WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump on Tuesday asked why an FBI source who met with some members of his 2016 campaign was paid by the government, arguing the informant was "there to spy for political purposes."... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Exactly when is the "late Spring"? Of all the questions that have been asked about what we've called the "Origination Story" of the Trump-Russia investigation, that may be the most important one. It may be the one that tells us when the Obama administration first formed the Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative.... (more)

SHARYL ATTKISSON — It may be true that President Trump illegally conspired with Russia and was so good at covering it up he's managed to outwit our best intel and media minds who've searched for irrefutable evidence for two years. (We still await special counsel Robert Mueller's findings.)... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do with their children. Beltway education bureaucrats abhor families who choose to keep their kids out of public schools -- unless it's to grandstand over gun control.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump touted his decision to impose new restrictions on federally funded family planning clinics like Planned Parenthood -- and vowed to help elect pro-life Republicans at a dinner with activists Tuesday night.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Keeping a house too clean can increase a child's risk for developing the most common form of childhood cancer, according to a new study. Publishing in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, study researcher Mel Greaves, a professor and biologist from The Institute of Cancer Research in London, reported on his analysis of about three decades' worth of data.... (more)

THE GUARDIAN — At the age of 46, DeWayne Johnson is not ready to die. But with cancer spread through most of his body, doctors say he probably has just months to live. Now Johnson, a husband and father of three in California, hopes to survive long enough to make Monsanto take the blame for his fate.... (more)

WES VERNON — So let's get this straight: It's just the entertainment properties of 21st Century Fox that the Walt Disney company wants to pick up in another media sale – not Fox News? Whew! Today's left-leaning Disney is no longer symbolized by Mickey Mouse. (In Mickey's time, nobody thought to wonder – let alone ask – what the Mouseketeer's politics were.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — "Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating." (Gen. George S. Patton's Address to the 3rd Army, as rendered by George C. Scott in the movie Patton, 1970. See video above, at 2:40 mark.)... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — On Sunday, President Trump tweeted a "demand" that the Justice Department investigate political spying in the 2016 campaign. This replays the political-spying controversy that surfaced in late February. Right now, the issue involves the Obama administration's use of at least one confidential informant -- a spy -- to snoop into the opposition party's presidential campaign; back in February, the issue was the Obama administration's electronic surveillance -- by FISA eavesdropping warrants -- for the same purpose.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump left a Monday meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with an agreement on future steps to facilitate the release of Russia-probe documents to Congress.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Department of Justice On Sunday said its inspector general will investigate whether the FBI engaged in politically motivated surveillance of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 following a public demand by Trump to do so, the Washington Examiner reported Sunday.... (more)

FOX NEWS — University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper has been identified as an FBI informant in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, multiple news outlets reported Saturday. The 73-year-old academic reportedly has deep ties to American and British intelligence, having served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, the New York Post reported.... (more)

GLENN GREENWALD — AN EXTREMELY STRANGE EPISODE that has engulfed official Washington over the last two weeks came to a truly bizarre conclusion on Friday night. And it revolves around a long-time, highly sketchy CIA operative, Stefan Halper.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — There could have been more than one FBI informant snooping on the Trump campaign, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Sunday, but we do not know because the Justice Department has stonewalled congressional requests for documents outlining the impetus for the investigation.... (more)

NEWSMAX — National Review columnist John Fund told Newsmax TV on Friday that the nation's intelligence agencies will experience "profound embarrassment" should the Justice Department's inspector general releases its report next week on the Hillary Clinton email probe.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan has suggested in a tweet a nationwide boycott of schools until gun laws are changed to protect students.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — In the United States, surveys show that many millennials are not merely soft on socialism but openly support it. They think capitalism benefits only the "1 percent" and no one else, despite America's matchless record of upward mobility and prosperity.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Have you ever looked at octopuses and wondered how such a complex creature unlike any other evolved? You're not alone. Dyed-in-the-wool evolutionary scientists have the same problem. And when 33 of them got together to come up with a new peer-reviewed scientific study of the mystery, they determined octopuses could just be aliens from outer space.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a glittering union that brought a measure of modern Hollywood glamour into the 1,000-year-old monarchy.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A study released recently by the activists at the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health center at the University of California San Francisco laments the "abortion deserts" across the United States.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The family Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who police say shot 10 people dead Friday at his Texas high school, released a statement on Saturday: We are saddened and dismayed by yesterday's events at Santa Fe High School. We extend our most heartfelt prayers and condolences to all of the victims. We also wish to thank all the first responders from all over Texas that assisted in rendering aid and support.... (more)

ART MOORE — A 17-year-old student burst into an art class in a small-town high school south of Houston, Texas, smiled, yelled "surprise" and shot dead 10 people, injuring another 10, according to witnesses and law enforcement authorities.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Department of Health and Human Services' decision to change Title X federal funding rules and stop subsidizing businesses that provide abortions is drawing widespread praise from the faith community.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Almost no one saw it coming. In 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts famously ruled the Affordable Care Act's provision mandating most people purchase health insurance or else pay a fine constitutional on the basis that Congress has the authority to tax individuals, and the so-called Obamacare "fine" is effectively a tax.... (more)