WASHINGTON TIMES — A group of Senate Republicans pressed Attorney General Eric H. Holder on Friday to explain the administration's policy for U.S. fugitives in Cuba, including a convicted cop killer, following President Obama's announced normalization of relations with the communist island nation.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A columnist is urging people to contact UCLA officials to protest a Muslim call to prayer broadcast on the campus of a "publicly funded institution." "This in an act of Islamic supremacism," writes Carol Brown for the American Thinker. "If Muslim students at UCLA can't figure out how to tell time or keep track of when they need to pray, that's their problem."... (more)

TELEGRAPH — American spies secretly intercepted communications between those involved in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and provided the key evidence that he was killed in a Russian-backed "state execution", The Telegraph can disclose.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Mary Cheney, the younger of two daughters born to former Vice President Dick Cheney -- and the one who's openly gay -- told a small group of students at American University that it's high time for the Republican party to embrace same-sex marriage.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The fastest growing states in the U.S. also tend to be ones with lower-than-average rates of union membership, according to an analysis of data released on Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the states (including the District of Columbia) with the top 10 fastest-growing populations, nine have union membership rates in the single digits. Nevada is the only state to be top 10 in population growth from July 2013 to July 2014 with a unionization rate above the nationwide rate of 11.1 percent.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The "no-go zones" in some Western nations, where law enforcement has lost control because of the influence of Islamic law, are coming to America. That's according to several Islam experts interviewed by WND who believe the kind of Muslim enclaves that have developed in Europe due to a lack of assimilation will eventually arise in the U.S. as the Muslim population grows.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Iran has produced an intercontinental ballistic missile -- an act that poses a threat to the United States due to its expanded range, according to a report. The Jerusalem Post reports that Iran has a missile measuring 27 meters in length (88.5 feet) on a launch pad just outside its capital city of Tehran. The missile had never before been seen in public, reports the Post.... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — As the allied bombing of Libya began in 2011, the Obama administration rejected an offer by Moammar Gadhafi to engage in negotiations to abdicate, according to a retired U.S. Navy officer who says he was prepared to broker the deal.... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — The military commanders on the Citizens Committee on Benghazi reacted with skepticism to the announcement Thursday afternoon that the House Select Committee on Benghazi has scheduled a hearing, contending the congressional panel led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., is not uncovering the truth behind the deadly episode that resulted in the death of an American ambassador.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — When President Obama declares something a "success story," you know it has "TOTAL FAILURE" embedded in its DNA. Four months ago, America's King Midas in Reverse crowed about the fruits of his triumphant foreign policy in jihad-infested Yemen. A "light footprint" approach to counterterrorism operations, he claimed, was the most effective path to stability. In addition, Obama has shoveled nearly $1 billion in American tax-subsidized foreign aid to Yemen.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — He's already boasted of wielding power through a pen and a phone. Now President Obama wants to add a rubber stamp to his desk set -- and the rubber stamp would be named "U.S. Congress." Buried in his State of the Union address, Obama said he will ask Congress to give him "trade promotion authority."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Alan Keyes, a former UN ambassador and three-time GOP presidential candidate, says President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech was dishonest and smacked of "dictatorial arrogance."... (more)

PATRICK GARRY, RA ANALYST — Perhaps the clearest distinction between the liberal and conservative political philosophies lies in their respective focus on government as the essential booster and protector of the working and middle classes... (more)

SYLVIA THOMPSON — For those Americans who have grown weary of the many statements of the problems plaguing our country, there is now a book that offers solutions. It is titled Rules for Patriots: How Conservatives Can Win Again, by author Steve Deace.... (more)

KEN CONNOR — The history of human knowledge as it relates to the human body is a fascinating and terrible thing. In every age, the ability for physicians and other medical practitioners to effectively treat wounds or combat disease has been constrained by the technology -- or lack thereof -- available at the time. In the past, people often died from illnesses or injuries that are quite treatable today. Over the centuries, we've come a long way.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The disease known as political correctness has infected Fox News. First, anchor Bret Baier withdrew from a Catholic conference under pressure from his management and the homosexual lobby. Now, Fox News has bowed to pressure from the Muslim Brotherhood lobby, issuing an embarrassing "correction" that was not warranted for having reported factually on the existence of Muslim-dominated "no-go zones" in Europe.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — With the Senate poised to take up a spending bill that defunds President Obama's executive actions on immigration, a conservative faction of House lawmakers want their counterparts in the Senate to step up their game.... (more)

NEW YORK TIMES — Justice Department lawyers will recommend that no civil rights charges be brought against the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo., after an F.B.I. investigation found no evidence to support charges, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A senior State Department official admitted Wednesday that the Obama administration's goal in talks with Iran is not to shut down its contested nuclear program but to delay its acquisition of nuclear weapons.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy believes President Barack Obama may ship the notorious "Blind Sheikh" -- convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center -- back to the Middle East before the end of his second term.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Sheriff John Carter of Wayne County, Georgia, received a hot tip in February last year that he remembers well. The caller said he had reason to believe the Muslims of America, a mysterious Islamic commune with cult-like devotion to a radical Pakistani sheikh, was building underground bunkers on its land near the tiny town of Jesup.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The new Republican-controlled Senate tossed its first salvo in the effort to end Obamacare on Wednesday, with two top senators introducing legislation to repeal the healthcare plan's individual mandate that could cost each American taxpayer without insurance as much as $95 when they file their taxes this year.... (more)

J. KENNETH BLACKWELL — "Black lives matter" has become the slogan of anti-police protests across the nation, but the target of the protests is so misplaced that the motives of the so-called civil rights leaders behind the movement must be questioned. Do they really care about black lives? Or are they cynically exploiting isolated incidents, such as the death of Michael Brown, to inflame the black population and advance their own political interests?... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Is it true Jane Fonda never meant to suggest she was against U.S. soldiers fighting in Vietnam? Is it true Jane Fonda is sorry she gave that false impression by her actions? That's the stuff Lady Barbarella is selling again -- the latest at an appearance in Maryland, where she was picketed by dozens of Vietnam vets who know better.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night drew the lowest television rating of any such speech in more than two decades. Nielsen released numbers on Wednesday that show the president's speech was viewed on television by 19.9 percent of American households, the lowest figure in the Nielsen data that goes back to 1993.... (more)