October 11, 2018

JERRY NEWCOMBE — The recent Kavanaugh kerfuffle underscores an important lesson for all of us: Your integrity is your most important asset. Period. What else does anyone have, ultimately? Meanwhile, there are trolls amongst us who don't care about truth and other people's reputations.... (more)

October 11, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Can you feel the excitement? Hillary Clinton is in The Atlantic, telling us how democracy is in crisis. She is on CNN, telling Christiane Amanpour that only when Democrats win back both the House and the Senate, "that's when civility can start again." She's on tour: Together with her husband, she plans to embark on a post-midterm 13-city romp during which they'll bedazzle audience members with "one-of-a-kind conversations [about] some of the most impactful moments in modern history."... (more)

October 11, 2018

The public will reward Senate Republicans and President Trump for holding firm

NATIONAL REVIEW — This is impetuous, but I think the electoral map has changed with the Kavanaugh decision. The Democrats avoided direct confrontation and tried to sandbag the nominee by a late allegation of sexual assault from 30 years before. They gambled that whipping up post-Weinstein militant-feminist support would induce the president to say something outrageous that would split his party and drench him in another momentary shower of confected outrage, such as during the partial migration ban, the Charlottesville imputations of softness toward Nazis and the Klan, the Helsinki comments, and the detention of abandoned minors of illegal immigrants at the southern borders.... (more)

October 11, 2018

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — When the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions.... (more)

October 11, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Tennessee representative Marsha Blackburn is firing back at Taylor Swift after the singer launched a broadside at her in endorsing her Democratic opponent in the race for the seat being vacated by Republican senator Bob Corker.... (more)

October 11, 2018

CAL THOMAS — Arguably, a contributing factor to the continuation of abortion is that it is performed out of sight and thus, out of many minds. A film about one of the worst practitioners of abortion, Kermit Gosnell, opens Oct. 12 in at least 600 theaters. Gosnell is the Philadelphia abortionist sentenced in 2013 to life in prison without parole for the murder of a baby born alive in a botched abortion.... (more)

October 11, 2018

NEWSMAX — The son of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice filed charges against one of his fellow Stanford University students for allegedly assaulting him during a rally for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. John Rice-Cameron, the president of the Stanford College Republicans (SCR), told police Melinda Hernandez physically pushed him during an event the SCR was holding Tuesday to promote support of Kavanaugh, who was confirmed to the nation's highest court last weekend.... (more)

October 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — With the Supreme Court nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh completed, GOP senators are quickly pivoting to filling out the rest of the federal courts, eyeing more than 40 district and circuit judges they want to confirm before the end of the year. One top priority is filling the seat left vacant on the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals when Justice Kavanaugh was elevated.... (more)

October 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump, already the most media-accessible president in memory, is talking to journalists almost nonstop as his successes pile up ahead of the midterm elections. Take Tuesday, for example. Mr. Trump opened an Oval Office meeting to the press in late morning to accept the resignation of Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations. Such a high-profile departure ordinarily wouldn't be a positive for the White House, but the president and Mrs. Haley made clear that the separation was friendly. They took questions from journalists for 20 minutes on a variety of subjects.... (more)

October 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rap star and Trump supporter Kanye West was the object of several racial attacks in a CNN segment Tuesday night, in which he was accused of being an illiterate token whom black people don't want to be black. In the segment presided over by a chuckling Don Lemon, CNN commentators Bakari Sellers and Tara Setmayer repeatedly attacked Mr. West, who will meet President Trump at the White House on Thursday, in terms immediately called out as racist -- albeit not on CNN.... (more)

October 11, 2018

Joseph Farah laments 'fool's paradise' taught by 50 years of mis-education

JOSEPH FARAH — In 1951, Upton Sinclair, the author of the anti-capitalist screed "The Jungle," who was fresh off two efforts at running for Congress on the Socialist Party ticket, wrote a letter to Norman Thomas, the party's perennial candidate for president.... (more)

October 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — With an unassuming air and a black Toyota Tundra he says was "the first new vehicle I've ever purchased," Beto O'Rourke has campaigned thousands of miles across Texas and risen to national prominence on a workaday image that aligns with his politics, but not his personal finances.... (more)

October 11, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Oregon Republican Party filed a complaint Wednesday against Democratic Gov. Kate Brown over multiple allegations that she used public funds for campaign purposes. The complaint cited a Project Veritas sting in which former Brown campaign manager Michael Kolenc alleged he was fired in 2016 because Ms. Brown's chief-of-staff wanted to run the political operation, a violation of state law.... (more)

October 11, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — FBI director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that China trumps Russia as a counterintelligence threat to the U.S. "China in many ways represents the broadest, most complicated, most long-term counterintelligence threat we face," Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "Russia is in many ways fighting to stay relevant after the fall of the Soviet Union. They're fighting today's fight. China's is fighting tomorrow's fight."... (more)

October 10, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The surprise resignation of Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has triggered a scramble to find a replacement as the public face of the Trump administration at the world body.... (more)

October 10, 2018

NEWS BUSTERS — In four weeks, Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections that the news media are casting as a referendum on the Trump presidency. Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a President in TV news history -- 92 percent negative, vs. just eight percent positive.... (more)

October 10, 2018

BYRON YORK — Not long after a 2017 meeting in which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly discussed wearing a wire to secretly record conversations with President Trump, two top officials in the meeting, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and bureau lawyer Lisa Page, went to the office of a third FBI official, general counsel James Baker.... (more)

October 9, 2018

Alan Keyes explains true meaning of 'separation of powers'

ALAN KEYES — Many constitutional aims and purposes seem to be forgotten in this era of purely self-serving, factional politics. Among them are the aims and purposes of the "separation of powers." Overacted partisanship means that the distinction of powers makes less and less difference, especially when it comes to relations between Congress and the president. When controlled by different parties, it's taken for granted by most people that those relations will be adversarial. When the same party controls both branches, people expect the two branches to be fellow travelers.... (more)

October 9, 2018

CLIFF KINCAID — One of the last remaining representatives of the old Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party, liberal Never-Trump Republican Senator Susan Collins, made history by casting the deciding vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh after getting assurances that he would vote to preserve the pro-abortion ruling Roe v. Wade. The recipient of a Planned Parenthood award, Collins gave Kavanaugh his crucial 50th vote, confirming him as a Justice on the Supreme Court, after calling him a "centrist," not a conservative.... (more)

October 9, 2018

Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate, Inc. loses the Pentagon but gains Silicon Valley

ROBERT KNIGHT — The hate business may not be what it used to be -- at least on the government level. The Defense Department has become the latest federal agency to sever ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based, hard-left group whose "hate map" is being used against Christian groups. Well, bully for the Pentagon for showing that bully the door.... (more)

October 9, 2018

Activist accuses Maine Republican of 'white supremacy'

WASHINGTON TIMES — Women's March leader Linda Sarsour on Friday launched a racial attack against Sen. Susan Collins, saying the Maine Republican was guilty of espousing "white supremacy" with her decision to support the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.... (more)

October 7, 2018

Trump: 'Big day for America!'

ART MOORE — After one of the most divisive Supreme Court nominations in recent history, the U.S. Senate voted 50-to-48 to confirm President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.... (more)

October 7, 2018

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned and praised a "mob" of activists opposed to just-confirmed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, telling reporters they terrorized lawmakers while firing up the GOP base.... (more)

October 7, 2018

Departs from Obama administration's downplay of Islam's role

BOB UNRUH — In a striking departure from the Obama administration, which sought to downplay the role of Islam in terrorism, the Trump administration is naming "radical Islamist" groups at the "principal terrorist enemies."... (more)

October 7, 2018

NEWSMAX — Pope Francis has authorized a "thorough study" of Vatican archives into how a prominent American cardinal advanced through church ranks despite allegations that he slept with seminarians and young priests, the Vatican said Saturday.... (more)