January 21, 2019

THE HILL — It seems that socialism is like an infectious disease that everyone has to get ill of to develop immunity. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn pointed out, "For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."... (more)

January 21, 2019

NEWSMAX — A report claiming President Donald Trump told his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to lie about the timeline of talks on a Trump Tower Moscow project "bruised" the First Amendment, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said Sunday. In an interview on CBS News' "Face The Nation," Kennedy said the BuzzFeed News report was "embarrassing."... (more)

January 21, 2019

Say patients paying physicians directly better for all

WORLDNETDAILY — America's health-care system would benefit from giving patients more choices, according to a coalition of physicians. Removing restrictions on programs that cut out the middle-men, the insurance companies, would be one positive step, contends the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons.... (more)

January 21, 2019

CHUCK NORRIS — Vice President Mike and Karen Pence made a surprise visit to the 46th annual March for Life on Friday. President Trump then spoke to the massive crowd gathered on the Washington Mall via video message from the White House. On Jan. 13, 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation designating Jan. 22 as the first National Sanctity of Human Life Day. (He chose that day because Jan. 22, 1973, was the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in all 50 states.)... (more)

January 21, 2019

'It's just absolutely surreal'

ART MOORE — Twitter is virtually enforcing Pakistan's notorious blasphemy law, contends an author who recently was informed by the social-media company of a complaint that his book analyzing the minds of Islamic terrorists violated the Muslim-majority nation's notorious statute. "It's just absolutely surreal and Kafkaesque that a social-media giant in the free world is trying to enforce blasphemy laws -- or, for now, carrying the message," said Jamie Glazov, the author of "Jihadist Psychopath."... (more)

January 20, 2019

'The endless Mueller probe has become a problem of its own making'

MICHAEL GOODWIN — Imagine that a scientist wanted to conduct an experiment to see if it's true that blind hatred of President Trump has led Democrats and their media handmaidens to go 'round the bend and off the cliff.... (more)

January 20, 2019

NEWSMAX — President Trump on Saturday made an offer to extend temporary protections to children of undocumented immigrants as a way to "break the logjam" that has led to a protracted government shutdown, now in its 29th day.... (more)

January 20, 2019

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — At least one Senate Democrat seems to be taking President Trump's offer on immigration reform as a sign an end to the partial government shutdown may be near. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who won re-election last November in a state Trump carried by 42 points in 2016, said Saturday he's looking forward to working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to "end this shameful shutdown."... (more)

January 20, 2019

NATIONAL REVIEW — President Donald Trump should ignore friendly advice about alternative venues for the State of the Union address. Instead, he immediately should write House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and remind her of her January 3 letter inviting him to present his second SOTU on January 29.... (more)

January 20, 2019

NEWSMAX — Scuffles broke out on Saturday as around 7,000 "yellow vest" demonstrators marched through Paris in a 10th consecutive weekend of protests against President Emmanuel Macron's government. The demonstrations were largely peaceful but Reuters Television reporters said they saw clashes break out late in the afternoon between police and demonstrators, some wearing masks, in Paris' Invalides district.... (more)

January 18, 2019

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Paris is burning. That is because the new president of France has bought into the message of climate change alarmism -- that man's activities are wreaking all sorts of havoc on the earth. If we cut down on our consumption of fossil fuels and instead embrace so-called "green justice," we have a fighting chance to curb the problem of climate change, alarmists claim.... (more)

January 18, 2019

YAHOO NEWS — In a rare public statement, special counsel Robert Mueller's office on Friday disputed a blockbuster report from BuzzFeed News that alleged President Donald Trump directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie in his testimony before Congress.... (more)

January 18, 2019

DAILY CALLER — BuzzFeed News' latest disputed report about former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is just the latest in a long line of Russia "bombshells" that turned out to be anything but. The Special Counsel's office disputed a Thursday night report by BuzzFeed claiming that President Donald Trump directed his lawyer to lie about a potential business deal in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.... (more)

January 18, 2019

DAILY CALLER — Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul offered a potential solution to the State of the Union problem that has been front and center for the past few days -- President Donald Trump bypasses the House of Representatives entirely and delivers the speech from the Senate floor.... (more)

January 18, 2019

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence unexpectedly addressed the attendees of the anti-abortion March for Life on Friday, The Washington Post reports. Pence and second lady Karen Pence appeared in person onstage at the event, while Trump appeared in a pre-recorded video as he did last year.... (more)

January 18, 2019

Approval rating skyrockets during government shutdown

WORLDNETDAILY — Confounding conventional wisdom, a new poll shows President Trump's approval rating among Latinos has skyrocketed by 20 points since the government shutdown over the border wall Republicans want to fund.... (more)

January 18, 2019

FOX NEWS — Former Attorney General William Barr underwent his confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee under the new chairmanship of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and emerged without a scratch, scrape or bruise. He came across as a consummate professional and a deeply knowledgeable, capable, and very experienced attorney -- someone former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has called "probably the best-qualified nominee for U.S. attorney general since Robert Jackson in 1940."... (more)

January 18, 2019

FOX NEWS — Prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating alleged "collusion" between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia knew all along that the anti-Trump "dossier" compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele that fueled their probe was biased and likely phony.... (more)

January 18, 2019

NEWSMAX — Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said The Atlantic's reasoning for why President Donald Trump should be impeached is flawed and does not comply with the specific provisions of the Constitution "as it was written."... (more)

January 18, 2019

NEWSMAX — Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke should never be president after questioning "the validity of the Constitution," Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said Thursday, per the Washington Examiner. O'Rourke, whose star rose following a shockingly close loss to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during the 2018 midterm elections in the red state of Texas, during a recent interview with The Washington Post questioned whether the principles of the U.S. constitution were still relevant.... (more)

January 18, 2019

FRANK PAVONE — The largest annual pro-life demonstration of the year is about to take place this Friday in Washington, D.C., reminding everyone of the disastrous Roe v. Wade decision issued by the Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973, and legalizing abortion throughout pregnancy.... (more)

January 16, 2019

DAILY SIGNAL — William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee he wouldn't be intimidated by anyone, including President Donald Trump, who nominated him to serve as attorney general. "I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong. By anybody. Whether it be editorial boards, or Congress, or the president," Barr said Tuesday in response to questions by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.... (more)

January 16, 2019

DAILY CALLER — Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham brought the house down Tuesday when he delivered a deadpan crack about President Donald Trump having his phone number.... (more)

January 16, 2019

'Radicalized' 21-year-old Georgia man planned to use anti-tank rocket, explosives

WORLDNETDAILY — An Atlanta-area man has been accused of plotting to destroy the White House and other government buildings in Washington, D.C. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported the suspect is Hasher Jallal Taheb of Cumming, Georgia. The report said all threats were neutralized and the suspect, who was arrested in Gwinnett County and briefly appeared in court Wednesday, apparently was working alone.... (more)

January 16, 2019

Rush: Trump 'can turn this into a big win'

WORLDNETDAILY — In a speech from the Senate floor Wednesday morning in which he blamed President Trump for the partial government shutdown -- saying the country is "suffering self-inflicted damage" -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer let it slip that the American people voted for a wall by voting for Trump.... (more)