April 9, 2018

ALAN KEYES — In articles published earlier (read them here and here), I wrote about the strategic implications of Mexico's involvement with the so-called refugee caravan that was making its way through Mexico toward the U.S. border. According to the latest reports available as I write this, President Trump's firm, timely warnings to the Mexican government, along with the actions he has ordered to underline them, have had the desired effect.... (more)

April 9, 2018

Economy to surge, unemployment to hit record low under Trump

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans' tax cuts and the new spending bill Congress approved last month will send the economy surging this year to 3.3 percent growth -- but will also send the deficit soaring back to the record levels of the early Obama years, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday.... (more)

April 9, 2018

The police will now stop and frisk people believed to be carrying knives.

DAILY WIRE — An epidemic of stabbings and acid attacks in London has gotten so bad that London mayor Sadiq Khan is announcing broad new "knife control" policies designed to keep these weapons of war out of the hands of Londoners looking to cause others harm.... (more)

April 9, 2018

ONE NEWS NOW — Muslim London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced the addition of a knife control crusade to curb the endemic crime rate – after nearly 100 years of gun control enforcement in the city – but his recent move to lower searches he called "Islamophobic" could be responsible for the spike in violent crime.... (more)

April 9, 2018

Sense of vulnerability: ‘Unprecedented’ spike in firearm training courses after Parkland shooting

WASHINGTON TIMES — People are surging to sign up for training to carry concealed weapons in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, as experts say sustained media coverage and calls for more gun control encourage people to look for ways to protect themselves. Gun sales also appear to be on the rise, based on federal background checks.... (more)

April 9, 2018

NEWSMAX — Ripping FBI special counsel Robert Mueller as a political "zealot," Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz reminded staunch Mueller supporters about the former FBI director's role in protecting "notorious mass murderer" Whitey Bulger as an FBI informant.... (more)

April 9, 2018

NEWSMAX — Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday offered a truce to Sean Hannity after several days of trading barbs with the Fox News host and apologized for making fun of First Lady Melania Trump.... (more)

April 9, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — One of the most vexing aspects of daily life is the nonstop flow of anti-Trump propaganda masquerading as news analysis. That is, unless you hate Donald Trump, as most of the media clearly do. Fake news oozes from nearly every media pore, some of it more subtle than others.... (more)

April 9, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Supreme CourtJustice Neil M. Gorsuch took the seat of the late Antonin Scalia a year ago Tuesday, but court watchers say he has staked out a path closer to another conservative icon: Justice Clarence Thomas. It's early yet, and Justice Gorsuch has just 40 decided cases under his belt, but in 37 of those he agreed with Justice Thomas, including all 15 cases they both ruled on in the court's previous term.... (more)

April 8, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — A former assistant special Watergate prosecutor suggested President Trump could be carted away by U.S. Marshals and brought before a federal judge if he were to defy a potential subpoena from the special counsel requesting an interview. "At that point, they would make a motion to hold Donald Trump in contempt," attorney Nick Akerman told host Joy Reid Saturday morning on MSNBC.... (more)

April 7, 2018

He has not climbed into the ring with this breed of adversary before.

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — According to the Washington Post, Robert Mueller says President Trump is not "a criminal target at this point." The Post's anonymous sources claim that the special counsel has conveyed that assurance to the president's private attorneys.... (more)

April 7, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump took a shot at the Justice Department on Saturday after the agency failed to turn over documents by a Thursday subpoena deadline set by the House Judiciary Committee regarding the FBI's decision making during the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

April 7, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump will again skip the annual White House Correspondents dinner, but this time he's encouraging his aides to attend. "The White House has informed us that the president does not plan to participate in this year's dinner but that he will actively encourage members of the executive branch to attend and join us as we celebrate the First Amendment," said White House Correspondents Association President Margaret Talev.... (more)

April 7, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — If there's one thing the national media can thank President Trump for, it's his completely turning the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner into a must-not-see bore.... (more)

April 7, 2018

Urge Trump to tuck conservative priority inside trade deal

WASHINGTON TIMES — Some of the conservative movement's biggest names urged President Trump Thursday to use NAFTA negotiations as a way to get around a Democratic filibuster and push through major cuts to government regulations. In a letter to the president, the conservatives urged him to tuck the REINS Act, which would give Congress a veto over any new major Executive Branch regulations, inside a newly negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement.... (more)

April 7, 2018

NEWSMAX — Even in today's world of cellphone cameras and relentless 24-hour news cycles, Sen. Ted Kennedy still would have ducked more serious charges from his car accident in Chappaquiddick in which passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died, says Howie Carr, author of "Kennedy Babylon: A Century of Scandal and Depravity."... (more)

April 7, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Parkland student badly wounded while saving the lives of classmates has blamed the Florida mass shooting on the sheriff and the school district, saying the confessed gunman should have been kicked out long before the deadly rampage.... (more)

April 7, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Rev. Al Sharpton and Parkland shooting survivor Aalayah Eastmond have joined forces to plan a gun control rally outside Trump Tower in New York City in June.... (more)

April 7, 2018

NEWSMAX — A 67-year-old man died Saturday from injuries sustained in a four-alarm fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York City, according to news reports. The man, identified by NYPD as Todd Brassner, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, DailyMail.com reports.... (more)

April 7, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — In less than two weeks, James Comey is poised to begin a book tour and break his silence about his experience serving as FBI director before he was fired last summer by President Trump. Beyond the occasional tweet in which he has defended an embattled FBI from Trump's criticisms, Comey has largely kept out of the public eye while wrapping up his book, titled "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership." But with April 17, the day his memoir hits bookshelves, fast approaching, a number of potential complications have arisen.... (more)

April 5, 2018

NEWSMAX — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has given the FBI seven days to turn over unredacted documents that kicked off the Russia investigation. According to The Hill, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sent a letter to the FBI on Wednesday that carried an April 11 deadline. In it, he demanded original copies of a bureau document that outlined the probable cause to begin the counterintelligence investigation against members of the Trump campaign in 2016.... (more)

April 5, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Former CIA Director John Brennan condemned President Trump in a terse tweet late Wednesday, sharing an unfavorable comparison of the 45th president to some of his predecessors.... (more)

April 5, 2018

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — On March 17, ex-CIA Director John Brennan tweeted about the current president of the United States: "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. ... America will triumph over you."... (more)

April 5, 2018

DAILY CALLER — A book published in March offered a startling but little-noticed revelation about former CIA Director John Brennan. According to "Russian Roulette," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid believed Brennan was using him as a conduit to publicize possible links between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government.... (more)

April 5, 2018

AMAZON — At 2:45 AM on Nov. 8, 2016, television networks announced to a stunned nation that Pennsylvania had gone for Donald Trump, making him the president-elect of the United States, defying all odds in a surreal victory that sent the Deep State – well-funded hard-left extremists, the mainstream media, Obama/Clinton holdovers in the government bureaucracy, and clandestine forces within the U.S. intelligence apparatus – into an immediate panic. By dawn on Nov. 9, they were already planning Trump's demise.... (more)