November 17, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Recently I read an unreasoning diatribe asserting that anyone who refuses to condemn Judge Roy Moore as a sexual predator is "disgusting" and "pretty gross."... (more)

November 16, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump believes Alabama voters should determine for themselves whether allegations of sexual impropriety against Senate candidate Roy Moore are true and whether to elect him, his press secretary said Thursday.... (more)

November 16, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Alabama Republican Party said Thursday it stands behind Senate candidate Roy Moore as the candidate vowed to remain in the race and the White House said state voters should pick their congressional representative.... (more)

November 16, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — When I was a young reporter on a certain newspaper in the South, fresh on a new job, I took a fancy to a sweet and pretty young woman (that's how we talked in those days) working on what newspapers quaintly called "the Society pages."... (more)

November 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Radio host Rush Limbaugh says Sen. Al Franken's groping scandal is "gumming up" a Democratic Party plan to oust Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and President Trump.... (more)

November 16, 2017

CNBC — House Republicans on Thursday passed a monumental bill to cut taxes on businesses and individuals, the biggest step yet in the GOP's once-in-a-generation effort to overhaul the American tax system.... (more)

November 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The NFL has come out against House Republicans' tax cut bill, putting the league out on a political limb even as it deals with the fallout from national anthem protests. Other big pro sports leagues are staying out of the fight, but a spokesman for the National Football League said teams don't want to lose a special tax break that allows them to use tax-free bonds to build stadiums.... (more)

November 16, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rep. Mark Meadows said Thursday that a special counsel is needed to look into Hillary Clinton's role in the Trump dossier. "You know, this dossier that Fusion GPS did -- actually we know that Hillary Clinton and the DNC hired a firm -- Perkins Coie actually hired them to do the dossier," Mr. Meadows, North Carolina Republican, said on Fox News. "But there's other disturbing information that would suggest that the Obama campaign, the same month that she did that, paid another $900,000 to the same law firm."... (more)

November 16, 2017

BLOOMBERG — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission next month is planning a vote to kill Obama-era rules demanding fair treatment of web traffic and may decide to vacate the regulations altogether, according to people familiar with the plans.... (more)

November 16, 2017

FOX NEWS — Pope Francis blasted global warming skeptics on Thursday as having "perverse attitudes." The pontiff, during remarks made to negotiators at climate talks in Germany, called climate change "one of the most worrisome phenomena that humanity is facing." He added efforts to combat climate change are held back by those who deny the science behind it, are indifferent or resigned to it, or think it can be solved by technical solutions.... (more)

November 15, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — The so-called Trump Dossier, financed by the Hillary campaign and provided by the KGB through a former British intelligence agent, has fizzled out. It has been supplanted by the Moore Dossier, concocted by Washington Post reporters working for their billionaire owner, P.T Barnum-like Jeff Bezos. This variation of the ploy, with a new target, seems to have legs. Many Republicans and conservatives are falling for it.... (more)

November 15, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Republican congressman moved Wednesday to try to block disgraced former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from collecting back pay and retirement benefits tied to the time after he deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009. Rep. Steve Pearce's bill would prohibit the military from compensating troops found guilty of desertion. The New Mexico Republican's bill would instead give any backpay and other benefits due to a deserter to the families of anyone killed or wounded on search and rescue missions.... (more)

November 15, 2017

ART MOORE — When Donald Trump formally announced his candidacy for president in June 2015, he made combating illegal immigration a central theme, famously promising to "build a great wall."... (more)

November 15, 2017

CAL THOMAS — Evidence that when Democrats rule, taxes are never high enough can be found at any gas station in this once politically competitive state. Last month, the California gas tax was raised 12 cents a gallon. Regular gas at some stations is again approaching, and in some cities exceeding, $4 a gallon, a level not seen since natural disasters temporarily curtailed refinery production, and Gulf states manipulated prices.... (more)

November 15, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Age is an underappreciated factor in the Democratic Party's internal divisions. When fault lines emerged during the 2016 presidential primary, young people fell overwhelmingly on the side of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., over Hillary Clinton.... (more)

November 15, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A study shows that suicide rates among teenagers have risen along with their ownership of smartphones and use of social media, suggesting a disturbing link between technology and teen self-harm. Citing federal data and two nationally representative surveys of more than 500,000 adolescents, researchers found a strong correlation between the time teens began using smartphones a decade ago and a sharp rise in reports of serious mental health issues.... (more)

November 15, 2017

NATIONAL REVIEW — t is hard not to look upon the Roy Moore imbroglio as another well-timed hit-job from a familiar and well-practiced source -- the same people who thought they had destroyed the Trump campaign by releasing the Billy Bush tape from eleven years before, and, when that didn't finish Trump off, tried the nuclear option very late in the campaign by shopping to the media the Steele dossier, which the Clinton campaign had commissioned, with its salacious and seditious elements.... (more)

November 15, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore's campaign team is demanding access to Beverly Young Nelson's yearbook that allegedly contains his signature, questioning whether it's real or a forgery and saying an expert must decide.... (more)

November 15, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — About six or seven months ago, Sen. Luther Strange's campaign heard that Roy Moore "liked to chase women around the courthouse," according to two Alabama Republican sources. At the time, Moore faced a three-way Republican primary against Strange and Rep. Mo Brooks. In a tight race, it was clear the rumor could prove politically lethal.... (more)

November 14, 2017

GATEWAY PUNDIT — Darrel Nelson, the stepson of Judge Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson says the allegations are all lies. Nelson says he is baffled by the timing of the sexual advancement claims and voices his staunch support for the Alabama GOP Senate candidate.... (more)

November 14, 2017

CNN — "Eight hundred," says the auctioneer. "900 ... 1,000 ... 1,100 ..." Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars -- the equivalent of $800. Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not "merchandise" at all, but two human beings. One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained by CNN is Nigerian. He appears to be in his twenties and is wearing a pale shirt and sweatpants.... (more)

November 14, 2017

Alan Keyes says many appointees fail to battle 'the permanent bureaucracy'

ALAN KEYES — President Trump recently nominated Kirstjen Nielsen to be secretary of homeland security. As Richard Viguerie observes in a recent article ("Why does Trump keep hiring anti-Trumpers?"):... (more)

November 13, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — There's a reason why President Trump says that the fate of Senate candidate Roy Moore will depend on whether the charges against him are proven to be true. Trump knows that if they get rid of Moore, using charges that obviously cannot be proven, he's their next target. Sex-gate will follow Russia-gate.... (more)

November 13, 2017

THE HILL — Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday withdrew his support from Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore, saying allegations of sexual misconduct should be looked at by prosecutors.... (more)

November 13, 2017

ABC — "Thank y'all for being here tonight," Moore said. "I want to address what's been brought out on television today by Gloria Allred and the client that she has about things I allegedly did. "I want to make it perfectly clear," Moore continued. "The people of Alabama know me, they know my character, they know what I've stood for in the political world for over 40 years.... (more)