WORLDNETDAILY — The intelligence community inspector general who already had been rebuked for his handling of the whistleblower complaint that triggered the Democrats' impeachment of President Trump is under investigation, according to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday told Newsmax TV he would like to see the Senate move forward on President Donald Trump's impeachment by moving to dismiss the process because the president has not been charged with impeachable offenses -- rather than trying to gather evidence in the matter.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, maintains that senators are "absolutely not jurors" during an impeachment trial. Lee made his comments on Tuesday in a column posted by Fox News. He said the Constitution "sets impeachment apart from jury trials" by noting that "'the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury.'"... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has whipped the 51 votes required to establish the rules for President Trump's impending impeachment trial without a concrete agreement on witnesses, according to multiple reports.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — State Department employees sought to provide special protections for the unsubstantiated and salacious claims about Donald Trump in the Hillary Clinton-funded "dossier," according to emails obtained by government watchdog Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation.... (more)

NEWSMAX — CNN has settled a lawsuit with a Kentucky teen who claimed media organizations falsely labeled him as a racist following a well-publicized encounter with a Native American last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The network confirmed the settlement Tuesday, as did Todd McMurtry, a lawyer for Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky. Neither side would give details of the settlement.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A stampede broke out Tuesday at a funeral for a top Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike, and at least 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured as thousands thronged the procession, Iranian news reports said. The stampede took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as the procession began, said Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran's emergency medical services.... (more)

BARBARA KRALIS — Following the recent shooting at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, which left three dead, including the perpetrator, USA Today ran a hysteria-inducing commentary that said,... (more)

TOM DEWEESE — If you can be in Richmond, Virginia, January 18 and 19, then I urge you to join us! As I'm sure you know, the governor and Democrat leadership in the Virginia legislature are planning a major assault on gun rights, among other things. If successful in Virginia, gun confiscation legislation will race across the nation. What do we do about it?!... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Obama's CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus told Foreign Policy magazine that Iranian general and top terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani was "responsible for providing explosives, projectiles, and arms and other munitions that killed well over 600 American soldiers and many more of our coalition and Iraqi partners just in Iraq, as well as in many other countries such as Syria." So why did it take so long for the U.S. to kill him?... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and former CIA director, spoke with Foreign Policy this week about the implications of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, calling it "more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden."... (more)

MEDIAITE — The first Capitol Hill criticism of the strike, directed by President Donald Trump, which killed leading Iran general Qasem Soleimani, came from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) – who questioned whether the action would set off a "massive regional war" without Congressional approval. Friday morning on CNN, one former general responded to that critique from the Connecticut senator by saying, essentially: Pipe down.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Mike Pompeo, the U.S. secretary of state, tweeted a video that he claimed showed Iraqis taking to the streets to celebrate the death of Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani. Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force. He was killed in a targeted U.S. military attack ordered by President Trump. His killing was seen as a major escalation between the U.S. and Iran.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — U.S. forces have now surpassed 2,800 strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria under President Obama's war against the Islamic State, all as part of a conflict Congress has yet to specifically authorize -- and amid worries lawmakers won't ever act.... (more)

DAILY MAIL — Four precision missiles were fired from a deadly remote-controlled 4,900 pound U.S. drone, decimating a convoy that Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds force, was traveling in and tearing his body "to shreds." Soleimani, commonly known as the second-most powerful man in Iran and tipped as a future president, was so badly maimed in the strike that he had to be identified by a large ring he wore on his finger. He had just landed in Baghdad airport on a plane from either Syria or Lebanon around 12:30 am when he was met on the tarmac by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.... (more)

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)