December 6, 2018

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Former president Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, President Donald Trump. Obama's charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he, rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the world's largest energy producer. But Obama also has charged that Trump's policies are pernicious and failing. Apparently, Obama believes that all of Trump's successes are due to Obama, and all of Trump's setbacks are his own.... (more)

December 6, 2018

NEWSMAX — Rush Limbaugh says the media is treating former President George H.W. Bush nicer in death than it did in life. Limbaugh made his comments on "Fox News @ Night." "They never treated him this way when he was president," he said. "They were vicious to him like they are vicious and partisan to every Republican. I think its just a vehicle for them to be able to contrast what they think [President Donald] Trump is versus the way they are telling us Bush was.... (more)

December 6, 2018

MICHELLE MALKIN — Impolite question, but it needs to be asked: Is there a Republican dead body that left-wing partisans won't use to bash Donald Trump? This week's partisan corpse abusers callously exploited the passing of George H. W. Bush, America's 41st president, to get in their digs at the current commander in chief. Their vulgar level of incivility was inversely propositional to their sanctimonious calls for decency.... (more)

December 6, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Former FBI director James Comey will reportedly testify to Congress in a closed-door hearing on Friday. The news comes after months of back-and-forth between Comey and the House Judiciary Committee, which had issued a subpoena requesting that Comey testify in a private hearing. The former FBI director expressed a wish to testify publicly and initiated a brief legal battle over the subpoena, accusing Committee Republicans of intending "to mislead the public and to undermine public confidence in the FBI and the DOJ," by selectively leaking bits of testimony from his private testimony.... (more)

December 6, 2018

TV NEWSER — An increasing amount of distrust in the news media is a hot topic these days. While adults and consistent news consumers are usually the focus of such studies, those who are still in school are often left out of this conversation. And they shouldn't be, especially considering the findings below.... (more)

December 6, 2018

'Virgin birth story about all-powerful deity impregnating a human teen'

WORLDNETDAILY — A Twitter user who profiles himself as an associate professor of clinical psychology and sexuality studies from Minnesota and lists interests as "cats" and "Poe" tried to apply the contemporary "#MeToo" movement to the New Testament story of the virgin birth.... (more)

December 6, 2018

Social-media giant seeks 'safe environment' for its 'community'

WORLDNETDAILY — Facebook censored an image of Santa Claus kneeling before the baby Jesus, deeming it "violent or graphic content." The censorship was lifted Wednesday after LifeSiteNews published a report about it. Facebook had obscured the picture, explaining the "photo was automatically covered so you can decide if you want to see it," LifeSiteNews reported. Users who wanted to see the photo had to click on a button.... (more)

December 6, 2018

Latest vaccine victim facing long road to recovery

WORLDNETDAILY — Controversy over vaccines has been ongoing for years, with critics pointing to many injuries and deaths. In 2013, government watchdog Judicial Watch sued the federal government to obtain data related to injuries caused by a popular HPV vaccine the government has recommended for girls and boys as young as 11 despite thousands of cases of seizures, paralysis, blindness, pancreatitis, speech problems, short-term memory loss, Guillain-Barre syndrome and even death.... (more)

December 5, 2018

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Robert Mueller's legal team may write a damning report on Trump's ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump's and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences. So far, we know that the U.S. government decided to intervene in a political campaign to help one candidate and to smear the other -- under the pretext of Russian "collusion."... (more)

December 5, 2018

BYRON YORK — Michael Flynn has been waiting for more than a year to be sentenced. The retired three-star Army general, who spent 24 days as the Trump White House national security adviser, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017, to lying to the FBI in the Trump-Russia investigation. He agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller.... (more)

December 5, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The turmoil sparked by French President Emmanuel Macron's proposal to boost gas taxes is just the latest example of an emerging political truism. While economists hail them as the best, most effective way to limit greenhouse gas emissions, carbon taxes are proving a tough sell for politicians who have to work and win elections in the real world.... (more)

December 5, 2018

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump claims the fuel-tax riots in France justify his decision to yank the United States out of the "fatally flawed" Paris climate deal. "I am glad that my friend @EmmanuelMacron and the protestors in Paris have agreed with the conclusion I reached two years ago," Trump tweeted. "The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters in the world."... (more)

December 5, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Liberal Democrats and environmental groups are urging the next Congress to do more to push back against the effects of climate change after watching the issue get sidelined over the first two years of the Trump administration. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont hosted a town hall Monday where he and other "climate justice" warriors, including Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, warned that the longer President Trump and elected leaders refuse to address the "great crisis," the more that people, the planet and the economy will be hurt.... (more)

December 5, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Glenn Beck's TheBlaze and Mark Levin's CRTV have merged to form Blaze Media -- a move the conservative media companies said has the potential to reach 165 million people. "Tens of millions of Americans have had it with the biased, ideologically-driven mainstream media outlets that sanctimoniously advance their own agendas under the guise of 'news' and 'journalism,'" Mr. Levin, who founded CRTV in 2014 and serves as its editor-in-chief, said in a statement.... (more)

December 5, 2018

NATIONAL REVIEW — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that Russia has 60 days to comply with a 1987 arms-control deal or the U.S. will suspend its obligations under the agreement. "We either bury our head in the sand or we take common-sense action," Pompeo said.... (more)

December 3, 2018

Alan Keyes decries 'false evangelism' that tickles itching ears

ALAN KEYES — There are times when passages from the sacred Scripture speak with startling accuracy about the crisis of our times. It is as if the inspired writer stands in our midst, witnessing the abandonment of truth in word and deed that more and more forcibly strives to darken and pre-empt the "faith that was once for all delivered to the saints." It has tragically become the norm to read accounts of Christ followers in the U.S. and elsewhere --... (more)

December 3, 2018

LIFESITE NEWS — Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, who famously played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, told university students on Sunday that they must set themselves apart from this "corrupt generation" and "be saints." "You weren't made to 'fit in,' my brothers and sisters. You were born to stand out. Set yourself apart from this corrupt generation. Be saints," he said.... (more)

December 3, 2018

'They have the power, they talk about using the power, they use the power'

ART MOORE — To anyone who insists that the left-leaning, anti-Trump bias reflected in the latest leak of internal Google communications has no bearing on the way the tech giant builds or operates its products, there is hard evidence that proves otherwise, contends a Harvard-trained researcher who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.... (more)

December 3, 2018

CHARLES HURT — It has been nothing short of miraculous in this new season of Advent to hear all the Hosannas and applause for our recently departed former President George H.W. Bush. In The New York Times, Mr. Bush was heralded for his "uncommon grace." The Washington Post called him a "giant of a man."... (more)

December 3, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — There's been loose talk over America's ideological divide becoming so bitter that it could lead to armed conflict. A Democratic congressman quipped that if gun owners resisted with force his proposal to confiscate rifles, it would be a "short war" because the government has nuclear weapons. Right. The feds are going to nuke Texas. The congressman (Eric Swalwell of California) has since taken a good amount of flak for his statement, which he said was a joke.... (more)

December 3, 2018

REUTERS — Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.... (more)

December 3, 2018

NTD — A Democratic congresswoman said that she helped some migrants into the United States over the weekend. The pronouncement came as some of the migrant caravan, which is overwhelmingly composed of fighting age males, was moved out of Tijuana to a city further away from the border.... (more)

December 2, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Illegal immigrants assaulted two more Border Patrol agents in separate incidents in California Thursday, according to court documents filed Friday that add to the rash of violence associated with the current surge of Central American migrants.... (more)

December 2, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump voiced optimism Saturday about closing in on a trade deal as he sat down for a high-stakes dinner meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Hoping to cool down an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies, Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi got together for a steak dinner in Buenos Aries, where they attended the G20 summit.... (more)

December 2, 2018

MAUREEN DOWD — The snow is falling lightly. My thoughts are racing darkly. I'm feeling something foreign, something I've never felt before. It takes me a moment to identify it. I'm feeling sorry for the Clintons.... (more)