April 13, 2018

CHERYL K. CHUMLEY — Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, ripped into the FBI for its raid on President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, comparing the federal action to the Nazi regime. And insofar as the rather ridiculous raids on Cohen's files go -- he's got a bit of a point. These are moves that ring more of Gestapo, less of constitutional America -- more of police state, less of republic, land of the law.... (more)

April 12, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday that he will retire from the House at the end of this year, closing out a two-decade career in Congress and igniting soul-searching in a party bracing for a rough election season. Mr. Ryan rejected claims that he was fleeing a sinking ship. He predicted that Republicans will keep their House majority despite headwinds in November's elections.... (more)

April 12, 2018

BOB UNRUH — A lawsuit has been filed against the departments of Justice and State to discover what influence Russia had on Hillary Clinton when she was U.S. secretary of state under Barack Obama and Russian interests gave her foundation $140 million.... (more)

April 12, 2018

'Enough is enough! We will no longer tolerate legal abortion in our nation'

WORLDNETDAILY — High-school and college students at an estimated 350 schools across the U.S. are walking out of their classes to support life and protest Planned Parenthood on Wednesday. The walkout was coordinated by the Students for Life of America. The teenagers are leaving class for 17 minutes, which the organization says is the same amount of time it takes Planned Parenthood to perform as many as 10 abortions.... (more)

April 12, 2018

NEWSMAX — The New York Times grudgingly acknowledged Thursday what the book world has known for weeks: conservative author Jerome Corsi's widely acclaimed "Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump" is a bonafide bestseller.... (more)

April 11, 2018

NEWSMAX — Author Jerome Corsi told Newsmax TV on Tuesday that longtime Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen "would have gladly cooperated" with Russia special counsel Robert Mueller -- and that would have staved off an FBI raid of his home and office.... (more)

April 11, 2018

Senator: ‘This is an enormous power used against anybody’

WASHINGTON TIMES — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says all Americans should be worried about civil liberties in the wake of the FBI's raid on President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen. The nebulous limits to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russian investigation, coupled with his willingness to test them, had the Republican lawmaker ringing alarm bells Tuesday. Mr. Paul told a Fox News' Bill Hemmer that the FBI's legal tendrils have wandered far from their original target -- the truth about possible collusion between Russian state actors and Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.... (more)

April 11, 2018

Lawsuit uncovers emails showing effort to undermine president-elect

BOB UNRUH — Former U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power kept up a steady flow of emails lashing out at then-President-elect Trump, strategizing on how to undermine his agenda and coordinating opposition to him during her last few months of Barack Obama's tenure in the White House, a new report reveals.... (more)

April 11, 2018

Facebook CEO pressed on definition of 'hate,' feeling 'unsafe'

ART MOORE — In much-anticipated testimony before a Senate committee amid anger over the sale of the personal data of 87 million users, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to lawmakers Tuesday he hasn't done enough to prevent his global social-media platform from being used "for harm."... (more)

April 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off against senators Tuesday, acknowledging growing pains as his company evolved from a dorm-room project to internet colossus that now faces a crisis of confidence after mishandling users' data and seeing its platform abused by Russian operatives who meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.... (more)

April 10, 2018

DAILY CALLER — Sen. Ted Cruz clearly rattled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday by grilling him about Facebook's well-documented censorship of conservatives.... (more)

April 10, 2018

NEWSMAX — The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook allegedly was fake, run by a white Australian man who used it to raise at least $100,000 for various causes, CNN reported. Titled Black Lives Matter, the page was suspended on Monday after CNN inquired about it. The reportedly fake account came to light as Facebook grapples with its public relations nightmare of allegedly failing to protect personal data of its users and for sharing fake news.... (more)

April 10, 2018

RICH LOWRY — Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is sorry. The founder of Facebook, who has apologized for privacy breaches throughout much of his company's existence, is back at it, on a much larger stage than ever before.... (more)

April 10, 2018

'They've already disarmed the wrong people by taking their guns away'

GREG COROMBOS — Officials in London are responding to 50 stabbing deaths this year by declaring war on knives and pleading with people never to carry one in public, decisions one Second Amendment expert calls "silly" and says is proof that taking away people's guns doesn't remove the desire of criminals to harm people.... (more)

April 10, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Florida lawmakers reacted to the deadly Parkland shooting by allowing certain teachers to carry firearms at school, but instructors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School won't be able to participate. The Broward County school board voted Tuesday against taking part in the newly enacted Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, named for a popular coach who died in the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17 people.... (more)

April 10, 2018

John Stossel: One can't talk about how genes affect intelligence without being threatened

JOHN STOSSEL — We've been told conservatives don't believe in science and that there's a "Republican war on science." Sponsored But John Tierney, who's written about science for the New York Times for 25 years and now writes for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, told me in my latest online video, "The real war on science is the one from the left."... (more)

April 10, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday for a government-wide review of welfare programs, with a goal of putting more people back to work, White House officials said. The order directs all federal agencies involved in providing more than $700 billion in low-income assistance annually to study programs that are "failing Americans," and to report back in 90 days with recommendations, said White House domestic policy council director Andrew Bremberg.... (more)

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)