September 18, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Has the United States ever been short on demagogues? I just typed the word into the Google search box. The first definition listed is reasonably complete and accurate: demagogue; plural noun: demagogues... (more)

September 18, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — The comical publication the Onion ran a special volume, Homeland Insecurity, with the headline, "Run for Your Lives." I thought of that in the wake of the decision by hard-liners Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka to voluntarily leave the White House rather than continue to fight for rational pro-American policies in the Trump Administration against what has been called the Deep State.... (more)

September 18, 2017

PUBLIUS HULDAH — The danger of an Article V convention (which made James Madison "tremble," caused Alexander Hamilton "dread," and Chief Justice John Jay to say that another convention would impose an "extravagant risque") is this: the delegates to the convention can run away: instead of proposing amendments to our existing Constitution, they can write a completely new Constitution with a new -- and easier -- mode of ratification.... (more)

September 18, 2017

ALICIA POWE — Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is holding a hefty lead in Alabama's special election GOP runoff against interim Sen. Luther Strange in a race that analysts claim embodies a war inside the GOP between establishment and anti-establishment forces.... (more)

September 18, 2017

THE HILL — We've all heard that fact sometimes is stranger than fiction, correct? Well, hold on to your hat, dear reader, because the following facts make strange look boring.... (more)

September 18, 2017

INTELLECTUAL TAKEOUT — [Last]spring, PBS has been airing a three-part documentary series, "School, Inc.", spotlighting some of the successes of education choice and free-market schooling options around the world. "School, Inc." is the brainchild of Andrew Coulson, an education policy researcher who left a successful career at Microsoft to answer a perplexing question: Why is it that innovation occurs frequently in other areas, but not in education?... (more)

September 18, 2017

DEADLINE — With 11.38 million viewers tuning into the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards is even with last year's show on ABC, which was the all-time low. The 2016 show was down 5% from the 2015 show, which was the previous low. Among adults 18-49, last night's Emmys snagged a 2.5 rating. That's down 10% from the Jimmy Kimmel hosted show of last year, the previous demo low.... (more)

September 18, 2017

THE FREE BEACON — California Gov. Jerry Brown (D.) compared President Donald Trump supporters to ignorant cave dwellers at a climate change event Monday in New York City. "They're both kind of very similar. You should check out the derivation of 'Trump-ite' and 'troglodyte,' because they both refer to people who dwell in deep, dark caves," Brown said in remarks reported by Politico.... (more)

September 18, 2017

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Israel and the U.S. inaugurated the first American military base on Israeli soil on Monday, which will serve dozens of soldiers operating a missile defense system. The move comes at a time of growing Israeli concerns about archenemy Iran's development of long-range missiles. Together with the U.S., Israel has developed a multilayered system of defenses against everything from long-range guided missile attacks from Iran to crude rockets fired from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.... (more)

September 18, 2017

BYRON YORK — After two previous deadlines came and went, House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has set a new date for the FBI and Justice Department to turn over documents relating to the Trump dossier.... (more)

September 18, 2017

LINDA GOUDSMIT — On Friday September 8, 2017 Governor Rick Scott issued a mandatory evacuation order for all residents of the barrier islands on the west coast of Florida where my husband and I live. We anxiously monitored the trajectory of Hurricane Irma and watched with horror as the colossal storm gathered strength and unexpectedly veered west. On Saturday morning we left everything behind and drove north toward safety.... (more)

September 18, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — Never underestimate the power of water. My parents drilled this mantra into my head as a young girl growing up in San Antonio in an area prone to flash floods. I've lived in Houston for 30 years, and as such, have lived through several hurricanes. The worst (until Harvey) was Hurricane Ike in 2008. Ike had 145 mph sustained winds, and the eye of the storm passed right over us. I had never experienced anything like it.... (more)

September 16, 2017

JERRY NEWCOMBE — On January 22, 1973, with the bang of a gavel, seven men in Washington, D.C. consigned tens of millions of future Americans to an incredibly premature death. These Americans were condemned to die before they were born by what one dissenting justice, Byron White, called "an act of raw judicial power."... (more)

September 16, 2017

THE BLAZE — Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro masterfully handled a student's claim that a first-trimester fetus isn't human life during a Q&A session at his highly anticipated speaking event Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley.... (more)

September 16, 2017

ALICIA POWE — Two family organizations, the Family Research Council and the Susan B. Anthony List, are backing Obamacare repeal legislation proposed by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., that would prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions.... (more)

September 16, 2017

NEWSMAX — Islamic State terrorists are calling for "lone wolf" attacks in Miami, Houston and other cities affected by recent hurricanes via social media, according to news reports Friday. The Department of Homeland Security outlined the warning Thursday in an unclassified "situation awareness" document that was obtained by CNBC.... (more)

September 16, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The latest reporting indicates that 22 people were injured, but fortunately none killed, in this morning's terrorist bombing in the London subway transit system.... (more)

September 16, 2017

PHILIP KLEIN — Whenever Republicans released a healthcare proposal during their ill-fated attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, the plan was immediately frisked by members of the policy community, who pointed out the myriad of problems raised by the various legislative drafts. It's only fair that we're just as brutally honest about the latest single-payer proposal from socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Simply put: it is a complete joke.... (more)

September 16, 2017

NEWSMAX — A new film screened at the Toronto Film Festival shines a harsh light on the Teddy Kennedy car-crash scandal on Chappaquiddick Island -- and the famous political family won't like it, according to Vice.... (more)

September 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The number of activists arrested during Ben Shapiro's speech Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley climbed to nine as campus officials declared that the event went off with "barely a hitch" despite the large protest crowd.... (more)

September 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Dairy Queen franchisee in Wisconsin made national headlines this week for a warning sign to potential customers -- phrases like "God bless America" and "Merry Christmas" are welcomed in his establishment.... (more)

September 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House has been privately urging the State Department to speed up its protracted process for releasing Hillary Clinton's still-undisclosed emails. A person close to the discussions said State may shift gears and speed up its responses to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.... (more)

September 16, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Environmental Protection Agency deployed a team of divers Friday to begin inspecting a flooded toxic waste site in Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.... (more)

September 14, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Despite the election of President Trump, which seemed to momentarily disrupt Democratic Party plans for total control, conservatives are losing politically. Trump's basic failure was the inability to seize control of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies away from Obama and his holdovers. Conservatives that Trump tried to put in were systematically purged. He's the ultimate target. It's unclear whether he can save himself.... (more)

September 14, 2017

THE HILL — Anti-fascist activists, or "antifa," increasingly mobilized in the wake of President Trump's election, are unapologetic about what they describe as the necessary use of violence to combat authoritarianism.... (more)