POLITICO — The White House and senior Republicans are deeply worried about Sen. Luther Strange's chances in Tuesday's GOP runoff here – even after unleashing the full weight of the party machinery to stop his opponent, flame-throwing conservative Roy Moore.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Roy Moore's supporters rallied on Saturday amid bluegrass music, pulled pork and "Make America Great Again" hats, lamenting what they view as the wrong turn their beloved President Trump took with his endorsement of Sen. Luther Strange.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with his 2016 opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A federal judge in Minnesota with a long history of Democratic Party activism has issued a ruling that effectively concludes the LGBT agenda trumps the First Amendment's religious-rights protections. John Tunheim, appointed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1995, ordered Wednesday that Christian videographers Carl and Angel Larsen, through their company, Telescope Media Group, must use their filmmaking talents to promote same-sex marriages if they produce films that celebrate marriage as the union of one man and one woman.... (more)

FORTUNE — Hillary Clinton spoke about her thoughts on what she viewed as sexist comments by President Donald Trump and women who continued to support him. "When I see women doing that, I think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves? Why are they opening the door to have someone say that about them in their workplace? In a community setting? Do they not see the connection there?" Clinton said in an interview on AM Joy.... (more)

BREITBART — President Donald Trump admitted to Alabama voters Friday that he might have made a mistake by endorsing appointed Alabama Sen. Luther Strange in the Republican primary. "We have to be loyal in life," Trump said. "There is something called loyalty, and I might have made a mistake and I'll be honest, I might have made a mistake."... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Robert Mueller's sprawling special-counsel investigation is playing hardball. It was not enough to get a search warrant to ransack the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, even as the former Trump campaign chairman was cooperating with congressional investigators. Mueller's bad-asses persuaded a judge to give them permission to pick the door lock.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Elizabeth Warren was forced to defend her wealth despite her frequent attacks on the rich after she was confronted by a Boston radio host earlier this week. Ms. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who frequently attacks big banks and Wall Street, ran into WRKO radio host Jeff Kuhner at the studio Monday and was asked how she can justify "railing" against a class of Americans to which she belongs.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Mormon church-owned Brigham Young University ended a six-decade ban Thursday on the sale of caffeinated soft drinks on campus, surprising students by posting a picture of a can of Coca-Cola on Twitter and just two words: "It's happening."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson praised Judge Roy Moore, a Senate candidate in Alabama, hours ahead of President Trump's visit to Alabama to stump for Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala. In a statement, Carson called Moore a "fine man of proven character and integrity," and someone who "reflects the Judeo-Christian values" needed to "make America great again" -- Trump's 2016 campaign motto. He also said he was "delighted" that Moore was running.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It is not possible for Congress to pass a comprehensive bipartisan solution to healthcare reform. That much is incontrovertible. But in a statement announcing his opposition to the Graham-Cassidy legislation -- one that signaled it was as good as dead -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., argued bipartisanship was a necessary component to such efforts, so as not to "leave the American people guessing from one election to the next whether and how they will acquire health insurance."... (more)

BYRON YORK — A third deadline has now passed for the FBI and Justice Department to give the House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed documents related to the Trump dossier. And for a third time, the bureau has not produced the material.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A Twitter comment from the Associated Press, the international wire service begun in the 1800s to enable newspapers to share stories with each other, blasting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for using a private jet for her travels has bounced back. It seems the AP's criticism -- "Education Secretary DeVos uses a private jet to fly around the country to tour schools and attend other work events" -- failed to mention that the jet in question is owned by DeVos.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — President Trump in his U.N. speech failed to mention that Russia and China are responsible for North Korea's nuclear weapons program. What's worse, Trump actually thanked Russia and China for helping to somehow restrain North Korea through the ineffective United Nations.... (more)

ALICIA POWE — The Republican Party has swept all of the special elections to replace members of Congress tapped by President Trump for posts in his administration. But there's another one coming up: next week's GOP runoff in Alabama between seated temporary Sen. Luther Strange, the state's former attorney general, and Judge Roy Moore, the state's former Supreme Court chief justice.... (more)

BREITBART — Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King announced his endorsement of Judge Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate. "Judge Roy Moore has shown time and time again that he will stand strong against the prevailing winds to champion causes that are important to conservatives," King said Thursday about the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice.... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — We've heard the words and music of this song before. The hoariest cliche in American politics, presented as accomplished fact by every wise head in academe and media after every wipe-out election, is that the losing party is finished. Kaput. Destroyed. Done for. Dead, as in the graveyard.... (more)

PHILIP KLEIN — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Tuesday said that President Trump must first decertify the Iran deal before Congress makes any changes to the legislation governing the agreement.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — It was only a few months ago that James Clapper, President Obama's director of national intelligence, issued a flat denial when asked if he knew of a FISA court order to wiretap the Trump campaign in 2016.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson says media outlets are "diving deeply into minutiae" to avoid a stark development: President Trump's previously ridiculed "wiretapping" claims appear to be true. Ms. Attkisson has warned of the weaponization of intelligence agencies since her laptop for CBS News stories was hacked on multiple occasions in 2013. An op-ed she wrote for The Hill on Wednesday presented an extensive case that U.S. intelligence agencies under former President Barack Obama were manipulated for political purposes -- and that pundits are willfully ignoring it.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sparring with celebrities and Al Gore over global warming may not be what Roy Spencer had in mind when he earned his Ph.D., but it's certainly become a bustling sideline for the University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologist. A month after rebutting Mr. Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Sequel," Mr. Spencer has published another short e-book, this one challenging statements by Jennifer Lawrence, Bill Nye, Stevie Wonder and others linking global warming to this year's active hurricane season.... (more)

CAL THOMAS — While campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump more than once referred to the United Nations as a "useless" organization and "not a friend of democracy." In his speech Tuesday to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, he apparently has discovered the often dysfunctional body can be useful, if it adopts the reforms he is proposing and accepts an agenda that includes uniting to stop North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons and missiles to strike at U.S and other targets.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Evangelist Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for President Donald Trump, applauding him for his speech before the United Nations General Assembly.... (more)

ART MOORE — President Trump's tough talk regarding the North Korean nuclear threat in his U.N. speech -- including referring to dictator Kim Jong Un as "rocket man" and threatening to "totally destroy" the communist nation -- has rattled Trump's critics in establishment media and the Democratic Party, but some in the international community appreciated his "blunt, honest approach," according to U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.... (more)

CHERYL CHUMLEY — MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, normally no fan of Donald Trump's -- to put it mildly -- nonetheless came out in defense of the president's speech before the United Nations. In short, Scarborough actually liked it.... (more)