THE HILL — CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) what she thinks "the U.S. should have done post-9/11 regarding Afghanistan" after the freshman congresswoman said that both the GOP and Democrats led her generation "into a disastrous" and "wrong war" and called for an end to the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Watch out. Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley have locked their sights on the next targets of a frightening free speech-squelching purge: independent citizens who dare to raise questions online about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — The president's ultimate duty is to avoid tyranny while preserving the nation's sovereign, constitutional existence.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Attorney General William Barr said he won't recuse himself from being in charge of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, a major development affecting the fate of the politically charged probe into President Donald Trump.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Americans are least favorable toward a presidential candidate who's a socialist or older than 75, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that said President Donald Trump's approval rating ticked up in the past month.... (more)

JOE KOVACS — Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore has launched a ferocious attack on U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., calling her an "immature bully" and "pompous little twit" with "ZERO expertise" who is "going for the jugular of civilization" and "would bring about mass death."... (more)

(CBN NEWS) — A dangerous new internet craze is raising concern among parents and law-enforcement officials. The "Momo Challenge" encourages people to text a random number on the free messaging app called "WhatsApp." A creepy bird woman responds back, asking the user to perform a series of escalating dares. If they do not complete the challenges, the number threatens to leak their personal information to friends, family members, and strangers.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has responded to reports that, despite being the author of the extreme environmental legislation known as the Green New Deal, she has a far larger carbon footprint than the average American, and does not appear to have made any changes to her lifestyle, despite her apocalyptic environmental predictions.... (more)

CHRISTIAN HEADLINES — Senator Kamala Harris recently shared that she is in favor of decriminalizing prostitution and sex work. According to Life Site News, the 2020 presidential hopeful said that despite her previous crack down on sex work when she was California's Attorney General, she would like to see prostitution -- between two consenting adults -- decriminalized.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — A Gallup poll was released last Friday that didn't get much notice -- perhaps because of the hour it came out or maybe because the media disapproved. But it was shocking -- even to me for whom it was not bad news. The headline from Gallup, hardly known as a "conservative" pollster: "Conservatives Greatly Outnumber Liberals in 19 U.S. States."... (more)

AP NEWS — Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential campaign Saturday miles from the rent-controlled apartment where he grew up in Brooklyn and forcefully made the case that he is nothing like fellow New Yorker Donald Trump, proclaiming himself the Democrat best prepared to beat the incumbent in 2020.... (more)

JUANA SUMMERS — A young civil rights activist named Bernard Sanders was arrested and dragged off to jail for protesting school segregation on the South Side of Chicago in the summer of 1963. Most voters didn't learn about that episode until photos surfaced in late February 2016, almost 10 months into the Vermont senator's first presidential campaign. Sanders had been struggling to win over African-American voters, but his topsy-turvy campaign team didn't know such powerful evidence of his civil rights bona fides existed until five days before South Carolina's primary.... (more)

WIKIPEDIA — Faiz Shakir is an American political aide, who currently works as the campaign manager for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — (Heavy) Zachary Greenberg, 28, is now accused in the assault against a conservative activist at UC-Berkeley who was engaged in political expression about the Jussie Smollett case. Before Greenberg's arrest, the Berkeley chancellor released a statement condemning the incident. "According to the police, an unknown, unidentified assailant attacked a Berkeley student engaged in political advocacy. Let there be no mistake, we strongly condemn violence and harassment of any sort, for any reason," it read, in part. Authorities now say that once unidentified assailant was Greenberg.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Californians brag that their state is the world's fifth-largest economy. They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook, and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods. Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford, and Berkeley are cited as permanent proof of the intellectual, aesthetic, and technological dominance of West Coast culture.... (more)

BREITBART — Nearly three-in-five American voters say barriers, fences, and walls at the United States-Mexico border are effective in stopping illegal immigration, a new poll finds. The latest Harvard/Harris Poll reveals sweeping agreement among the American electorate when it comes to the use of border walls at the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration. About 57 percent of voters said a border wall at the southern border is either very or somewhat effective in stopping illegal immigration.... (more)

CBS-NEW YORK — The NYPD is warning police officers about a possible threat from the MS-13 gang, particularly when they are off-duty. CBS2's Dick Brennan reports that in a bulletin the NYPD put out this alert: "Members of MS-13 are looking to 'hit' NYPD police officers, specifically in the Brentwood/Central Islip area as well as possibly Patchogue."... (more)

REUTERS — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, visiting Brazil to drum up support for his bid to push for a change of government in his country, said on Thursday he will return to Caracas by Monday despite threats of imprisonment.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Venezuela's oil industry took a major hit after the U.S. slapped energy sanctions on the country's exports last month, causing them to plummet 40 percent. Exports are down to 920,000 barrels per day of crude and fuel, a significant drop from between 1.47 million and 1.66 million barrels per day Venezuela exported in the three months before the Trump administration's January 28 sanctions, according to a Reuters analysis and data from the country's state-owned oil company, PDVSA.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The federal Department of Health and Human Services has released a final rule that bans funding family planning programs at sites where abortions "are performed or recommended as a form of family planning." The rule change was proposed last year by the Trump administration to deny federal tax dollars to organizations such as Planned Parenthood and others "that provide abortion services."... (more)

CBS NEWS — Americans' tax refunds are no longer shrinking. The latest data released by the Internal Revenue Service show that the average tax refund issued through the third week of February was $3,143. That's slightly higher than the average refund at this time last year, which was $3,103.... (more)

FOX NEWS — An infant in Tokyo who is believed to be the smallest surviving baby boy in the world has finally been released from the hospital for the first time since his August birth. The boy, whose name remained confidential, was born via emergency C-section at 24 weeks gestation and weighed less than 10 ounces.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — On Monday night, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to voice his outrage after Senate Democrats effectively went on record as pro-infanticide. All but three Democrats in the Senate voted against Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse's Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would mandate doctors to provide medical care to babies born-alive after botched abortions.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — On February 15, a woman at the Casa Vallarta Mexican restaurant near Falmouth, Massachusetts, allegedly assaulted a young man wearing a MAGA hat and got herself arrested. After viewing Rosiane Santos' fingerprints, police contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and it turned out that Santos was in the United States illegally. On Tuesday, she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the arrest of Univision's Jorge Ramos when the television anchor displayed video of children in the failed socialist nation eating from a garbage truck. Ramos, a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen, and his team were detained for two hours at Miraflores palace Monday night in a dark room after all of their equipment was seized, Reuters reported... (more)