The Clean Air Act gives him one more big tool to control states’ energy sectors. Will he use it?
Written by Brian Potts
Over the past six months, President Barack Obama has cemented his climate legacy with the release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and the execution of the Paris climate agreement. But, as even he admits, neither of those policies will be enough to avert the worst effects of climate change. In fact, the laws on the books today aren’t even enough for the United States to meet its Paris obligations.… Continue Reading
Written by Jack Cashill
The more naïve members of the Hillary Clinton campaign have long dreaded the release of Michael Bay‘s factual account of the Benghazi attack, 13 Hours. The more sophisticated members of that campaign were less worried. They were confident their friends in the media would scare off all but the most deluded “tea-baggers.”
Yes, the media will try. They are trying. I am not sure, however, that they will succeed. In the age of social media, word of mouth is much more significant a force than it ever was before. … Continue Reading
Tags: 13 Hours, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, Marc Savlov, Megyn Kelly, Michael Bay, Michael McGranahan, Monohla Dargis, New York values, Pat Smith, Sean Smith, Ted Cruz, Travis Hopson
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith | 
January 19, 2016 11:00 AM | 
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Written by Leonardo Blair
While GOP 2016 presidential front runner Donald Trump declared he doesn’t want the endorsement of rival Jeb Bush should he become the party’s eventual nominee, the brash billionaire on Thursday picked up the support of no less than Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.
A report in The New York Times citing Russia’s official Interfax newswire said Putin praised Trump Thursday after his year-ending conference in Moscow and called him “a very bright and talented man and the absolute leader of the presidential race.”
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Written by Jane Robbins
Several Republican presidential candidates had a great opportunity over the last two weeks to take the lead on an issue critical to millions of conservatives – federal control over public education. A couple helped their cause, a couple did not, and one blasted further down into the crater he’s been in from the beginning.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate followed the U.S. House in passing the conference report reauthorizing No Child Left Behind.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Common Core, Dick Durbin, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Mark Kirk, No Child Left Behind, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz
Education, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | December 11, 2015 10:32 AM | Comments Off on Republican Congress Thwarts American People, Passes Obama-Backed Education Bill
Written by Russ Stewart
The “Laquan McDonald Monster” has surfaced, and unlike the Loch Ness Monster, it is tangible, palpable and deadly. Those 16 bullets will be remembered by black voters in 2016, and a torrent of rage — and votes — will be directed in the March 15, 2016, Democratic primary against both Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and any non-black candidates closely associated with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police superintendent Garry McCarthy.
Over the past 50 years, there have been periodic “galvanizing” moments among local black voters, precipitating an electoral eruption and the defeat of candidates deemed hostile.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrea Zopp, Anita Alvarez, Barack Obama, Barb McGowan, Bernie Carey, Black Panthers, Christian Mitchell, Cook County, Donna More, Dorothy Brown, Ed Burke Jr., Ed Hanrahan, Election 2016, Garry McCarthy, Harold Washington, Hillary Clinton, Jane Byrne, Jason Van Dyke, Joe Berrios, Josina Morita, Karen Yarbrough, Ken Dunkin, Kim Foxx, Laquan McDonald, Mariyana Spyropoulos, Michelle Harris, Mike Madigan, Richard M. Daley, Roderick Sawyer, Todd Stroger, Tom Dart, Tom Greenhaw, Toni Preckwinkle
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | December 10, 2015 7:21 AM | Comments Off on LaQuan Backlash Will Devour Alvarez in 2016
Written by Ray Northstine
Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is the new GOP frontrunner in Iowa, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Cruz leads Trump 24 percent to 19 percent in Iowa, which holds its 2016 caucuses on February 1, 2016.
Monmouth noted that Cruz’s lead is the first time he has come out on top in any state polling for the 2016 election cycle.
However, A CNN/ORC poll released Monday, shows Trump still leading in Iowa with 33 percent support to Cruz’s 20 percent.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Monmouth University poll, Patrick Murray, Paul Ryan, Steve King, Ted Cruz
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | December 9, 2015 6:38 AM | Comments Off on Evangelicals Help Cruz Surge Ahead of Trump in Iowa Poll
Written by Jonah Goldberg
Dear Reader (Including those of you stunned by the news that Charlie Sheen has a sexually transmitted disease. Not since Jim J. Bullock announced he was gay have I been more shocked),
If you Google “Christian terrorism,” you’re probably a [Leftists] to begin with. But if you do — bidden not by your own drive to [liberalism] but by the natural curiosity inspired by this “news”letter — you’ll find lots of left-wing trollery about how the worst terrorist attacks on American soil have been committed by Christians.… Continue Reading
Written by Fred Lucas
President Barack Obama offered assurances this week that Syrian refugees coming into the United States would be thoroughly vetted to ensure they were not involved with terrorism — even though this year multiple terrorism charges were brought against immigrants and refugees across the country who had at one point made it through government vetting to become U.S. citizens, legal residents or attain refugee status.
“As president, my first priority is the safety of the American people and that’s why, even as we accept more refugees — including Syrians — we do so only after subjecting them to rigorous screening and security checks,” Obama said Monday in Turkey, wrapping up the G-20 meeting.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, Abror Habibov, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Akhror Saidakhmetov, Ali Shukri Amin, Asia Siddiqui, Barack Obama, Bilal Abood, Bob Goodlatte, Dilkhayot Kasimov, El Mehdi Semlali Fathi, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, Noelle Velentzas, Raees Qazi, Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, Sedina Unkic Hodzic, Sheheryar Qazi, Syrian Refugees
Federal Issues, Islam & Sharia | David E. Smith | November 21, 2015 7:59 AM | Comments Off on 10 Terrorism Cases Brought Against Refugees and Legal Immigrants Just This Year in the US
Written by Cliff Kincaid
Last May we published a column, “Why They Must Destroy Ben Carson.” It has been determined that a black Christian conservative, especially a political outsider with credentials as a life-saving physician, just cannot be allowed to succeed in politics. Carson must be destroyed.
His life as a poor boy with a temper is now coming in for serious media scrutiny. Who did he hit? And why?
In an attempt to defend this assault on the character of Benjamin Carson, that the media are fair and balanced because they “vetted” Barack Obama as a candidate by checking out reports that he once had a girlfriend, who “may have been a composite character.”… Continue Reading
Written by Jonathan Keiler
When President Barack Obama emphatically declared, in the wake of the recent Oregon shooting, that he intended to politicize his campaign to implement “common sense gun control” (which in his mind means Australian-like confiscation) my mind turned to a man most unlike Obama, the Greek philosopher Socrates. Socrates died because his fellow citizens politicized everything, and did not recognize individual liberties. So when Obama calls on Americans to politicize “gun control” he is deliberately and mischievously using the language of democracy to promote tyranny, just as Athenian “democrats” tyrannized their nation two millennia ago.… Continue Reading
