By: Kurt Wagner – recode.net – April 11, 2018 Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook’s data collection and privacy policies this week from almost 100 different politicians in nearly 10 hours of public testimony. The hearings had it all. One lawmaker literally held up the U.S. Constitution at Zuckerberg and recited the First Amendment. Another asked him about his college...

By: John Zmirak – stream.org – April 12, 2018 President Trump is considering military action against the nation of Syria. Would that be justified? Would the servicemen who took part in it be acting as the legitimate sword of the state, as St. Paul wrote? Or would they be doing something deeply unjust, acting as St. Augustine described the Roman...

By: the Editors – nationalreview.com – April 11, 2018 Bashar al-Assad’s gas attack on the anniversary of President Trump’s missile strike against his regime was an invitation to get hit again, and the president is indeed promising another strike. We weren’t enthusiastic over the first one. Assad is, as Trump is now wont to say, an animal. He has destroyed...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – April 11, 2018 I noted during the frustrations of the John Boehner years that the easiest thing in the world to do in a legislature is complain about your leaders negotiations and insist that if you had been in charge, you would have gotten a better deal. Passing big, consequential pieces of legislation is...

By: Jonah Goldberg – nationalreview.com – April 10, 2018 This is one of the rare moments in the Trump Wars where everybody is right. The raid on Michael Cohen’s office is a big deal. For much — but not all — of the MAGA crowd, this is the last straw, a rogue prosecutor violating the cherished rights of a citizen,...

By: Gary Bauer – mailchi.mp – April 9, 2018 To: Friends & Supporters From: Gary Bauer BREAKING NEWS FBI agents have raided the New York office of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Stephen Ryan, an attorney for Cohen, called the raid “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.” Cohen was not representing President Trump in the Mueller investigation, so at this point...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – April 05, 2018 Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a great day yesterday, making an embarrassing, ‘Anchorman’-style mistake on social media, then handing Republicans another ready-made attack line against Democrats heading into the fall.  On the Twitter faux pas, it looks like she or somebody on her staff was supposed to tag a tweet with names...

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – April 4, 2018 Once upon a time, we cared about the welfare of our fellow Americans. Farmers in the Midwest devastated by tornadoes, trailer parks washed away in a Florida hurricane, our country’s ranking on various international comparisons — we all rooted for our fellow Americans. Like all countries, we would squabble, but we...

The media’s biggest target after Trump is Scott Pruitt, the president’s most effective cabinet secretary. Ousting him would be a huge victory. By: Mollie Ziegler Hemingway – TheFederalist.com – April 4, 2018 After Donald Trump, the individual in DC with the biggest target on his back is Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. When he was attorney general of Oklahoma,...

By: Michael Stumo & Dan DiMicco — thehill.com – March 29, 2018 President Trump’s renegotiated Korea trade deal shows that the era of America’s unilateral trade disarmament is over. During the last 30 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers. The idea was to encourage other countries to...