NATIONAL REVIEW — A Florida judge has ordered Broward County Board of Elections supervisor Brenda Snipes to turn over all records requested by Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott no later than 7 p.m. Friday. Scott filed suit against Broward County on Thursday, demanding that Snipes comply with public-records law by revealing the number of mail-in absentee ballots her office has received, as well as how many of those have been counted thus far.... (more)

SUSAN FERRECHIO — It could be almost two weeks before Florida determines who will serve as the state's next governor and U.S. senator, but the countdown to determining the winners begins Saturday. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, and Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, are currently separated by just 15,000 votes in the race for U.S. Senate.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Justice Department's oversight of the special counsel Russia probe has been the focus of Matthew Whitaker's days-old tenure as acting attorney general, but already his name is attached to a new rule that prevents people who enter the country illegally from claiming asylum.... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — The snowflake disease is catching. Donald Trump, of all people, tried to teach a couple of White House reporters a little needed manners this week and you might have thought he had repealed the First Amendment with an executive order. Several of the snowflakes, who make their living by posing embarrassing when not rude questions to nearly everyone they talk to in pursuit of a day's work, took to the fainting couches in the White House press lounge after the president returned shot for shell.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert slammed the leftist mob that showed up at Fox News host Tucker Carlson's home Wednesday night as displaying "monstrous cowardice" that should not be tolerated. "Fighting Tucker Carlson's ideas is an American right," the CBS host tweeted Thursday. "Targeting his home and terrorizing his family is an act of monstrous cowardice. Obviously don't do this, but also, take no pleasure in it happening.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — When a mob of left-wing antifa activists descended Wednesday night on Fox News personality Tucker Carlson's D.C. home, it signaled a new phase in the political violence and angry confrontations that now are targeting the news media. Political violence has been rising in the U.S. since 2012, according to the Global Terrorism Database. Increasingly aggressive activists have pushed political confrontation to the limit since 2016, accosting Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials in restaurants and in the halls of Congress. And now they're going after conservative journalists at their homes.... (more)

TERENCE P. JEFFREY — The Census Bureau has released new data that strengthens the case for calling the current generation of American children "The Welfare Generation."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The federal government is set to reinstate its borrowing limit, and a new analysis indicates that it will be a record-high $22 trillion -- and then, it won't provide enough money to fund the government past summer. The shocking number, however, is only slightly higher than the current actual debt of some $21 trillion.... (more)

DAILY MAIL — Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Calabasas home, Caitlyn Jenner's mansion in Malibu and even the famed Bachelor Mansion have been hit by the devastating wildfires overtaking Southern California. The Woolsey Fire reached the Kardashian-West pad in the Hidden Hills neighborhood on Friday afternoon, according to TMZ.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — Well, whaddaya know? In the midterm elections of November 6, 2018, the American people rewarded the president -- for only the third time in almost a hundred years -- with a net gain of three and possibly four Senate seats, lost half the House seats that his predecessor lost, and left the radical left-wing Democrats not rejoicing at their meager gains, but still chomping at the bit to bring down the president who has effectively destroyed everything they believed in, worked for, and thought they achieved over the past 75 years.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The election results are hardly the "great victory" claimed by President Trump. Republicans picked up a few seats in the Senate only because unpopular Democrats were up for re-election in conservative states, and lost the House. However, conservative Senator Ted Cruz barely survived in Texas, and the Republican gubernatorial candidate in conservative Georgia, Brian Kemp, only has a narrow lead.... (more)

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN — The war in Washington will not end until the presidency of Donald Trump ends. Everyone seems to sense that now. This is a fight to the finish. A post-election truce that began with Trump congratulating House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- "I give her a great deal of credit for what she's done and what she's accomplished" -- was ancient history by nightfall.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Florida Gov. Rick Scott's Senate campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) filed a lawsuit against the Broward County elections supervisor as votes continue to be counted -- and even discovered -- in Scott's tight race with incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Fox News anchor Chris Wallace lamented Thursday that CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta "makes it awfully hard to have journalistic solidarity" after the White House suspended his credentials.... (more)

DAILY MAIL — The gunman who massacred 12 people at a country music bar in southern California on Wednesday night has been identified as an honorably discharged ex-Marine whose neighbors say he was plagued with PTSD and terrified his own mother.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump emerged undaunted from the midterm elections, warning the new Democratic House majority to work with him or else and escalating his war with the liberal news media. Facing a divided government and the threat of House committee investigations, Mr. Trump promised to pursue bipartisan cooperation but put the onus on Democrats to meet him halfway.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Top Republicans on Wednesday credited their expanded majority in the U.S. Senate to a "Brett bump" that was caused by the explosive partisan fight to confirm conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — After the midterm election results, future Democratic candidates in tough races might hope that the national media completely ignore their campaigns, lest they find themselves in the same position as Beto O'Rourke, Andrew Gillum, and, probably, Stacey Abrams.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Outgoing House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy said Wednesday he wasn't expecting fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be booted from the Justice Department before all the votes were counted in the 2018 midterm elections.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired Wednesday, leaving a host of questions about what comes next for the ongoing special counsel probe, criminal justice and immigration enforcement. Formally, Mr. Sessions resigned, but the move came at President Trump's request less than 24 hours after the midterm elections.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to soon issue findings of his investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Pollsters on Tuesday avoided their disastrous 2016 election forecasts by correctly predicting that Democrats would regain control of the House, though botching some important statewide races. Unlike 2016, when political gurus at The New York Times, The Washington Post and other media said President Trump had little or no chance of winning, surveyors this time captured voting in blue-state congressional districts where a number of Republican seats flipped.... (more)

ART MOORE — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who won re-election Tuesday, called for an investigation into alleged illegal voting after Project Veritas published a video showing poll workers in Texas saying non-citizens could vote and admitting "tons" already had done so in early voting.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — In the final stretch leading up to Tuesday's midterms elections, former President Obama was called upon in five major competitive races to help put the Democratic candidate over the top, and in all five he lost, points out the American Mirror blog.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — I think that every election in the United States ought to be taken as proof that the elitists are wrong who have, for several decades, preached the end of "American exceptionalism." Who knows what most Americans take that to mean? But to their elitist enemies, it has always referred to the existence and success of their self-government and the disruptive effect it has had, from the start, on the self-respecting aspirations of human beings around the world.... (more)