WORLDNETDAILY — The House of Representatives avoided a government shutdown Thursday night, but Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., says it came at the cost of letting the outgoing Senate Democratic majority have control over government spending for nine months after they lose power, and he says Republicans relinquished their strongest weapon for confronting President Obama's immigration actions in the new Congress.... (more)

LEE DUIGON — "It was pittie/ One so wittie/ Malcontent, Leaving reason/ Should to treason/ So be bent. But his gifts/ Were but shifts/ Void of grace: And his braverie/ Was but knaverie, Vile and base." The poem with the funny spelling was written in 1584 to memorialize the execution of a traitor. But to me it seems to describe the current occupier of the White House.... (more)

AARON KLEIN — In a stunning exchange with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, offered premature final judgments of why Ambassador Chris Stevens went to Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Seventy years ago this month, American heroes successfully held the small crossroads town of Bastogne, repelling Nazi Germany's last chance at a settled peace and making total victory in Europe all but guaranteed.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.) accused House Republican leadership of reneging on a deal made with him to get his support on a crucial procedural vote that almost killed the $1.1 trillion cromnibus funding bill.... (more)

BREITBART — What do you think of Speaker Boehner having President Obama 'whip votes' from the White House in order to pass this bill? It stinks to high heaven.... (more)

RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW — RUSH: Okay. So let me see if I have this right. We're supposed to be entertained by the apparent fight, disagreement, fisticuffs, whatever, going on between the Democrats, Obama and Pelosi and that lamebrain Elizabeth Warren. We're supposed to be excited by this? Ah, gee, you talk about getting misdirected.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Despite resounding Republican victories in statehouses, governor's offices, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, the GOP-controlled House voted 219-206 Thursday to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill that many conservatives abhor because it funds Obamacare and the president's executive actions granting amnesty to illegal aliens.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped House Speaker John Boehner on his show Thursday for what he called a "cowardly" passage of a $1.1 trillion spending bill.... (more)

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — The federal debt has increased by $3.8 trillion in the 3.8 years that have passed since House Speaker John Boehner cut his first spending deal with Senate Democrats and President Obama.... (more)

DESERET NEWS — Congress has a window of opportunity to approve common-sense immigration reform and should act, faith leaders, including President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in April after meeting with President Barack Obama.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Ukraine on Friday welcomed a U.S. bill that would allow Washington to provide lethal military assistance to the embattled country, but Russia expressed outrage at the "openly confrontational" legislation.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Not over their dead bodies. ​ Cops are warning Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa ​Mark-​Viverito to stay away from their funerals should they be ​killed in the line of duty.... (more)

DAILY SIGNAL — For 36 years, Jim Garlow didn't know his first adopted child was the result of a rape. But after his wife Carol lost a six-year battle with cancer last year, their daughter, Janie, went in search of her birth mother. In succeeding, Janie also discovered the horrific circumstances of her own conception.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — An atheist invited to give the opening prayer at a Lake Worth, Florida, City Commission meeting recently called on the "wisdom of Satan" and declared "if almighty Thor is with us, who can ever be against us," a perversion of a New Testament verse.... (more)

BREITBART — President Barack Obama bailed out House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night. After the House embarrassed Boehner by almost killing his 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus bill on a purely procedural vote earlier in the day, House Democrats pitched in to provide the votes to pass it.... (more)

NEWSMAX — House Speaker John Boehner wasn't finding any love among some members of his own party after he successfully negotiated a budget deal Thursday night. "The political establishment wanted full-on amnesty," Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota said Thursday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity." In addition to funding the government through the fiscal year, it also leaves untouched President Barack Obama's executive actions granting legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.... (more)

JERUSALEM POST — Nutured in the Saul Alinsky-style, ACORN-esque tactics of organizing revolution under the banner of "social change," Barack Obama, as a young community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s understood early on the importance of a crisis and how to ride the waves of an emergency to effect the fundamental transformation of society.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — One in five U.S. adults are so depressed about debt -- not to mention drowning in it -- that they think they're going to die still owing their creditors. In a personal finance survey, 18 percent of respondents said they'll probably be in debt for the rest of their lives -- and that's roughly double the percentage who believed that in May 2013, CNBC reported.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — In Manhattan's Union Square last week, a protester wielded a menacing sign. It didn't make the front page of any newspaper. You didn't see it on cable news. An appalled bystander sent me a photo of the marcher and his inciteful placard but didn't want to be identified in any way. You'll know why in a moment.... (more)

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — If the LDS Church's "I'm a Mormon" ad campaign was primarily meant to showcase the faith's global reach, it succeeded. But the two-minute video profiles also reveal a kind of sameness in their depictions of Latter-day Saints, with the brief bios focusing mainly on high-achieving members, a Swiss scholar said recently.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Like the use of the word "chokehold" in connection with the death of Eric Garner, the term "torture" has been applied repeatedly by the media to the CIA's treatment of suspected terrorists. These are examples of how left-wing forces in the Obama administration, the Democratic Party and the media try to control and manipulate the public debate in ways that demonize those defending our nation.... (more)

NEWSMAX — It's "outrageous" for Republicans to rush a budget bill through the House the same way Democrats did when they held a majority, Rep. Raul Labrador told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., sharply disputed an assertion by the treasurer of the AFL-CIO that President Obama's move to provide amnesty for as many as five million illegal immigrants would help the economy and benefit American workers.... (more)

LARRY KLAYMAN — Will a federal court block President Barack Obama's new "executive action" amnesty for illegal aliens? Readers may recall that an injunction against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other federal agencies was issued by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in my lawsuit against warrantless telephone surveillance. That injunction ordering the NSA and others to stop their mass surveillance is currently on appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.... (more)