March 12, 2019

Fighting for injured workers' rights

RENEWAMERICA STAFF — In Utah, unethical "insurance medical examiners" hired to deprive injured workers of guaranteed Workers Compensation medical and other benefits are protected by "state policy" from any liability for harm resulting from their fraudulent examinations.... (more)

March 11, 2019

ALAN KEYES — "The Democrat Party has apparently abandoned the modicum of respect for innocent, helpless, human life that led many Democrats in Congress to support the BAIPA [Born Alive Infant Protection Act] in 2002. Anti-life Democrat ideologues, prevalent among them now, have surrendered that shred of decency. Despite their loud denunciations of that surrender, GOP members of Congress and Trump administration officials will be suspect if they do not ask President Trump to end the long, bipartisan failure to see that the BAIPA is faithfully executed." ("U.S. law already protects infants who survive abortion")... (more)

March 11, 2019

DAILY CALLER — Democrats and the media will face a "reckoning" if special counsel Robert Mueller finds no evidence of collusion involving the Trump campaign, ABC News' Terry Moran argued in a panel discussion Sunday.... (more)

March 11, 2019

DAILY CALLER — One credential in particular has been a boon to candidates President Donald Trump considers for judicial appointments: a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas. As of this writing, the president has appointed seven Thomas clerks to the federal appeals courts, while an eighth is expected in the near future. As such, Thomas's legal approach -- sometimes branded unusual or idiosyncratic -- can claim adherents among a new generation of judges.... (more)

March 11, 2019

AXIOS — Generation Z has a more positive view of the word "socialism" than previous generations, and -- along with millennials -- are more likely to embrace socialistic policies and principles than past generations, according to a new Harris Poll given exclusively to Axios.... (more)

March 10, 2019

NEWSMAX — "Bill Nye The Science Guy," a climate-change activist, is a big fan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her own push for the Green New Deal, he tweeted Saturday night.... (more)

March 10, 2019

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Trump was warned by friends, enemies, and neutrals that his fight against the deep state was suicidal. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, just a few days before Trump's inauguration, cheerfully forecast (in a precursor to Samantha Power's later admonition) what might happen to Trump once he attacked the intelligence services: "Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community -- they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."... (more)

March 10, 2019

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Free speech advocates say that President Trump's executive order to promote free speech at universities could work if the administration enforces it through research contracts awarded to schools.... (more)

March 10, 2019

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A Wichita doctor was sentenced to life in prison Friday by federal courts after he was found guilty of illegally selling opioids that led to one of his patients' death. Steven R. Henson, 57, was convicted last year on multiple counts, including falsifying patient records and fulfilling prescription requests outside the regular regimen of care. The death of his patient Nick McGovern in 2015 was a result of intoxication of alprazolam and the opiate methadone -- two deadly and highly addictive prescription drugs.... (more)

March 9, 2019

DAILY WIRE — As Girl Scout cookies season comes to a close, parents should be aware that the organization does not exactly have family-friendly values at its heart.... (more)

March 9, 2019

DAILY WIRE — he Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted on Friday to defend local governments that choose to allow illegal aliens to vote in their elections.... (more)

March 9, 2019

ABC7 — A Cook County grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office confirmed the indictment, which they said was returned by a grand jury on Thursday.... (more)

March 8, 2019

FOX NEWS — President Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Friday surveyed the damage and met with survivors from the powerful tornado that killed 23 people in Alabama. The president visited Beauregard, the community that was hit hardest by Sunday's storm.... (more)

March 7, 2019

WES VERNON — One hesitates to use the "T" word, even in times like these when arguably treasonous plots are not only publicized, but in some quarters are almost regarded as "just another day at the office." "So what" if a scheme is hatched by an acting director of the FBI and a deputy attorney general to topple a president-elect even before he is sworn into the office for which the voters elected him. Failing that, a full power-driven effort has been underway to "stick it" to those same voters for daring to defy the not-so-gentle hints of what is often termed "the Deep State" that the elected head-of-state be ousted.... (more)

March 7, 2019

JERRY NEWCOMBE — On Sunday, New York Post had an editorial about how many millennials embrace "socialism" while not really knowing what it means: "Millennials -- ignorant of socialism's appalling economic and human-rights history -- increasingly embrace socialism and its naively unrealistic prescriptions for ending all human want."... (more)

March 7, 2019

REV. MARK H. CREECH — Most people can appreciate a practical joke. Some people are really good at setting them up. During Hollywood's golden years, there was a fellow in the film industry who was probably the best that there has ever been at practical jokes. Writer and movie director Jack McDermott would go to great lengths to pull off a good one.... (more)

March 7, 2019

NEWSMAX — The massive amount of people trying to enter the United States through Mexico and the drugs that flow across the border daily clearly justify there is a national emergency happening, Bill O'Reilly told Newsmax TV. During his regular Wednesday appearance on "The Wayne Allyn Root Show," O'Reilly was asked about the pushback President Donald Trump is receiving from both sides of the political aisle regarding his national emergency declaration to build more barriers at the southern border.... (more)

March 7, 2019

1 month ago branded Trump liar for declaring emergency

ART MOORE — One month ago, the New York Times claimed in a "fact check" there was "no emergency" at the southern border, but now the "paper of record" says the border is at a "breaking point." Breitbart News pointed out that the Times branded President Trump a liar when he said during his State of the Union address last month that there is an "urgent national crisis" at the border with Mexico.... (more)

March 7, 2019

DAILY CALLER — Fox News host Sean Hannity introduced the topic by noting that Graham has "been in the forefront trying to urge [his] Senate colleagues that this is a national emergency." "Well, what did we learn today?" Graham began, referring to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's remarks before Congress about the sharp rise in border apprehensions. "We had the border patrol commissioner and DHS Secretary Neilsen testify that family apprehensions have gone up 335 percent.... (more)

March 7, 2019

CDC warned staff of infections in 2016 without informing public

WORLDNETDAILY — More than 200 Georgia high school students were tested for tuberculosis after a student was diagnosed with the disease, the third case in the state in two weeks. The Gwinnett County Health Department said a Discovery High School student was being treated for TB, reported WSB-TV in Atlanta on Tuesday.... (more)

March 7, 2019

Say vaccines are necessarily risky

WORLDNETDAILY — A prominent physicians' organization that strongly opposes mandated vaccines is urging the federal government to let parents make medical decisions for their children. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons' letter to the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee as well as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions comes amid a new attack on opponents of mandatory vaccination because of minor outbreaks of measles.... (more)

March 7, 2019

NEWSMAX — The Democratic National Committee will not allow Fox News to televise any of its candidates' political debates through 2020, citing a report on the conservative media network's ties to President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.... (more)

March 7, 2019

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are demanding access to Obama administration documents that were used to brief Congress and the Trump and Clinton campaigns about Russian interference in the 2016 election.... (more)

March 6, 2019

Obama appointee tries to knock down reputation for deceiving Congress

WORLDNETDAILY — Obama administration National Security Agency director James Clapper is claiming he didn't lie to Congress when he told members that the NSA didn't collect "any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans." The truth was that it did.... (more)

March 6, 2019

NEWSMAX — The Trump administration warned Republican lawmakers Tuesday about record numbers of illegal crossings at the southern border with Mexico as Congress appeared to be on the verge of terminating President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency there.... (more)