NEWSMAX — Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, who's often been critical of President Donald Trump on foreign policy, on Friday praised him for the decision to attack and kill a top Iranian general – and labeled Democrats' criticism "awfully petty." In an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" show, Peters discounted concerns that the attack would be a catalyst for a wider conflict.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, has criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for calling the recent airstrike that killed an Iranian general a "distraction," saying that it was appropriate retribution for the recent incident at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., on Friday praised President Donald Trump's decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without informing Congress, telling Newsmax TV: "He was there at the airport. We had the shot at him."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — As vice president, Joe Biden enabled Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani to push the United States out of Iraq and deliver the country into the hands of Iran's Islamic regime, according to a 2013 New Yorker profile.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is promising retaliation against the U.S. for launching a missile strike in Baghdad that killed his top general, Qassim Suleimani. The New York Times called Suleimani "a powerful strategist who represented Iran's influence across the region." The paper explained the death was "a considerable blow" to Tehran, because, "as the leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which leads Iran's operations abroad, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who was 62, was the country's top security and intelligence commander.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Teddy Roosevelt remarked in 1914: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." If that was true then, it is truer today -- because of the curse of political correctness. With a new year upon us, and the opportunity to turn over a new leaf, why not resolve to spend more time in the wonderful book God has given us -- the Bible?... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The year 2020 opens with a booming economy and a culture still in rapid decline. One of the leading associates of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein says she is being protected from arrest and prosecution because she has dirt on powerful people. Epstein belonged to several influential organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, and rubbed elbows with such notables as Bill Gates.... (more)

MICHAEL GAYNOR — A Senate trial would be the wrong response, even if President Trump prefers it, because it would indicate that the articles of impeachment are trial worthy, which they are not... (more)

WESTERN JOURNAL — Donald Trump is hitting Iran where it hurts. For 40 years, the murderous mullahs who lead the Islamic Republic have never needed much of a reason to hate an American president. Even milk toast Jimmy Carter -- a man whose presidency is a byword for American weakness -- was hated by the ayatollahs who took over the country after the revolution of 1979.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Even a disgraced former FBI agent should know when he has no case. But Peter Strzok, the one-time head of counterintelligence for the bureau, argued in a court filing Monday that the Justice Department violated his First Amendment right to free speech when he was fired last year for text messages he sent in 2016 to his then-lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page.... (more)

WESTERN JOURNAL — The mob that attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday was in fact a collection of "mourners," according to The New York Times -- a statement that drew an angry response from the paper's critics.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — "Reliable Sources," CNN's media show hosted by Brian Stelter, hit a low in viewership for the year and for a key demographic on Dec. 22. According to Fox News, Stelter had his lowest viewership of the year among people ages 25-54 on that date, averaging only about 85,000 viewers.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Fossil-fuel executives should go to jail if they do not act responsibly, Joe Biden declared at a campaign town hall in New Hampshire on Monday. The leader among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates spoke of "holding them liable for what they have done, particularly in those cases where your underserved neighborhoods and ... you know the deal."... (more)

DAILY CALLER — The most common occupation for fourth-quarter donors to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders is teacher, his campaign said Thursday.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Conservative commentator and Fox News analyst Brit Hume added to the pile-on of criticism facing NBC political director Chuck Todd after he touted a letter that compared the story of Noah's ark to a "fairytale." "I wonder if Chuck Todd also thinks this is a 'fairy tale,'" Hume tweeted Monday night, along with a picture of CNN reporter Jake Tapper's Hanukkah celebration.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — The shooting during the communion service at Freeway Baptist Church in Tarrant County, Texas, on the Sunday before New Year's Day emphatically illustrates one salient cultural truth: it's long past time for every church in America to arm itself in its own defense.... (more)

CURTIS DAHLGREN — THREE DAYS before Christmas, I walked into a bar. I looked around, but no one was there, though the Packers were playing to a full house. After a while a bartender appeared, all bubbly and bright, and I ordered a beer. As she popped the top, a stranger came in, dusting off snow, kind of nondescript. He had nary a smile, and for some reason he seemed older than he looked (though I'm not too good at judging the cover of a book).... (more)

FOX NEWS — Trump administration officials and U.S. lawmakers turned up pressure on Iraq's government to keep American personnel in the country safe, after a stunning assault on the embassy in Baghdad renewed concerns about the influence of Iran.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division Deployment Ready Brigade has been issued orders to prepare to deploy to Kuwait after hundreds of Iranian-backed militia tried to storm the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, defense officials said Tuesday.... (more)

WESTERN JOURNAL — As the world awaits developments in Tuesday's attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad, it's taken less than a day for the country's latest crisis to reach back to Barack Obama. While hundreds of Iranian-back militia members swarmed the sprawling embassy grounds, according to The Washington Post, several faces stood out as being particularly influential in the troubled country.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's son Hunter is facing a tax lien of $112,805 for unpaid taxes from 2015, according to an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation.... (more)

REV. MARK H. CREECH — "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men" (Luke 2:13,14). Some people may be taking down their Christmas decorations, but most people will still be celebrating the holiday season through New Year's Day. In the statement made by the angel to the shepherds and accented by an angelic chorus, the real purpose for the celebration of this holy time is to glorify God.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — It's one thing to defend President Trump against false witness by the magazine Christianity Today. It's another matter to rationalize or excuse how certain Trump officials are using the United Nations and the State Department to attack Christian nations.... (more)

DESERET NEWS — Sen. Mike Lee is playing a critical role behind the scenes to get President Donald Trump acquitted in his upcoming impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. In a story this week, Politico described the Utah Republican as a quiet force and one of the de facto leaders of the case to clear the president. Lee has been coordinating with Trump and his legal team for weeks and told the publication that he started thinking about how to handle an impeachment trial as soon as Democrats won the House majority.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former Vice President Joe Biden reiterated Friday that he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump if one is issued. Biden, the national frontrunner in the Democratic primary races to challenge Trump in November, has not been subpoenaed, but Trump and his allies have discussed calling him to testify. Biden, his son Hunter and their business dealings in Ukraine were the focus of an investigation request Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that triggered that impeachment inquiry against him and led to two articles of impeachment.... (more)