January 10, 2020

RENEWAMERICA STAFF — RenewAmerica has partnered with multi-national pro-life organization Real Estate for Life to help sustain the work of RenewAmerica. Real Estate for Life is a faith-based real estate network that funds "gospel of life groups worldwide."... (more)

January 10, 2020

JERRY NEWCOMBE — In 2008, Abby Johnson, the manager of the Bryan, Texas (100 miles from Houston), Planned Parenthood, became that organization's Employee of the Year. By 2009, she quit for conscience' sake. Why? That year, for the first time, she saw an ultrasound of an abortion of a 13-week-old unborn child in her own clinic. This was not a blob of tissue, a clump of cells, a non-living being. This was a baby that was fighting for his life.... (more)

January 10, 2020

BRYAN FISCHER — Homosexuals have been allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military since the disastrously misguided repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in late 2010. President Obama was able to ram the repeal through just under the wire because the Democrats temporarily held both houses of Congress, a situation that would change with the election in the fall of 2010. Elections have consequences, and open homosexuality in the military was one of the unfortunate consequences of naive voters placing regressives in office.... (more)

January 9, 2020

LLOYD MARCUS — During his heartfelt Golden Globes speech, Tom Hanks said his five children are braver, stronger, and wiser than him. Please do not think I am beating up on Tom Hanks for seeing this a little differently. I am simply pointing out that Hanks downplaying his fatherly position is a mindset we see reflected in practically every family movie and sitcom today.... (more)

January 8, 2020

THE HILL — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing a resolution to change the Senate's rules to allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Thursday that McConnell has signed on as a co-sponsor to the resolution, which he introduced earlier this week.... (more)

January 8, 2020

Michael Atkinson targeted for handling of whistleblower complaint

WORLDNETDAILY — The intelligence community inspector general who already had been rebuked for his handling of the whistleblower complaint that triggered the Democrats' impeachment of President Trump is under investigation, according to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.... (more)

January 8, 2020

NEWSMAX — Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday told Newsmax TV he would like to see the Senate move forward on President Donald Trump's impeachment by moving to dismiss the process because the president has not been charged with impeachable offenses -- rather than trying to gather evidence in the matter.... (more)

January 8, 2020

NEWSMAX — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, maintains that senators are "absolutely not jurors" during an impeachment trial. Lee made his comments on Tuesday in a column posted by Fox News. He said the Constitution "sets impeachment apart from jury trials" by noting that "'the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury.'"... (more)

January 8, 2020

NATIONAL REVIEW — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has whipped the 51 votes required to establish the rules for President Trump's impending impeachment trial without a concrete agreement on witnesses, according to multiple reports.... (more)

January 8, 2020

State Department official 'circumvented the rules in pushing unreliable reports'

WORLDNETDAILY — State Department employees sought to provide special protections for the unsubstantiated and salacious claims about Donald Trump in the Hillary Clinton-funded "dossier," according to emails obtained by government watchdog Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation.... (more)

January 7, 2020

NEWSMAX — CNN has settled a lawsuit with a Kentucky teen who claimed media organizations falsely labeled him as a racist following a well-publicized encounter with a Native American last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The network confirmed the settlement Tuesday, as did Todd McMurtry, a lawyer for Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky. Neither side would give details of the settlement.... (more)

January 7, 2020

NEWSMAX — A stampede broke out Tuesday at a funeral for a top Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike, and at least 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured as thousands thronged the procession, Iranian news reports said. The stampede took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as the procession began, said Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran's emergency medical services.... (more)

January 6, 2020

News analysis

BARBARA KRALIS — Following the recent shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, which left three dead, including the perpetrator, USA Today ran a hysteria-inducing commentary that said,... (more)

January 6, 2020

Defending gun rights seminar

TOM DEWEESE — If you can be in Richmond, Virginia, January 18 and 19, then I urge you to join us! As I'm sure you know, the governor and Democrat leadership in the Virginia legislature are planning a major assault on gun rights, among other things. If successful in Virginia, gun confiscation legislation will race across the nation. What do we do about it?!... (more)

January 6, 2020

CLIFF KINCAID — Obama's CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus told Foreign Policy magazine that Iranian general and top terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani was "responsible for providing explosives, projectiles, and arms and other munitions that killed well over 600 American soldiers and many more of our coalition and Iraqi partners just in Iraq, as well as in many other countries such as Syria." So why did it take so long for the U.S. to kill him?... (more)

January 5, 2020

WORLDNETDAILY — Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and former CIA director, spoke with Foreign Policy this week about the implications of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, calling it "more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden."... (more)

January 5, 2020

MEDIAITE — The first Capitol Hill criticism of the strike, directed by President Donald Trump, which killed leading Iran general Qasem Soleimani, came from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) – who questioned whether the action would set off a "massive regional war" without Congressional approval. Friday morning on CNN, one former general responded to that critique from the Connecticut senator by saying, essentially: Pipe down.... (more)

January 5, 2020

FOX NEWS — Mike Pompeo, the U.S. secretary of state, tweeted a video that he claimed showed Iraqis taking to the streets to celebrate the death of Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani. Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force. He was killed in a targeted U.S. military attack ordered by President Trump. His killing was seen as a major escalation between the U.S. and Iran.... (more)

January 4, 2020

WASHINGTON TIMES — U.S. forces have now surpassed 2,800 strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria under President Obama's war against the Islamic State, all as part of a conflict Congress has yet to specifically authorize -- and amid worries lawmakers won't ever act.... (more)

January 3, 2020

Gen. Qassem Soleimani identified by his ring; pro-Iran Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis also killed

DAILY MAIL — Four precision missiles were fired from a deadly remote-controlled 4,900 pound U.S. drone, decimating a convoy that Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds force, was traveling in and tearing his body "to shreds." Soleimani, commonly known as the second-most powerful man in Iran and tipped as a future president, was so badly maimed in the strike that he had to be identified by a large ring he wore on his finger. He had just landed in Baghdad airport on a plane from either Syria or Lebanon around 12:30 am when he was met on the tarmac by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.... (more)

January 3, 2020

NEWSMAX — Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, who's often been critical of President Donald Trump on foreign policy, on Friday praised him for the decision to attack and kill a top Iranian general – and labeled Democrats' criticism "awfully petty." In an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" show, Peters discounted concerns that the attack would be a catalyst for a wider conflict.... (more)

January 3, 2020

NEWSMAX — Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, has criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for calling the recent airstrike that killed an Iranian general a "distraction," saying that it was appropriate retribution for the recent incident at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.... (more)

January 3, 2020

NEWSMAX — Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., on Friday praised President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without informing Congress, telling Newsmax TV: "He was there at the airport. We had the shot at him."... (more)

January 3, 2020

Played decisive role as VP in enabling terror leader

WORLDNETDAILY — As vice president, Joe Biden enabled Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani to push the United States out of Iraq and deliver the country into the hands of Iran's Islamic regime, according to a 2013 New Yorker profile.... (more)

January 3, 2020

WORLDNETDAILY — Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is promising retaliation against the U.S. for launching a missile strike in Baghdad that killed his top general, Qassim Suleimani. The New York Times called Suleimani "a powerful strategist who represented Iran's influence across the region." The paper explained the death was "a considerable blow" to Tehran, because, "as the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which leads Iran's operations abroad, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who was 62, was the country's top security and intelligence commander.... (more)