February 16, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Mitt Romney on Friday was set to announce his campaign for Utah's Senate seat that will almost certainly succeed, and will only be burdened by attributes that candidates normally kill for -- universal name recognition and the captivated attention of the national press corps.... (more)

February 15, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Mitt Romney's ascension to Congress's upper chamber may be a safe bet, but that doesn't mean he'll have an easy road. Just as the news broke indicating Romney will announce his candidacy for Orrin Hatch's, R-Utah, Senate seat on Thursday, Utah's Republican Party chairman slammed the former presidential candidate. "I think he's keeping out candidates that I think would be a better fit for Utah because, let's face it, Mitt Romney doesn't live here, his kids weren't born here, he doesn't shop here," Rob Anderson said in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, further accusing Romney of "using name recognition to win a seat."... (more)

February 15, 2018

BYRON YORK — Observers are buzzing about a series of events in the last 60 days in the case of Michael Flynn, the Trump national security adviser who on Dec. 1 pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in the Trump-Russia investigation. The new developments might add up to very little or they might be significant. In any event, they are raising eyebrows.... (more)

February 15, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Back in early December, Trump fans started throwing stuff at me for suggesting that we await more information about FBI agent Peter Strzok before demanding that he be drawn and quartered. Yes, it was clear that Strzok engaged in serious misconduct: The married G-man's reported extramarital affair with his married FBI colleague Lisa Page was scandalous not only for the obvious reasons but as potential blackmail material against counterintelligence agents.... (more)

February 15, 2018

BOB UNRUH — Bruce Ohr, the demoted Department of Justice official who provided information to the FBI for the anti-Trump "dossier," did not disclose to the bureau that the opposition-research firm that produced the dossier was paying his wife, according to newly obtained government documents.... (more)

February 15, 2018

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan is in a "world of trouble" over statements he has made concerning British spy Christopher Steele's dossier linking President Donald Trump to Russia, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino said Monday.... (more)

February 15, 2018

DAILY CALLER — White House problems with the Democrats' "rebuttal memo" on the surveillance of Trump associates are genuine and the document could disclose "sources and methods," California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed.... (more)

February 15, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — With dozens of Dreamers looking on from the viewing gallery, the Senate was unable to muster the votes to approve an amnesty for them and 1.8 million other illegal immigrants, leaving their fate in doubt with just weeks to go before many of them start to lose their DACA protections.... (more)

February 15, 2018

DAILY CALLER — Justice Clarence Thomas decried the contemporary culture of victimhood during remarks Thursday, telling an audience at the Library of Congress that constant aggrievement would exhaust the country.... (more)

February 15, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., spoke pessimistically Thursday about preventing mass shootings like the one that took place in his home state a day earlier. "I'm trying to be clear and honest here, if someone's decided I'm going to commit this crime, they will find a way to get the gun to do it," Rubio said in a Senate floor speech. "That doesn't mean you shouldn't have a law to make it harder; it just means understand, to be honest, it isn't going to stop this from happening."... (more)

February 15, 2018

CBS NEWS — The leader of a white nationalist militia Thursday night appeared to walk back his earlier statements that Florida shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group. Law enforcement in Tallahassee, Florida, said they had no record of Cruz being part of the organization.... (more)

February 15, 2018

CBS NEWS — Seventeen people were killed and more than two dozen others were wounded when 19-year-old Nikolas Jacob Cruz allegedly opened fire on Wed., Feb. 14, 2018, on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus in Florida. Pictured are 14 of the victims who were killed in Parkland, Florida.... (more)

February 15, 2018

NEWSMAX — The alleged shooter in Wednesday's Florida high school massacre had gone through mental health treatment but had stopped attending the sessions at least a year ago, according to a new report. Broward County Mayor Beam Furr told CNN the shooter, identified as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, had a history of mental illness before he allegedly shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.... (more)

February 15, 2018

NEWSMAX — Educators should consider employing armed combat veterans to protect students against the kind of senseless violence that claimed the lives of 17 people at a Florida high school, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik tells Newsmax TV.... (more)

February 14, 2018

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — The Utah Republican Party chairman blasted Mitt Romney's anticipated Senate run, hitting him for "essentially doing what Hillary Clinton did in New York" -- campaigning in a state he hasn't spent much time in. "I think he's keeping out candidates that I think would be a better fit for Utah because let's face it Mitt Romney doesn't live here, his kids weren't born here, he doesn't shop here," Rob Anderson told The Salt Lake Tribune in an interview.... (more)

February 14, 2018

NEWSMAX — Former FBI director James Comey told lawmakers last March that the FBI agents who interviewed retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who briefly served in the Trump White House, said Flynn did not lie to them -- which contradicts what the Russia probe has concluded.... (more)

February 14, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The Schiff memo, principally authored by Democratic staff on the House Intelligence Committee under the direction of ranking member Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), is the response to the Nunes memo, which was composed by the committee's Republican staff under the direction of Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.).... (more)

February 13, 2018

BOSTON HERALD — At the ceremony yesterday to unveil portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, the former president joked that artist Kehinde Wiley cheerfully ignored almost all of his suggestions. "He listened very thoughtfully to what I had to say before doing exactly what he always intended to do," Obama said. "I tried to negotiate less gray hair, but Kehinde's artistic integrity would not allow it. I tried to negotiate smaller ears and struck out on that as well."... (more)

February 13, 2018

ALAN KEYES — "Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.... (more)

February 12, 2018

NEWSMAX — Sen. Rand Paul lashed out Sunday at his own party, calling members "hypocritical" for passing tax cuts -- and then turning around and voting for spending increases. In an interview on CBS News' "Face The Nation," the Kentucky Republican said the support for both doesn't make fiscal sense.... (more)

February 12, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rep. Jim Jordan says the swamp struck back with the passage of a massive budget deal that increases government spending by $300 billion. "I'm saying the swamp won and the American taxpayer lost," Mr. Jordan, co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, said on "Fox News Sunday."... (more)

February 12, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Few things produce bipartisanship more than spending other people's money. This week's deal to add $320 billion to the deficit over the next 20 months and set the stage for $1.8 trillion more in deficits over the next decade has won strong reviews from those who want to see Democrats and Republicans get along better.... (more)

February 12, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's second budget will cut $3 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, White House officials indicated Sunday night, but won't be balanced. Instead of balancing the budget, the Trump administration will tout lowering the debt relative to the economy in its budget document, to be released Monday.... (more)

February 12, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney defended the fact that his fiscal year 2019 budget request does not balance, and said Monday that Congress' rejection of his savings proposals has put a balanced budget out of reach. "It's not hypocritical," said Mulvaney, a self-professed deficit hawk who pushed hard for spending cuts as a member of Congress. "It's simply adjusting to the Washington, D.C., we live in."... (more)

February 12, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was adamant Sunday he would not accept an immigration bill dealing with both increased border security and a pathway for citizenship for so-called Dreamers, or immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.... (more)