WASHINGTON TIMES — The Clinton campaign received a steady flow of briefings on its paid-for Christopher Steele dossier, whose unverified Trump-Russia collusion charges made their way into election news stories and Clinton talking points. The dossier emerged again as a Washington hot topic in recent days with the release of four FBI applications to a judge to spy on a Donald Trump volunteer. The petition's evidence to convince the judge was largely based on the dossier.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The remains of some of the American troops killed in the Korean War are on a plane back to the U.S., President Trump announced on Friday. "At this moment a plane is carrying the remains of some great fallen heroes from America back from the Korean War," the president stated during a speech at the White House addressing the economy. "They're coming back to the United States."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Obama administration gave $200,000 in taxpayer money to a group it knew to be an al-Qaida affiliate in Sudan, according to an investigation. The joint i24News-Middle East Forum probe found the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, gave $200,000 to the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency, a designated global terrorist organization, reported i24News, the Israeli international news and current-affairs television channel located in Tel Aviv.... (more)

MICHAEL BARONE — Sometimes a society's values change sharply with almost no one noticing, much less anticipating the consequences. In 1968, according to a Gallup survey, 70 percent of American adults said that a family of three or more children was "ideal"--about the same number as in Gallup surveys starting in 1938. That number helps explain the postwar baby boom that exploded after Americans were no longer constrained by depression and world war.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Filmmaker John Sullivan has faced his share of obstacles in executive-producing his latest movie, "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer." First came financing for the feature film, which recalls the barbaric practices of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The issue was resolved by a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign in 2014 that netted north of $2.1 million via Indiegogo.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Barely a week goes by without some news about the transgender issue. Recently, some declared that babies should be called "theybies" – since we don't know whether they're male or female until they decide for themselves.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — The Bible's view of human sexuality is quite direct: God created them "male and female" (Genesis 1:27). There are two sexes, or genders, and only two. Period. People may be confused about their sexual identity, but the solution in such cases is to help them reconcile their mental view of themselves with biological reality. It is not to mutilate the human body in a vain attempt to work things the other way round.... (more)

CNBC — Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. The social media giant's market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. At Wednesday's close, Facebook's market cap had totaled nearly $630 billion, according to FactSet.... (more)

JIM TERRY — James Clapper is offended that President Trump has threatened to remove Clapper's security clearance. John Brennan said President Trump committed treason in his meeting with Vladimir Putin. What do these two opponents of Trump have in common? Both are political hacks.... (more)

NEWSMAX — House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said Thursday he was tabling efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, saying after meeting with Republican leaders that he would pursue contempt measures if Congress did not soon receive subpoenaed documents on the Russia probe. "I think the very first order of business would be moving the House to a contempt vote," the North Carolina Republican told reporters at the Capitol, The Hill reports.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — On heels of obtaining a copy of the FBI's application for permission to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, Washington watchdog Judicial Watch now is asking for copies of transcripts of hearings related to the surveillance. Judicial Watch on Tuesday filed a motion in the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain the transcripts.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Twitter's newest way to attack and limit the reach of the Republican Party has been found, and is being described by VICE News. The social media site is using "a technique known as 'shadow banning" to limit the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results," the news site reports its own research found. It explains Twitter calls it a "side effect" of its work to improve discourse.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A defendant in an unprecedented case brought by the state of California against undercover journalists who documented Planned Parenthood's baby-body-parts-for-sale scheme is charging the chief of the prosecution team, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, is biased because he pledged to "stand with Planned Parenthood."... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — If I asked you to define the Gospel, what would you say? Which verses of the Bible would you point out that explain it? If some stranger ask you to tell them the Good News of Jesus the Messiah, how would you respond? Have you ever shared the Gospel with others?... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — On a sleepy summer Saturday, after months of stonewalling, the FBI dumped 412 pages of documents related to the Carter Page FISA surveillance warrants -- the applications, the certifications, and the warrants themselves. Now that we can see it all in black and white -- mostly black, as they are heavily redacted -- it is crystal clear that the Steele dossier, an unverified Clinton-campaign product, was the driving force behind the Trump--Russia investigation.... (more)

ART MOORE — One conclusion that can be drawn from the newly released application the FBI and Justice Department used to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016 is that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should recuse himself from ongoing investigations of the matter, a congressman contends.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Russianism is a psychological malady in which furor at Donald Trump's election victory and presidency -- and the ensuing depression resulting from the inability to abort it -- finds release through fixation on Russia.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The release of a heavily-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has spurred calls to remove the redactions, to un-black out the pages blacked out by the FBI before the document was made public.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Americans have a constitutional right to openly carry firearms, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, delivering a major victory to gun rights supporters. While courts previously have recognized the right to own firearms to protect the home, the decision by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit extends that into the public sphere, calling it a "core Second Amendment right."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — No more "undocumented" immigrants, just "illegal aliens." CNN reported Tuesday evening that the Justice Department has told its attorneys that the term "undocumented" is inaccurate according to U.S. immigration law and that they should start using the legally correct term. "Illegal alien" is the accurate term used in the U.S. Code, the email reportedly says.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — In an article published last month, WND's Bob Unruh reported that Amazon.com is acting on information provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to subject people to the deprivation of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Now comes this further report:... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI continued to tell judges that dossier writer Christopher Steele wasn't the source of a news article the bureau used to corroborate a wiretap application when in fact Mr. Steele had publicly acknowledged that he fed the anti-Trump story. This chronology is contained in four heavily censored Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo -- the brief report produced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes detailing problems in the application.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump on Sunday said top-secret documents prove the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign in an "illegal scam," putting him at odds with Capitol Hill lawmakers, including Republicans, who insist federal authorities were justified in tracking foreign policy adviser Carter Page.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, said the warrant FBI agents used to snoop on him is "so ridiculous" and "misleading" and that he never acted as a Russian agent. "I've never been an agent of a foreign power by any stretch of the imagination," Mr. Page told CNN's State of the Union.... (more)