By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 21, 2018 Banning them would gut the concept of an armed citizenry as a final, emergency bulwark against tyranny. Arguments about guns tend to suffer from two distinct problems. The first — and most obvious — is they quickly get screechy. The arguments devolve into shouting matches and temper tantrums. The goal...

By: Michael D. Shear – nytimes.com – February 20, 2018 The president asked the Justice Department to propose regulations that would ban “bump stocks,” which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon. President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice...

By: John Kass – startribune.com – February 17, 2017 Whatever happened to liberal Democrats, with their concerns about civil liberties and government surveillance of American citizens? Liberals once hated the CIA. And they loved the Russians. You can look it up. Their liberal friends in Hollywood made movie after movie about the dangers of The Deep State and its awesome...

By: John Fund – Nationalreview.com – February 18, 2018 In the wake of the Florida school shooting, can we now have a real conversation about what is wrong with the FBI? Howard Finkelstein, the Broward County public defender whose office is representing Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., puts it bluntly: This kid exhibited every...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 15, 2018 Trump will never get a victory if he won’t “take the heat.” President Trump may need a refresher course in deal-making after the Senate on Thursday rejected his take-it-or-leave-it offer on immigration. He could start by recalling who’s President, and stop giving adviser Stephen Miller a policy veto. The Senate considered four...

By: Arthur Schaper – townhill.com – February 11, 2018 My Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) hosted another error-ridden town hall in Hermosa Beach last week. On immigration, he claimed to support two parts of President Trump’s proposed(?) plan: granting legal status to 1.8 million young illegals; and enhancing border security (although Lieu called the border wall “stupid”). He differed on ending...

By Todd Beamon – newsmax.com – February 7, 2018 Two members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus slammed the two-year budget plan reached Wednesday by the Senate, with Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks declaring, “I’m not only a no, I’m a hell no.” “It is a debt-junkie’s wildest dream — with all the spending of money that we don’t have,...

By: Louis Nelson – politico.com – February 6, 2018 President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for a government shutdown if Congress does not pass what he considers adequate border-security measures. “If we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill … if we don’t change it, let’s have a...

By: Louis Nelson – politico.com – February 6, 2018 President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for a government shutdown if Congress does not pass what he considers adequate border-security measures. “If we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill … if we don’t change it, let’s have a...

By: Lisa Rozner – newyork.cbslocal.com – February 5, 2018 Some parents say being politically correct has gone too far. As for the disappointed girls at PS 65, they say they’ve been getting ready for the dance for months. Officials opted to postpone the father-daughter dance at a school in Staten Island because it excludes other genders, claiming city policies forced them...