May 11, 2018

A current events perspective

WES VERNON — President Trump made a logical decision in pulling the U.S. out of the never signed "Iran deal." As Ambassador Henry Cooper notes, not only is the document not signed, it is unenforceable. His claim is best illustrated by the news that the U.S. has reportedly confirmed the authenticity of documents presented by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... (more)

May 10, 2018

CHANNELNEWSASIA — Donald Trump on Thursday (May 10) revealed his historic summit with Kim Jong Un - the first-ever between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader - will take place in Singapore on Jun 12. The location and date of the landmark meeting were announced in a presidential tweet just hours after Trump welcomed to the United States three American prisoners released by Pyongyang.... (more)

May 10, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea early Thursday in a flag-waving ceremony before dawn, calling their release a hopeful sign that North Korea will denuclearize. "This is a special night for these three really great people," Mr. Trump told reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland shortly after 3 a.m. with the former detainees. "The true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons."... (more)

May 10, 2018

NEWSMAX — Defense Secretary James Mattis pledged Wednesday the United States would work with its allies to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Stars and Stripes reported. The promise came a day after President Donald Trump pulled out of a key agreement that temporarily halted the country's nuclear program.... (more)

May 10, 2018

NEWSMAX — Reports that former Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Iranian officials in an attempt to save the nuclear deal played a role in President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from it, two White House sources told The Daily Caller on Wednesday.... (more)

May 10, 2018

NEWSMAX — John Kerry has harmed the nation's security and ability to carry out foreign policy with his recent meetings with Iran officials, Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV on Monday. "He is undermining the security of the United States and I guess that's going to be his legacy from here on," DeLay, a Texas Republican and former House majority leader, told hosts Miranda Khan, John Cardillo, and Gina Loudon on Monday's "America Talks Live."... (more)

May 10, 2018

GREG COROMBOS — President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear deal leaves Iranian leaders with the grim realization that the era of endless concessions from the West is over and that their own grip on power continues to slip.... (more)

May 10, 2018

THE DAILY BEAST — In his new book, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) defends his decision to give a controversial dossier about President Trump to former FBI chief James Comey. "I agreed to receive a copy of what is now referred to as 'the dossier,'" McCain writes in the upcoming book, titled The Restless Wave, referencing information compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.... (more)

May 10, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Cute how this works: Kick off the week with some "the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted" bombast from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, by which he rationalizes that his defiance of subpoenas and slow-walking document production to Congress -- which is probing investigative irregularities related to the 2016 campaign -- is required by DOJ policy and "the rule of law." Then end the week with the Friday-night bad-news dump: the grudging removal of DOJ and FBI redactions from a House Intelligence Committee report on Russia's election meddling.... (more)

May 10, 2018

WORLDNETDAILY — Disgraced New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman looked the other way and allowed the Clinton Foundation to flout a rule requiring the organization to list foreign donors in its charitable filings, according to reports.... (more)

May 10, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Oliver North says 100 million Americans own guns and that more of them need to join the National Rifle Association. Mr. North, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, talk show host and now the incoming president of the NRA, said his first goal will be to add 1 million people "as fast as we can" to the organization's membership, which is already at a record, approaching 6 million.... (more)

May 9, 2018

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement Tuesday brought widespread praise across the globe, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling Trump's action "a strong statement" and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dubbing it an "historic move."... (more)

May 9, 2018

NEWSMAX — U.S. President Donald Trump took a brave and correct decision to cancel the nuclear deal with Iran, which was "a recipe for disaster," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.... (more)

May 9, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal is the greatest boost for American and global security in decades. If you think that is an exaggeration, then you evidently think the Obama administration's injection of well over a hundred billion dollars -- some of it in the form of cash bribes -- into the coffers of the world's leading state sponsor of anti-American terrorism was either trivial or, more delusionally, a master-stroke of statecraft.... (more)

May 9, 2018

THE EDITORS OF THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear agreement negotiated by former President Barack Obama and reimpose sanctions was an important step toward a needed policy reset with one of America's most malicious enemies.... (more)

May 9, 2018

PHILIP KLEIN — In 2015, when a desperate President Obama decided to implement a deal with Iran in the face of fierce Republican opposition Congress (and even some Democratic defections), he was taking a gamble. The thinking was: either a pro-Iran deal Democrat wins the presidency in 2016 and keeps it in place, or the deal becomes so entrenched that even a Republican president wouldn't have the guts to pull out.... (more)

May 9, 2018

BOB UNRUH — Fans of President Trump long have pointed out that FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller has failed so far to produce any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign in 2016 and Russia, the apparent issue he was supposed to be investigating.... (more)

May 9, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Slightly over half of Americans see Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe as politically motivated, a new CBS News poll shows. Approximately 53 percent of Americans say Mueller's investigation is politically motivated while 44 percent think it is justified, according to the survey of 1,101 adults from across the country contacted by telephone in the first week of May.... (more)

May 9, 2018

NY special prosecutor to probe charges, determine if AG office was used ‘to facilitate alleged abusive liaisons’

WASHINGTON TIMES — The #MeToo movement has ensnared a number of Democrats despite their seemingly impeccable records on women's rights. But nothing quite compares to the freefall of former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Not only was Mr. Schneiderman a flag-flying feminist, but he had positioned himself at the forefront of the fight against sexual harassment, filing a lawsuit just three months ago against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.... (more)

May 9, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Conservative leader Oliver North will serve as the next president of the National Rifle Association, the gun rights group said Monday, tapping its highest-profile leader since actor Charlton Heston had the helm in the late 1990s and early 2000s.... (more)

May 8, 2018

ALAN KEYES — In an article published last week, I politely critiqued a headline of an email I received, which welcomed the possibility of "a paradigm shift in America," in which media featuring people "empowered with a Christian worldview" become "the dominant mainstream in television programming."... (more)

May 8, 2018

Daniel Hoffman says the former intel chief is aiding a Russian plot to deepen America’s partisan divide

WASHINGTON TIMES — A behind-the-scenes U.S. intelligence community fight over the merits of publicly scorning President Trump has burst into the open recently, with the CIA's former Moscow station chief accusing Obama-era spymaster John O. Brennan of crossing a red line through incessant Twitter and cable news excoriations of the current commander in chief.... (more)

May 7, 2018

NEW YORKER — Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general, has long been a liberal Democratic champion of women's rights, and recently he has become an outspoken figure in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. As New York State's highest-ranking law-enforcement officer, Schneiderman, who is sixty-three, has used his authority to take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and to demand greater compensation for the victims of Weinstein's alleged sexual crimes.... (more)

May 7, 2018

NEWSMAX — Israeli defense officials have warned that Iran is planning to order its proxies to fire missiles at northern Israel in retaliation for recent airstrikes in Syria attributed to Israel that killed Iranian personnel, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday.... (more)

May 7, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is pushing to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress this week for not complying with a subpoena. Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting classified information for his committee's investigation into abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and counterintelligence inquiries, including the targeting of Americans such as former Trump campaign official Carter Page, but the letter was ignored.... (more)