January 24, 2019

BARBARA KRALIS — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has again threatened his people with extreme abortion legislation that only causes a further deChristianization of the state's culture. The degree of Gov. Cuomo's long-held secularization of his Catholic faith and morals continues to increase exponentially due to grave impoverishment of his conscience.... (more)

January 24, 2019

NEWSMAX — Conservatives are outraged at leaders in New York after the state's legislature approved a bill that makes abortions legal up until a baby's due date. The state's Democrat-led Senate and Assembly passed the Reproductive Health Act on Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Catholic, marked the occasion by ordering several New York City landmarks to be lit in pink that evening.... (more)

January 24, 2019

NEWSMAX — Ohio's new Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, is pledging to sign into law a bill that would make abortions illegal once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. DeWine told radio host Hugh Hewitt he would sign the "heartbeat bill," legislation his predecessor John Kasich, also a Republican, vetoed last month before leaving office.... (more)

January 24, 2019

DAILY CALLER — The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a paper internally that suggests President Donald Trump may have the authority to use Department of Defense resources to build a wall without obtaining congressional approval or declaring a state of emergency.... (more)

January 24, 2019

FOX NEWS — Mercedes Schlapp, the White House director of strategic communications, told Fox News on Thursday that President Trump is considering the option to declare a national emergency to force the construction of his long-promised border wall. The move-- which would certainly draw a legal fight-- could, in theory, allow the president to circumvent Congress and end the budget stalemate. Trump has said he wanted $5.6 billion for the project.... (more)

January 24, 2019

REP. TOM MCCLINTOCK (R-CA) — The term "crisis" is chronically overused by politicians, but the numbers behind the debate over the "border crisis" speak for themselves. Between 16 and 29 million people are now living in the United States illegally, costing American taxpayers more than $100 billion a year.... (more)

January 24, 2019

TIMES OF ISRAEL — U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday night he was postponing his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, yielding after a week-long showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Following a high-stakes game of dare and double-dare, Trump conceded there was "no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber" and that he was not looking for an alternate option after Pelosi served notice earlier Wednesday that he won't be allowed to deliver the address to a joint session of the US Congress next week.... (more)

January 23, 2019

NEWSMAX — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to call off President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech is "absurd, petty, and shameful," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday. "Speaker Pelosi's decision not to invite President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address sets a new low for American politics," Graham said in a statement.... (more)

January 23, 2019

WORLDNETDAILY — An environmental group with Democratic socialist ties is calling on the University of Georgia to ban the popular restaurant Chick-fil-A from campus, calling it an "industrial, white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist cult." Campus Reform reported Athens EarthStrike is targeting Chick-fil-A for its use of non-compostable packaging and unsustainably-sourced poultry, according to the student publication the Red & Black.... (more)

January 23, 2019

JACK CASHILL — To his credit, National Review editor Rich Lowry has apologized more than once for his and the publication's initial response to the flap at the Lincoln Memorial involving the kids from Covington Catholic. He has much to apologize for. In his initial response, without any apparent fact checking, Lowry commended the knee-jerk mea culpa of the Covington diocese, tweeting, "A necessary and appropriate apology."... (more)

January 23, 2019

'Martyrdom operation' to mow down 'unbelievers'

WORLDNETDAILY — Three Muslim residents of Lansing, Michigan, were arrested Monday afternoon for conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, the Justice Department announced. A criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan charged that Muse Abdikadir Muse was on his way to Mogidishu, Somalia, to fight for ISIS when he was arrested. Members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force apprehended him at the Gerald R. Ford Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after he checked in for a flight.... (more)

January 22, 2019

FOX NEWS — The White House is still planning to move ahead with next week's scheduled State of the Union address, but the details remain up in the air after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly urged the president to delay the speech or submit it in writing amid the government shutdown fight. According to multiple sources, it remains unclear whether the address scheduled for Jan. 29 will in fact go forward, or what venue it would be in. The White House is even planning for the possibility of a speech outside of Washington.... (more)

January 22, 2019

FOX NEWS — The call by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for President Trump to postpone his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends has thrown official Washington into an uproar. But the president -- a master of creative thinking -- shouldn't let Pelosi's unprecedented call for him to reschedule his address to a joint meeting of Congress, scheduled for Jan. 29, stop him from communicating to the American people.... (more)

January 22, 2019

KFGO — Minnesota Democratic Congressman Collin Peterson is telling his Democratic colleagues to approve President Trump's request for funding a wall on the southern border. On KFGO's "News & Views," Peterson said approving Trump's request could help bring an end to an "unnecessary" government shutdown.... (more)

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)