June 29, 2018

JOAN SWIRSKY — In Hillary's cringe-producing appearances over the past year and a half -- since she lost the U.S. presidency in 2016 to Donald J. Trump -- she has offered upward of 38 excuses to rationalize her loss, which Amanda Prestigiacomo has documented here exquisitely.... (more)

June 29, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Youth is a factor as President Trump searches for his pivotal nominee to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, a task that the president said Thursday is already in high gear. The president is looking for a nominee who can leave a conservative mark on the high court for most of the next half-century, extending Mr. Trump's impact far beyond his presidency. "We have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years," Mr. Trump said Wednesday night.... (more)

June 29, 2018

NEWSMAX — The House approved a Republican-backed resolution demanding that the Justice Department turn over all remaining documents sought by congressional committees on the investigation into Russian election interference and President Donald Trump's campaign.... (more)

June 28, 2018

JERRY NEWCOMBE — The Bible is being used by both sides in the current immigration debate. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is quoting Romans 13 on how we should obey the government, since it's been ordained by God.... (more)

June 28, 2018

AP NEWS — Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's decisive man in the middle on abortion, gay rights and other contentious issues, announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the nation's highest court.... (more)

June 28, 2018

ART MOORE — The longtime swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court and the architect of the landmark same-sex marriage decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy, announced his retirement Wednesday, setting up an epic confirmation battle in the Senate, with Democrats facing the possibility of a generational shift to the right.... (more)

June 28, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — America has been living in Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's world for the past 12 years. The 81-year-old jurist, who announced his retirement Wednesday, has been the decider in chief on most of the major controversial cases to reach the Supreme Court ever since 2006, which was when the court's balance shifted to him after Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.... (more)

June 28, 2018

NEWSMAX — Legal experts say the Supreme Court justice to succeed retiring Anthony Kennedy might ultimately be the end of legalized abortion, Law & Crime reported. University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone told the legal news website conservatives currently on the nation's hight court bench have a history of overturning precedent -- including Wednesday's ruling in a union fees case.... (more)

June 28, 2018

'When I confronted her on Capitol Hill, she ASSAULTED me'

WORLDNETDAILY — Charging that Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., assaulted her, a journalist has filed a complaint with U.S. Capitol Police. BizPac Review said journalist Laura Loomer was doing to Waters what "the California Democrat urged liberals to do to Trump aides: Confront them in public."... (more)

June 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump's travel ban policy is both legal and constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, delivering a massive victory to the White House and dashing hopes of Democrats and activists who hoped the justices would join the resistance. Instead, the court, in a 5-4 ruling, said the president has broad powers to control who is admitted to the U.S. The ruling said those powers are strongest when the president is acting on national security grounds and, in this case, Mr. Trump gave sufficient justification for the need to restrict entry from some uncooperative countries.... (more)

June 27, 2018

DAVID FRENCH — Today, a five-justice majority of the Supreme Court demonstrated unequivocally that it can read and apply the plain language of a federal statute. The only surprise in the Court's travel-ban ruling is that four dissenting justices tried to find a way around the express will of Congress. The message here is clear: If the American people don't want the president to exercise a breathtaking degree of control over American immigration policy, then Congress must act. The courts won't save you from the law.... (more)

June 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — California can't force pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion as a health care option, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, saying the state's attempt to do so violated the groups' First Amendment speech rights. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling, said a 2015 state law requiring the centers to post notices about obtaining an abortion, including state assistance in paying for the procedure, amounted to government-coerced speech.... (more)

June 27, 2018

Growing deficits to push debt to almost 100 percent of GDP by 2028

ROLL CALL — Debt as a share of the United States economy is on track to blow through the previous World War II-era record within two decades and keep rising from there, the Congressional Budget Office said in its annual long-term budget report.... (more)

June 27, 2018

Dem urged supporters to 'create a crowd' and 'push back' on Trump officials

BOB UNRUH — Washington watchdog Judicial Watch sent a letter Tuesday to the House Office of Congressional Ethics asking for an investigation of the statements made over the weekend by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.... (more)

June 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — It turns out that two of the most anti-Trump FBI officials outed in the Justice Department's Inspector General report also happened to be key figures in the guilty pleas of George Papadopoulos and Lt. Gen Mike Flynn. The two figures were also dismissed from Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation when their anti-Trump activities were revealed.... (more)

June 27, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The showdown between Congress and the Justice Department over Russia escalated Tuesday after the House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of a resolution demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hand over sensitive documents related to the investigation into suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. Committee members approved the resolution on a 15-11 party-line vote. It is now up to Republican leaders to decide whether they will bring the measure for a vote before the full House.... (more)

June 27, 2018

Information giant, bureaucrats united by progressive ideological agenda

ART MOORE — Amid growing calls to break up Google, is the public missing a quietly developing merger of the universal information engine with government? That's the question posed by a lengthy analysis in the New Atlantis, a journal that focuses on the intersection of technology and society.... (more)

June 25, 2018

WES VERNON — On – ahem – respect for opposing views — In what appear to be his waning days, John McCain is preparing to leave a legacy of settling scores. Some others are tearing open the wraps that until now have kept some deeds of the senator and /of his aides hidden from public view.... (more)

June 25, 2018

Alan Keyes stresses 'the common sense of moral purpose' in America's Creed

ALAN KEYES — Recent headlines about the U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council have me thinking about the Reagan years and the time I spent at the United States mission to the United Nations (USUN) as ECOSOC (the United Nations Economic and Social Council) ambassador, under the leadership of our Permrep Jeanne Kirkpatrick; and subsequently as International Organizations Assistant Secretary, working out of the State Department.... (more)

June 25, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The refusal of a Virginia restaurant owner to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the latest incident in the escalating public hostility directed at President Trump and his aides, raising concerns among some conservatives about the potential for partisan-inspired violence.... (more)

June 25, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The mother and child in that now-iconic photo of family separation not only weren't separated, but their claims of asylum are also likely bogus, experts tell the Washington Times. The woman, identified in news reports as Sandra Sanchez, was deported from the U.S. in 2013, which analysts said suggests her latest attempt to enter the U.S. is likely about illegal immigration rather than asylum.... (more)

June 25, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — The mental health industry isn't what it used to be, although there are plenty of brilliant and compassionate analysts and counselors who help lots of people. Effective treatment depends a great deal on what is considered healthy and normal. And that keeps changing with the times, sometimes based on demands from identity groups.... (more)

June 24, 2018

NEWSMAX — House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows took to Twitter on Saturday to attack the Justice Department for only turning over "a small percentage" of the document Congress has subpoenaed on the Russia investigation.... (more)

June 24, 2018

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — There are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make up words and phrases to disguise reality.... (more)

June 24, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — A new report from Judicial Watch reveals a concerted effort from Sen. John McCain's office to urge the IRS under Lois Lerner to strike out against political advocacy groups, including tea party organizations. Thanks to the results of an extensive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that has been delayed for many years, Judicial Watch has obtained several key emails from 2013 that chronicle McCain's and Democrat Sen. Carl Levin's efforts to reign in the advocacy groups that sprouted immediately following the Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court.... (more)