NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump has picked Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, as his nominee to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trump says in a pair of tweets Friday evening that Craft "has done an outstanding job representing our Nation" and he has "no doubt that, under her leadership, our Country will be represented at the highest level."... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Many people assume that the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is simply a matter of brute force, as it were -- i.e., achieving political victories that force through the appointment of enough previously convinced pro-life justices to achieve that outcome. Consistent with the injudicious temper of our times, no one appears to believe that rational persuasion, in light of rationally presented historical and constitutional evidence, persuasively argued, will dictate the result.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the release of any report on the Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be totally up to U.S. Attorney General William Barr.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that state and local governments are not exempt from the Constitutional prohibition against imposing "excessive fines" on citizens, significantly constraining the ability of law enforcement to seize the property of criminal suspects.... (more)

NEWSMAX — "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was charged Wednesday with making a false police report when he said he was attacked in downtown Chicago by two men who hurled racist and anti-gay slurs and looped a rope around his neck, police said.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The high school student seeking $250 million from The Washington Post has a "reasonable case" for libel, attorney Alan Dershowitz said. Dershowitz appeared on Hill.TV's "Rising" and commented on the lawsuit filed this week.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republicans toiling to re-elect President Trump are freshly optimistic, confident a Democratic Party dominated by ambitious progressives is scaring wayward factions of the conservative coalition back into the fold.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Economist Ben Stein says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., Green New Deal would cost the U.S. government so much money that it would go bankrupt. "The cost of this project would in a decade triple the national debt," Stein said in an opinion piece for The Spectator. "This would make it completely unpayable EVER.... (more)

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)