February 27, 2018

JOAN SWIRSKY — Imagine a guy in his mid-thirties walking on a beach in Hawaii and seeing an object that actually looked like the genie lamp he read about in his childhood -- the kind of lamp he could rub until a genie popped out and granted his most fervent wish. Being a pretty ordinary guy -- you know, the kind who hung out smoking pot, who slacked off in school, who didn't get the girl and actually hated and was jealous of the guys who did -- he asked for power.... (more)

February 25, 2018

WORLDNETDAILY — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is blaming former President Obama for being in cahoots with Russia for eight years and setting the stage for orchestrating a conspiracy theory of collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump during the 2016 election.... (more)

February 25, 2018

NEWSMAX — Russia's 2016 election meddling campaign was designed to "amplify" discord among Americans, their president, and with Congress, and their execution was "cheap and effective," according to a former FBI special agent in N.Y.'s cyber division.... (more)

February 25, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — In 1953 in Chattanooga, Tenn., the Rev. Billy Graham saw that his crusade audience was segregated in roped-off sections. He personally tore the barriers down. Over the next six decades, he preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to more than 200 million people in 185 countries. Without giving an inch of theological ground, he adjusted his message to the moment, for example, dropping the name "crusade" for his rallies so as not to offend Muslims that he was trying to reach for Christ.... (more)

February 25, 2018

NEWSMAX — Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said it was "outrageous" if reports were confirmed that four Broward County sheriff's deputies failed to enter the Parkland, Florida, high school during a February 14 shooting that claimed 17 lives. "It's outrageous. I've never heard anything like this before," Kerik told Newsmax on Saturday.... (more)

February 25, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The National Rifle Association on Sunday morning said the "headline" in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting is the failure of the FBI and local law enforcement to do something about alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz before he carried out his massacre.... (more)

February 25, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republican state lawmakers in Florida are calling for Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel to be suspended for what they believe is "incompetence and neglect of duty" after it came to light the agency failed to address multiple warnings about the suspected gunman in the shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school.... (more)

February 25, 2018

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump Saturday afternoon tweeted his support for arming educators, saying that doing so would mean "shootings will not happen again."... (more)

February 25, 2018

NEWSMAX — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was a victim of gun violence last June, endorsed President Donald Trump's proposal to arm teachers on school campuses across the United States. "As long as they are properly trained, that should be their prerogative," the Louisiana Republican said during a visit to a local charter school on Friday. "If they don't want to, they shouldn't have to. But if they want to, they ought to have that right."... (more)

February 25, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg came to the defense of the armed resource officer who never entered the Parkland, Florida school where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting, asking, "Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a Glock?" In an interview Saturday on MSNBC, Mr. Hogg insisted that the officer, Scot Peterson, "just like every other police officer out there at heart -- is a good person."... (more)

February 25, 2018

NEWSMAX — A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior said Sunday he doesn't completely blame law enforcement for missteps surrounding Feb. 14 mass shooter gunman Nikolas Cruz – but thinks the NRA's response shows it's "broken."... (more)

February 25, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Andrew Pollack, the father of Meadow Pollack who was killed during the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting, ripped into the media for its fixation on gun control rather than discussing policies that specifically address school safety.... (more)

February 23, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Friday that gun-free school zones don't protect students, as he renewed his call to arm more qualified teachers and other school employees. "When we declare our schools to be gun-free zones, it just puts our students in far more danger," Mr. Trump said at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. "Well-trained gun-adept teachers and coaches and people that work in those buildings who were in the Marines for 20 years ... should be able to carry concealed firearms. It's time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers."... (more)

February 23, 2018

WORLDNETDAILY — A teen survivor of the Florida school shooting believes armed U.S. teachers and veterans can protect America's school kids from would-be killers -- an idea proposed by action star Chuck Norris five years ago -- but the student said CNN blocked his effort to discuss the issue in a town-hall event this week.... (more)

February 23, 2018

MSNBC — MS Douglas High teacher Felicia Burgin, who was in the building where the shooting took place, said she believes officer Scot Peterson she doesn't believe officer Scot Peterson would have been able to save any lives during the shooting. Instead, she says she believes he's being used as a scapegoat to distract from the larger conversation about guns.... (more)

February 23, 2018

SELWYN DUKE — Unlike after other mass school shootings, the movement from Parkland to propaganda has had tremendous lasting power. The tragedy's wake has seen sustained news coverage and energized anti-Second Amendment protests, ostensibly due to organic "student activism." Yet post-shooting leftist anti-gun appeals and young students willing to facilitate them are nothing new. What is new is that the Democrats just recently suffered a devastating political one-two punch.... (more)

February 23, 2018

CNN — Ex-FBI and Former CIA counterterrorism agent Phil Mudd breaks down as he tries to offer his analysis of the shooting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.... (more)

February 23, 2018

NEWSMAX — Four Broward County Sheriff's deputies did not enter the building at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, while the students, faculty and administrators were inside under fire from a gunman last week, CNN reported Friday.... (more)

February 23, 2018

ART MOORE — The U.S. Embassy in Israel will officially move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May as Israel celebrates its 70th Independence Day, the State Department said Friday. Steven Goldstein, undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson approved a security plan Thursday evening for "a facility" in Jerusalem.... (more)

February 23, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Is Caitlyn Jenner a woman? A growing body of research from scientists, philosophers and feminists says no. The latest contribution to the debate is "When Harry Became Sally," a just-released book by Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Ryan T. Anderson, who critiques the transgender movement on the grounds of metaphysics, medicine and public policy.... (more)

February 22, 2018

CLIFF KINCAID — Ronald Reagan would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what the leadership of the American Conservative Union (ACU) was doing to the conservative movement. The ACU, which sponsors the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), has destroyed one leg of Reagan's "three-legged stool" approach to conservatism, and has greatly undermined another.... (more)

February 22, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Colton Haab, a Junior ROTC student and survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last week, said he going to participate in the CNN town hall Wednesday night, but decided not to when he said the network provided him with a list of "scripted questions."... (more)

February 22, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday offered qualified support to calls for arming teachers in the wake of last week's Florida school shooting, saying it shouldn't be compulsory but that it would serve to make schools safer. "I think it makes perfect sense that if teachers want to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, that it will only make schools safer," the Texas Republican said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland.... (more)

February 22, 2018

NBC MIAMI — Deputies will carry rifles on the grounds of local schools in Broward County in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel announced Wednesday. Israel said that only deputies who are "qualified and trained" will carry the rifles on school grounds.... (more)

February 22, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump expressed support for arming teachers Wednesday during an emotional meeting at the White House with teenagers who survived last week's massacre at a Florida high school, while thousands of students walked out of schools nationwide and marched on capitols from Washington to Tallahassee to demand more gun control laws.... (more)