February 6, 2018

ALAN KEYES — Last week, I wrote a column reflecting on the assertion that Christians who support Donald Trump have, in effect, surrendered to moral relativism. In that column, I noted that -- in the very same week President Trump addressed the Right to Life March, live and in person from the Rose Garden --... (more)

February 5, 2018

JOAN SWIRSKY — Once upon a time, a seasoned political operative ran for President of the United States against a candidate who had virtually no political experience. She – Democrat Hillary Clinton – former First Lady of Arkansas, former First Lady of the United States, former U.S. Senator from New York, former Secretary of State under the faux "president" Barack Obama, was clearly the favorite.... (more)

February 5, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The House's top investigator on Sunday said the FBI failed to notify a surveillance court that it was relying on material backed by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign when it asked to snoop on a former adviser to the Trump campaign.... (more)

February 5, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — A top Republican senator on Monday released an unpublished portion of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier that showed Hillary Clinton associates fed information to the author, former British spy Christopher Steele. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, posted the heavily redacted referral he sent to the Justice Department asking for a criminal investigation into whether Mr. Steele lied to the FBI.... (more)

February 5, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Friday the leaders at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department have a political bias against Republicans. "The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!" Mr. Trumptweeted.... (more)

February 5, 2018

FOX NEWS — Now that we know what the declassified House memo says about government misconduct, we also know what it means: The Washington swamp -- the deep state -- is bigger, more vicious and more dangerous to American liberty than even a cynic could have imagined.... (more)

February 5, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — Well, it's not breaking news, but it's worth noting as President Trump and Congress spar over spending that the national federal debt exceeds $20,000,000,000,000 -- and is rising by the minute. We're using zeroes here instead of spelling out "trillion" to help get across the enormity of this liability that we are piling onto our children and grandchildren.... (more)

February 5, 2018

FAITH IT — The 2017 NFL season could easily be summed up in two words: Public Demonstration. Flip the channel to ESPN this season, and you're bound to get one of two very different tales. On one hand, you may have seen headlines and reports of free agent Colin Kaepernick, and his public demonstration of taking a knee--although it may have cost him his career.... (more)

February 4, 2018

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Another school shooting has taken place -- this one in Kentucky. Our prayers are with the families of the victims, including two dead 15-year olds and about 18 wounded. Governor Matt Bevin even declared a day of prayer in the wake of the tragedy.... (more)

February 4, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Trump administration's new, revised nuclear weapons policy squarely targets Russia's growing stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons with a more forceful doctrine and new low-yield warheads designed to send Moscow a message.... (more)

February 4, 2018

NEWSMAX — Public hearings should be held about the allegations in House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' memo that the FBI abused surveillance practices during the 2016 presidential election, Rep. Pete King, a fellow committee member, said Friday.... (more)

February 4, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Saturday that a memo on FBI surveillance abuses released by House Republicans "totally vindicates" him in the investigation into Russian meddling and collusion in the 2016 election. "This memo totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe," the president tweeted. "But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on." The president said there was "no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead)."... (more)

February 4, 2018

BYRON YORK — It's fair to say that much of the media reaction to the House Intelligence Committee "FISA abuse" memo has been a mixture of scorn and ridicule. Many commentators have called the memo wrong, worthless, or worse.... (more)

February 4, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans released a long-awaited memo Friday detailing government surveillance abuses, showing that the FBI would not have obtained a surveillance warrant for the Trump campaign without using information from a dubious partisan dossier.... (more)

February 4, 2018

ARI FLEISCHER — I don't know former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. I've never met him. But I was supposed to. I was in an FBI car last June on my way to meet him and other top law enforcement leaders at a counterterrorism communications training event at the 9/11 Museum in New York City when McCabe suddenly ordered me not to show up. The car pulled up outside the museum and I was told not to come inside. I took a taxi back to my hotel and went home.... (more)

February 4, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's rollback of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah become official Friday, allowing private citizens and companies to make new oil, natural gas, and drilling claims.... (more)

February 3, 2018

NEWSMAX — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Friday that the Republican memo alleging FBI surveillance abuses was justified because "I have an obligation to the American people when we see FISA abuse" -- denying that he coordinated its release with President Donald Trump or his private attorneys.... (more)

February 3, 2018

ART MOORE — In the wake of the release Friday of a controversial memo he spearheaded that alleges politically motivated abuse of the nation's surveillance system by the FBI and the Justice Department, he's being called a Russian agent and much worse, and there are demands that he be removed from the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.... (more)

February 3, 2018

WORLDNETDAILY — The Nunes memo released Friday shows special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the wrong people "on purpose," contends talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. The declassified report by the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee confirms that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for a British spy to produce a salacious and discredited opposition report on Donald Trump that was submitted by the Justice Department to a top-secret surveillance court as evidence to obtain warrants to spy on a Trump campaign adviser.... (more)

February 3, 2018

GREG COROMBOS — President Trump declassified the highly anticipated memo from House Intelligence Committee Republicans on Friday, and the four-page summary of federal FISA abuses convinces former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that the government manipulated the system for partisan purposes and that the entire FISA system must be reformed.... (more)

February 3, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The release of a declassified memo on FBI surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign prompted calls Friday for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to explain his involvement to Congress, or even to resign. The memo from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee shows that at least one of the questionable surveillance warrant applications was signed by Mr. Rosenstein, who already has had a difficult relationship with President Trump. The memo said information supporting the application was obtained from a partisan anti-Trump dossier funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign.... (more)

February 3, 2018

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan has signed on to be a talking head on NBC and MSNBC. He will serve as a senior national security and intelligence analyst for the networks and make his first official appearance on NBC News's "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd on Sunday.... (more)

February 3, 2018

NEWSMAX — The Department of Defense has put a primary focus on a multibillion-dollar effort to update its nuclear deterrence against Russia, according to its recently released Nuclear Posture Review, CNN reported Friday. The report acknowledges publicly for the first time a "new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo," known as the "Status-6" system it said Russia was "developing."... (more)

February 3, 2018

BBC NEWS — Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications. The landscape, near already-known Maya cities, is thought to have been home to millions more people than other research had previously suggested.... (more)

February 3, 2018

BYRON YORK — The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points: * The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.... (more)