May 15, 2018

ALAN KEYES — "Heritage Foundation Defends Facebook's 'Right' to Censor, Will Oppose Regulation." So read the headline of an article at Breitbart.com reporting the opinion of "the think tank's senior research fellow for technology," Klon Kitchen. "I think Facebook is a private company," said Kitchen, a former national security adviser to Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. "Facebook can ultimately make decisions about what kind of speech it wants to have on its platform."... (more)

May 15, 2018

NEWSMAX — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday praised President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Hill has reported.... (more)

May 15, 2018

ART MOORE — Amid violent Palestinian protests, the U.S. officially opened a new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, drawing effusive praise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... (more)

May 15, 2018

THE HILL — Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service. But there's one episode even Mueller's former law enforcement comrades -- and independent ethicists -- acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.... (more)

May 15, 2018

BYRON YORK — The FBI began its Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016. Special counsel Robert Mueller picked up the probe in May 2017. This summer the investigation will enter its third year.... (more)

May 15, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — It was July 31, 2016. Just days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation of Russian cyber-espionage -- hacking attacks -- to disrupt the 2016 election. And not random, general disruption; the operating theory was that the Russians were targeting the Democratic party, for the purpose of helping Donald Trump win the presidency.... (more)

May 15, 2018

NEWSMAX — A Green Beret who supports embattled CIA nominee Gina Haspel had his pals subject him to waterboarding for nearly 45 minutes and livestreamed it in a bid to prove the notorious interrogation technique is not torture.... (more)

May 15, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Monday's historic opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is a wonderful acknowledgment from the United States of our solidarity with Israel and recognizing Jerusalem as its rightful capitol. I applaud President Trump for having the courage to follow through with this American promise after so many prior administrations would not. But one of the more bizarre criticisms of the scheduled ceremonies came from former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, focusing his ire on Robert Jeffress, a Baptist pastor who will speak at the event.... (more)

May 15, 2018

USA TODAY — The good news: We've made strides in shielding our children from secondhand smoke. The bad news: A Columbia University study suggests that an increase in parents smoking pot around their children could undo decades of effort to protect our kids.... (more)

May 15, 2018

NEW YORK POST — A gunman who targeted a group of families gathered for a Mother's Day celebration at a school in Brazil was fatally shot by an off-duty cop. Katia Sastre was praised by local officials for her bravery and was credited with saving the day.... (more)

May 14, 2018

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump will address around 800 US and Israeli dignitaries at the ceremonial opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem by video on Monday, the US ambassador said. It was not immediately clear from Ambassador David Friedman's comment, on a call with reporters, whether Trump would speak via a live videolink or a pre-recorded address.... (more)

May 14, 2018

FOX NEWS — Israel's government prepared enthusiastically Sunday for the formal opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem with a gala party at its Foreign Ministry that included President Trump's daughter Ivanka, her husband, Jared Kushner, and other American VIPs.... (more)

May 14, 2018

NEWSMAX — Scientists are now questioning whether Kim Jong Un's willingness to talk denuclearization is diplomatic progress for the Trump administration or a panacea for possible nuclear fallout in North Korea, according to Forbes.... (more)

May 14, 2018

SUN SENTINEL — The Broward school district's repeated, emphatic -- and it turns out, false -- statements that Nikolas Cruz had not been in a controversial disciplinary program fit a pattern of an institution on the defensive and under siege.... (more)

May 14, 2018

NEWSMAX — After signing the nation's strictest abortion ban into law, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said there is still more work ahead, The Hill reported on Sunday.... (more)

May 13, 2018

NEWSMAX — North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear test site for sometime between May 23 and 25, depending on weather conditions, in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country's state media reported on Saturday.... (more)

May 13, 2018

GREG COROMBOS — The release of three Americans held prisoner in North Korea is being hailed as a sign of increased goodwill heading into next month's U.S.-North Korea summit, but a leading group assisting persecuted Christians is imploring the Trump administration to make human rights and religious freedom an important part of the conversation as well.... (more)

May 13, 2018

The Steele-dossier author told Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson about a ‘human source’

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Something tells me Glenn Simpson did not make a mistake. Something tells me the co-founder of Fusion GPS was dead-on accurate when he testified that Christopher Steele told him the FBI had a "human source" -- i.e., a spy -- inside the Trump campaign as the 2016 presidential race headed into its stretch run.... (more)

May 13, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A new ad from the anti-Trump group Nextgen America, funded by billionaire Tom Steyer, implores moms on Mother's Day Sunday to talk to their child about the dangers of the Republican Party. Steyer has aired ads that have called for President Trump's impeachment.... (more)

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)