December 22, 2016

BRYAN FISCHER — All the hysterical bloviating and bleating we hear from the ACLU this time of year about whether school choirs can sing "Silent Night" is just gas, sound and fury, but signifying nothing. The bigots and bullies of secular fundamentalism will yammer on about the separation of church and state, and the horrors of recognizing Christmas in public settings, as if democracy itself will fall if anybody so much as mentions the name of the Prince of Peace let alone sings a song or two in his honor.... (more)

December 22, 2016

LARRY KLAYMAN — Watch a Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's message from Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch here... (more)

December 22, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — It is refreshing to see President-elect Trump on his "Thank You" tour speaking from a podium that proclaims "Merry Christmas." The Trump victory was a revolt against Cultural Marxism, also known as political correctness. In that world, Merry Christmas is watered down into "Happy Holidays."... (more)

December 22, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It's really kind of remarkable that many of Donald Trump's critics in media appear to have learned nothing from his shock victory. You would think that those whose warnings on the Republican businessman appear to have gone largely ignored by the electorate would pause to reconsider how best to keep the incoming president in check. The election-year strategy of protesting Trump by yelling loudly, chanting sanctimonious pabulum ("This is not normal!") and showering the Republican candidate and his supporters with mockery and insults obviously proved ineffective.... (more)

December 22, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A growing number of Democrats are interested in changing or even completely eliminating the Electoral College, after President-elect Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, but won a majority of the electoral votes that were up for grabs.... (more)

December 22, 2016

JACK CASHILL — If there were ever a useful case study for the effect of fake news on real events, it was the media-spawned birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement congealed around two fatal incidents: the first, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in 2012; the second, the shooting death of Michael Brown in 2014.... (more)

December 22, 2016

BOB UNRUH — The "gay"-advocating media has erupted over the prospect that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from the bench based on a complaint from the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center which, opposes his support for traditional marriage, is being considered to replace Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who has been nominated to be U.S. attorney general.... (more)

December 22, 2016

THE HILL — Congressional Republicans are considering holding off on repealing some of ObamaCare's taxes, according to lobbyists familiar with the discussions. GOP lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee discussed the possibility of keeping some of the taxes in place during a retreat last week at the Library of Congress, the sources say.... (more)

December 22, 2016

NEWSMAX — President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday named billionaire investor Carl Icahn a special adviser for regulatory reform -- a post for which he would not be paid nor would be required to give up any business dealings.... (more)

December 22, 2016

GREG COROMBOS — President Obama is taking multiple actions that could hamstring President-elect Donald Trump's plans to unleash domestic energy production, which is a major component of the Trump economic agenda. On Tuesday, Obama banned offshore energy exploration in massive portions of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.... (more)

December 22, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, blasted the Obama administration for going "to the very end with their failed worldview and their failed ideology" -- predicting President Barack Obama will go down as "one of the worst" in U.S. history.... (more)

December 22, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — What appears from the outside to be a bungling of basic law-enforcement operations in Germany -- allowing a known illegal alien with a criminal and terrorist past to move about freely in German society for more than a year -- may not be a bungling at all.... (more)

December 22, 2016

NEWSMAX — Missing from President Barack Obama's list of people he pardoned earlier this week was accused Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl was accused of desertion after he allegedly walked away from his platoon in the middle of Afghanistan in 2009. He was eventually captured by the Taliban and spent nearly five years in captivity before he was released through a prisoner transfer ordered by Obama in 2014.... (more)

December 22, 2016

BILL FEDERER — The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the U.S. during World War II. It involved 610,000 Americans, 55,000 British, 72,000 Free French along Europe's Western Front for nearly 40 days. There were 89,000 American casualties and over 100,000 German casualties.... (more)

December 21, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The North Carolina Senate failed to pass a bill Wednesday night that would have repealed House Bill 2, the controversial "bathroom bill" that thrust the issue of transgender rights into the national spotlight. House lawmakers had called a special session to rescind the Republican-sponsored legislation before heading out for rest of the year.... (more)

December 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — Nearly 40 percent of millennials were living with their parents, siblings or relatives in 2015 -- a 75-year high, according to a data analysis by the real estate sales tracker Trulia. While the economy has been stronger, 39.5 percent of those between 18 and 34 were living with parents or others that year, The Wall Street Journal reported.... (more)

December 21, 2016

JOSEPH FARAH — Remember when Hillary Clinton assured America she would accept the outcome of the 2016 election no matter what? I do. That promise, which she made only because Donald Trump wouldn't, was one that unequivocally meant she would not call for any recounts, that she would not call on surrogates and supporters (like Barack Obama) to make reckless allegations that Russian cyber attacks played a role in the outcome and she would not be a party to denigrating the integrity and sanctity of the election process.... (more)

December 21, 2016

BOB UNRUH — A Texas court is expected to make a decision before New Year's Day on one of President Obama's newest transgender mandates, which would require doctors to provide transgender treatment for kids who desire it.... (more)

December 21, 2016

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON — A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda, according to a new report that alleges the administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to forward this agenda.... (more)

December 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama banned new offshore oil and gas development in more than 100 million acres of the U.S. Arctic and undersea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, an announcement certain to provoke a fight with the Republican-led Congress and his successor in the White House.... (more)

December 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — All 245,000 graves at Arlington National Cemetery will be adorned with a wreath this year thanks to generous donors including Boy and Girl Scout troops, sports teams, and a 4-H club.... (more)

December 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Islamic State claimed responsibility Tuesday for the Berlin attack Monday that killed 12 people and injured 50 others when a truck plowed through a Christmas market.... (more)

December 21, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — North Carolina Republicans have a deal for the city of Charlotte: We'll pull our bathroom law if you pull yours. Lawmakers are prepared to repeal HB2, the legislation regulating intimate public facilities on the basis of biological sex, after the Charlotte City Council on Monday got rid of its ordinance requiring that access to restrooms and locker rooms be determined based on a person's gender identity.... (more)

December 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — Liberal billionaire George Soros spent nearly $11 million to help 12 candidates running in local district attorney races during the 2016 election cycle, demonstrating a tactic to put Democrats in office up and down the ballot.... (more)

December 20, 2016

Hamilton argued for 'consumption-based' system

ALAN KEYES — Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them. The amount contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be relegated by an attention to his resources. The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions....... (more)