Politics

By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews - A day after the Trump administration co-hosted a meeting to discuss ways of keeping rights abusers off the U.N.’s top human rights body, Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday underlined its scathing assessment of the Human Rights Council, saying that it “doesn’t deserve its name.”

By George Neumayr, American Spectator - Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir rests on an astonishingly audacious lie: that the very FBI director who made her campaign possible by improperly sparing her from an indictment doomed it. A normal pol who had mishandled classified information as egregiously as Hillary would have felt eternal gratitude to Comey.

By John Zmirak is a Senior Editor of The Stream - President Trump’s speech Tuesday at the United Nations was a mixed bag. It contained many solid, useful observations that bear the mark of sober, prudent thinking. It also contained some time bombs we need to defuse before they explode. But before we pick up the packages that are ticking, let’s start with what’s useful and good.

By Marshall Connolly, CALIFORNIA NETWORK - President Trump has addressed the UN, using the opportunity to put North Korea and Iran on notice, and to emphasize that he will advocate in the American interest before all others. He also called for democracy in Venezuela while criticizing socialism and communism. The President also made clear that trade deals will have to benefit the American people, not just powerful corporations and other nations.