ALAN KEYES — Readers familiar with my writings know that I have criticized the economic model that allows Facebook and Twitter to amass billions of dollars in profits exploiting the activities of their users. Users are in many respects like the movie production companies. Facebook and Twitter provide accommodations for sharing their productions with others. But unlike movie production companies, Facebook and Twitter users receive no share of the profits those companies make off their productions.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Citizen journalist David Risselada has written a book, Psychopolitics in America: A Nation Under Conquest, in which he explains how so many are being led astray by what passes for the "conservative media." Consider the case of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was sold by Fox News and other beltway groups as a conservative pro-lifer. After Kavanaugh's Monday ruling in favor of Planned Parenthood, many grassroots conservatives are beginning to realize they were misled about his real record. One conservative website called it a "betrayal."... (more)

DAILY CALLER — The Supreme Court declined to review three cases relating to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood at the state level Monday, over a vigorous dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas. The dissent was significant because it indicates that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the high court's liberal wing to deny review of a lower court decision that favored the nation's largest abortion provider.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — I hate to say it, but I saw this one coming. When President Trump selected Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, I knew it was at least a very risky pick. But he won the hearts of conservatives because of the insanity of the opposition.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Two separate sources recently questioned the historicity of Jesus. But let us set the record straight. First, on a comedy show on TBS, "The Guestbook," just before Christmastime, one of the characters likened belief in Jesus to belief in Santa. The episode is called "Tonight you become a man" -- where a character supposedly becomes an adult by realizing Santa and Jesus are just myths.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Investigative reporter and New York Times best-selling author Jerome Corsi, who just days ago filed a formal complaint against special counsel Robert Mueller for "gross prosecutorial misconduct and criminal acts," now has filed a case against him demanding hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.... (more)

THE HILL — Many people I know in law enforcement circles shuddered when James Comey tweeted recently that acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker "may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer." To them, Comey's Twitter attack crossed that "blue line" -- the one that real cops abide by, to never criticize fellow officers and to always have their backs.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday that if he takes over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as is expected, he will "get to the bottom" of whether the FBI misled the federal surveillance court to obtain spy warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.... (more)

DAILY SIGNAL — President Donald Trump's nomination of Heather Nauert is an excellent choice to replace Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, analysts say. "Heather Nauert is capable, well-informed, and articulate," Clifford May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense Of Democracies, said in an email to The Daily Signal.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — When it comes to alarming projections of global warming-induced sea level rise, veteran climate scientist Judith Curry says people need to cool it. "Projections of extreme, alarming impacts are very weakly justified to borderline impossible," Curry told The Daily Caller News Foundation.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Over the past few decades, secularists and leftists have mounted an aggressive effort to suppress Christianity's historical and current importance in America, and place all religions -- or no religion -- on the same level. A national survey taken in late November by Grinnell College indicates that they have been wildly successful. For example, city dwellers, young people and women are far more supportive of Muslims than of Christians. Sixty-eight percent of Democrats said employers should grant a request for prayer space by Muslims -- but only 45 percent said employers should grant a similar request by Christians.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In 2007, the Justice Department was in disarray. Though it was largely exaggerated, a controversy over the firing of some United States attorneys, the intrusion of politics into Justice Department hiring decisions, and White House contacts with Main Justice forced the resignation of an overmatched attorney general, Alberto Gonzales.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Former FBI Director James Comey claimed "I don't know" or "I don't remember" in response to dozens of questions concerning key details in the Russia probe, according to a lengthy transcript released Saturday of his closed-door interview with congressional lawmakers.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The FBI cut off relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations after it was named by the Justice Department a co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-funding case in U.S. history. In the trial of that case, FBI evidence showed CAIR's parent organization was founded as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. And, along the conviction of numerous CAIR leaders on terrorism charges, an Arab Gulf state designated the organization a terrorist group.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate William Barr, the late President George H.W. Bush's attorney general, to serve in the same role. Trump made the announcement while departing the White House for a trip to Missouri. He called Barr "a terrific man" and "one of the most respected jurists in the country."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Allegations of "pay to play" and misappropriation of funds by the Clinton Foundation are documented in hundreds of pages of evidence provided by three witnesses, according to Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Prominent journalists gathered this week to discuss why President Trump sits in the White House and came to the following conclusion: "Gullible" voters and "unfair" coverage -- toward Democrat Hillary Clinton -- are to blame. The Recode Decode podcast this week featured NBC's Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, and Hallie Jackson talking about the state of American politics. They told host Kara Swisher that Mr. Trump's campaign tricked the former secretary of state into responding to non-issues while stupid voters took care of the rest on Election Day.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Nebraska elementary school principal was placed on administrative leave this week after she sent out an unauthorized memo banning a slew of Christmas-related items, including candy canes, which she claimed are shaped like a "J" for Jesus Christ.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Former president Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, President Donald Trump. Obama's charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he, rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the world's largest energy producer. But Obama also has charged that Trump's policies are pernicious and failing. Apparently, Obama believes that all of Trump's successes are due to Obama, and all of Trump's setbacks are his own.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rush Limbaugh says the media is treating former President George H.W. Bush nicer in death than it did in life. Limbaugh made his comments on "Fox News @ Night." "They never treated him this way when he was president," he said. "They were vicious to him like they are vicious and partisan to every Republican. I think its just a vehicle for them to be able to contrast what they think [President Donald] Trump is versus the way they are telling us Bush was.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Impolite question, but it needs to be asked: Is there a Republican dead body that left-wing partisans won't use to bash Donald Trump? This week's partisan corpse abusers callously exploited the passing of George H. W. Bush, America's 41st president, to get in their digs at the current commander in chief. Their vulgar level of incivility was inversely propositional to their sanctimonious calls for decency.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Former FBI director James Comey will reportedly testify to Congress in a closed-door hearing on Friday. The news comes after months of back-and-forth between Comey and the House Judiciary Committee, which had issued a subpoena requesting that Comey testify in a private hearing. The former FBI director expressed a wish to testify publicly and initiated a brief legal battle over the subpoena, accusing Committee Republicans of intending "to mislead the public and to undermine public confidence in the FBI and the DOJ," by selectively leaking bits of testimony from his private testimony.... (more)

TV NEWSER — An increasing amount of distrust in the news media is a hot topic these days. While adults and consistent news consumers are usually the focus of such studies, those who are still in school are often left out of this conversation. And they shouldn't be, especially considering the findings below.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A Twitter user who profiles himself as an associate professor of clinical psychology and sexuality studies from Minnesota and lists interests as "cats" and "Poe" tried to apply the contemporary "#MeToo" movement to the New Testament story of the virgin birth.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Facebook censored an image of Santa Claus kneeling before the baby Jesus, deeming it "violent or graphic content." The censorship was lifted Wednesday after LifeSiteNews published a report about it. Facebook had obscured the picture, explaining the "photo was automatically covered so you can decide if you want to see it," LifeSiteNews reported. Users who wanted to see the photo had to click on a button.... (more)