REAL CLEAR POLITICS — Rep. Tulsi Gabbard takes on Sen. Kamala Harris over her prosecutorial record in California and her record on criminal justice reform, the death penalty, and the war on drugs during the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit.... (more)

HIENA LOUCA — Marianne Williamson's 2020 presidential campaign has gained momentum as the self-help guru became the most-searched for candidate during Tuesday's debate in Detroit Marianne Williamson's 2020 presidential campaign has gained momentum as the self-help guru became the most-searched for candidate during Tuesday's debate in Detroit.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A Washington, D.C.-based group named Muslim Advocates criticized President Trump on Tuesday for a tweet drawing attention to two Somalia refugees arrested in Arizona for allegedly trying to join ISIS, citing the tweet as one of of many "racist" and "bigoted" attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and immigrants by Republicans and Fox News.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Just as a Baltimore TV reporter expressed the wish of local residents that President Trump come and see conditions for himself, a live camera captured a large rat scurrying from behind a trash bag. Fox45 reporter Maxine Streicher was in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood discussing the outrage over Trump's tweets last weekend urging Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., to fix the "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" in his district.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Mexico said Tuesday the number of mainly Central American migrants travelling through the country to reach the U.S. border has declined by 39% since May. Mexico's foreign relations secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said the number of migrants fell from 144,278 in May, to 87,648 so far in July.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has gained widespread support in modern society despite its fundamental flaws. Not the least of which is the failure of the fossil record to support the theory. It also cannot explain the art, music and religion interests of humans when those traits offer no apparent survival advantage. There is a long history of inaccurate predictions, and natural selection, many scientists agree, is an extremely inefficient method of spreading traits.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — Since 9/11, writes Tabitha Korol in her riveting book, "Confronting The Deception: Inflamed by 9/11, fired up by eight bad years," the United States, Israel, and cultures that still value our freedoms have been fighting a battle of survival on several fronts.... (more)

REUTERS — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would nominate Representative John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican who strongly defended him at a recent congressional hearing, to replace Dan Coats as the U.S. spy chief.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe, who questioned former Special Counsel Robert Mueller at both House hearings, says President Trump came out the winner because impeachment is dead.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe says Democrats and the special counsel deprived President Trump the presumption of innocence.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.... (more)

BYRON YORK — How serious are House Democratic leaders about impeaching President Trump? Consider this: After finishing up last-minute business, members are leaving Washington for a 46-day recess. They will not return until Sept. 9. That's not very serious.... (more)

DAILY MAIL — The gunman from a shooting at a garlic festival in California on Sunday where three people, including a six-year-old boy, were killed has been identified as 19-year-old Santino William Legan.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Robert Mueller's repeated statement that President Trump was not "exonerated" by the special counsel investigation into Democratic claims of Trump-Russia collusion threatens every American, contends Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Rep. Mark Meadows, a top supporter of President Trump, sounded off on Twitter about the Democrats' behavior during the Wednesday testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — In a surprise announcement Friday, President Trump said the U.S. has signed a "safe third country" agreement with Guatemala, which the White House says will require migrants from other countries who pass through Guatemala to seek protection in Guatemala instead of in the United States, and send migrants back to Guatemala if they reach the United States without having done so.... (more)

AP NEWS — The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court's five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit over the money proceeded. The court's four liberal justices wouldn't have allowed construction to start.... (more)

ROBERT BLECKER — Attorney General William Barr should be applauded for announcing Thursday that the federal government will resume executing convicted murderers on death row for the first time since 2003, beginning with five vicious killers in December and January. "Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President," Barr said in a statement. "We owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rep. Ilhan Omar, the liberal Minnesota congresswoman who has been under fire for filing taxes with one man while legally married to another is now set to divorce yet again, the Daily Mail reports.... (more)

NEWSMAX — China's central government is putting pressure on officials to track the number of Christians living in their towns, and threatening repercussions if the figures do not add up, according to a report. The CCP (Communist Party of China) has been cracking down on religion in recent months and has now intensified its measures by ordering local governments to closely supervise and monitor its residents who believe in God, ChristianHeadlines.com noted.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Leana Wen, now the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was fired from the organization over what she calls "philosophical differences over the best way to protect reproductive health." A few days later, she penned an op-ed in the New York Times explaining what happened and why, from her perspective. What she reveals about the organization's goals and methodology is not only unsurprising, but confirms what conservatives have been claiming about Planned Parenthood for years.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — A funny thing happened at the moment in 2016 when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union: The winning campaigners dispersed. One of the most consequential poll results in the U.K.'s history provided a mandate to Parliament, but did not produce a government of the men and women who'd made the case for it to voters.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — One could almost feel sorry for Robert Mueller, whose reputation as a man of unimpeachable integrity and straight-shooting law man burned to the ground in front of him during his testimony before Congress. He appeared frail, uncertain, and feeble. He simply was not up to the challenge. He fumbled simple questions, paused awkwardly on numerous occasions, and repeatedly made it clear that he was almost completely unfamiliar with his own report.... (more)

GRABIEN — Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller frequently appeared confused during his much-anticipated Capitol Hill testimony Wednesday. Mueller, who is often celebrated in the media for laser-like thinking, had to ask lawmakers to regularly repeat their questions, seemingly struggling to pay attention. At other points, Mueller got confused about whether the members of Congress were asking him questions or if they were reading from his own report. In just the first 90 minutes of the hearing, Mueller needed help understanding questions more than 10 times.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Robert Mueller made it just minutes into the questions from Congress Wednesday before Republicans drew blood, trapping the former special counsel over his familiarity with his own 448-page report. Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, asked a seemingly easy question about whether "collusion" and "conspiracy" were essentially the same. Mr. Mueller said that wasn't necessarily true.... (more)