NEWSMAX — The Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to expedite construction of a "secondary wall" on the U.S-Mexico border. The secondary wall will be built in the eastern portion of Border Field State Park in San Diego, extend for 12.5 miles and should be 18 feet tall, a spokesperson for the sector told the Washington Examiner. It was awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on December 20, 2018.... (more)

LIFE SITE NEWS — One of the attorneys representing Covington High School student Nick Sandmann and his parents confirmed to LifeSiteNews that Native American activist Nathan Phillips, and some of the others who have received notices from the attorneys, "will be sued." Lin Wood, an Atlanta-based lawyer, told LifeSite yesterday that Phillips' "lies and false accusations" against Sandmann and the other Covington students are "well documented."... (more)

LIFE SITE NEWS — Pop star Justin Bieber opened up about his marriage to his wife Hailey in a Vogue interview released this week, in the process expressing beliefs about God and sex that contrast sharply from today's secular Hollywood norm. The 24-year-old Bieber reportedly married model and TV presenter Hailey Baldwin last September at a New York City courthouse, and they plan to hold a wedding ceremony later this year. Their friendship goes back ten years, including a brief courtship three years ago and a 12-week courtship leading up to their marriage.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak. But how to explain group suicide? Wikipedia lists numerous cases, starting in 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — New Muslima congressman (generic use of "man") Ilhan Omar is proposing a 90% tax on the wealthiest Americans. This, of course, is insane. These are the folks that know how to turn money into jobs. The last thing we should want to do with their wealth is siphon it off and dump in a bottomless federal money pit where it will be used to pay shrimp to run on treadmills.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — The settlers and the founders of this country spoke a lot about their posterity -- the generations that would follow them. For example, the Constitution begins, "We the People of the United States, in Order to...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution" (emphasis added).... (more)

REV. MARK CREECH — Much of America was shocked to learn about New York's passage of a law that allows for an abortion during all nine months of a woman's pregnancy, and for any reason. The law so expands abortion that even a child born alive in a botched procedure isn't protected. The new law says health care practitioners who are not physicians may also terminate the child within the womb. It removes abortion from New York's state criminal code, meaning if a baby in utero was to die from an assault on a woman there could be no severe prosecution. Furthermore, the New York law allows young girls of every age to have an abortion without parental consent.... (more)

PAT BUCHANAN — If the pollsters at CNN and CBS are correct, Donald Trump may have found the formula for winning a second term in 2020. His State of the Union address, say the two networks, met with the approval of 76 percent of all viewers -- 97 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of independents and 30 percent of Democrats. Seventy-two percent agreed with the president's plans for securing the border with Mexico.... (more)

BYRON YORK — When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., disinvited President Trump from delivering the State of the Union on its originally scheduled date, Jan. 29, the White House and Republicans in Congress brainstormed about what to do. Should Trump travel somewhere, such as the U.S.-Mexico border, and give his speech there? Should he show up at the Capitol on the 29th and demand to speak? Should he deliver the address in writing, as it was for many years of the nation's history?... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Tucker Carlson took aim at former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and the "identity politics" she defended in an article published earlier this month. One day after Abrams gave the Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, the Fox News host downplayed her speech, but called attention to the Foreign Affairs piece as "far more interesting" for those who "want to understand what the Democratic Party seeks for this country."... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Virginia's leadership crisis took an absurd turn Wednesday when the man who is second in line to become governor admitted he has worn blackface -- even as Gov. Ralph Northam's job is already on the line for the same thing and the man who is first in line to replace him is embroiled in a sex scandal.... (more)

PAUL BEDARD — A key black Virginia political leader Tuesday hit white Democrats for not moving quick enough to demand the resignation of Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam over a picture on his college yearbook page featuring a man in blackface next to another in a KKK robe.... (more)

LIFE NEWS — Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is under fire for endorsing infanticide yesterday on a radio talk show. Northam not only defended a bill in the state legislature that would legalize abortions up to birth -- even if the mother is dilated -- he defended infanticide during a radio show today.... (more)

C-SPAN — President Trump delivers 2019 State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress.... (more)

REAL CLEAR POLITICS — President Trump said the United States will never become a socialist country in his 2019 State of the Union address. "We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom -- and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair," Trump said Tuesday night.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — CBS News released an instant poll that showed slightly over three-fourths of those who watched President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night approved of what he said.... (more)

DAILY SIGNAL — This is the full text of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery. Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the first lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans:... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., identified herself on a 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas as an "American Indian" -- a previously undisclosed example of her claiming an Indian heritage, The Washington Post reported.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — All freedom-loving people support the overthrow of the tyrannical socialist Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela. But President Trump's replacement, Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaido, is also a socialist. His Popular Will party is a "progressive" party and a member of the Socialist International.... (more)

SELWYN DUKE — It's certainly a sign of the times that Governor Ralph Northam's resignation has been demanded not because of an apparent endorsement of infanticide, but because of a 1984 yearbook photo. Yet another sign is how, while Virginia's Northam is condemned for having appeared in blackface or a KKK costume, another man is being honored despite having actually appeared before a KKK rally and preaching strict racial separation.... (more)

AMY CONTRADA — A depraved sadomasochist (BDSM) orgy is set to take place in Cleveland, Ohio the last weekend in April 2019. The "Cleveland Annual Leather Weekend" (CLAW) has been taking over upscale hotels for years now with no interference. It is time to interfere and STOP this outrage. Hotels booked this year by CLAW are the downtown Cleveland Westin, Marriott, Hampton Inn, and Aloft.... (more)

NEIL BRIAN GOLDBERG — Many years ago, I had success in the music industry. My songs were being heard all over the world, but I was never happy. I was a very troubled and afflicted young man. After much "self-improvement"' work, great progress was made, but still, I had not changed. Finally, I heard about "Emotional Trauma Release," a technique where one talks about their feelings lying on their backs in the presence of a facilitator, who keeps pointing you back to your feelings. "How does that make you feel?"... (more)

WALL STREET JOURNAL — President Trump in Tuesday's State of the Union is expected to issue a plea for national unity at a moment of deep partisan divisions, with the Democratic-controlled House and the White House at an impasse over spending priorities while Mr. Trump threatens to do an end-run around both chambers of Congress to pay for a wall on the southern U.S. border.... (more)

COUNTRY LIVING — Sure, Tom Brady secured a record sixth Super Bowl ring on Sunday--but the New England Patriots weren't the only big winners of the night. Before kickoff, Gladys Knight took the turf for an incredible rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Clad in a crystal-embellished white gown and sparkling booties, the 74-year-old performed a soulful version of the national anthem that received rave reviews from the Atlanta crowd and beyond.... (more)

CHUCK NORRIS — Whether or not you're a part of the declining viewership of the NFL, there's a ray of light worth noting in professional football and in particular this year's Super Bowl. We sometimes forget as debates about kneeling during the national anthem rage on, there are a host of real and inspirational American patriots who are at the heart of every NFL team. I'd like to highlight a few football warriors who stand out not only for their athletic abilities on the field but their perseverant strategies in life. They share a part of a new video just out for the 2019 Super Bowl.... (more)