PAUL BEDARD — This week's Liberal Mainstream Scream features a little peek into the New York Times and why it brought on noted conservative columnist Bret Stephens from the Wall Street Journal. As he said on MSNBC Friday, "One of the Reasons I'm at the New York Times is I'm a Never-Trumper."... (more)

NEWSMAX — On a battlefield, in outer space, on the frontier, at hearth and home, anywhere and everywhere, films have portrayed American self-determination and self-reliance, belief in God, religious freedom, democratic traditions, patriotism, strong families, and respect for forebears, personal bravery and loyalty, and justice and forgiveness. Newsmax selected these films as the Top 50 Movies Celebrating American Values to show what's good about our nation and our way of life.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — First lady Melania Trump is drawing attention to babies who face withdrawal after being exposed to opioids in the womb, even as health facilities are working to develop better ways to care for them and as significant research gaps remain.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Fusion GPS, the impresario of the infamous Christopher Steele dossier, must undergo a deposition in a libel suit brought by a Russian entrepreneur, a federal judge ruled this week. Judge Ursula Ungaro also ordered Fusion, a Washington investigative firm, to turn over written communications with Mr. Steele, who accused the Trump campaign of an "extensive conspiracy" yet to be proven publicly.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Twitter shares plummeted during Friday trading following release of the first quarterly earnings report since the company purged millions of fraudulent accounts from its platform. After gaining roughly 80 percent on the year -- and despite the company's having posted a profit of $134 million this quarter, its third consecutive quarter in the black -- Twitter stock fell by roughly 21 percent Friday. The decline appeared to be due to investor concerns about the social-media platform's stagnating user growth. Twitter's user count fell by 1 million to 355 million this quarter. The company reportedly began purging roughly 1 million accounts daily in an effort to facilitate conversational "health" on its platform.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Parkland tragedy survivor Kyle Kashuv has emerged as a role model for young conservatives across the country -- and it was never more evident than this week, when he helped plan the largest-ever high school conservative conference.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The death count from a rapidly growing Northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead. "My babies are dead," Sherry Bledsoe said through tears after she and family members met with Shasta County sheriff's deputies. Bledsoe's two children, James Roberts, 5, and Emily Roberts, 4, were stranded with her grandmother Melody Bledsoe, 70, when fire swept through the rural area where they were staying Thursday.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former Florida governor Jeb Bush offered a rhetorical hat tip to one-time rival President Trump on Friday for the nation's surging economy. The man deemed "low-energy Jeb" on the 2016 campaign trail by Mr. Trump took to Twitter to marvel at America's high-octane economic growth -- 4.1 percent in the second quarter.... (more)

BYRON YORK — There has been bitter debate about 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. The debate centers on whether the FBI gave the FISA court judges enough information to assess the anti-Trump motives of the people behind the Steele dossier.... (more)

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)