December 5, 2017

Alan Keyes challenges believers inclined to trust 'wisdom' of the world

ALAN KEYES — "The word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God....we are proclaiming Christ crucified -- to the Jews a scandal, to the nations folly, but to the ones who are themselves called...Christ, the power and wisdom of God. For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength." (1 Corinthians 1:18, 23-24)... (more)

December 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts.... (more)

December 5, 2017

NEWSMAX — Peter Strzok, the FBI agent removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe for sending text messages critical of President Donald Trump and praising Hillary Clinton also had a role in the Clinton email probe.... (more)

December 5, 2017

SUSAN FERRECHIO — The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday will begin writing a resolution holding top FBI officials in contempt of Congress after the agency missed a Monday deadline to turn over key evidence the committee has been seeking for months.... (more)

December 5, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republicans searching for their next major task after tax reform may have found their answer, and it's not infrastructure. Over the past few weeks, President Trump has been talking up reform of anti-poverty programs, and House leaders have begun preliminary talks with his administration on what they could accomplish through a welfare overhaul, aides say. The White House, meanwhile, is preparing an administrative reordering of the welfare system regardless of whether congressional Republicans act.... (more)

December 4, 2017

NEWSMAX — Alabama Republican candidate for the Senate Roy Moore leads his Democratic challenger Doug Jones 49 percent to 43 percent among likely voters who say they expect to vote in the Dec. 12 special election, according to a CBS News poll, CBS News reported Sunday.... (more)

December 4, 2017

NEWSMAX — The GOP tax bill authorizes drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which has been closed to oil exploration since 1980 because of concerns of the impact on wildlife and the ecosystems, CNN reports.... (more)

December 4, 2017

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump has urged Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to run for re-election in Utah, causing some to speculate the president wants to block former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney from seeking election for the seat, Politico reported Sunday.... (more)

December 4, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — One of the biggest challenges facing the president in draining the Washington Swamp is ferreting out the activists who continue to pursue a progressive agenda in federal agencies. Richard C. Pilger has headed the Election Crimes Branch in the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department since 2010. Appointed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, Mr. Pilger is in charge of prosecuting public corruption cases, and specifically "voter fraud and campaign financing offenses."... (more)

December 2, 2017

CNN — ABC News announced Saturday that it has suspended investigative reporter Brian Ross for four weeks without pay after Ross was forced to correct a bombshell on-air report about Michael Flynn.... (more)

December 2, 2017

BYRON YORK — House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation.... (more)

December 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Saturday that he fired Michael Flynn for lying -- the same lies to which the former national security advisor pleaded guilty. "I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies," Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. "It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"... (more)

December 2, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — On the heels of comparing President Trump to cult murderer Charles Manson two weeks ago, the latest edition characterizes him in a headline as "basically a hate group all by himself under FBI definition."... (more)

December 2, 2017

BREITBART — Walmart is selling "Antifa" clothing that "will [allow you to] express yourself inside the opposition to the ideology, organizations, governments and people from the far right (fascism)." The mega-retailer is offering at least 13 different sweatshirts "made in Mexico of 100% COTTON for all-day comfort" promoting the group whose activities were "formally classified" by the Obama Administration "as domestic terrorist violence" as early as April 2016, according to Politico, despite the group's efforts to downplay this determination.... (more)

December 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — You can find conservative policy centers like the Family Research Council on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate map," but not the violent left-wing extremist group antifa. Why not? Antifa's radical activists are known for beating up those they view as "fascists," but according to SPLC president Richard Cohen, antifa doesn't actually espouse hate.... (more)

December 2, 2017

BREITBART — The Trump administration is ending yet another of Michelle Obama's hated, overly strict school lunch rules by bringing chocolate milk back to school lunch menus. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced a new rule set to take effect on July 1 after the period of public comment. The new rule relaxes sodium limits and Obama's whole-grain requirements. The rule will also allow milk with one percent fat back on the menu, ABC News reported.... (more)

December 2, 2017

CHERYL K. CHUMLEY — The egregious jury finding of innocence for Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the killing of Kate Steinle is one of the biggest travesties of justice in recent memory. Garcia Zarate, at the very least, should've been found guilty of manslaughter. But he wasn't. Jurors found him innocent of manslaughter, assault and murder, and guilty only of illegal gun possession.... (more)

December 2, 2017

NEWSMAX — US Senate Republicans passed landmark tax reform early Saturday, a critical step toward delivering a monumental legislative victory for President Donald Trump in his first year in office.... (more)

December 2, 2017

NEWSMAX — The Republican's tax overhaul package could lead to as much as $150 billion per year being cut from federal programs such as farm subsidies, student loans, and support for crime victims, according to Politico.... (more)

December 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump administration moved Friday to claim custody of the illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle, saying he violated the terms of his probation and should be sent back to federal prison. The move is aimed at taking Jose Inez Garcia Zarate away from California officials, after a jury in that state acquitted him Thursday of murder and manslaughter charges stemming from the Steinle killing.... (more)

December 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Conservative author and lawyer Ben Shapiro says a San Francisco jury's decision to acquit an illegal immigrant of murder for the 2015 death of Kate Steinle encapsulates why voters put President Trump in the White House. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was deported five times before the July 1, 2015, shooting death of Ms. Steinle on a San Francisco pier. Mr. Shapiro, a Harvard Law School graduate, told Fox News after Thursday verdict that it is inexplicable how Mr. Zarate escaped involuntary manslaughter charges after firing the weapon that killed Ms. Steinle.... (more)

December 2, 2017

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday called on the Senate to pass "Kate's law" after an illegal immigrant was acquitted Thursday for fatally shooting Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier with her father in 2015.... (more)

December 2, 2017

ART MOORE — It's significant that Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, pleaded guilty Friday to the "process crime" of lying to FBI agents rather than to a conspiracy of collusion, contends a former assistant U.S. attorney.... (more)

December 2, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Law enforcement's failures in preparation, communication, and command-and-control created a perfect storm that contributed to the chaos surrounding the August 12 "Unite the Right" demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to the results of an independent investigation released Friday.... (more)

December 1, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — The words "national reckoning" are appearing with some regularity in media reports about various sex scandal cases. It's almost as if there is an unseen hand in the media orchestrating or coordinating in advance the presidential race in 2020, a year already being labeled "The Year of the Woman." It's designed to create an opportunity for California Democratic Party Senator and staunch feminist, Kamala Harris, to run as a presidential candidate. In this culmination of the "national reckoning," she's ready to take on the male power structure and break the glass ceiling. Where Hillary failed, Harris will succeed.... (more)