Tuesday, October 6, 2015

RENEW AMERICA 10/05/2015




October 6, 2015
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — How can things go right in Washington? Lately, there has been little reason for conservatives to think they can. And we're not about to raise hopes, only to be disappointed... (more)


October 5, 2015
House members should 'to look beyond their own ambitions'
ALAN KEYES — In a column published last week, I suggested that members of the U.S. House of Representatives would do well to look beyond themselves for a new speaker to replace John Boehner... (more)


October 5, 2015
CLIFF KINCAID — The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin has blindsided Barack Obama in the Middle East, catching the U.S. off-guard. It's another Obama "failure," we're told. "Obama administration scrambles as Russia attempts to seize initiative in Syria" is how a Washington Post headline described it. A popular cartoon shows Putin kicking sand in the faces of Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry on a beach.... (more)


October 4, 2015
BLOOMBERG — Representative Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Sunday he'll challenge the current majority leader when the House of Representatives holds leadership elections to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner.... (more)


October 4, 2015
PBS — House Republican turmoil is boiling over as leadership elections approach, with dissatisfied lawmakers casting about for new choices and a surprise longshot challenger emerging in the speaker's race.... (more)


October 4, 2015
POLITICO — Illegal immigrants--along with other noncitizens without the right to vote--may pick the 2016 presidential winner. Thanks to the unique math undergirding the Electoral College, the mere presence of 11-12 million illegal immigrants and other noncitizens here legally may enable them to swing the election from Republicans to Democrats... (more)


October 4, 2015
NEWSMAX — Secret Service agents over the years say being on Hillary Clinton's detail is the "worst duty assignment" they could receive, and "agents consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment," author Ronald Kessler writes in his book "First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents."... (more)


October 4, 2015
NEWSMAX — Talk show host Bill Maher and biologist Richard Dawkins teamed up on Maher's HBO show Friday night not only to discuss science and Dawkins' latest book, but to slam Islam and the "regressive leftists" who give the religion a "free pass."... (more)


October 4, 2015
NEWSMAX — The government's plan to bring Syrian refugees could result in "one of the greatest military coups of all time," GOP front-runner Donald Trump said Saturday, claiming that ISIS fighters could be among the refugees and the migration would be like a "Trojan horse."... (more)


October 4, 2015
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — It's ba-aack. The Vacuum, that is. That's the Beltway fairy tale about how Syria was teeming with secular-democratic Muslim moderates ready and willing not only to topple the barbarous Bashar al-Assad regime but simultaneously to rout al-Qaeda. They were not able to pull off these feats, we're told, without the massive help that President Obama refused to give them.... (more)


October 4, 2015
BOB UNRUH — The board of directors of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will hold a hearing next Wednesday in the case of a veteran medical expert who was dismissed for citing federal government statistics about the dangers of homosexual activity.... (more)


October 4, 2015
NEWSMAX — Law enforcement agencies in the South and Midwest are adding "In God We Trust" to their vehicles, drawing attacks from watchdog groups who argue that the move violates the separation of church and state.... (more)


October 3, 2015
SUSAN FERRECHIO — With just days before House Republicans vote on a new speaker, the outcome remained in significant doubt Friday as lawmakers questioned whether Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has the skills to articulate the GOP message.... (more)


October 3, 2015
NEWSMAX — The United States reportedly denied asylum to dozens of Iraqi Christians who escaped Islamic State (ISIS) militants -- even though they had family sponsors.... (more)


October 3, 2015
NEWSMAX — The disappointing jobs report for September released Friday diminishes but doesn't entirely eliminate the chance of a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase at its Dec. 15-16 policy meeting, economists said. While the data all but rule out a move this month, a December rate hike remains a live, albeit less-likely, option, they said.... (more)


October 3, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — This could jolt the chatty Sunday talk show realm: The investigators have arrived. "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson" debuts this weekend, focusing on investigative journalism and authentic accountability rather than sound bites and talking points, its creators say.... (more)


October 3, 2015
NATIONAL REVIEW — The story coming from Umpqua Community College is by now a familiar one: the socially and romantically frustrated young man, almost certainly mentally disturbed; the channeling of that mental perturbation into various political and ideological enthusiasms, in this case ranging from admiration for Irish Republican Army terrorists to what turned out to be a homicidal antipathy toward Christians; the disorganized family; people familiar with the young man and his family being not entirely surprised by the rampage.... (more)


October 2, 2015
THE FISCAL TIMES — Well, that didn't take long. Marking what is surely the shortest honeymoon period on record for a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives -- actually numbering in a negative amount of time, if that's even possible -- there is already a movement afoot among conservatives to "fire" current Speaker John Boehner's presumptive replacement, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.... (more)


October 2, 2015
JOSEPH FARAH — There are many good Republicans worthy of being House speaker. There are fewer in the House itself. But why should House Republicans limit themselves to current members of the House? There's absolutely no reason to do it -- constitutionally.... (more)


October 2, 2015
NEWSMAX — Two men charged with murdering a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a late-night gunbattle near the U.S.-Mexican border in 2010 were found guilty on all counts on Thursday by a federal jury in Arizona.... (more)


October 2, 2015
NEWSMAX — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday for 45 seconds to protest what he called the "utter silence" from most of the world on the Iran's threats to the destruction of his nation.... (more)


October 2, 2015
GARTH KANT — What is Russian President Vladimir Putin really up to in Syria? Just the opposite of what he is telling the world, according to two of the top foreign-policy experts in Washington. Putin recently declared Russia has taken the lead in the fight against the terrorist army ISIS in Syria.... (more)


October 2, 2015
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL REVIEW — Harold Warren Lewis, a respected physicist who had previously advised both the U.S. Government and the Pentagon on various matters including missile defence and nuclear winter, shocked his peers when he disseminated his letter of resignation from the American Physical Society.... (more)


October 2, 2015
MICHELLE MALKIN — 'I'd say a lot of people want liver." The propagandists of Planned Parenthood don't want you to remember that earlier this summer the group apologized for the "tone" of one of its top officials, Deborah Nucatola, who casually hawked unborn baby parts to undercover journalists from the Center for Medical Progress as she swilled wine and chomped on a salad.... (more)


October 2, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Pope Francis' covert meeting last week with a Kentucky clerk who refuses to issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples has left cable news pundits, reporters and columnists very disappointed.... (more)

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