NBC NEWS (YOUTUBE) — Watch President Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union's speech. Trump addressed a joint session of congress from the United States Capitol.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — As White House lawyers pored over a memo on Wednesday that contains allegations of government surveillance abuse, they may well have been preparing to do battle with the agency investigating President Trump over alleged Russian collusion.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A rare public challenge by the FBI to Republican lawmakers has intensified the battle over a contentious House intelligence committee memo that accuses the bureau and the Justice Department of political bias against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

NEWSMAX — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Wednesday ripped the FBI's "spurious" objection to releasing his memo alleging agency abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, calling it "no surprise."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Through targeted subpoenas and threatening letters, Rep. Devin Nunes has forced into the open a fuller story of how the Obama administration investigated suspected Russian ties to the Trump campaign and monitored people connected to the presidential candidate.... (more)

ART MOORE — The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch released 42 pages of State Department documents Wednesday, asserting they provide evidence that the Obama administration was trying to undermine Donald Trump's upcoming administration.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI knew for at least a month that emails possibly related to an investigation of Hillary Clinton had been found before telling Congress, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday evening. According to the report, citing "text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal," FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe knew by Sept. 28, 2016, about the findings on Anthony Weiner's computer.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — n an article this week headlined "Lindsey Graham, the uninvited guest," Ann Coulter asks, "Why does Lindsey Graham have a seat at the table on immigration?" The answer has to be, because Donald Trump helped to credential him.... (more)

CHELSEA SCHILLING — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has resigned from his position, effective Monday -- and his sudden departure is triggering speculation about McCabe's role in secret surveillance of Trump campaign officials, leaks to the media, Hillary Clinton-linked cash given to McCabe's wife and a so-called "insurance policy" against Trump's election.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A senior official who headed the FBI's response to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, is expected to replace FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, The Washington Post reported Monday night.... (more)

FOX NEWS — The House Intelligence Committee on Monday evening voted to release a classified memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses. The vote was announced to reporters by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, who called it a "very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee." The motion passed on a party-line basis, he said.... (more)

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)