WASHINGTON TIMES — Democrats argue that voter fraud is a phantom menace. Sensible safeguards for the integrity of elections, such as requiring the presentation of valid voter identification at the polls, are racist schemes to suppress turnout.... (more)

TPNN — Constitutional conservative Mississippi Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel told Tim Constantine on TPNN's Capitol Hill Show on Wednesday, that Republican establishment-backed, 76-year-old Senator Thad Cochran's campaign stole the recent runoff election in Mississippi, that he had proof, and hoped his current court challenge will not only overturn the election, but will allow people to see the "ugly, ugly under belly of some element of the Republican Party."... (more)

FOX 13 — A federal judge declared a portion of Utah's polygamy ban unconstitutional late Wednesday, essentially decriminalizing polygamy in the state.... (more)

YAHOO NEWS — IMF chief Christine Lagarde, one of the world's most powerful women, announced Wednesday she had been charged with "negligence" over a multi-million-euro graft case relating to her time as French finance minister.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — What does a nation do when its highest official represents the biggest security threat it faces? That's what America needs to decide -- and fast. Because the Islamic State, or ISIS, is not the nation's No. 1 security threat.... (more)

NEWSMAX — House Speaker John Boehner once again has earned the distinction of being the most disliked congressional leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey. Only 28 percent of likely voters said they held a favorable opinion of Boehner, and only 4 percent had a "very favorable" opinion. Conversely, 60 percent view him "unfavorably" with 32 percent having a "very unfavorable" view... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration is looking to reach "a sweeping international climate change agreement" that would not be a formal treaty that would require a two-thirds Senate approval -- which almost certainly would never happen, The New York Times reported... (more)

HUMAN EVENTS — The terrorists of ISIS don't seem cowed by anything that's been thrown at them to date, because they grabbed another American hostage, and this time it's a woman. ABC News reports:... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Americans' telephone conversations already are being monitored by the National Security Agency and their health-care policies by the Internal Revenue Service. Now there's "Truthy," a government-funded project at Indiana University that will watch their Tweets for "political smears" and "social pollution."... (more)

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — After President Obama in his 2013 State of the Union address called for a new federal entitlement for taxpayer-funded free preschool or pre-K for all 4-year-olds, we thought his idea would be quickly discredited, not only by its enormous cost, but even more importantly by the overwhelming weight of research proving the lack of any long-term benefit from such programs... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suing the Obama administration over the Common Core education standards. Jindal is planning to run for president in 2016, and the lawsuit positions the governor on the side of most conservative activists and Republican base voters... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — If concerned citizens want to inform themselves on one of the most important issues in their lives -- the education of their children -- they would be hard-pressed to get any significant help from the national media... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Harry Reid is a bigoted Beltway corruptocrat with an interminable case of diarrhea of the mouth. The feeble-minded coot stuck his foot in that mess of a mouth again last week at the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce. But as mortifying as the Senate majority leader is, there's an even worse spectacle: Asian-American liberals who keep giving top Democrats and their partisan operatives blanket passes... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — On the surface, the cases appear nearly identical: Michael Brown and Dillon Taylor, two young, unarmed men with sketchy criminal pasts shot to death by police officers two days apart... (more)

NEWSMAX — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is guilty of "a remarkable perversion" of the nation's civil rights statute with his unprecedented tinkering in the Michael Brown case, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy told Newsmax TV on Wednesday... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Well, there you go. Dr. Ben Carson had a heartland victory with a "whopping" 62 percent of the vote in a presidential straw poll conducted at the Polk County Republican Party Dinner on Sunday night, which took place in Des Moines but drew attendees from as far away as Minneapolis, who were anxious to yell "Run, Ben, Run" and witness the good doctor's stirring speech... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Environmental Protection Agency needs to explain the intentions behind a proposed rule that Republicans say could subject massive amounts of private property to federal regulation, a GOP House committee chairman said... (more)

CAMPUS REFORM — Students enrolled in certain classes at the College of Coastal Georgia may want to think twice about coming to class sick--or else their peers may get into trouble... (more)

ROGER OGDEN — An article in Investor's Business Daily on August 13, 2014 suggested that Obama is the GOP's greatest asset. But is Obama the greatest asset for the rest of us? Most conservatives and a growing number of non-conservatives would say emphatically "NO!".... (more)

ALAN KEYES — In his usual prevaricating fashion, Barack Obama has responded with good-sounding rhetoric to the heinous murder of journalist Jim Foley. "We will be vigilant and we will be relentless," he said, promising to "do what's necessary to see that justice is done."... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — An article titled "Iraq's Christians See Putin As Savior" appeared on the website of The Daily Beast in late June. It was picked up by literally dozens of "news" sites all over the Internet, contributing to the perception that Russia was actually prepared to do something on behalf of these Christians and other minorities.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Our barbaric jihadist enemies -- the ones President Obama repeatedly assured us he had "decimated" and put on "the path to defeat" -- are now stronger than ever. Not stronger than they have been in years, or decades -- stronger than ever. They have seized a country-size swath of territory (and growing). They have just beheaded an American journalist -- which is the sort of thing they do as a matter of routine but has obviously, and finally, gotten our attention.... (more)

BREITBART — On the Friday broadcast of "The McLaughlin Group," columnist Pat Buchanan predicted that President Obama would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants via executive order by Labor Day and that such an action would "set the country completely on fire."... (more)

THE HILL — Groups that closely follow regulations are expecting the Obama administration to continue issuing controversial rules through the midterm elections, despite the political risk it could pose for Democrats.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A 23-year-old British former rapper was identified on Saturday by British security officials as the man suspected of beheading American journalist James Foley, according to news reports.... (more)