January 31, 2017
| Latest columns  |  January 31, 2017 ALAN KEYES — Since the Supreme Court's blatantly anti-constitutional decision purporting to force "gay marriage" on all the United States, the GOP's elitist faction leaders have repeatedly signaled their intention to accept the decisions as the "law of the land."... (more)  January 31, 2017 USA TODAY — The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that, effective immediately, it will accept and register transgender youth into its organization. The move marks a reversal of a policy in place for a century and is effective for the Boy Scouts and the Cub Scouts. The organization vowed to recognize the gender a youngster lists on an application.... (more)  January 30, 2017 ROBERT KNIGHT — As any reporter can tell you, it's far more fun to cover zany people and events than those exuding decency and restraint. The news business, like much of the entertainment media, thrives on mayhem. In Disney's animated classic "Fantasia," the spectacular deviltry of "A Night on Bald Mountain" is followed by a peaceful march of candle-bearing believers after the morning sun dispatches the satanic hordes.... (more)  January 30, 2017 WASHINGTON TIMES — Despite confusion at airports and a judicial spanking, the White House said Sunday that President Trump's "extreme vetting" executive order remains in effect and is working as the administration had hoped, halting almost all travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries with histories of terrorism.... (more)  January 30, 2017 NEWSMAX — A veteran defense secretary from President Barack Obama's administration, Robert Gates, defended President Donald Trump's Week 1 use of executive orders, including Friday's hard-liners on immigration, warning the media Sunday in being too judgmental too soon.... (more)  January 30, 2017 WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump on Sunday disputed the characterizations that his so-called "extreme vetting" executive order is a "Muslim ban." "To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting," Trump said in a statement released by the White House. "This is not about religion  January 30, 2017 WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton defended President Trump on Sunday over his executive order barring travel from seven countries featuring Muslim-majority populations, specifically against Democratic claims that the order is a "religious test."... (more)  January 30, 2017 DESERET NEWS — Amid the controversy swirling around President Trump's executive order banning refugees from seven Muslim countries, the LDS Church issued a statement late Saturday night urging solutions that relieve refugee suffering.... (more)  January 30, 2017 BYRON YORK — There's one fundamental difference between the new White House and the old when it comes to immigration: Barack Obama ordered his administration not to enforce a number of immigration laws. Donald Trump has ordered his administration to enforce them.... (more)  January 30, 2017 GARTH KANT — It's a simple question: You supported the border wall in 2006, so why not now? Six key Democrats have entirely flip-flopped on the issue and the mainstream media have not bothered to ask them why. WND asked each of them and did not receive a single response.... (more)  January 30, 2017 TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — On the way to the March for Life this morning, I ran into Rick Santorum, the pro-life former senator and presidential candidate. Here are highlights from our conversation: How do you think the Trump administration is doing on the pro-life issue?... (more)  January 30, 2017 JOSEPH FARAH — Donald Trump is wasting no time changing the direction of the federal government 180 degrees. It's a good thing he's not wasting time, because we may not have much. Barack Obama and the last four Congresses left the U.S. government with a staggering, mind-boggling, unimaginable black hole of red ink.... (more)  January 29, 2017 TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — What does this executive order do? The Executive Order has four main policies 1) Places a 90 day moratorium on entry to the U.S. from the seven countries named in a 2015 law aimed at requiring stricter vetting for people entering from Iran or countries overrun by jihadist violence.... (more)  January 29, 2017 DAVID FRENCH — To read the online commentary, one would think that President Trump just fundamentally corrupted the American character. You would think that the executive order on refugees he signed yesterday betrayed America's Founding ideals. You might even think he banned people from an entire faith from American shores.... (more)  January 29, 2017 ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for heightened vetting of certain foreign nationals seeking entry into the United States. The order temporarily suspends entry by the nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. It is to last for 90 days, while heightened vetting procedures are developed.... (more)  January 29, 2017 WESLEY PRUDEN — Immigration, both the legal and the illegal kind, is destined to be a contentious issue in America forever. That's the price of living in the place where everybody wants to be.... (more)  January 29, 2017 PAUL BEDARD — President Trump's decision to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and stop the free flow of refugees until they can be vetted better is reviving the morale of customs and border agents, according to the union representing both.... (more)  January 29, 2017 LIFE SITE NEWS — The entire 2017 March for Life can be seen in a time-lapse video taken from the vantage point of a high roof top. The video shows the march from beginning to end.... (more)  January 29, 2017 LIFE NEWS — U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on Wednesday in Congress amid strong hopes that the bill will pass this time around. Last year, the U.S. House passed the bill, but it did not move forward in the Senate. With Republican majorities now in both houses, the life-protecting measure appears much more likely to pass.... (more)  January 29, 2017 WASHINGTON TIMES — NBC's Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing "sexist."... (more)  January 27, 2017 CBN NEWS — In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, President Donald Trump says persecuted Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States. "We are going to help them," President Trump tells CBN News.... (more)  January 27, 2017 NEWSMAX — Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd gathered Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life rally that ending taxpayer-funded abortion and choosing a Supreme Court justice who will uphold "God-given" liberties are among top priorities of the Trump administration... (more)  January 27, 2017 WASHINGTON TIMES — Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud. Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen voting, and this week he posted a blog in response to Mr. Trump's assertion.... (more)  January 27, 2017 CLIFF KINCAID — DeForest Rathbone, chairman of the National Institute of Citizen Anti-drug Policy (NICAP), says one of the most notorious examples of "fake news" in the media is the notion that marijuana is medicine. He is so alarmed by the misinformation being spread by the media about marijuana and other aspects of the growing drug problem that he sponsored a full-page advertisement in Monday's Washington Times, urging President Donald Trump to personally follow through on his promise to address "the growing national public health crisis of soaring drug addiction and overdose deaths."... (more)  January 26, 2017 NEWSMAX — The Trump administration is preparing executive orders to drastically reduce the U.S. role in the United Nations and other international organizations, The New York Times reported Wednesday.... (more) |
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