May 22, 2018

WES VERNON — So let's get this straight: It's just the entertainment properties of 21st Century Fox that the Walt Disney company wants to pick up in another media sale – not Fox News? Whew! Today's left-leaning Disney is no longer symbolized by Mickey Mouse. (In Mickey's time, nobody thought to wonder – alone ask – what the Mouseketeer's politics were.... (more)

May 22, 2018

ALAN KEYES — "Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating." (Gen. George S. Patton's Address to the 3rd Army, as rendered by George C. Scott in the movie Patton, 1970. See video above, at 2:40 mark.)... (more)

May 22, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — On Sunday, President Trump tweeted a "demand" that the Justice Department investigate political spying in the 2016 campaign. This replays the political-spying controversy that surfaced in late February. Right now, the issue involves the Obama administration's use of at least one confidential informant -- a spy -- to snoop into the opposition party's presidential campaign; back in February, the issue was the Obama administration's electronic surveillance -- by FISA eavesdropping warrants -- for the same purpose.... (more)

May 21, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump left a Monday meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with an agreement on future steps to facilitate the release of Russia-probe documents to Congress.... (more)

May 21, 2018

NEWSMAX — The Department of Justice On Sunday said its inspector general will investigate whether the FBI engaged in politically motivated surveillance of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 following a public demand by Trump to do so, the Washington Examiner reported Sunday.... (more)

May 21, 2018

FOX NEWS — University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper has been identified as an FBI informant in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, multiple news outlets reported Saturday. The 73-year-old academic reportedly has deep ties to American and British intelligence, having served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, the New York Post reported.... (more)

May 21, 2018

GLENN GREENWALD — AN EXTREMELY STRANGE EPISODE that has engulfed official Washington over the last two weeks came to a truly bizarre conclusion on Friday night. And it revolves around a long-time, highly sketchy CIA operative, Stefan Halper.... (more)

May 21, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — There could have been more than one FBI informant snooping on the Trump campaign, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Sunday, but we do not know because the Justice Department has stonewalled congressional requests for documents outlining the impetus for the investigation.... (more)

May 21, 2018

NEWSMAX — National Review columnist John Fund told Newsmax TV on Friday that the nation's intelligence agencies will experience "profound embarrassment" should the Justice Department's inspector general releases its report next week on the Hillary Clinton email probe.... (more)

May 21, 2018

NEWSMAX — Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan has suggested in a tweet a nationwide boycott of schools until gun laws are changed to protect students.... (more)

May 21, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — In the United States, surveys show that many millennials are not merely soft on socialism but openly support it. They think capitalism benefits only the "1 percent" and no one else, despite America's matchless record of upward mobility and prosperity.... (more)

May 21, 2018

JOSEPH FARAH — Have you ever looked at octopuses and wondered how such a complex creature unlike any other evolved? You're not alone. Dyed-in-the-wool evolutionary scientists have the same problem. And when 33 of them got together to come up with a new peer-reviewed scientific study of the mystery, they determined octopuses could just be aliens from outer space.... (more)

May 20, 2018

NEWSMAX — Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a glittering union that brought a measure of modern Hollywood glamour into the 1,000-year-old monarchy.... (more)

May 20, 2018

They're actually 'good news to everyone,' say pro-life activists

BOB UNRUH — A study released recently by the activists at the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health center at the University of California San Francisco laments the "abortion deserts" across the United States.... (more)

May 20, 2018

NEWSMAX — The family Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who police say shot 10 people dead Friday at his Texas high school, released a statement on Saturday: We are saddened and dismayed by yesterday's events at Santa Fe High School. We extend our most heartfelt prayers and condolences to all of the victims. We also wish to thank all the first responders from all over Texas that assisted in rendering aid and support.... (more)

May 19, 2018

17-year-old suspect in custody along with person of interest

ART MOORE — A 17-year-old student burst into an art class in a small-town high school south of Houston, Texas, smiled, yelled "surprise" and shot dead 10 people, injuring another 10, according to witnesses and law enforcement authorities.... (more)

May 19, 2018

HHS moving tax money from abortion businesses to community health centers

WORLDNETDAILY — The Department of Health and Human Services' decision to change Title X federal funding rules and stop subsidizing businesses that provide abortions is drawing widespread praise from the faith community.... (more)

May 19, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Almost no one saw it coming. In 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts famously ruled the Affordable Care Act's provision mandating most people purchase health insurance or else pay a fine constitutional on the basis that Congress has the authority to tax individuals, and the so-called Obamacare "fine" is effectively a tax.... (more)

May 19, 2018

BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE — It's a common problem in the US. Children in the second and third grades, even the fourth and fifth grades, are struggling readers. They guess; they skip ahead; they search for clues from context; they look at pictures to read words. Did I mention they guess. Typically, these children are unsuccessful in most school subjects and very unhappy.... (more)

May 18, 2018

WES VERNON — John F. Kennedy has been quoted as saying that there are powerful hidden forces at work aimed at moving world events and that he intended to learn their identity before his presidency was completed. Of course, that ambition was short-circuited by an assassin's bullet on Nov. 22, 1963. Accused shooter Lee Harvey Oswald's (later reported) communist background was downplayed or ignored by an establishment media that had salivated to pin the blame on the "right-wing political climate" in Dallas, the scene of the shooting. The media and other key influences of public opinion attempted, in the following weeks, to recoup from the embarrassment of their early snap judgments by assigning responsibility on unidentified "hate."... (more)

May 18, 2018

Horowitz 'found reasonable grounds' for violations in Hillary probe

ART MOORE — State Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has found "reasonable grounds" for believing the FBI and the Justice Department violated federal criminal law in their handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry.... (more)

May 18, 2018

Rush Limbaugh indicts Comey, Clinton, Obama, others

BOB UNRUH — Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh Thursday released his own list of people who should be indicted as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race.... (more)

May 18, 2018

Planned 'rolling production' will only allow 'dribbles of benign documents' to be released

BOB UNRUH — A Washington watchdog lawyer suing to obtain access to special counsel Robert Mueller's communications with the media is asking a court to order that the documents be made available now -- not in "dribbles" over coming months or years.... (more)

May 17, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — North Korea's abrupt threat this week to pull out of the upcoming summit with President Trump was highly calculated, according to intelligence officials who say Pyongyang wanted to harden its negotiating position against a quick "Libya-style" surrender of its nuclear programs sought by the Trump White House and buy time to hide its nuclear weapons.... (more)

May 17, 2018

DAVID A. PATTON — First Baptist Dallas senior pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress, whose early and heartfelt support for Donald Trump's candidacy in 2016 was a source of frustration to some establishment Republicans, fired back Wednesday at 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who on Sunday branded Jeffress a "religious bigot."... (more)