (more)

August 16, 2017

LITE SITE NEWS — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed today a bill to restrict state funding for abortion insurance. The new law will keep Texans from having to pay for elective abortions through their insurance plans.... (more)

August 16, 2017

LEO HOHMANN — A 46-year-old man identified as Hussein Hassan attacked a police officer in Kennewick, Washington, over the weekend with a large sword, striking at the officer's head before he was shot and killed.... (more)

August 15, 2017

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW — President Donald Trump is reported to be "seriously considering" pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was recently found guilty of criminal contempt after refusing to follow a judge's order to stop profiling suspected illegal immigrant drivers.... (more)

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)