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Donald Trump claimed some measure of political revenge against Ohio Gov. John Kasich for shunning his presidential campaign, after helping oust a key Kasich loyalist from atop the state Republican party. Trump threw his support behind Jane Timken, who on Friday narrowly defeated Ohio GOP Chairman Matt Borges. The president-elect even got personally involved, calling
Derek Hunter, Yes, fake news is a real problem. I’m not talking about the random garbage that shows up in your Facebook feed about aliens and giant conspiracies that send people into tinfoil rage spirals. I’m talking about what is presented as news by legitimate news outlets. Much of what you see presented as news
The election’s over – but Hillary Clinton’s emails are still coming to light. And they help illustrate why the FBI declared she was “extremely careless” with the information flowing across her secret server. A new batch of messages released by the State Department on Tuesday shows the former secretary of state and her team routinely shared
Jazz Shaw, HotAir.com One of the stranger food fights in the Twittersphere this week erupted over a story which indicated that California had legalized child prostitution. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve seen the Golden State pass all sorts of measures that left me picking my jaw up off the floor, but
A conservative professor decrying the corrosive effects of political correctness on the larger society wrote a recent Letter to the Editor in our local paper. In the letter, the professor compared young people to butter sticks who melt at the slightest rise in temperature. The professor’s brief letter suggested that parents are raising their kids
S. Noble, Rep. King told Martha Raddatz that when Chairman Nunez called the intelligence committee in, they refused to come and he finds that unacceptable. King is calling for an investigation of CIA Director John Brennan for the “hit job” on Donald Trump. The intelligence committee has incredible moxie ignoring Congress but they obviously have
President Obama said Thursday that the U.S. needs to “take action” in response to cyberattacks on Democratic officials during the recent presidential campaign, hours after his administration insisted — without offering proof — that President-elect Donald Trump “obviously knew” of the breaches, and suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally authorized them. Are we
S. Noble, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted the Russians didn’t hack the voting machines or, at least, there was no evidence of it. On Thursday, she told an audience at a Politico event that US Intelligence found “no evidence of technical interference” [by the Russians] in the voting machines. If you will remember, this entire conversation
Michael Brown, Is it dangerous for Christian leaders to mix politics and religion? Is that a confusion of their calling? Or is it important for Christian leaders to address all areas of life, including politics? I have had to address this question myself, since I might be preaching in a church service one day, teaching
I’m starting to see a pattern here. Donald Trump makes an aggressive move, breaking with the usual practice or protocol, and the media do their rain dance: Why, this is deeply troubling! Things simply aren’t done this way. People are getting nervous. How can you run a government like this? Then they round up people
The death of the dictator of Cuba took over our headlines for a few days and made some world leaders look pretty stupid. Canada’s leader Justin Trudeau reacted as if Fidel Castro was a saint to be mourned, not a thug whose death should be celebrated. Our own cool president was careful to not say
Peter Van Buren, President-elect Donald Trump discovered the Holy Grail of media relations: the ability with a 140-character tweet to ignore the Fourth Estate. This is brass-knuckled political power that at a minimum pushes the press another circulation drop closer to irrelevancy. The latest example is directed against a journalist who reported Trump’s tweet that