Thursday, December 24, 2015

RENEW AMERICA 12/24/2015 CLOSING GITMO WILL EMPOWER ISIS!


December 24, 2015
CAL THOMAS — Since nearly everyone else seems to be employing "Star Wars" metaphors these days, permit me to use some of my own. To conservatives, the Republican congressional majority was supposed to be the good side of "The Force," as opposed to what they regard as the Democratic "dark side." And yet, unlike the film, "dark side" Democrats have triumphed again in the latest budget battle, which was no battle at all... (more)


December 24, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Talk radio megastar Mark Levin signed off for the year with a double-barreled blast at the Wall Street Journal for suggesting that conservative infighting will make Hillary Clinton the next president... (more)


December 24, 2015
NEWSMAX — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tells Newsmax TV that he would not be violating his Christian faith if, as president, he follows up on his promise to "carpet bomb" Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists. "Let's be clear, the Bible says, 'Thou shalt not murder,' which is different from 'Thou shalt not kill,'" Cruz told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner in an interviewed aired Wednesday... (more)


December 24, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is unhappy that the Washington Post published a cartoon this week that portrayed his daughters as monkeys, and he continued his criticism Wednesday by referring to the newspaper as a "lapdog" of the Democratic Party... (more)


December 24, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — More than half the country's state attorneys general urged federal judges Wednesday to halt the Clean Power Plan, the climate rules at the center of President Obama's climate change agenda. Twenty-seven states, led by West Virginia and Texas, renewed their push to stay the far-reaching emission rules, which they argue will raise energy costs and harm families if allowed to move forward... (more)


December 24, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The House is planning to send an Obamacare repeal bill to President Obama's desk soon after returning to Capitol Hill next year, forcing the president to approve major cuts to his signature law or veto the legislation... (more)


December 24, 2015
NEWSMAX — The Joint Chiefs of Staff has indirectly supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a bid to help him defeat jihadist groups, a bombshell report by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims... (more)


December 23, 2015
NEWSMAX — The United Kingdom declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after an 18-month study ordered by British Prime Minister David Cameron -- and the Obama administration slammed the document as flying in the face of the Brotherhood's history as a "nonviolent Islamist group."... (more)


December 23, 2015
BREITBART — Beltway-insider publications Politico and The Hill are hiding House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) disastrous report card, even days after the Dec. 18 passage of his $1.1-plus trillion 2016 spending-and-tax plan... (more)


December 23, 2015
NEWSMAX — Franklin Graham has resigned from the Republican Party and become an independent, declaring that "I have no hope in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or tea party to do what is best for America... (more)


December 23, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — An inspector general has agreed to probe how the government doles out money to study fetal tissue, Sen. Rand Paul announced Tuesday, in an investigation he said could pry into Planned Parenthood's sale of parts of aborted fetuses for research purposes... (more)


December 23, 2015
WALTER WILLIAMS — American immorality and contempt for liberty lie at the root of most of the political economic problems our nation faces. They explain the fiscal problems we face, such as growing national debt and budget deficits at the federal, state and local levels of government... (more)


December 23, 2015
NATIONAL REVIEW — Newly installed Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, has issued an executive order removing county clerks' names from marriage licenses. Readers will remember that this was the main issue that gave rise to the national controversy involving Kim Davis, who believed that signing her name to a same-sex marriage license violated her religious liberty... (more)


December 23, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — A group representing federal prosecutors said Tuesday that President Obama violated his own rules last week when he granted clemency to 91 convicted drug dealers who were released from prison early... (more)


December 23, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon Tuesday night that portrayed the daughters of Ted Cruz -- ages 7 and 4 -- as monkeys. The cartoon by Ann Telnaes showed the two girls as dancing like small simians before Mr. Cruz, who is Hispanic, dressed as an organ-grinder... (more)


December 23, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Ted Cruz continued his vendetta against the political media Tuesday, this time invoking two famous Muppets to make his point. According to NBC News' Hallie Jackson, Cruz compared political pundits to Statler and Waldorf, the two felt curmudgeons known for mercilessly bashing whatever they happen to be watching, before a rally in Knoxville, Tenn.... (more)


December 23, 2015
NEWSMAX — Conservative talk radio has been riding the Donald Trump train for some time now, but with the Iowa caucuses just one month away, Politico reports that rather than continue to talk about what gives their shows the most ratings, the hosts are showing their commitment to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz... (more)


December 22, 2015
RUDY TAKALA — The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission is slamming her colleagues on the way out, calling them "dysfunctional" and unable to compromise. "My year as chair has taught me even more clearly just how dysfunctional the commission is, and how our dysfunction is harming the democratic process in this country"... (more)


December 22, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday that the 2016 GOP nomination contest is likely to come down to a one-on-one battle between himself and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas... (more)


December 22, 2015
NEWSMAX — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz evoked Scripture Monday when he told Newsmax TV why he is the most conservative Republican running for president. "You know, Scripture tells us you shall know them by their fruits," Cruz said Monday on "The Hard Line." "It's easy to talk a good game, but the question is have you walked the walk?"... (more)


December 22, 2015
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — When Paul Ryan ran for speaker of the House of Representatives, he said Republicans "need to move from being an opposition party to being a proposition party." After a record-breaking eight years as the top Republican on the House Budget Committee followed by a stint on Ways & Means, Ryan seemed well prepared to lead a newly energized House Republican majority toward reclaiming the power of the purse the framers of our Constitution vested in them... (more)


December 22, 2015
STEVE EMERSON AND PETE HOEKSTRA — Since its founding in 1994, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been nothing more than a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. Recently, CAIR once again tried to hide this truth by casting a new lie about its radical Islamist history, saying that its relationship with the Hamas terror network was "put to rest by the Department of Justice in 2011 and now exists as an Internet story."... (more)


December 21, 2015
JOSEPH FARAH — Barack Obama is concerned that you, dear Americans, might "turn on Islam." Imagine that. Muslim terrorists have been killing Americans with regularity going back to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, continuing through 9/11, the Boston Massacre, Fort Hood, the Beltway Sniper, San Bernardino and many other attacks in between... (more)


December 21, 2015
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — There are 107 jihadists remaining at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama sees that as a huge problem and, for once, I agree with him. But there the agreement ends. The president is hell bent on shuttering the detention camp. I think the problem is that there are only 107 detainees... (more)


December 21, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration is blocking The Washington Times from obtaining detailed information about Syria's extensive chemical weapons arsenal, which was used to kill thousands of innocents and changed the course of the country's savage 4-year-old civil war... (more)

 

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