September 24, 2018

MATT C. ABBOTT — For the second time this year, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich has unceremoniously removed a pastor with a reputation for Catholic orthodoxy. First, it was Father C. Frank Phillips of St. John Cantius Church (click here if you're not already familiar with what transpired in that situation).... (more)

September 24, 2018

If he leaves the Justice Department, that could jeopardize Mueller’s Russia probe

VOX — It looks like Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will stay in his post until at least Thursday, when he's set to meet with President Donald Trump. Monday was a wild day in Washington, as different news reports gave rise to speculation that Rosenstein had resigned or even been fired. It started when Axios reported on Monday morning that Rosenstein offered to resign in a conversation with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Others, like the Washington Post and CNN, reported the same.... (more)

September 24, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general's non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:... (more)

September 24, 2018

THE WRAP — Actor James Woods was locked out of his Twitter account on Sunday for a tweet from July that the site said was in violation of its rules. According to the Associated Press, Woods was suspended for a July tweet of a satirical meme that encouraged men not to vote in this November's midterm elections.... (more)

September 24, 2018

Ranking of top media referrals shows portside bias

WORLDNETDAILY — A survey of the percentages of search traffic received by 36 U.S. news sites, including many of the biggest, provides stark evidence that Google, representing nearly 90 percent of the market share of U.S. searches, is playing ideological favorites with those leaning left and most antagonistic to President Trump and the Republican Party near the last stretch of the 2018 mid-term elections that could change the balance of power in Congress.... (more)

September 24, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — Just when you think things couldn't be more upside down, Hillary Clinton declares that only one side is to blame for the vast cultural divide in America. "There is a tendency, when talking about these things, to wring our hands about 'both sides,'" she writes in an Atlantic essay adapted from the paperback edition of her book "What Happened."... (more)

September 24, 2018

NEWSMAX — Iran's economy is faltering after the U.S. pulled out of a nuclear deal earlier this year and Europeans are deciding not to do business there, said Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The U.S. position remains not to do business with European countries that engage with Iran, and while that means European leaders such as British Prime Minister Theresa May have a decision to make, companies are already acting, Haley said in an interview airing on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, one of three scheduled appearances.... (more)

September 23, 2018

Alan Keyes notes judge's 6th Amendment right to confront accuser

ALAN KEYES — The U.S. Senate should move ahead with the vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. Even if his accuser were willing to testify, the vote would be warranted. Recent reports suggest that she is not. This makes taking the vote even more appropriate.... (more)

September 21, 2018

WORLDNETDAILY — Wired reported earlier this year that special counsel Robert Mueller asserted the Russians he indicted influenced campaigns in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "The indictment recounts a number of instances where events and demonstrations were organized by Russians posing as Americans on social media. These accounts aimed to get people to do specific things. And it turns out -- some people did."... (more)

September 21, 2018

Joseph Farah charges search giant with violating Communications Decency Act

JOSEPH FARAH — Although Google attempted to hobble and silence WND and the rest of the independent, right-of-center media starting after the 2016 election, we were just a mild annoyance compared with Google's ultimate target: Donald Trump, the man who had the audacity to run for president in 2016 -- and win.... (more)

September 21, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed the possibility of secretly recording President Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to impeach him in the days following the firing of former FBI director James Comey, the New York Times reported Friday.... (more)

September 21, 2018

Rutherford warns if problems unaddressed, client will be advised about 'next steps'

BOB UNRUH — A legal team representing a website called The Free Thought Project has charged Facebook has wrongly labeled some of the site's work as "false" and made it difficult to correct the error. The Rutherford Institute wrote Facebook's head of Global Policy Management, Monika Bickert, charging the social-media platform's news "rating" system is unfair and inaccurate, and its appeals processed is biased.... (more)

September 21, 2018

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Americans keep dividing into two hostile camps. It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the greatest age of affluence, leisure and freedom in the history of civilization. The ancient historian Thucydides called the civil discord that tore apart the fifth-century B.C. Greek city-states "stasis." He saw stasis as a bitter civil war between the revolutionary masses and the traditionalist middle and upper classes. Something like that ancient divide is now infecting every aspect of American life.... (more)

September 21, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Cameron Kasky, a survivor of February's mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., recently left the student gun-control group March for Our Lives and now claims he regrets that he was "propped up as an expert" by the media in the wake of the tragedy. "My whole message is I was propped up as an expert. The whole message was these kids are the real experts," Kasky told Fox News Radio's Benson & Harf on Wednesday. "Look, I have some very intelligent friends. Some friends who can intellectually run circles around me, but I'm not the expert in pretty much anything."... (more)

September 21, 2018

BALTIMORE SUN — A police search warrant team going after a drug dealer targeted the wrong address and burst into the apartment of an innocent man who shot and wounded two officers believing they were home invaders, Prince George's law enforcement officials said.... (more)

September 21, 2018

Latinos were 'biggest victims' of Obama's 'low-growth, high-regulation' policies

ART MOORE — Contending Hispanics were the "biggest victims of the low-growth, high-regulation economy under President Obama," a Hispanic leader is pointing to new Census Bureau figures indicating median income for Hispanic households grew by 3.7 percent, adjusted for inflation, last year.... (more)

September 21, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — A new Yale study has concluded that the population of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is close to double the generally accepted estimate. The population of undocumented immigrants is widely thought to be around 11.3 million. But the study, which was conducted by three Yale-affiliated researchers, indicates that the total may be more than 22 million. Even the authors were surprised by their findings.... (more)

September 20, 2018

CLIFF KINCAID — Both sides are claiming the FBI can or will get to the bottom of the Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault matter. The Kavanaugh accuser's backers say she wants a full FBI investigation of her charges, and that a former FBI agent conducted a lie detector test that she passed. Kavanaugh's backers say the FBI has already conducted a background investigation of Kavanaugh.... (more)

September 20, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Wednesday that his order to declassify documents about FISA, Carter Page and the Russia probe is a "great service to the country" that could expose the special counsel investigation as a "hoax." In an interview with Hill.TV, Mr. Trump said the move is all about transparency but hopes to expose "something that is truly a cancer in our country."... (more)

September 20, 2018

MICHAEL BARONE — " I did not, and of course I looked for it, looked for it hard." That was Bob Woodward, promoting his book on the Trump White House, Fear, replying to talk radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt's question, "Did you, Bob Woodward, hear anything in your research, in your interviews, that sounded like espionage or collusion?"... (more)

September 20, 2018

Aligning with Democrats in 'desperate mission' to destroy Trump

BOB UNRUH — A column by Julie Kelly at American Greatness contends the American media are destroying their credibility and are in a death spiral resulting from "we-are-a-collection-of-dishonest-miscreants-who-are-unworthy-of-an-ounce-of-the-American-people's-trust" behavior.... (more)

September 20, 2018

The key is for the president to be comparatively cautious

CONRAD BLACK — The current standing of the Democrats in the midterm election polls is a levitation. Their record when they had the administration was poor. Their official leader, former president Obama, bombed with his long-winded, self-serving monotone of historical revision at the University of Illinois two weeks ago and its dreary sequels in Orange County, Calif.... (more)

September 20, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI pushed in 2016 to include the discredited dossier into the official intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton, two former senior officials said. The officials told The Washington Times that as the historic ICA, as it is known, was being drafted, the FBI wanted to fold in allegations and observations from dossier writer Christopher Steele.... (more)

September 20, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Project Veritas has caught a State Department bureaucrat on hidden camera proclaiming he is part of the anti-Trump opposition and his job is to "resist everything" at "every level." Conservative activist and Veritas chief James O'Keefe released the video on Tuesday. He said it kicks off what he promises is wide exposure of the so-called "Deep State" actively working to defeat President Trump from within via media leaks and policy sabotage.... (more)

September 20, 2018

PROJECT VERITAS — DOJ: "These allegations are deeply concerning...referred to Inspector General." Leaks at Department of Health and Human Services: "It's kind of like the Nixon, 'deep throat' type of thing." Department of Justice Paralegal Allison Hrabar: "what's kind of lucky is at the DOJ, we can't really get fired."... (more)