RENEWAMERICA STAFF — On August 12, Callan Stone submitted to the Utah Supreme Court a formal Reply to Respondent's opposition to his Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, a critical brief he submitted to the Court on July 8... (more)

NEWSMAX — resident Donald Trump's call to "substantially increase" sanctions on Iran is the "right decision" after the attack on major Saudi oilfields this past weekend, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Wednesday. "The president is taking a measured response to this," Barrasso told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "The sanctions have been biting. They've been hurting. Iran has been suffering as a result. Their currency has been devalued significantly. Less buying power there."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ripped into The New York Times for reporting sexual misconduct allegations regarding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and said it was part of a broader effort by the left to "intimidate the court."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign manager, defiantly refused to answer most questions from House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler in a combative hearing that's the first explicitly tied to the potential impeachment of the president.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered that an American Airlines mechanic charged with purposely damaging an aircraft that was due to take off from Miami with 150 aboard remain behind bars before a trial, court papers showed.... (more)

SELWYN DUKE — How did AR-15s become the plastic straws of the gun world? It's simple: Demagogues need scapegoats. Yet just as banning plastic straws won't make a dent in the ocean-polluting plastics problem, banning "assault rifles" (which aren't) won't save even one life.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump has "broken the Democratic Party" by delivering on GOP policies, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Sunday. In an interview on ABC News' "This Week," Cruz said "results matter." "I think Donald Trump has broken the Democratic Party," he said. "They are defined now just by hating him. They ought to be the party of jobs. They used to be a party focused on jobs. They're not anymore... Results matter. We've delivered on policy. Cruz also responded to a New York Times report on fresh revelations about the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's alleged behavior as a student at Yale University in the 1980s.... (more)

CNBC — 2020 presidential contenders including Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke on Sunday called for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh after an article in The New York Times surfaced a previously unreported allegation of sexual misconduct against the justice when he was a undergraduate at Yale University.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former Housing Secretary Julian Castro called out the elephant in the room when he questioned whether Joseph R. Biden was mentally fit to be president, pulling back the curtain on a debate that has been raging inside the Democratic Party since the former vice president entered the race.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — If you weren't looking closely, you might not have noticed that Republicans won two North Carolina congressional races last Tuesday, not just one. The media featured the 9th District race in which Dan Bishop defeated Dan McCready by 50.7 percent to 48.7 percent. They ignored the 3rd District, where state Rep. Greg Murphy swamped Democrat Allen Thomas with nearly 60 percent of the vote to fill the seat of the late Rep. Walter Jones, who died in February.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump 2020 campaign noticed something interesting while crunching data from its February rally in El Paso: A significant percentage of the crowd crossed into Texas from Las Cruces, New Mexico, including plenty of women and Hispanics, who will be pivotal to the president's reelection prospects.... (more)

NEWSMAX — More than 2,000 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of a former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week, authorities said. The Will County Sheriff's Office said in a news release late Friday that an attorney for Dr. Ulrich Klopfer's family contacted the coroner's office Thursday about possible fetal remains being found at the home in an unincorporated part of Will County in northeastern Illinois.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A prosecutor in California's criminal case against two undercover journalists whose 2015 videos revealed abortion executives discussing their scheme to profit from baby body parts is "ignorant" of the law, contend defense lawyers. California alleges David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of Center for Medical Progress, defended by Liberty Counsel, violated state privacy laws by secretly recording executives in public places such as conventions and restaurants.... (more)

FOX 11 LA — An emotional meeting was held Tuesday night in Oak Park where parents were fired up about the school district's new curriculum that teaches elementary school kids about transgender issues. The district says the curriculum is meant to discourage bullying against transgender children, but some parents are outraged.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Dixon, Chicago, home where President Ronald Reagan grew up is at risk of closing down as a tourist destination due to financial constraints, The Chicago Tribune reports. The white, two-story house is running at a loss of more than $80,000 per year and only attracts between 5,000 and 6,000 visitors compared to 1994, when the home attracted about 20,000 visitors.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Police are investigating a lawmaker in Finland for posting Bible verses on Facebook. Päivi Räsänen, a member of parliament, was expressing criticism of the national church's support for the LGBT agenda when she posted Romans 1:24-27.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Hillsdale College's National Leadership Seminar on "What is American Greatness" with Sharyl Attkisson, investigative reporter, on "Is Fake News a Myth?"... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — At the Democratic-primary debate in Houston last night, Beto O'Rourke formally killed off one of the gun-control movement's favorite taunts: The famous "Nobody is coming for your guns, wingnut." Asked bluntly whether he was proposing confiscation, O'Rourke abandoned the disingenuous euphemisms that have hitherto marked his descent into extremism, and confirmed as plainly as can be that he was. "Hell yes," he said, "we're going to take your AR-15."... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Texas senator Ted Cruz took aim at fact-checking website PolitiFact on Friday, criticizing the site for having previously claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke does not plan to "take our guns" after O'Rourke explicitly suggested otherwise at Thursday night's Democratic debate.... (more)

LLOYD MARCUS — Hello, America. The recording session for my Trump Train 2020 song could not have gone better. If you remember, my music producer is based in Baltimore. I asked him to gather singers to form a choir for the recording of the song. He reported back to me that all the singers he knows do not support Trump or are passionately against him. This prompted me to launch a clarion call for pro-America / pro-Trump singers. The response was tremendous.... (more)

CURTIS DAHLGREN — (Quoted by the Britannica from Grant Showerman's 'The Great Mother of Gods' [Bulletin of the University of WISCONSIN, No. 43, Madison, 1901].) Here are some more pithy excerpts from the Britannica: "During the brief revival of paganism under [Caesar] Eugenius in A.D. 394, occurred the last appearance of the cult in history [the last open one at least]....... (more)

FOX NEWS — There were two special elections in the state of North Carolina on Tuesday night. Both of them were billed as close races. In the end, Republicans won both of them, and they won handily. In the more competitive race in the Ninth District, Republican Dan Bishop finished substantially better than the last Republican who ran during the midterms just 10 months ago.... (more)

FOX NEWS — In a major win for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court issued an order late Wednesday ending all injunctions that had blocked the White House's ban on asylum for anyone trying to enter the U.S. by traveling through a third country, such as Mexico, without seeking protection there.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration, affirming in a 5-4 decision that federal authorities can arrest immigrants at any time for possible deportation after they have served time for other crimes.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The average voter identifies closer with President Donald Trump on ideologies than former Vice President Joe Biden and all other Democratic presidential contenders, according to a poll conducted by the University of South California and the LA Times, reports the Daily Caller.... (more)