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)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Vice President Mike Pence called on the United Nations to end its "forum for anti-Semitism" against Israel and to boot repressive countries off the U.N. Human Rights Council. In a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Mr. Pence noted that former President John F. Kennedy had warned the world body 50 years ago not to become a "forum for invective."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley are squaring off over the Iranian nuclear deal, with the secretary of state pushing President Donald Trump to remain in the accord while the U.N. ambassador fights for the president's agenda, The Washington Free Beacon reported.... (more)

RARE — A professor at a John Jay college in Manhattan has been placed on administrative leave after he tweeted that he's glad to teach "future dead cops." Economics professor Michael Isaacson, 29, caught his moment in the spot light last week when he appeared on Fox News to discuss his remarks and his status as an Antifa activist. The tweet, which read in full, "Some of y'all might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College, but I think it's a privilege to teach future dead cops," was roundly condemned. On Friday, the school announced that Isaacson is being placed on leave, the New York Daily News reports.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Freedom of expression is in jeopardy at U.S. colleges and universities, according to a survey of students conducted by John Villasenor at Brookings. Villasenor noted that the survey was vital because students are "de facto arbiters of free expression on campus ... if a significant percentage of students believe that views they find offensive should be silenced, those views will in fact be silenced."... (more)

LEO HOHMANN — The St. Louis Young Democrats are working hand-in-hand with Black Lives Matter to organize protests in the city, now entering their sixth night, and the mayor says she is "listening." The Young Democrats tweeted Wednesday at about 12:20 p.m. that the next "protest" in response to the not-guilty verdict in the Jason Stockley trial was planned for Wednesday evening, instructing rioters where to show up and at what time, hashtagging #Black Lives Matter on the tweet.... (more)

WIONEWS.COM — Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico on Wednesday and left the entire island without power as 150 mile-an-hour winds whipped the capital and sent thousands scurrying to shelters.After killing at least nine people in the Caribbean, Maria slammed into Puerto Rico's southeast coast at daybreak before churning across the US territory which is home to 3.4 million people... (more)

NEWSMAX — Samantha Power, a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Barack Obama, put in more than 260 unmasking requests regarding intelligence reports last year -- and submitted others just days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A Utah cop has expressed remorse after he handcuffed a hospital nurse who refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient, according to the officer's lawyer. And the cop, who was suspended after the incident, says he would do things differently if presented with the same situation.... (more)

MCCLATCHY DC — A federal appeals court will hear a case brought by Judicial Watch on Friday to make public draft indictments of Hillary Clinton from the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s. Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that files Freedom of Information Act requests, wants copies of the documents that the National Archives and Records Administration has declined to release. It filed a FOIA request for the documents in March 2015 and in October 2015 the group sued for the 238 pages of responsive records.... (more)