September 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump and his aides spent much of Thursday glued to the TV watching Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Ford testify in a stormy Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, with the president believing the nominee survived the decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct and binge drinking.... (more)

September 27, 2018

YOUTUBE — Senator Lindsey Graham accuses Democrats of an 'unethical sham,' says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has nothing to apologize for, urges fellow Republicans to vote to confirm Kavanaugh.... (more)

September 27, 2018

YOUTUBE — Judge Brett Kavanaugh responds to allegations... (more)

September 27, 2018

YOUTUBE — At the start of Thursday's hearing over her sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was "here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty."... (more)

September 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — CNN host Don Lemon said Sen. Ted Cruz, by becoming a public official, had "signed up for" harassment by antifa activists and likened attacking lawmakers in any and every public space to the civil rights movement. In a segment late Tuesday evening with fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo, who joined Cruz opponent Rep. Beto O'Rourke in decrying the attack on Mr. Cruz and wife Heidi at a D.C. restaurant, Mr. Lemon said the activists from Smash Racism DC had no choice.... (more)

September 26, 2018

CLIFF KINCAID — The push to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been dogged by one scandal after another. It was supposed to be an easy confirmation process because he knew what to say and how to say it to the liberals. He told them abortion and gay rights were "settled law." But he offered the left a target-rich environment that has tainted not only his reputation but his Catholic education and the conservative movement.... (more)

September 26, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump told the United Nations on Tuesday that the U.S. is guided by patriotism instead of globalism, rejecting the authority of world bodies such as the International Criminal Court, the World Trade Organization and a U.N. migration initiative even as he praised the U.N. itself as a force for peace. In the most in-your-face defense yet of his "America First" agenda, a defiant Mr. Trump stood before U.N. delegates who sneered openly at him and told them that the U.S. will never submit to international controls as long as he is in charge.... (more)

September 26, 2018

At UN, urges resistance to system of 'suffering, corruption, and decay'

ART MOORE — In his address Tuesday to the United Nations, President Trump called for the "restoration of democracy" in Venezuela and used the once prosperous nation's demise as an illustration of why every country on earth "should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone."... (more)

September 26, 2018

PAUL BEDARD — That was fast. Media mogul Mark Levin's Sunday Fox News show has surged to No. 1 on cable news in just seven months. New ratings showed that the popular conservative lawyer and commentator didn't just win his 10 p.m. slot on Sunday, but according to Adweek's TVNewser it had the biggest audience of any cable news show last weekend, one in which there was intense interest by viewers in the Brett Kavanaugh nomination.... (more)

September 26, 2018

Truth, due process, evidence, rights of the accused: All are swept aside in pursuit of the progressive agenda

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is no longer fiction. We are living it right now. Google techies planned to massage Internet searches to emphasize correct thinking. A member of the so-called deep state, in an anonymous op-ed, brags that its "resistance" is undermining an elected president. The FBI, CIA, DOJ, and NSC were all weaponized in 2016 to ensure that the proper president would be elected -- the choice adjudicated by properly progressive ideology. Wearing a wire is now redefined as simply flipping on an iPhone and recording your boss, boy- or girlfriend, or co-workers.... (more)

September 26, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — The Republican party is enjoying its highest favorability rating in seven years, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. Almost half of those surveyed in the poll, 45 percent, said they view the GOP positively, the most since January 2011, when 47 percent had a positive view of the party. Democrats, meanwhile, are one point behind at 44 percent favorability. Both parties have a 52 percent unfavorable rating.... (more)

September 26, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans announced plans to hold a committee vote Friday morning on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, signaling confidence they'll be able to speed the process after Thursday's showdown hearing involving the woman accusing him of sexual assault as a teenager.... (more)

September 26, 2018

DAILY CALLER — Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz was chased out of a DC restaurant by protesters on Monday night, according to video posted on Twitter. Two videos were posted by "Smash Racism DC" and they show a large group of protesters chanting "We believe survivors" in reference to sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at Sen. Cruz and his wife, Heidi Cruz.... (more)

September 26, 2018

Movie spotlights 'America's biggest serial killer'

ART MOORE — Planned Parenthood convinced a hotel in Austin, Texas, to cancel a screening of a new movie about convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell, according to the film's producers. The movie, "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer," which opens in theaters Oct. 12, was to be screened Saturday night in the Hyatt Hotel in the Texas capital at the same time Planned Parenthood hosts a $400 a plate gala dinner headlined by Cecille Richards, the organization's former CEO.... (more)

September 26, 2018

Contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources for 'fresh' aborted fetal tissue called 'grotesque'

VALERIE RICHARDSON — The Health and Human Services Department has undertaken its most aggressive action on fetal-tissue sales to date, terminating a contract with a supplier and launching an audit after an outcry from the pro-life movement. The department announced late Monday that it would conduct the audit into "all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue" after cancelling a contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources to purchase aborted fetal tissue for research.... (more)

September 26, 2018

CBS-PHILADEPHIA — Bill Cosby learned his fate inside a Montgomery County courtroom on Tuesday. The 81-year-old actor and comedian has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his home in 2004.... (more)

September 26, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Professors at Yale University have roiled the immigration debate with a new study calculating there are between 16 million and 30 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. -- as much as three times more than most demographers figure. The professors' model looked at estimates of how many people came illegally, and how many people likely left, and concluded there are a lot more people who arrived than the 11 million suggested by traditional estimates. The model says the most likely figure is double that, at about 22 million.... (more)

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)