NEWSMAX — Hurricane Florence began lashing the North Carolina coast on Thursday, with heavy surf pounding the Outer Banks and barrier islands, winds shredding flags, and a storm surge pushing seawater over some beaches and past oceanfront homes.... (more)

BRIETBART — A video recorded by Google shortly after the 2016 presidential election reveals an atmosphere of panic and dismay amongst the tech giant's leadership, coupled with a determination to thwart both the Trump agenda and the broader populist movement emerging around the globe.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Somewhere in the "community standards" that Facebook demands everyone follow is a real doozy. The social-media company has told author and commentator Jamie Glazov the standards forbid an article about how to prevent jihadi attacks on Americans.... (more)

ART MOORE — While the term "illegal alien" is enshrined in federal law and U.S. Supreme Court opinions, it's apparently deemed "hate speech" by social-media giant Twitter. The Center for Immigration Studies said Twitter rejected four tweets for use in the organization's Twitter Ads campaign, alleging hateful content.... (more)

BBC.COM — Mark Wahlberg has revealed a punishing daily routine, involving getting up in the middle of the night to work out. The 47-year-old, known for keeping in shape, detailed his regime while answering fans' questions on Instagram. On a typical day, the actor rises at 02:30, before half an hour of prayers.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Alamo's heroes were nearly scrubbed from the politically correct Texas school curriculum by the Texas State Board of Education, which only backed off its proposal on Wednesday after a huge outcry. For several months the board has been working to "streamline" its social studies curriculum standards, and in April submitted recommendations to revise classroom teaching plans to the State Board of Education, The Texas Tribune reported.... (more)

ART MOORE — The 9/11 death toll of nearly 3,000 people, along with more than 6,000 wounded, is well known. Officially, 2,977 were killed, not including the 19 Islamic terrorists who carried out the attacks. The immediate deaths included 246 on the four planes, 2,606 in New York City and 125 at the Pentagon. But the toll actually is higher and continues to mount.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rush Limbaugh says last week's op-ed in The New York Times by an anonymous White House official may be a "made up" composite piece by numerous people. The man behind the "golden EIB microphone" returned on Monday from a short hiatus to address "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration," which detailed a senior official who is undermining the president from the administrative shadows.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two former Trump administration officials Rob Porter and Gary Cohn are pushing back against Bob Woodward's book "Fear: Trump in the White House" as it officially hits the stands on Tuesday. In two separate statements to Axios, both Mr. Porter, the former staff secretary, and Mr. Cohn, the former White House economic counsel say Mr. Woodward's book is not accurate.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Barack Obama's recent denunciation of President Donald Trump's treatment of the press overlooks the aggressive steps the Justice Department took to keep information from the public when he was president. Obama also made a problematic claim that Republican "sabotage" has cost 3 million people their health insurance.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — "Were Brett Kavanaugh's children escorted from a Senate hearing room because they were harassed by hecklers?" That was a topic last week tackled by the allegedly impartial fact-checking sleuths at Snopes.com, Facebook's official partner in separating real news from fake.... (more)

KSL — Wanda Barzee, the wife of Brian David Mitchell who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart and hold her hostage for nine months, will be released from prison next week after serving her entire sentence. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announced Tuesday that it reversed its original decision and determined it had mistakenly not given Barzee credit for her time served in federal prison.... (more)

GLOBAL NEWS — A man wanted in connection to a robbery in Colorado on Sept. 2 was caught on security camera dropping a replica gun before running out of the store, losing his pants in the process.... (more)

WES VERNON — In the last two years, America has been caught up in one of the most crisis level uproars in its "peacetime" history. The obsession of a significant movement to remove a duly-elected sitting president from office has taken us to the edge of a constitutional showdown arguably as intense as the charged environment that dogged Abraham Lincoln leading up to the Civil War.... (more)

BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE — Okay, kids, gather round the campfire. There is something you need to know. Something scary. You are a participant in a vast psychological war. Believe it or not, you are the enemy in this war. You are the primary target. Yes, they want you, your unformed personality, your uninformed mind. They want to shape you and make you so that finally you're indistinguishable from other kids. You're not supposed to know much or think much.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — What is it with our ruling elites? How did they come to have so much disdain for America? Some recent events have yet again brought this unfortunate situation to the surface. Let's start with Nike, the Portland, Oregon-based sportswear megacompany. It did not become a Fortune 100 corporation by chance or careless management.... (more)

NATIONAL INTEREST — My first reaction to the anonymous anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times was perhaps unusual for a resident of the swamp, which has been so hyper this week: I chuckled, rolled my eyes, and didn't even make it to the end of the article before losing interest.... (more)

CHARLES HURT — Just in time to remind America why voters elected Donald Trump president two years ago, ex-President Barack Obama emerged from political exile last week. Pompous, insufferable, self-enthralled, cliched and uninspiring, he picked up right where he left off. Reliving his eight-year campaign that cost over 1,000 Democrat politicians their seats, Mr. Obama put on his psychiatrist cap and declared our current politics mentally unwell.... (more)

THE HILL — President Trump's fight against Google is making its way down Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress. Republican lawmakers are ramping up their scrutiny of the tech giant after Trump accused Google of political bias and questioned whether regulators should take a closer look at its market powers.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — Twitter suspended former Army Ranger and Benghazi hero Kris Paronto over the weekend for mocking former President Barack Obama and liberals after another Twitter account claimed that Obama killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Fusion GPS founder Glenn R. Simpson pushed a conspiracy theory to the Justice Department that posited Donald Trump maintained a computer server in 2016 directly linked to the Kremlin-connected Alfa Bank in Moscow, according to government notes obtained by The Washington Times.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — FBI Agent Peter Strzok conspired with his in-house lover to leak anti-Trump stories to the media in the spring of 2017 when he headed the Russia probe into the Trump campaign, a congressman said on Monday. Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican, sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein saying a House task force had just received a new shipment of Justice Department documents... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos was sentenced Friday to 14 days in jail after pleading guilty in October to misleading federal investigators. Prosecutors argued that Papadopoulos, who as part of his sentence must also pay a $9,500 fine and perform community service, withheld information that was "material" to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, though Trump and his allies have cast the former aide as a low-level "coffee boy" with no real influence or access to the candidate.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — When former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced his office's prosecution of Christians who were protesting outside an abortion business, he insisted America is "not a nation where you can choose your point of view."... (more)

JUDI CALER — 2018 proved to be a horrible legislative year for the Article V convention lobby. It measures its success by the number of State Legislatures it cajoles into passing applications asking Congress to call a constitutional convention (con-con) pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution.... (more)