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)

EPOCH TIMES — Suzanna Gratia Hupp has advocated for less restrictive gun control laws since surviving a mass shooting in 1991 that killed 23 people, including both her parents. Her campaign to loosen restrictions on guns is motivated by that senseless massacre and has covered almost 3 decades. Hupp has been a leading advocate of an individual's right to carry a concealed weapon even before winning a seat in the Texas House in 1996, where she served for 10 years.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — A longtime abortionist took the stand this week in a San Francisco courtroom and testified on behalf of two pro-life undercover investigators, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who are being prosecuted for recording secret footage of abortion industry executives talking about how they procure fetal body parts to sell to researchers.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Chick-fil-A has more than doubled its annual sales since gay rights advocates called for a boycott of the chicken chain restaurant after it was revealed nearly a decade ago that the company donated to organizations that opposed same-sex marriage.... (more)

MATT ABBOTT — It was yet another horrid story that made national, even international, headlines. More than 2,200 aborted babies were discovered at the Illinois home of Indiana abortionist Ulrich Klopfer, who died earlier this month. Why did he collect all those human remains? The reason is unclear. What is clear, however, is the fact he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of preborn children during his murderous "career."... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for months. Is there a Christian element to these protests that has been widely overlooked? Hong Kong has a population of over 7 million people. Yet it has been estimated that, at one point in recent weeks, as many as a million protestors hit the streets. Hong Kong has officially been a part of China since 1997, when it was handed back over after being a British colony and territory for more than a century.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf. As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at President Trump. For most of his time in office, Mr. Trump, his family, his friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and constantly attacked.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Have Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee figured out what President Trump did to them? By the looks of their questioning of Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday, the answer is no.... (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)

COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science.... (more)

MARLO LEWIS — The Democrats running for their party's presidential nomination are focusing more on climate change. Here are five questions reporters should ask to test whether the candidates' climate policies deserve the support of the American people. In fact, these are questions that should be asked of all politicians who advocate climate policies, regardless of their party affiliation.... (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 — 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)