LIFE NEWS — Over the years, Oprah Winfrey has seemingly evolved into America's mom. After her TV career, she sounds like an evangelist preaching a feminist substitute to replace religion in her monthly Oprah Magazine. Her August issue carries this motivational nugget of Oprah wisdom on the cover: "We all want to feel radiant, joyful, and alive. It starts with choosing love -- in any form." No mention of faith, but no surprise there.... (more)

BRIETBART — The David Horowitz Freedom Center has had their donation processing system blocked by Visa and Mastercard allegedly following a campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Visa has since contacted Breitbart News to deny involvement in the blacklisting of the Freedom Center.... (more)

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — George Zirwas was known to be part of a small ring of gay predatory priests in the Pittsburgh diocese who got teenaged boys drunk and sexually assaulted them. Even after the ring was exposed and Zirwas's compatriots were put on trial in 1988, prosecutors couldn't charge Zirwas with a crime, although multiple criminal activities of his had been reported to the Pittsburgh diocese.... (more)

R.T. NEARY — The one undeniable truth in this great historic Land of the Pilgrims today is that we live by the lie. Disseminating untruths is not only acceptable but applauded, if they are phrased not to offend certain selected elements in our social structure. Ironically, the one exception is if one's utterances seem to be echoing the bedrock principles which led to the founding of the Bay State and ultimately these United States. To some it may sound strange, but just referring to our nation as a Republic will set off alarm bells in numerous circles.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Radio host Rush Limbaugh says special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is proving to millions of citizens that a "dual system of justice" exists in America. The man behind the "Golden EIB microphone" told listeners on Wednesday that a large population of Americans view legal battles surrounding President Donald Trump's former pers... (more)

DAILY CALLER — The New York Times opted to delete the immigration status of the man suspected of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts in an update to a headline about the incident Wednesday. According to the Twitter account Editing TheGrayLady, The Times made a number of changes to the headline of its story on Tibbetts's murder before finally falling on "Immigrant Is Charged In Mollie Tibbetts Murder in Iowa, and Trump Seizes on Case." (RELATED: Illegal Immigrant Charged With Murder Of Mollie Tibbetts)... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts suggested that preventing family separation at the border should be a more pressing concern than preventing illegal immigrants from committing violent crimes during a Wednesday appearance on CNN.... (more)

FOX NEWS — The Iowa college student who was allegedly abducted by a stranger while running last month in a small town was stabbed to death, investigators announced Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results from the state medical examiner's office determined that 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was the victim of a homicide who died from "multiple sharp force injuries," the Division of Criminal Investigation announced in a news release.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown positioned herself early on as a leader of the anti-Trump opposition, but the state's never-ending panoply of protest activity has backfired on her re-election bid with voters suffering from resistance fatigue. Ms. Brown, who was expected to coast to victory in deep-blue Oregon, has found herself deadlocked in the latest polls with state Rep. Knute Buehler, an affable orthopedic surgeon whose moderate brand of Republicanism is attracting crossover voters.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Melania Trump walked into a conference the other day to summon attention to her "first lady's project," using her own bully pulpit to curb cyber-bullying of children. Who wouldn't report with respectful appreciation what the woman was saying, about a major problem confronting our children today? She found out who, after receiving an onslaught of online bullying for daring to separate herself from her husband's political attack style.... (more)

ART MOORE — The recent wave of censorship of conservative voices on the internet by tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple mirrors a plan concocted by a coalition of George Soros-funded, progressive groups to take back power in Washington from President Trump's administration.... (more)

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)