WORLDNETDAILY — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has proposed legislation that would designate funds confiscated from convicted drug lord Joaquin Guzman for border wall construction. To which El Chapo's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, scoffed. "Sen. Cruz surely knows that the government has seized none -- not a penny -- of Mr. Guzman's assets so getting him to pay for the wall is ludicrous," the lawyer said, according to CNN. "There's a better chance of Mr. Cruz paying for the wall."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The news was everywhere when "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett claimed he was attacked by two "MAGA-country"-shouting assailants who dumped a liquid, apparently bleach, on him and put a noose around his neck.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The FBI is working with the U.S. Postal Service to determine whether Empire actor Jussie Smollett sent himself a threatening letter in the days before the "hate crime" he is now under investigation for allegedly staging, two federal officials told ABC News Tuesday.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The U.S. Supreme Court last summer vastly expanded the rights of government workers to not be union members against their will and now Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is proposing a bill to ensure other workers have the same choice.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently moved into a luxury apartment complex in Washington, D.C. that does not offer the affordable housing units that were a key plank in the New York congresswoman's campaign platform.... (more)

THE HILL — President Trump repeatedly slammed socialism during a Monday speech about Venezuela, saying that the political ideology's days in North and South America are "numbered." "The days of socialism and communism are numbered, not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and Cuba as well," Trump told a crowd gathered in Miami.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Already, according to a new report, more than 18 million people have heard Ellen Page, an actress, blame President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, for an "attack" on homosexual actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The "we reported the Jussie Smollett case responsibly" contention has been blasted to smithereens. Twitter accounts and headlines in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times reported as fact Jussie Smollett's wildly implausible allegations, and many other journalists did so as well, not to mention the innumerable activists and celebrities who piled on. So, a question for all of the above. Why did you believe Jussie Smollett? Let's try to catalogue the red flags.... (more)

YOUTUBE — During an animated discussion of President Trump's border wall, CNN's Chris Cuomo tells Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz that Fox News host Sean Hannity has a strong influence over the actions and opinions of President Trump.... (more)

BYRON YORK — When someone says, "I'm a glass half-full person," that means he or she tries to look on the positive side of any situation, even if the reality is mixed. In the case of border security and the spending bill passed by Congress, it would be hard, from the administration's point of view, to call it a "glass half-full" result, given that President Trump won just $1.375 billion of the $5.7 billion he asked Congress to appropriate for a border barrier.... (more)

PAUL BEDARD — President Trump has an unlikely ally in his move to declare a national emergency, freeing up money to build a border wall despite bipartisan opposition -- Capitol Hill's own think tank.... (more)

NEWSMAX — If former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is telling the truth with his claims that officials in the Department of Justice discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office, that could be considered be an attempted "coup d'etat," Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wants answers from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the wake of a bombshell claim that the Department of Justice official was involved in discussions to remove President Donald Trump from office nearly two years ago.... (more)

REAL CLEAR POLITICS — FNC's Tucker Carlson reports on the finding of the Senate Intelligence Committee that there is no evidence of Russia-Trump collusion.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh posed a theory about why Democrats went rogue under the Barack Obama administration and investigated the political campaign of Donald Trump. Aside from the fact that they wanted to keep their jobs maintain and their party agenda, Limbaugh said Democrats were frantic to cover up their own misdeeds and stay out of jail.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Government watchdog Judicial Watch revealed Friday it has obtained another 186 pages of documentation from the Justice Department regarding Hillary Clinton's email scandal, and they show evidence of a cover-up of an FBI chart of possible violations by her.... (more)

NBC NEWS — The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm William Barr as attorney general, 54-45. The confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee, who will oversee special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, had been expected given the GOP's 53-47 control of the chamber. He was sworn in several hours later at the White House.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The Center for a Secure Free Society held a news conference the other day about the roles of Russia, China, Venezuela, and other countries in flooding the U.S. with illegal aliens. Mario Duarte, Secretary of Strategic Intelligence for the Republic of Guatemala, spoke at the event, calling the caravans and their impact on U.S. border security the "weaponization" of refugees.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — Most people have no idea where the theory of evolution came from. They think scientists made discoveries that led them to doubt the Bible's view of origins. But it was the other way round. Men first began to doubt and then dismiss the Bible in the early part of the 19th century. So they needed to find some other explanation for, well, everything. And presto-change-o, Darwin popped out his theory of natural selection in 1859.... (more)

PETER LEMISKA — The idea of Medicare for all, as proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, and many others on the left, sounds amazing. They're a little vague on details, but as I understand it, everyone on U.S. soil, whether they pay into the system or not, would be entitled to free quality healthcare from birth until death. That would include rich and poor, healthy and infirm, young and old, citizen and non-citizen alike. There would be no exemptions, no carveouts, like there were for Obamacare. After all, who would want to be exempt from a dream program like that? And all of it would be administered by the government and funded by taxes on the wealthy.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump says he made his point – the U.S. needs a border wall, and he will build it with or without Congress. Rather than force another unpopular and economically harmful government shutdown, Mr. Trump sounds increasingly willing to accept the agreement in Congress that provides about $1.3 billion for border barriers. That's less than one-fourth of the $5.7 billion that he demanded initially for a wall.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump isn't showing his hand yet. But with little Washington appetite for another shutdown, he's expected to grudgingly accept an agreement that would keep the government open but provide just a fraction of the money he's been demanding for his Mexican border wall.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sarcastically conceded she would allow $1 for border barriers in President Trump's national security funding plan? Then she reneged, promising "nothing." "We can go through the back and forth," she dictated. "No. How many more times can we say no? Nothing for the wall."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Possible independent presidential candidate and Democratic spoiler Howard Schultz on Tuesday dumped on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' "Green New Deal," warning it would be "immoral" to spend trillions of dollars on an "unrealistic" solution.... (more)