June 4, 2018

ALAN KEYES — In an article last week, I lament the ongoing elitist faction assault on the presidency. To write it, I revisited, as I often do, good arguments from America's founding generation. Its leading lights often proved to be deeply thoughtful individuals. This thoughtfulness showed itself in a reliable "reverence for the laws...inculcated by the voice of enlightened reason" (James Madison, Federalist 49).... (more)

June 4, 2018

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE — Disability rights activist Karen Gaffney has swum the English Channel, holds an honorary doctorate, and is a nationally acclaimed speaker. In short, Karen, who has Down syndrome, has an amazing list of accomplishments on her resume.... (more)

June 4, 2018

THE HILL — A Democratic congressman hammered Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, following a report that the company is sharing large amounts of its users' data with other companies. "Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress about whether users have 'complete control' over who sees our data on Facebook," Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) tweeted on Sunday.... (more)

June 4, 2018

In 7-2 decision, Supremes scold Colorado for hostility to 'deep and sincere religious beliefs'

BOB UNRUH — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled in favor of a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to lend his artistry to a wedding cake for a same-sex duo, scolding state officials for violating the U.S. Constitution by showing hostility to religion.... (more)

June 4, 2018

EDITORS OF NATIONAL REVIEW — The word of the day, according to the media, is "narrow." Describing the Supreme Court's 7–2 holding that the state of Colorado violated baker Jack Phillips's right to free exercise of religion by ruling that he violated the state's public-accommodation law when he refused to bake a custom cake for a gay wedding, the New York Times said that the majority "relied on narrow grounds." CNN legal analyst Steve Vladeck called the decision "remarkably narrow." NPR's Nina Totenberg wrote a story headlined, "In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Decides In Favor Of Baker Over Same-Sex Couple."... (more)

June 4, 2018

Tweets from Iran reveal growing revolution

ART MOORE — Members of a growing grass-roots movement in Iran seeking to overthrow the mullah-led Islamic regime are emboldened by new sanctions imposed this week by the United States on top of the canceling of the nuclear agreement.... (more)

June 4, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — As he often does, President Trump hijacked the news cycle with a Monday-morning tweet, this one observing that "numerous legal scholars" agree that "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself." The president elaborates that he has done nothing wrong, and thus there is nothing to pardon.... (more)

June 4, 2018

Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality.

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Climate change is over. No, I'm not saying the climate will not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible. I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue. All that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest renewable-energy rent seekers.... (more)

June 3, 2018

BRYAN FISCHER — When people try to tell you that science and the Bible are in conflict, don't believe them. Now, to be sure, there can be a conflict between bad science and good theology, or between bad theology and good science, but it is impossible for there to be a conflict between good science and good theology, for the simple reason that God is the author of both.... (more)

June 3, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Saturday that President Trump should submit any eventual deal with North Korea to the Senate for approval as a treaty, saying lawmakers should have a full say on the matter. The California Republican said President Obama bungled the Iran nuclear deal negotiations by not treating them a treaty but instead as an executive agreement. That made it easy for Mr. Trump to revoke U.S. participation in the deal earlier this year.... (more)

June 3, 2018

NEWSMAX — North Korea's public display of detonating its underground nuclear test tunnels last month may have been a superficial spectacle done for propaganda reasons rather than a real move toward denuclearization, according to U.S. intelligence and international arms control experts.... (more)

June 3, 2018

NEWSMAX — The food-delivery firm Deliveroo thanked Benedict Cumberbatch on Saturday after a newspaper reported that the "Sherlock" star had fought off muggers who were attacking one of its cyclists. Uber driver Manuel Dias told the Sun newspaper that he was driving Cumberbatch and his wife Sophie Hunter along London's Marylebone High Street when they saw a cyclist being hit with a bottle.... (more)

June 2, 2018

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan hasn't spent his time since leaving the government writing opinion pieces, but he said Friday he was compelled to pen a piece for The Washington Post "because of the abnormal and abhorrent behavior" of President Donald Trump.... (more)

June 2, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former CIA Director John Brennan won't be biting his tongue when it comes to being critical of President Trump, he said in an op-ed Friday, comparing the president to a snake-oil salesman. In the opinion piece for The Washington Post, Mr. Brennan, who touted working for four presidents, said Mr. Trump was unlike any of them, using a Twitter handle to "burnish his brand and misrepresent reality."... (more)

June 2, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama appeared on The Chris Stigall Show Friday morning on WPHT in Philadelphia. While promoting his new book, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence, Clapper explained how desperately dangerous the Russian threat is to our country and that threat had manifested itself in the supposed "meddling" in the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

June 2, 2018

WASHINGTON POST — A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.... (more)

June 2, 2018

NEWSMAX — The Mormon church on Friday will celebrate the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on black people serving in the lay priesthood, going on missions or getting married in temples, rekindling debate about one of the faith's most sensitive topics.... (more)

June 2, 2018

Francis hosting climate summit, silent about Catholic nation

WORLDNETDAILY — While Pope Francis is preparing to hold a climate summit at the Vatican next week, he's conspicously silent about one of the Roman Catholic Church's top social issues, abortion. The Daily Caller points out the pontiff has said nothing publicly about Ireland's vote to end its ban on abortion, which came after the Catholic-majority nation became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage though a popular vote in 2015.... (more)

June 2, 2018

NEWSMAX — It's unlikely that LeBron James or Isaiah Thomas are going to lose any sleep over it, but yes, Sen. Ted Cruz is gearing up to shoot some hoops. The Texas Republican on Thursday challenged Jimmy Kimmel to go one-to-one in basketball for charity -- and ABC's late-night man said Thursday night that he's in.... (more)

June 2, 2018

Network already thinking about replacing him

JOE KOVACS — Executives at the "CBS Evening News" are reportedly in panic over the ratings plunge from their main anchor Jeff Glor, prompting some in the media to ask if Glor is headed out the door. Page Six of the New York Post is reporting network officials "are already thinking about replacing him."... (more)

June 1, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — After a gunman opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, the phones started ringing at the Texas Home School Coalition, and they haven't stopped yet. The Lubbock-based organization has been swamped with inquiries for months from parents seeking safer options for their kids in the aftermath of this year's deadly school massacres, first in Parkland and then in Santa Fe, Texas.... (more)

June 1, 2018

NEWSMAX — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton's appointment of former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz to serve as NSC chief of staff has sparked a storm of controversy on the left as former intelligence officials and other security experts have rallied to his support.... (more)

May 31, 2018

NEWSMAX — A conservative college student leader determined to "Make Stanford Great Again" is the son of Obama administration official Susan Rice -- and says his parents might have put him on a right-leaning path by listening to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.... (more)

May 31, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI's own guidelines restrict the deployment of informants to spy on Americans, such as the bureau's decision to plant a human source among Donald Trump's presidential campaign aides. The cautionary regulation is contained in the FBI's nearly 700-page Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. The restrictions are prompting national security analysts to say the FBI should have heeded its own rulebook, which encourages alternatives to human spies in any investigation, much less one into a presidential political campaign.... (more)

May 31, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Well, well, well. The bipartisan Beltway establishment has apparently had its fill of this "Trump colluded with Russia" narrative -- the same narrative the same establishment has lustily peddled for nearly two years. The Obama administration recklessly chose to deploy the government's awesome counterintelligence powers to investigate -- and, more to the point, to smear -- its political opposition as a Kremlin confederate. Now that this ploy has blown up on the Justice Department and the FBI, these agencies -- the ones that went out of their way, and outside their guidelines, to announce to the world that the Trump campaign was under investigation -- want you to know the president and his campaign were not investigated at all, no siree.... (more)