NEWSMAX — A form of Islamic law has taken force in Texas, right next door to Louisiana where Gov. Bobby Jindal has warned of Muslim immigrants who refuse to adopt Western culture. An Islamic Tribunal of four attorneys is operating in Dallas where it issues voluntary rulings on civil disputes, Breitbart Texas reported Tuesday.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Up to 10,000 Syrian refugees, most of them Muslims, will be resettled in cities throughout the U.S. in 2015, with that figure expected to surge to near 75,000 over the next five years. While some of the planned destinations for these refugees are starting to leak out, the big question is: where will they be going?... (more)

NEWSMAX — Iran's ayatollahs are planning a new "genocide" against the Jewish people, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. During a speech Tuesday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a defiant prime minister said it was his duty to "ensure that the State of Israel will never again be threatened with destruction," warning that's exactly what would happen under an agreement being negotiated with Iran by the United States and four other world powers, the Times of Israel reports.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A team of President Barack Obama's political operatives arrived in Israel to campaign for the defeat of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the March elections just days after the White House complained about the Israeli leader's plan to address Congress over Iran's nuclear program.... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — Did the Obama administration plan to allow a U.S. ambassador to be kidnapped to set up a prisoner-exchange scenario that would provide a pretext for releasing the "Blind Sheik" imprisoned for plotting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A tale of two police chases in the nation's capital with some eerily similar circumstances, but vastly different outcomes, has observers more than puzzled and is raising new questions about the U.S. Capitol Police by members of Congress.... (more)

AL.COM — Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has released a letter to Gov. Robert Bentley saying that he intends to continue to recognize the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and urging the governor to do so.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Senate Republicans have assembled a potentially unfriendly witness list -- including a former CBS reporter who is suing the Justice Department over computer hacking -- for the confirmation hearing of President Obama's nominee for U.S. attorney general.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Conservatives saw it as raising a white flag when Republican congressional leaders pledged not to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security in the fight over President Obama's deportation amnesty, stoking fears that for the next two years House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will consistently surrender.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — House Republicans have pulled a border security bill from floor consideration this week amid concerns by conservatives that the legislation is not tough enough. Republican leadership aides told the Washington Examiner that internal opposition was not behind their decision, but conservatives are claiming victory.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion, but the White House is trying to keep the story under wraps, a retired Army officer said Monday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — President Obama has stated that homosexuals make a "lifestyle choice" with their sexuality and even when people disapprove of that, they should be willing to treat them fairly.... (more)

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — Within hours after the Supreme Court announced it would decide whether the Constitution requires every state to recognize marriages between persons of the same sex, the New York Times published an editorial gleefully predicting the inevitable outcome. When its ruling comes down in June, the Times assures us, the Supreme Court will "end the debate once and for all."... (more)

NEW YORK POST — The small drone that crashed onto the White House grounds early Monday could easily have been armed with a bomb or other weapon -- and would be undetectable by radar or other sophisticated security systems, experts told The Post.... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — Documents obtained Monday through a federal court order show State Department officials disseminated the false story that the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed a U.S. ambassador was nothing more than the violent escalation of a demonstration by Muslims against an insulting video, even though they knew it was a coordinated military-style assault.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Obama's recent State of the Union speech to Congress, and the GOP responses to it, put me in mind of the famous observation, sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin: Democracy is like two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. But in our day, the wolves have increased in cunning and declined in forbearance. To describe contemporary politics, the saying would have to be revised... (more)

STEFANI WILLIAMS — During the first week of January, something extraordinary happened. Droves of Republican voters, unhappy with the status quo in Washington, took to social media, email, mail, faxes, and their phones to voice their dissatisfaction with GOP House Speaker John Boehner, and to insist he be replaced as Speaker. The public rejection of Boehner as Speaker was virtually unheard of... (more)

USA RADIO NETWORKS — USA RADIO NETWORKS is syndicating "THE DR. LAURIE ROTH SHOW" for 1-4 pm (ET) weekdays beginning FEBRUARY 2nd. Chief Content Officer TIM MARANVILLE said, "Dr. ROTH covers the issues driving the conversation in AMERICA like no other radio host... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Fresh from offering "free" health care, "free" phones and "free" food to the masses, he's upped the bribery to "free" community college tuition and "free" child care. It's not that the Clintons oppose any of these; they just need to affect moderation in case Hillary runs for president and has to knock back boilermakers again with the good old boys in Pennsylvania taverns.... (more)

SEN. TED CRUZ — Last Tuesday night, President Obama assured the American people that their nation is secure because of his leadership. His "steady, persistent resolve," Mr. Obama proclaimed in his State of the Union speech, has resulted in a "safer, more prosperous world."... (more)

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — American Sniper has set its sights on another record: Within a matter of days, it will overtake Steven Spielberg's WWII classic Saving Private Ryan to become the top-grossing war-themed film of all time in North America, not accounting for inflation.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama will propose blocking 1.4 million acres (556,000 hectares) of Arctic refuge from oil and gas drilling, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. The administration plans to propose designating the area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, the highest level of federal protection that would ban oil and gas drilling, the newspaper reported, citing people briefed on the plan.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech last week seemed "detached from reality," former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday on "The Cats Roundtable" on AM 970 in New York. "The president's State of the Union speech was pessimistic in my opinion," Perry told host John Catsimatidis, noting that Obama made no mention of al-Qaida and the activities of other terrorist groups around the world. Nor did he mention "our friends, and our great democracy in the Middle East, Israel."... (more)

NEWSMAX — There will be many Republicans seeking the presidential nomination in 2016, and one of the potential candidates, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, urged conservatives gathered at the Iowa Freedom Summit Saturday to demand their choice demonstrate a track record of accomplishment.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Border Patrol agents' labor union announced their opposition Friday to the House GOP's new border security bill, calling it "window dressing" that doesn't add any new agents or updated their firepower to get the job done in sealing off the U.S.-Mexico border.... (more)