PHILIP KLEIN — Senate Republicans owe their majority to their seven-year pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. But the draft legislation unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., reads less like an Obamacare repeal bill and more like an Obamacare rescue package.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Conservative Sen. Mike Lee further explained his opposition to Senate Republican's healthcare bill in a statement Friday night in which he called the effort "far short" of an Obamacare repeal.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The Georgia 6th District results don't tell us what will happen in 2018. But they do tell us what is happening right now. In a conversation two weeks before the GA06 election, a Republican strategist involved in the fight mused on the possibility that all the money spent, all the doors knocked, all the phones called, all the accusations hurled -- that it might mean nothing when it comes to the crucial question of who will win control of the House of Representatives in 2018.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It wasn't a good week for the Democrats. After losing the most promising of several competitive special congressional elections this year in Georgia's 6th District, party activists formed a circular firing squad and began taking pot shots at one another.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for information regarding the FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation and whether there was any political interference involved in the matter.... (more)

ART MOORE — During the Obama administration, a Senate hearing on the federal government's approach to Islamic terrorism was titled "Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Johnny Depp has apologized for joking about assassinating President Donald Trump and says he meant no malice. The actor released a statement to People magazine Friday in which he called his remarks Thursday night at the Glastonbury Festival a bad joke and said it was in poor taste.... (more)

LIFE NEWS — The nation's leading source of information on U.S. charities faces mounting criticism for using a controversial "hate group" designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.... (more)

WEEKLY STANDARD — Even in famously abortion-friendly California there is justice for abortion foes. On June 21, the San Francisco County Superior Court threw out 14 of the 15 felony counts that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra had brought against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the anti-abortion activists who had made widely circulated undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials haggling and joking over the compensation they expected to receive for supplying the organs of fetuses aborted at Planned Parenthood clinics to for-profit "tissue-procurement" companies.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Within the last month, a Canadian soldier killed an ISIS fighter with a 3,540 meter shot. That's 2.2 miles -- a new world record for a confirmed combat sniper kill. We can be confident of the report's accuracy. The Canadian military confirmed the kill to The Globe and Mail newspaper. Military authorities are careful before recognizing sensational stories such as this one.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The FBI may not be able to detect and prevent left-wing violence directed at Republicans playing baseball. But it sure knows how to pander to and entertain the LGBTQ community with a full-blown conference featuring discussions about the oppressive "identity hierarchy."... (more)

POLITICO — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats put a brave face on Wednesday morning after a disappointing loss in the Georgia special election, yet there is no disguising the unhappiness in the party ranks.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — After losing another special election that party leaders had hoped would signal a rebuke of the Trump presidency, Democrats on Wednesday cast about for someone or something to blame: from Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the House Democrats, to ill-managed campaigns to candidates who were too liberal -- or not liberal enough.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The center-left wing of the Democratic party is "dead... mute," and has "nothing to say," conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer declared Wednesday.... (more)

BREITBART — Tuesday on Sean Hannity's nationally syndicated radio show, author and University of the Arts professor of humanities and media studies Camille Paglia railed against the current state of journalism in America. Paglia called what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism "absolutely grotesque" and warned it would take decades to recover.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Down south in Georgia last night, a woman overcame the odds to win a seat in Congress and prove that money can't always buy elections. Unfortunately for Democrats, that underdog named Karen Handel is a Republican.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Activists are donning "The Handmaid's Tale" white bonnets and red capes to lobby lawmakers in several state capitals -- including New York, Texas, and Ohio -- for women's reproductive rights, NBC News reported.... (more)

THE GLOBE AND MAIL — A sniper with Canada's elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,450 metres. Sources say a member of Joint Task Force 2 killed an Islamic State insurgent with a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle while firing from a high-rise during an operation that took place within the last month in Iraq. It took under 10 seconds to hit the target.... (more)

NEWSMAX — France is training eagles to destroy drones as terrorist groups ramp up the use of the small unmanned aerial vehicles in attacks, The Washington Post reported.... (more)

CNBC — Republican Karen Handel has won Georgia's record-breaking special congressional election, dashing hopes by Democrats to pull off an upset in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.... (more)

NEW YORK TIMES — Karen Handel, a Republican, defeated Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, in the most expensive U.S. House race in history. The election was largely seen as a referendum on the first months of Donald J. Trump's presidency. Republicans maintain control of the seat, which was vacated by Tom Price, the new secretary of health and human services.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Hours after the outcome became clear Tuesday night in the internationally-watched special U.S. House race in Georgia's Sixth District, the national media was scrambling to find an explanation for the relatively easy win (53-to-47 percent) of Republican Karen Handel.... (more)

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON — Republican Ralph Norman has won the special election to fill the vacated seat for South Carolina's fifth congressional district. Norman defeated Democrat Archie Parnell on Tuesday night for the seat vacated by current Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, the Associated Press reports.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Impeachment. See, it's not that hard. All together now: Impeachment . . . impeachment . . . impeachment. Don't be fraidy-scared. It's okay to say the "I-word." Really. Apparently, Team Trump doesn't think so.... (more)

PAUL BEDARD — The labor secretary for former President Bill Clinton calling on the left to start an impeachment movement against President Trump -- and he's even raising money on it.... (more)