ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Let's say I'm an assistant United States attorney in, oh I don't know, Montana. I get to work one morning and I say to myself, "Self, you know what would be really interesting? Why, to ask Barack Obama some questions."... (more)

BYRON YORK — The House Intelligence Committee meets at 5 p.m. Monday in the Capitol. The meeting will give the committee its first opportunity to vote on the question of releasing the so-called "FISA abuse" memo that has captured Washington's attention in recent days. Since the GOP holds a 13 to 9 advantage on the committee, the overwhelming likelihood is that if there is a vote, the panel will decide, along party lines, to release the memo.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Two lovebirds and others at the FBI need to be investigated on charges of plotting to influence a presidential election and later cripple a presidential administration. From July 2015 to July 2017, Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence official who assisted in the Hillary Clinton email probe, exchanged more than 50,000 text messages with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was reportedly having an affair. Some of them are quite damning.... (more)

SEN. TED CRUZ — This week, Americans are celebrating National School Choice Week, a time to raise awareness about the educational options available to families and to advocate for giving them even more choice. A quality education is a right for every child, every family, and every community, but providing it requires us to acknowledge that every child is different -- which is why families should have a variety of options when deciding how to educate their children.... (more)

ALICIA POWE — Armed with an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, 270 rounds of ammunition and a bottle of gasoline during a high-speed railway ride, Ayoub el-Khazzani's mission was clear: Slaughter every passenger on the crowded train that was transporting more than 500 innocent lives. El-Khazzani, an Islamist militant, shot and slashed passengers with a knife until he encountered something he hadn't anticipated -- three brave Americans who refused to give in to fear.... (more)

COURIER-JOURNAL — It was a journalist's worst nightmare. The editor of the Marshall County Daily Online raced to the county's high school Tuesday morning after reports that shots had been fired. She arrived to discover that the alleged shooter was her own son, said her colleague Ann Beckett, who told Courier Journal she went to comfort the editor and take over the story.... (more)

BREITBART — On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher expressed agreement with President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and said he doesn't understand why Israel doesn't get to pick its capital. Maher said, "I hate to agree with Donald Trump, but it doesn't happen often, but I do. I don't know why Israel -- it has been their capital since 1949. It is where their government is. They've won all the wars thrown against them. I don't understand why they don't get to have their capital where they want."... (more)

FOX NEWS — Joy Villa turned up at the 60th Grammy Awards in a dress meant to make a statement. The singer wore a white wedding dress that she hand-painted with the image of a fetus surrounded by a rainbow paired with a purse that read "choose life." "I'm a pro-life woman. This year I chose to make a statement on the red carpet like I always do," she told Fox News. "I'm all about life."... (more)

DAVID USHER — Next to illegal immigration, feminism is the second-greatest seminal threat to American Independence. My mentor Phyllis Schlafly often wrote about the Supremacists -- of which feminists are the most entrenched and dangerous of all anti-American movements. Feminism is the hub of Communism, Marxism, socialism, fascism, the Democrat Party, and the Communist Party in the United States.... (more)

LIFESITE NEWS — For Myra Neyer, a mom and former Planned Parenthood employee, there was one defining moment that influenced her to leave the abortion giant. "There was this one girl, young girl--maybe 19, maybe 20, young--she came in, [and] her boyfriend didn't want any children," Neyer, who used to work at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore, told The Daily Signal in an interview Thursday. "He was an older man."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The crime rate among illegal immigrants in Arizona is twice that of other residents, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday, citing a new report based on conviction data. The report, from the Crime Prevention Research Center, used a previously untapped set of data from Arizona that detailed criminal convictions and found that illegal immigrants between 15 and 35 are less than 3 percent of the state's population, but nearly 8 percent of its prison population.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Only days after a federal judge delivered a stinging rebuke to a prosecution assembled under Barack Obama's administration over a land standoff in Nevada, many of the participants are heading back to court. This time, rancher Cliven Bundy is seeking a judicial ruling that the federal land in Nevada on which he was grazing cattle belongs to the state of Nevada and the people of Clark County, not the U.S. government.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Let's cut to the chase: Donald Trump should not agree to be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller -- and President Trump should not even be asked.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The Justice Department has given Congress less than 15 percent of the texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page -- and that is all Congress is likely to get, at least until department experts finish an effort to recover an unknown number of previously lost texts that were sent and received during a key five-month period during the Trump-Russia investigation.... (more)

FOX NEWS — The Department of Justice has recovered missing text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the DOJ's inspector general said Thursday. In a letter sent to congressional committees, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said his office "succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017."... (more)

BYRON YORK — Republicans in both the House and Senate are growing increasingly frustrated with the FBI and Justice Department over tight restrictions on classified and other confidential information in the Trump-Russia affair.... (more)

THE GATEWAY PUNDIT — Hannity told his audience he has MULTIPLE SOURCES who confirm the DOJ is retrieving the missing messages between FBI lovebirds Strzok and Page. The timeline of the 'missing' text messages is highly suspicious. They begin on December 14, 2016 and go through May 17, 2017 which is the same day Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel. On Monday, an attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow broke down the timeline of 'missing' text messages which begins on December 14, 2016 and goes through May 17, 2017 which is the same day Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel.... (more)

CHERYL K. CHUMLEY — Roughly half of Americans of all political walks -- 49 percent, to be exact -- want a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the FBI for crooked and partisan dealings in their look-sees into Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump. That's a pretty loud voice.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The powerful head of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday accused the FBI and the Justice Department of bad faith in trying to suppress key sensitive details of the Russian election meddling scandal in 2016 and the Obama administration's handling of the investigation.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is determined to question President Trump over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey and former national security adviser Michael Flynn -- but talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has a dire warning for the president: "Don't do it! ... It's just a perjury trap."... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is "looking forward" to speaking with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the coming weeks, and is willing to do it under oath. Mueller is investigating Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and whether there was any coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign and wants to speak to Trump regarding his decisions to fire former FBI director James Comey and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to The Washington Post.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's campaign pledge to "build a wall" on the southern border is beginning to look like it could become a reality, even to many in the media who first thought it was an empty slogan, but are now coming around to the idea.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — A new photo has emerged that shows former President Barack Obama posing with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the black nationalist hate group Nation of Islam. The photo shows then Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama smiling with Farrakhan at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting in 2005. Farrakhan is known for embracing radically anti-Semitic and anti-white views, as even the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has acknowledged.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — TV host Mike Rowe slams the idea that every student must go to a four-year college in order to secure a good-paying job as wasteful, misguided and -- in a word -- "crazy." "We're lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to educate them for jobs that don't exist anymore, and that's crazy," says Mr. Rowe, the former host of the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" who has a new show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — The country has been repulsed and horrified by the case of the Turpin family in California. David and Louise Turpin, monsters in vaguely human form, have been arrested for torturing and tormenting their 13 children. The Turpin kids -- some of them now adults in their twenties -- were emaciated, filthy, and shackled to their beds with chains when police found them. The house was strewn with the carcasses of dead dogs and cats and various other debris. The details get even more disturbing from there.... (more)