December 8, 2017

WES VERNON — The fate of this nation, as some of us see it, now depends (some would say perilously so) on the outcome of the vote in several states in upcoming elections. The makeup of the next Congress, plus governorships and legislatures on state levels, will be determined in the years ahead. Much of this drama has erupted largely through the banana republic-like tactics of an angry effort to gin up a revolutionary-appearing attempt to foment a "silent coup," whose endgame is to bring down a duly-elected President of the United States.... (more)

December 7, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Rush Limbaugh has interviewed former prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy about how Robert S. Mueller's Russia-gate investigation has turned out so badly for President Trump and his associates. That's funny. Back in May, McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote an article for National Review appearing under the headline, "Robert Mueller: A Solid Choice for Trump-Russia Investigation 'Special Counsel.'"... (more)

December 7, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation designating National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and hosted several veterans of the Pearl Harbor attack at the White House to mark the occasion. One of the military veterans of the Japanese sneak attack on Dec. 7, 1941, that drew the U.S. into World War II described himself as "just a regular grunt in the service."... (more)

December 7, 2017

DEFENSE ONE — In 2014, the sensor-studded plane demonstrated an ability to track missiles, leading to a "tactically significant" improvement in targeting. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., raised more than a few eyebrows (and drew a few rolled eyes) when he suggested in November that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could intercept North Korean missiles headed for the United States. Hunter cited analysis from Los Alamos National Labs and other sources, according to Inside Defense.... (more)

December 7, 2017

BREITBART — In his defiant resignation speech late Thursday morning, disgraced U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proclaimed himself the victim and blamed his fall from grace on the hurling of false accusations of sexual misconduct against him. The only responsibility the belligerent and noticeably angry Franken seemed to want to accept is that "in responding to their claims, I also wanted to be respectful of that broader conversation[.]"... (more)

December 7, 2017

BYRON YORK — It's been ten months since Washington learned that former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the so-called "Trump dossier," took the Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research document to the FBI, which considered sponsoring the anti-Trump work at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign. Now, congressional investigators have made what is perhaps an even more consequential discovery: Knowledge of the dossier project, during the campaign, extended into the highest levels of the Obama Justice Department.... (more)

December 7, 2017

DAILY MAIL — The homes of celebrities including Chrissy Teigen, Paris Hilton and Chelsea Handler, as well as a vineyard belonging to Rupert Murdoch, have been evacuated as LA firefighters struggle to put out fires that are ripping through the Los Angeles area.... (more)

December 7, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a very good move that aids the pursuit of peace, does not concern America's closest Arab allies and tells the world the president will do what he says he will do.... (more)

December 7, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Jihadists, the tip of the sharia-supremacist spear, rationalize mass murder by denying the humanity of their enemies: Their doctrine teaches that non-Muslims are less than fully human and that their existence while refusing to accept Allah's law is offensive. In the same way, Islamists, the broader population of sharia supremacists, rationalize the destruction of their perceived enemies, Israel in particular, by denying the reality of their legitimate existence.... (more)

December 7, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Stanford University professor's defamation lawsuit in defense of his green energy research has raised the temperature on the climate change debate, fueling fears that such a precedent could put a chill on scientific inquiry. In 2015, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, did a study that said U.S. power demands could be met with 100 percent non-nuclear renewable energy by 2050.... (more)

December 6, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says there is still no discernible evidence of any conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, and he said special counsel Robert Mueller is effectively on a "fishing expedition" to find criminal behavior of some kind.... (more)

December 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sometimes, you can tell the big story of the day by what CNN is NOT covering -- or by how the heavily biased network covers what they think is the big story. "Trump's Russia defense in disarray," blared the CNN website headline on Tuesday morning. So, clearly, the real story is just the opposite. It's special counsel Robert Mueller investigation that's in disarray. Total disarray.... (more)

December 6, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — From the moment Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination and then the presidency, national security officials under President Obama have shown themselves to be intense adversaries in public and behind the scenes. In the latest development, special counsel Robert Mueller's top-gun prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, praised acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a Trump nemesis, for refusing a White House order to defend the president's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, according to internal emails.... (more)

December 6, 2017

Next generation of conservatives may still be thanking him for judicial appointments

WORLDNETDAILY — Left-wingers are warning their own that one of President Trump's most enduring accomplishments will be his appointment of federal judges. Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor in Los Angeles, says in a recent commentary at U.S.News that the president's influence could reverberate "for decades to come." "Focus on the judiciary," she warns.... (more)

December 6, 2017

CHERYL K. CHUMLEY — President Donald Trump took to the road to travel to Utah to announce a historic rollback of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. And in so doing, he put a serious damper on the legacies of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Insert cheer here.... (more)

December 6, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The editor of the Washington Post revealed an inside Washington secret Monday about President Trump: He is far more accessible to reporters than former President Obama.... (more)

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)