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... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — In response to one of the predictable and common "Trump Betrays the Kurds" pro-impeachment stories, a reader of the libertarian Reason magazine noted, "They are Marxist guerrillas who want to establish an independent socialist state in their ancestral lands. They've been fighting for that goal for half a century and they can and will continue doing so without US support just as they always have."... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — Donald Trump's decision to remove American troops from the Syrian-Turkish border has become a flashpoint of international controversy. The bulk of the criticism of Trump has come from two directions. Politically, he is being condemned for abandoning the Kurds, an ally in our fight against ISIS. Spiritually, he is being condemned for abandoning the Christians in Kurdish-occupied territory to an uncertain (but likely nightmarish) fate.... (more)

LLOYD MARCUS — Scouting a location to shoot a promotional video for my Trump Train 2020 song, my wife Mary and I spotted a lovely home with a huge Trump 2020 flag waving in the breeze on a flagpole. After knocking on the front door and introducing myself, I assured the elderly white homeowner that we would not show her address in our video.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo successfully secured a ceasefire agreement with Turkey on Thursday, meaning Turkish forces will permanently suspend military operations in northern Syria after allowing Kurdish troops leave the region.... (more)

BYRON YORK — In a secret interview, Rep. Adam Schiff, leader of the House Democratic effort to impeach President Trump, pressed former United States special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify that Ukrainian officials felt pressured to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter as a result of Trump withholding U.S. military aid to Ukraine.... (more)

THE HILL — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday she will not stage a vote on the House floor to officially launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The decision came after Democratic leaders, returning to Washington following a two-week recess, had reached out to members of their diverse caucus to gauge the party's support for such a vote.... (more)

NEWSMAX — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday after meeting with the House Democratic caucus that there will not be a vote at this time to launch formal impeachment proceedings or to formalize the ongoing inquiry against President Donald Trump.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Nearly two-thirds of Republicans in the House are supporting a resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Breitbart News is reporting. The GOP lawmakers are calling for the censure of Schiff, saying he fabricated a conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was told to leave a closed-door House Intelligence Committee hearing for the testimony of a former National Security Council expert on Russia, complained Tuesday that as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he should have been permitted to stay.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Undercover journalist James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a second round of secretly recorded video clips Tuesday documenting CNN's political bias, this time asserting the network is favoring Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts over other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take the case of a public school teacher who required her students to recite the Islamic "conversion prayer" or receive a failing grade. The Thomas More Law Center is defending Caleigh Wood, a Christian student in 11th grade at La Plata High School in La Plata, Maryland.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A federal judge in Texas has vacated an Obama administration policy requiring doctors to conduct sex-change surgeries. The ruling by Judge Reed O'Connor in Wichita Falls, Texas, came in Franciscan Alliance v. Azar regarding a federal regulation that "threatened to drive religious doctors out of practice if they would not perform gender-transition procedures that violate their medical judgment and beliefs," said the non-profit legal group Becket.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Despite what you may have heard, America's Kurdish "allies" are not our friends. They are mostly Marxists. The founder of their movement was trained by the KGB. They are not worth one drop of American blood.In the same away that President Barack Hussein Obama supported Al Qaeda in Libya, leading to the Benghazi massacre, he armed the PKK/YPG Kurdish forces in Syria, who are in reality Marxist terrorists.... (more)

WNDU — United States Attorney General William Barr spoke at Notre Dame Law School about religious freedom Friday. Law students, the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture group, and invited guests listened to Barr speak. For the last five decades, Barr said religion has been under attack, adding the secular culture is growing.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — LGBT activists gathered last week for CNN's "Equality" town hall with the Democratic presidential candidates. The advocates present were, in the words of Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David, the "tip of the spear in our fight for full equality." The "spear" metaphor grew more apt as the night went on.... (more)

BYRON YORK — A week ago, House Republicans complained that Democrats imposed excessive secrecy on interviews conducted as part of the drive to impeach President Trump. Now, the situation appears to have gotten worse.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Fox News poll that said 51 percent of voters surveyed supported impeaching President Donald Trump didn't properly represent Republican and Independent voters, according to a New York Post analysis. The news outlet said the party-affiliation breakdown was incorrect, and suggested a poll weighted with the new numbers would have concluded that just 44.9 percent favored impeachment compared with the 44.4 percent who opposed it.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Undercover journalist James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a video Monday it describes as evidence of CNN President Jeff Zucker's "personal vendetta" against President Trump. The video features Cary Poarch, a satellite uplink technician for the network for two years who says he recently agreed to wear a hidden camera "to expose the bias" at the network.... (more)

YAHOO NEWS — Pro-democracy protesters hauled a four-metre statue known as "Lady Liberty" to the top of a famous Hong Kong mountain early Sunday, announcing the peak would be its "final resting place". The statue depicts a female protester in a gas mask, protective goggles and helmet, an umbrella in one hand and a black flag in the other, proclaiming the protest slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times".... (more)

REUTERS — Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Jane Fonda has been arrested, again. But don't worry, she did it for your future. The actress recently moved to Washington D.C., so she can get arrested a few dozen times over the next several months in order to protest climate change. Like she did on Friday, she'll be waiting on the steps of the Capitol for police officers to take her away.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Imagine . . . If in early 2015, some White House staffers transcribing confidential presidential calls were disturbed about one conversation that President Obama had with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. The two allegedly had confidentially discussed the staggered release of some $1.7 billion in withheld U.S. dollars to Iran -- as an understood exchange for the release of 4 American hostages, $400 million of which was to be delivered, in an unmarked cargo plane at night, and in various currencies to Tehran.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A judge who helped open a Planned Parenthood abortion business in San Francisco has been censoring testimony this week in a $16 million lawsuit by Planned Parenthood. The civil claim is against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for their undercover videos in 2015 exposing Planned Parenthoods profiting from the sale of baby body parts.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Attorney General William Barr on Friday reportedly blamed secularism for problems plaguing the country, including drugs, violence and poor mental health. In a speech that focused on the role of religion in law at Notre Dame's law school, Barr lamented "the bitter results of the new secular age," The Hill reported.... (more)