VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Donald Trump continues to baffle. Never Trump Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly insist that his record is already nullified by its supposedly odious author. Or surely it soon will be discredited by the next Trumpian outrage.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — After teasing the press for more than a week, President Trump is expected to hand out his "Fake News Awards" on Wednesday, but it was still unclear as of Tuesday night what the mock ceremony will entail, including whether Trump will hand out any awards himself.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Some lawmakers would like to see the Justice Department prosecute former spy chief James Clapper for inaccurate testimony to Congress about domestic surveillance before it's too late.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Iran's rulers have inflicted death by torture and gunfire on citizen protesters in a crackdown since the Dec. 28 street uprising erupted, the main opposition group said Tuesday. The Europe-based National Council of Resistance of Iran says the Islamic republic's ubiquitous security apparatus has arrested more than 8,000 citizens and killed at least 50, all while the West has remained mostly silent. The council attributes at least five deaths to torture.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Conservatives have griped for years about being undermined by Twitter, but after listening to the Silicon Valley giant's staffers admit on hidden camera to political bias, the right wants answers. Calls for Twitter to come clean are rising in the wake of the latest Project Veritas undercover video, which revealed current and former employees admitting to anti-Trump bias and discussing how to shadow-ban and otherwise limit the reach of unfavored accounts.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube may have, albeit quietly, declared war on conservatives, with new efforts to shut down their ability to get their message out. And talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh has identified what he believes is the ideology behind it.... (more)

JOHN STOSSEL — Who will warn Americans about hate groups? The media know: the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC, based in Alabama, calls itself "the premier" group monitoring hate. Give us money, they say, and they will "fight the hate that thrives in our country."... (more)

NBC NEWS — A former CIA officer who was charged Tuesday with unlawful possession of secrets is suspected of a much worse crime: betraying U.S. informants in China, sources familiar with the case told NBC News.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — NBC plans to televise any players who refuse to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, but there may be nothing to show. It appears that NFL players are no longer taking a knee during the national anthem, namely because none of the teams with still-active protesters has qualified for the postseason.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with," Trump said. "If they come to me with things I'm not in love with, I'm going to do it. Because I respect them." Conservatives who were prominent in the effort to elect Donald Trump to the presidency reacted with foreboding to the impression of impending compromise created by last Tuesday's meeting between President Trump and key Democratic and Republican leaders focused on immigration.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — I started watching Miss America and Miss Universe competitions when I was a little girl, mostly because I loved the gowns. To this day, I still tune in, especially toward the end, when all the gowns are on display. A couple of years ago, I saw my all-time favorite! As the expression goes: TDF -- to die for!... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sixty-one percent of Republicans say they are satisfied with the direction of the U.S., according to a new Gallup poll. It marks the highest level of Republican satisfaction since February 2007, according to Gallup.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Radio host Rush Limbaugh came out swinging on Monday against "phony" media outrage over President Trump's language behind closed doors. The man behind "the golden EIB microphone" says last week's "sh--hole" remarks attributed to the president during policy negotiations have spotlighted media bias yet again. Mr. Limbaugh told millions of listeners that racism claims and concerns over presidential rhetoric are all part of an act.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The White House called out CNN after anchor Chris Cuomo referred to White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah as "Raj whatever-his-name-is."... (more)

FOX NEWS INSIDER — An early member of the "Saturday Night Live" cast returned Saturday to join in the lampooning of "Joe & Mika," Steve Bannon and author Michael Wolff. The show opened with Alex Moffat and Kate McKinnon playing engaged MSNBC couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.... (more)

THE GUARDIAN — For many non-believers, it is an instinctive response to a crisis: "Please, God." So perhaps it should not be surprising that a new survey has found that one in five adults pray despite saying they are not religious.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — After Roe v. Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey became a Christian and revealed that she had not been gang raped as her legal team had claimed, many Americans came to understand that this landmark ruling that legalized abortion was based on a lie.... (more)

FOX NEWS — A former U.S. Army Green Beret commander expressed his disbelief at the claim by Hawaii officials that one person's error caused Saturday's statewide alert about an incoming missile.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The U.S. military has conducted training exercises in North Carolina and Nevada in case a war with North Korea breaks out, and next month will train more than 1,000 reserve soldiers on how to set up so-called mobilization centers that move military forces overseas in a hurry, according to a report in the New York Times.... (more)

NEWSMAX — North Korea has the satellite capability to strike the United States, but "it shuts down the infrastructure," Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue told Newsmax TV on Friday.... (more)

TOWNHALL — Today, as you read this, my website Right Wing News is shutting down operations. It has been around since 2001, but became massive a few years ago because of Facebook. Remember the mainstream media liberals going out of their minds because the Russians reached almost 150 million people with their $100,000 Facebook ad buy?... (more)

WARNER TODD HUSTON — Can liberals tell the difference between the Communist Manifesto and the Democratic Party platform? In his latest man-on-the-street video, Ami Horowitz proved that voters have a difficult time with that very question.... (more)

SELWYN DUKE — t's a shocking claim made by a political insider: The Deep State is so opposed to draining the swamp that it will, if necessary, kill President Trump to prevent it. Roger Stone, a longtime Trump advisor and confidante, certainly knows his way around Washington, having worked as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Senator Bob Dole, as well as having held many other political positions.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder who sponsored the unverified anti-Trump dossier, claimed in August and again Jan. 2 that the FBI has a source inside the Trump camp who lent credence to the document. When a transcript of his secret August testimony was released on Tuesday, news headlines immediately latched onto the disclosure as a boon to a dossier whose core charges of Donald Trump-Russia collusion have been denied and not confirmed publicly.... (more)

ART MOORE — A crowdfunding site for a theatrical drama in production that promises to tell the "true story" of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that established a "right" to abortion has been blocked by Facebook.... (more)