ERICK ERICKSON — To answer the question that keeps invading my vacation in the form of tweets, Facebook messages, texts, and emails -- Congressman Jim Bridenstine. Jim is the guy I would support in an instant to replace Senator Coburn in Oklahoma. I don't know whether he is running or not, but conservatives would be insane to not draft him into the race. In fact, I think conservatives should draft him, rally around him, and let the establishment be the side divided behind multiple candidates.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The man who who directed the George Washington Bridge lane closures that sparked New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's bridge-gate scandal wants to tell all, his lawyer says.... (more)

ERICK ERICKSON — Conservative and Republican affiliated groups have started the 2014 assault against Democrats who support Obamacare... (more)

NEWSMAX — Don't believe President Barack Obama's claim that 6 million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, warns Glenn Kessler, author of the influential Fact Checker blog in The Washington Post.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra believes President Barack Obama's vow on Friday to stop collecting Americans' phone records and spying on friendly foreign leaders was undetailed and vague.... (more)

THE HILL — President Obama vowed to use his executive authority to usher in a "year of action" even if Congress remains gridlocked, he said in his weekly address.... (more)

U.S. NEWS — Two senior members of Gov. Chris Christie's administration warned that Hoboken, N.J., would be starved of Hurricane Sandy relief funds unless the mayor approved a redevelopment project favored by the governor, according to the city official and emails and personal notes she shared with MSNBC.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Conservative Republicans have no place in New York with their right-wing views because "that's not what New Yorkers are," Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says.... (more)

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — When Tom Coburn leaves the Senate at the end of this year, it may be a while before Washington sees someone like him -- because Washington tries its hardest to keep out people like him.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — 'Much of the Washington establishment wants to spend 2014 hiding in the caves," Ted Cruz tells me. To say the least, the freshman senator won't be spending the next year in the shadows... (more)

REUTERS — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether police can search an arrested criminal suspect's cell phone without a warrant in two cases that showcase how the courts are wrestling to keep up with rapid technological advances.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama on Friday announced long-awaited reforms to the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance techniques, saying intelligence officials would need secret-court approval before accessing phone metadata and that the government should transition away from storing the private information.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Obama elaborated that the program fills a critical intelligence void that led, in part, to the failure to interrupt the 9/11 plot. Had the NSA program been in place, the intelligence community would have known that suicide-hijacker Khalid al-Midhar was already in San Diego -- not in some overseas outpost -- when he was in contact with a known al-Qaeda safe-house in Yemen.... (more)

BOBBY SCHINDLER — Much has been written about Jahi McMath in recent days. The 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl underwent surgery Dec. 9 to remove her tonsils. She was declared "brain-dead" after going into cardiac arrest.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A 9-year-old girl in Afghanistan is living testimony to the sheer evil of radical Islam. Her name is Spozhmai, and she was betrayed by her family. Her father and brother strapped a suicide vest to her little body and told her she must go to a military checkpoint, where her vest would be detonated.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — The myth of the poor, oppressed jihadist never dies. U.S. secretary of state John Kerry is the latest Obama administration official to peddle this odious narrative. Cue John Lennon's cloying "Imagine," don your plaid pajamas, and curl up with a warm cup of deadly naivete.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Regardless of all the advertising touting the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, it's worthless, says board-certified family practitioner Dr. David Brownstein. When you cut through the hype and take a good, close look at the facts, you'll discover that the vaccine just plain doesn't work, he tells Newsmax Health. What's more, he says, it can be dangerous.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — It's no secret that the Chamber of Commerce is about to spend $50 million to defeat Tea Party candidates in GOP primaries all across the fruited plain... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — In a shocking development, the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., has put its weight and prestige behind the bogus "news organization" Al Jazeera and its reporters, now jailed in Egypt for associating with the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood... (more)

AP — President Barack Obama has told Senate Democrats he plans to use his executive authority to act in 2014 when Congress stands in his way.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — In response to President Obama's warning that he would use more executive orders in the coming months to achieve his policy agenda, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh scoffed, "This is just absurd," Breitbart reported.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — For more than five years, anyone who questioned Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president has been treated by the news media with utter contempt, ridicule, scorn, derision, mockery and disparagement. The constitutional issue of the "natural born citizen" clause could not even be discussed intelligently on any news network without guffaws, taunting and put downs. But that was then. This is now.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A grassroots political action group is raising funds to air ads in key swing markets immediately before and after the Super Bowl featuring Sen. Ted Cruz's fierce battle against President Obama's health care law.... (more)

TIMOTHY CARNEY — Cold cash, together with control of institutions, is what makes the Establishment the Establishment. But in the current Republican civil war, the insurgents have secured their own money pipelines, and they control their own institutions -- which means the GOP leadership and its allies in the business lobby have a hard fight in front of them.... (more)

JEROME R. CORSI — An eyewitness to the attack at the main U.S. compound in Benghazi interviewed exclusively by WND from Libya via Skype confirmed the report released Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that concluded the Obama administration misled the American public by maintaining the incident was not related to terrorism.... (more)