June 14, 2018

He has secured Kim Jong-un’s acquiescence to the agreed objective

CONRAD BLACK — The president's idiosyncratic methods conceal the strength of his effort to reverse the disintegration of America as a Great Power and a just force in the world. Beneath or with his almost avuncular comments on Kim Jong-un being "a nice guy," Trump has gained Kim's formal acquiescence to his definition of denuclearization in exchange for contemporaneous wind-down of sanctions and of the close presence of overwhelming military force.... (more)

June 14, 2018

NEWSMAX — The United States is committed to the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, after briefing his South Korean and Japanese counterparts on President Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un.... (more)

June 14, 2018

MICHAEL BARONE — It has been a week full of wins for Donald Trump -- at least from the perspective of those who share Trump's view of the way the world works, and perhaps even for some who don't.... (more)

June 14, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — It is known in the industry as a good get. Andrew C. McCarthy has joined Fox News Channel as a contributor. A network spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Times that Mr. McCarthy will provide legal analysis during daytime and prime-time programming on Fox News as well as Fox Business Network.... (more)

June 14, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether the government has used the Justice Department's awesome investigative authorities as a weapon against political adversaries. We learned yesterday that, in response to this very investigation, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein . . . threatened to use the Justice Department's awesome investigative authorities as a weapon against political adversaries.... (more)

June 14, 2018

NEWSMAX — Federal policy shifts that put a crimp in the Obamacare market are likely to drive up premiums for remaining policyholders next year -- especially those who are older and in poorer health, a report released Wednesday said.... (more)

June 14, 2018

THE NEW AMERICAN — Vermont will require all residents to have health insurance by 2020, despite the national backlash against ObamaCare's individual mandate that demanded the same requirement of all Americans. Just days after Vermont signed its individual mandate into law, New Jersey followed suit. The two states now join Massachusetts, which has had a similar mandate in place for years. The laws prove that the federal government is not the only government capable of overreach... (more)

June 13, 2018

THE NEW AMERICAN — When Abby Johnson quit her job as director of a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic in 2009, she had no intention of becoming a pro-life activist. Then Planned Parenthood tried to get a judge to slap a permanent gag order on her. The attempted silencing of Johnson not only failed in court but also spurred her to speak out.... (more)

June 13, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar made clear this week that Catholic hospitals will be required to perform abortions if they wish to keep their government funding. Varadkar said that hospitals that follow Catholic medical ethics will have to find someone willing to perform the procedure.... (more)

June 13, 2018

NEW YORK POST — Where President Obama flew, so flew his trusty stenographer -- and now she's written a memoir that offers a fair share of drugs and sex, but is frustratingly short on naming names. Beck Dorey-Stein traveled for five years alongside the White House press corps, describing the experience as "summer camp on steroids" in her new book, "From the Corner of the Oval."... (more)

June 13, 2018

BYRON YORK — Reaction to President Trump's summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has broken down along the usual Trump-anti-Trump divisions. The truth is, it will take a while before it's clear whether the summit achieved anything or not.... (more)

June 13, 2018

North Korean dictator in 'science fiction fantasy' with U.S. president

ART MOORE — Culminating a historic summit described by Kim Jong Un as something out of a "science fiction movie," the North Korean dictator sat down at a ceremonial table in Singapore Tuesday and signed a document along with President Trump stating the rogue communist state would work toward "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."... (more)

June 13, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The way Mike Kennedy sees it, he's "just a plain old guy." He's no Mitt Romney, the millionaire Republican elder statesman and Kennedy's opponent for the party's nomination for Utah's soon-to-be-open Senate seat. And he's certainly no Ted Kennedy, the late liberal senator with whom he shares a surname but not a bloodline. Nope. Mike Kennedy's "just a plain old guy" who "comes from dirt."... (more)

June 13, 2018

NEWSMAX — Corey Stewart has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Virginia and will face incumbent Tim Kaine in the November general election. Stewart beat state lawmaker Nick Freitas and Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson in Tuesday's race.... (more)

June 13, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — President Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, expressed regret on Tuesday for saying this past weekend that "there's a special place in hell" for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. "Let me correct a mistake I made," Navarro said at the Wall Street Journal's yearly CFO Network conference. "In conveying that message, I used language that was inappropriate and basically lost the power of that message. I own that. That was my mistake. Those were my words."... (more)

June 12, 2018

WES VERNON — Victoria Toensing, one of the insightful attorneys on Fox News, cut to the quick the other night when she spoke with her fellow panelists of the odd statement by House Speaker Paul Ryan that there was "no evidence" that then President Obama ordered the FBI to "spy" on the Trump campaign.... (more)

June 12, 2018

ALAN KEYES — "A true democrat, lowercase 'd,' thinks they're no better than anybody else. That's what a Democrat is. And the party regains that when white, black, Hispanic people, everybody, starts to think of themselves as one of them instead of being better than them."... (more)

June 11, 2018

CNN — Nearly five hours of unprecedented and surreal talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un culminated on Tuesday with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague pledges of nuclear disarmament. For Trump, that amounted to a triumphant outcome in his extraordinary gamble with the rogue kingdom's despotic leader. But there were scant details on what new commitments had been secured from Kim, even as Trump announced he would end the regular military exercises the US conducts with South Korea.... (more)

June 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — First lady Melania Trump is thoughtful, classy, intelligent and kind. And it drives the media nuts. There's nothing -- not one thing -- to legitimately criticize Mrs. Trump about. So they create fake news (aka: lies) in a vain attempt to vilify, discredit or embarrass her.... (more)

June 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will begin their historic summit with a one-on-one meeting, focusing on their personal rapport as they seek a deal for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, an administration official said Monday.... (more)

June 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro used unusually harsh language Sunday in blasting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for holding a "stunt" press conference to say his nation will not be pushed around by tariffs imposed by President Trump.... (more)

June 11, 2018

POLITICO — Mitt Romney is mapping out plans to become a major player in the Senate -- positioning himself to be the spokesman of a listless Republican Party establishment that's been steamrolled by President Donald Trump.... (more)

June 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Those blaming the deadly Parkland shooting on the National Rifle Association need to take a harder look at the Broward County school superintendent and sheriff, according to NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch. She told the Western Conservative Summit that school authorities "protected" the confessed mass shooter by failing to get tough on him in the name of reducing student arrests prior to the Feb. 14 shooting.... (more)

June 11, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — Since November 2016, the deep state and its media allies have spent considerable time and money cultivating animus toward President Trump and the Republican-led Congress among younger voters. Many millennials came unglued in the wake of the election and still are. The left is counting on their turning out to elect progressives in November. Social media bristle with anti-Trump and anti-conservative invectives, and some of it spills over into anti-American rants.... (more)

June 10, 2018

Report offers proposals in 10 policy areas to make communities thrive again

GREG COROMBOS — Black Americans can escape the cycle of failed schools, rampant poverty and government dependence if America as a whole embraces the proven values that made it the envy of the world, according to a new report from the conservative Project 21 Black Leadership Network.... (more)