FAITH IT — The 2017 NFL season could easily be summed up in two words: Public Demonstration. Flip the channel to ESPN this season, and you're bound to get one of two very different tales. On one hand, you may have seen headlines and reports of free agent Colin Kaepernick, and his public demonstration of taking a knee--although it may have cost him his career.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Another school shooting has taken place -- this one in Kentucky. Our prayers are with the families of the victims, including two dead 15-year olds and about 18 wounded. Governor Matt Bevin even declared a day of prayer in the wake of the tragedy.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Trump administration's new, revised nuclear weapons policy squarely targets Russia's growing stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons with a more forceful doctrine and new low-yield warheads designed to send Moscow a message.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Public hearings should be held about the allegations in House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' memo that the FBI abused surveillance practices during the 2016 presidential election, Rep. Pete King, a fellow committee member, said Friday.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Saturday that a memo on FBI surveillance abuses released by House Republicans "totally vindicates" him in the investigation into Russian meddling and collusion in the 2016 election. "This memo totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe," the president tweeted. "But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on." The president said there was "no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead)."... (more)

BYRON YORK — It's fair to say that much of the media reaction to the House Intelligence Committee "FISA abuse" memo has been a mixture of scorn and ridicule. Many commentators have called the memo wrong, worthless, or worse.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans released a long-awaited memo Friday detailing government surveillance abuses, showing that the FBI would not have obtained a surveillance warrant for the Trump campaign without using information from a dubious partisan dossier.... (more)

ARI FLEISCHER — I don't know former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. I've never met him. But I was supposed to. I was in an FBI car last June on my way to meet him and other top law enforcement leaders at a counterterrorism communications training event at the 9/11 Museum in New York City when McCabe suddenly ordered me not to show up. The car pulled up outside the museum and I was told not to come inside. I took a taxi back to my hotel and went home.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's rollback of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah become official Friday, allowing private citizens and companies to make new oil, natural gas, and drilling claims.... (more)

NEWSMAX — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Friday that the Republican memo alleging FBI surveillance abuses was justified because "I have an obligation to the American people when we see FISA abuse" -- denying that he coordinated its release with President Donald Trump or his private attorneys.... (more)

ART MOORE — In the wake of the release Friday of a controversial memo he spearheaded that alleges politically motivated abuse of the nation's surveillance system by the FBI and the Justice Department, he's being called a Russian agent and much worse, and there are demands that he be removed from the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Nunes memo released Friday shows special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the wrong people "on purpose," contends talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. The declassified report by the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee confirms that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for a British spy to produce a salacious and discredited opposition report on Donald Trump that was submitted by the Justice Department to a top-secret surveillance court as evidence to obtain warrants to spy on a Trump campaign adviser.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — President Trump declassified the highly anticipated memo from House Intelligence Committee Republicans on Friday, and the four-page summary of federal FISA abuses convinces former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that the government manipulated the system for partisan purposes and that the entire FISA system must be reformed.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The release of a declassified memo on FBI surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign prompted calls Friday for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to explain his involvement to Congress, or even to resign. The memo from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee shows that at least one of the questionable surveillance warrant applications was signed by Mr. Rosenstein, who already has had a difficult relationship with President Trump. The memo said information supporting the application was obtained from a partisan anti-Trump dossier funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan has signed on to be a talking head on NBC and MSNBC. He will serve as a senior national security and intelligence analyst for the networks and make his first official appearance on NBC News's "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd on Sunday.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Department of Defense has put a primary focus on a multibillion-dollar effort to update its nuclear deterrence against Russia, according to its recently released Nuclear Posture Review, CNN reported Friday. The report acknowledges publicly for the first time a "new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo," known as the "Status-6" system it said Russia was "developing."... (more)

BBC NEWS — Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications. The landscape, near already-known Maya cities, is thought to have been home to millions more people than other research had previously suggested.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points: * The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Utah billionaire and philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr., who overcame poverty to become one of the state's most successful and powerful people, died Friday at age 80. Huntsman's longtime assistant Pam Bailey said he died in Salt Lake City but she declined to name a cause of death. The Huntsman Corp., his company, said in a statement that Huntsman at his home, surrounded by family.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump is expected to approve the release of a classified memo spearheaded by the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. According to a Thursday afternoon pool report, a White House official confirmed upon arrival to West Virginia that the president "has read the memo."... (more)

THE HILL — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application last year to extend surveillance of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, according to a secret Republican memo detailed in a The New York Times report.... (more)

BYRON YORK — As expected, there is a desperate last-minute fight going on over the release of the House Intelligence Committee "FISA abuse" memo. In a statement Wednesday, the FBI expressed "grave concern" over the memo, saying it contained "material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Rev. Franklin Graham says there's a "digital coup d'etat" being waged against President Trump. "The left is trying to destroy this man," he said in a radio interview with Fox News. "It's almost like we're in the middle of a digital coup d'etat. That's what it is, a digital coup d'etat. They're wanting to force him out of office and take control of the government."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The oldest son of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro killed himself on Thursday after months of treatment for depression, state media reported. He was 68. Official website Cubadebate said that Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart had been in a "deeply depressed state." A brief note read on state television said his treatment had "required a hospitalization regime then outpatient follow-up."... (more)

FOX NEWS — The leader of the private investigative team who has spent years trying to crack the D.B. Cooper hijacking case claimed Thursday he believes the mysterious criminal was a CIA operative whose identity has been covered up by federal agents. Thomas Colbert, a documentary filmmaker who helped put together the 40-member team, told the Seattle PI his team made the connection from work a code breaker uncovered in each of the five letters allegedly sent by Cooper.... (more)