WORLDNETDAILY — In their condemnation of the Senate's health-insurance bill, Democrats are seizing on the Congressional Budget Office's conclusion that 22 million Americans would lose their health insurance if the legislation passed in its current form.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Republicans are making "steady progress" on healthcare, noting Tuesday the end goal is to lower the cost of premiums. "It's gonna take more discussions," Cruz said. "The most critical question is how do we lower premiums? That's been my central focus from the beginning."... (more)

PROJECT VERITAS — Project Veritas has released a video of CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN's Russia narrative.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Whether it indicates Republicans are giving in, giving up or just concealing their opinions for fear of being sued, a new poll shows that for the first time, Republicans now are evenly divided on the issue of same-sex marriage.... (more)

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz wants extra housing cash for lawmakers -- in the form of a $2,500 monthly stipend. Thank goodness Chaffetz is already leaving office. Saves the trouble of drumming him out of D.C. His request represents everything that's wrong with Congress, with politicians in general and with the flip-flop that's taken place in U.S. politics in recent years that's relegated the taxpayers to the role of public servant.... (more)

DALLAS NEWS — Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true. An eight-paragraph Washington Post article on page 10A reported on a national study about kids and guns. The last sentence said 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The GOP representative from Montana who assaulted a reporter raised $116,000 the day after the incident, The Guardian reported. Greg Gianforte in May body slammed a reporter from the Guardian and broke his glasses. He was charged with assault on election eve but still won the special election.... (more)

ST. GEORGE NEWS — An FBI agent has been indicted on accusations that he lied about firing at rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum in 2016 when officers arrested leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.... (more)

NPR — Less than a day after a monument of the Ten Commandments was installed outside the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, it was destroyed when a man smashed a car into the stone.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A new report claims the Islamic State (ISIS) served a mother the remains of her 1-year-old son without her knowledge. The New York Post cites a Middle East Media Research Institute translation as saying the woman was a Yazidi sex slave.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Someone recently asked me what I thought of the effort by a black American senior at James Madison Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin, who is circulating a petition to change the name of the school, "citing the past president's history as a slaveholder." I responded that, however ironically, her effort may provide evidence that she's doing the right thing, but for the wrong reason: "Any high school that produces seniors with so little understanding of their own and their nation's history doesn't deserve to be named after James Madison."... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The latest propaganda piece from The Washington Post, "Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault," is based, as usual, mostly on anonymous sources determined to make former President Barack Obama look good. The gist is that Obama tried his best to punish Russia for alleged interference in the 2016 election, but he fell short and left the matter in the hands of President Donald Trump, who has done nothing.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia investigation -- that Schumer said the president was under investigation after he, Schumer, had been specifically told by the FBI that Trump was not -- is shedding new light on the events that led to the president's rising frustration over the Russia probe, the FBI, and Democrats who sought to make political hay out of Trump's troubles.... (more)

ALICIA POWE — Lawyers and plaintiffs suing the Democratic National Committee for rigging the 2016 presidential election say they're being harassed with threatening messages and "freaky" encounters and they fear for their safety -- particularly in the wake of the mysterious and unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich -- but a federal court has denied their request for protection.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Progressives expecting a comforting anti-Trump presence Saturday morning on MSNBC were spewing their corn flakes after finding instead conservative Hugh Hewitt in his debut as host of a weekly show on the liberal network.... (more)

CHERYL CHUMLEY — The Georgia election of Republican Karen Handel over Democrat Jon Ossoff has brought out the gnashing of teeth, the weeping and wailing and collective flailing of the far left -- the puzzled expressions and anguished faces that simply scream the torturous question: What went wrong?... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — That's the dilemma of the Democrats, forlorn, despondent and walking in circles like the goose hit on the head with a long-handled wooden spoon. They're asking questions for which there are no happy answers in the wake of their fourth straight loss in a round of special elections.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Leaders from the influential Koch political network expressed concern Saturday about the Senate Republican plan to reshape the nation's health system, saying as they met with donors at a Colorado resort that the measure isn't sufficiently conservative.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Steve Scalise, the Louisiana lawmaker shot last week at a U.S. congressional baseball team practice, is no longer in the intensive care unit of the hospital where he is being treated and remains in fair condition, the hospital said on Friday.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The "collusion" narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won't take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion's successor, the "obstruction" narrative, is a perversion.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — House intelligence committee sources say career officials at the National Security Council are slow-walking the delivery of subpoenaed records on former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice's handling of classified information and the "unmasking" of Trump campaign workers -- material from the Russian hacking probe that middle-level NSC managers claim was transferred to President Obama's library and could "remain closed to the public for five years."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — At first glance it looked as if a dozen pilgrims had a problem with Vice President Mike Pence's speech Friday at Focus on the Family, but the women wearing red cloaks and white bonnets had nothing to do with Thanksgiving. They were dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale," the Hulu series that premiered April 26 based on the 1985 feminist dystopian novel that has been embraced by the left, fueling a recent rash of costumed protests aimed at reviving the "war on women" message.... (more)

CHRISTIAN POST — Paul Williams, who led the conservative church planting organization Orchard Group for 20 years, has publicly come out as a transgender woman named Paula Stone Williams.... (more)

KTLA — Camille Geraldi runs a tight house in Ellijay, Georgia. The children all have special needs and Geraldi and her husband, Mike, have adopted all of them. In fact, in the last four decades, the couple has adopted 88 children, when all of them were infants.... (more)

PHILIP KLEIN — Senate Republicans owe their majority to their seven-year pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. But the draft legislation unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., reads less like an Obamacare repeal bill and more like an Obamacare rescue package.... (more)