WORLDNETDAILY — Prager University founder Dennis Prager says he's unconvinced by an apology from Facebook for removing some of his commentary and educational videos. He has a lawsuit over restrictions on his videos pending against Google and its subsidiary, YouTube, at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — A progressive Democrat earned his fellow left-wing protesters' wrath earlier this month for the act of carrying an American flag. Paul Welch, who describes himself as a "slightly progressive leftist," was protesting the right-wing group Patriot Prayer's August 4 rally in Portland, Ore. As he carried his American flag alongside other counter-protesters, several black-clad Antifa members carrying various weapons demanded he hand over the flag, calling it a "fascist symbol."... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — For months, these columns have contended that, on the question whether President Trump should agree to a request by Special Counsel Robert Mueller III for an interview, the burden of persuasion has been imposed on the wrong party. That is, the president should not even be asked to submit to questioning at this point; the prosecutor must first establish that the president (1) is implicated in a serious crime and (2) has information or evidence that the prosecutor is unable to obtain from any other source.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The thing to bear in mind is that the president of the United States does not "attempt" to fire anyone in the executive branch. The chief executive either fires an inferior executive official or he does not. "Attempt" does not enter into it.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — A new poll released on Wednesday from Rasmussen Reports revealed that President Donald Trump's approval rating in the black community is exploding, almost doubling from a year ago. The poll showed that nationally the president's job approval rating is split with 49% approving and 49% disapproving.... (more)

STEPHEN MOORE — Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no, no, no and no. The answer to that question is the United States of America. Wow! How can that be? This must be a misprint. Fake news. America never signed the Kyoto Protocol some two decades ago. We never enacted a carbon tax. We don't have a cap and trade carbon emission program. That evironmental villain Donald Trump pulled America out of the Paris climate accord that was signed by almost the entire rest of the civilized world.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The South African government has begun the process of seizing white-owned farmland, reportedly filing legal papers seeking to expropriate two farms for one-tenth of their estimated value. The filings, involving two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo, come as the African National Congress government is seeking to amend the country's constitution to allow outright seizures of land with no compensation. The ANC's leader also has recently argued that pure expropriation is allowed anyway now "in the public interest."... (more)

THE COLLEGE FIX — A pro-choice professor is refusing to say whether or not unborn human beings are actually human, something a prominent professor and bioethicist called an "objective biological fact."... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — An illegal immigrant has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, officials announced on Tuesday. The body of Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared after going for a jog on July 18, was located in a cornfield on Tuesday, according to Rick Rahn, special agent in charge at the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on Tuesday afternoon on eight counts of financial crimes, while Judge T. S. Ellis declared a mistrial on ten other counts for which the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Manafort was found guilty on five counts of tax fraud, one count of hiding foreign bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud. Each count carries with it a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, meaning he now faces up to 240 years behind bars.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — An Obama administration decision to ban incandescent light bulbs was based on a misunderstanding of the law, according to the Department of Energy, meaning those faithful products that had been in use for a century may be returning.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — I can't say that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tells the truth. But I will say that now and then "the truth will out," even from someone whose factional blinders prevent them from applying the name of truth to anything that does not serve their ideological dictatorship.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The firing of FBI agent Peter Strzok earlier this month was long overdue, according to James Kallstrom, a former FBI assistant director who worked for the agency for 27 years. Speaking to John Catsimatidis on his "The Cats Roundtable" Sunday radio show on AM 970 in New York, Kallstrom said that Strzok's "actions were just so outrageous. I think he has tremendous exposure criminally."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — President Trump came out fast and furiously Saturday in denouncing the burgeoning censorship by Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Amazon and other mega-corporate speech police for discriminating against Republican, conservative and other dissident independent media voices.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — As many of you know, I've been concerned about Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon and Apple for a long time. I nicknamed them the "Internet Cartel" and the "Digital Cartel" because they all think alike, act alike, talk alike, walk alike and rake in billions a lot like monopolies -- which, let's face it, they are.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Officials in Washington state have set up a program that pays part of the wages of college students who work for various employers to advance their experience in the job world as they prepare to graduate. But the work-study program forbids "sectarian" organizations from participating. Those would be organizations like churches and Christian schools, and now a new lawsuit charges that that action is unacceptable bigotry on the part of the state.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — A new Gallup poll shows a majority of Democrats are favorable towards socialism and their opinion of capitalism is quickly souring, a trend that one respected expert chalks up to the political rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders and a full century of education steering America's youth to appreciate a system that has failed everywhere it's been tried.... (more)

POLITICO — In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War's wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling--and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings. Freeway overpasses shuddered and collapsed, swallowing cars like a sandpit. Sixty-three people were killed and thousands injured. And local Soviet spies, just like many other denizens of the Bay Area, applied for their share of the nearly $3.5 billion in relief funds allocated by President George H.W. Bush.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Since the surprise announcement of his indictment and guilty plea on Oct. 30, 2017, the short-term, volunteer Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has often been described as a central figure in the Trump-Russia affair. Now, a new court filing from special counsel Robert Mueller suggests Papadopoulos was a bit player all along.... (more)

LOS ANGELES TIMES — Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate. There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here -- just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes. Yet there's always been something -- something just below the surface. Locals have long scoured fields and river banks for arrowheads and bits of pottery, amassing huge collections. Then there were those murky tales of a sprawling city on the Great Plains and a chief who drank from a goblet of gold.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump administration announced a fair housing discrimination complaint against social media giant Facebook on Friday, saying the way the company targets ads can be used to screen out people based on race, sex or other protected categories. The complaint goes to the heart of Facebook's business model, which depends on being able to offer advertisers micro-targeting.... (more)

DOUG WEAD — Now that others are venturing timidly from their foxholes, I can take to print without becoming the sole target of a vengeful, monopolistic technocracy. It appears that Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have all gone to war with President Trump, and are punishing anyone who dares to speak up for him.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Richard Burr, who leads the Senate Selective Committee on Intelligence, issued a sharp rebuke of former CIA Director John Brennan, saying that if he has evidence of Russian collusion he should have presented it to his panel. The North Carolina Republican's statement was remarkable in that he has adhered to a strict nonpartisan approach as the committee pursues a more than yearlong investigation into Russia's hacking Democratic Party computers and other interference.... (more)

TOWNHALL — Former Army Ranger, Benghazi hero and survivor Kris "Tanto" Paranto took to Twitter this week to slam former CIA director John Brennan after President Trump pulled his security clearance.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — The judge overseeing Paul Manafort's trial said Friday that he's received threats related to the case -- and won't release jurors' names amid fears for their safety.... (more)