WASHINGTON TIMES — The security clearance process has tied the Trump administration in knots -- and that is exactly what the bureaucrats running the White House personnel security office intended, said a lawyer who has been battling the office. The problem is a small group of career bureaucrats holed up in the Old Executive Office Building who turned security reviews into quicksand to ensnare President Trump's team, said Sean M. Bigley, a federal security clearance lawyer who represents several senior administration officials caught up in the process.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — One of the most memorable lines in the 1991 Bill Murray comedy "What about Bob?" was spoken by child actor Charlie Korsmo. As his frustrated father, an insufferably egotistic shrink played by Richard Dreyfuss, fails to get the kid, Siggy, to dive off a lakeside dock, the boy lurches away, blurting out, "With all the horror in the world, what difference does it make?"... (more)

YAHOO NEWS — The Florida Senate rejected a proposal to ban assault weapons, and voted for a measure to arm some teachers, weeks after 17 people were killed in the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. An amendment that would have banned assault weapons attached to a wider bill failed on Saturday in a largely party-line vote, in response to the Feb. 14 killing of 14 students and three faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Parkland.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who wrote the book claiming to have a "Conscience of a Conservative," has rejected GOP President Donald Trump and refused to run again for the Senate, but reportedly admitted he keeps in touch with liberal former President Barack Obama.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two pieces of evidence that have come together prove anti-Trump dossier writer Christopher Steele was the key source for a Yahoo News story that the FBI cited to support its wiretap application. Identifying the source of that September 2016 article on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page has taken on added importance in recent weeks.... (more)

SATIRE — Here's a spoof of Mitt Romney's unreleased video that captured his first thoughts when he decided to run for the Senate from Utah....... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The FBI's decision to use the unverified "dossier" about President Trump in a top-secret spy court that authorized surveillance on the Trump campaign may have been a crime, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — One of the stories for which the New York Times won a coveted George Polk Award was a Russia-Trump report that was repudiated by former FBI Director James Comey. The Times won the award on Feb. 20 for 12 stories it submitted on Donald Trump and his associates ties to Russia, according to a list provided by Polk to The Washington Times.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan on Friday had harsh words for President Donald Trump, calling the president "unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical," The Hill reported.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The far-left and terror-linked activists at the Southern Poverty Law Center have been handed a huge loss in their attempt to silence a state judge who dared to speak out in favor of traditional marriage. This week a federal court in Alabama issued a preliminary injunction allowing Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker to speak out on issues current under review in the state's court system.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — YouTube has tapped the Southern Poverty Law Center to help it police objectionable content, the Daily Caller reported this week. What a disaster. YouTube couldn't have chosen a worse or less trustworthy partner.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The Senate has confirmed Russell Vought, President Trump's nominee to be deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget. It's true there are hundreds of such nominees in any presidential administration.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals has ordered Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation to formally respond to a petition asking the court to order the judge in a lawsuit they filed against a pro-life undercover videographer to step down because of his advocacy for the abortion groups.... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — The $64,000 question in Washington, still a lively speculation well into the second year of the Trump era, is whether Donald Trump with a little self-discipline could have accomplished more than he has, or whether a disciplined Donald could accomplish anything at all.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The Broward County Sheriff's Office oversaw a training session led by one of its deputies to teach mosque-goers how to carry a concealed weapon. Sheriff Scott Israel officially oversaw the side job of Deputy Nezar Hamze, a Muslim American, as regional operations director for the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), according to documents obtained by National Review from the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Israel had a representative sign for him on the form that gave Hamze permission to work for CAIR.... (more)

PAUL BEDARD — The more Americans hear liberal Hollywood actors lecturing them on gun control the more they support the Second Amendment, according to a pre-Oscars poll. Zogby Analytics found that when movie stars, who often have their own gun-toting security protecting them, slam access to guns, support for guns increases.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Conservative activist Eugene Delgaudio tells a story of meeting Donald J. Trump and confronting him about his liberal past. Trump assured Delgaudio he has repudiated his past. But the old Trump was on display on Wednesday, when President Trump embraced Democratic Party gun control measures and insulted Republicans as tools of the NRA.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Finally! Here's proof that a campaign colluded with a foreign entity in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Officials for the Democratic presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, who was defeated by Hillary Clinton, apparently with the help of the Democratic National Committee, have paid a $14,500 civil penalty for accepting illegal foreign help.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Republicans from President Trump down often declare that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. So far, Democrats have not been able to prove otherwise. But the most compelling piece of evidence cited by the president's opponents is the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., some key Trump campaign aides, and a group of Russians who came promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Much remains unknown about that meeting.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Thirteen Republican members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department.... (more)

FOX NEWS — White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of the president's longest and most loyal advisers dating back to the beginning of his presidential campaign, said Wednesday she is resigning from the administration to explore new opportunities. "There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump," Hicks said in a statement. "I wish the president and his administration the very best as he continues to lead our country."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A prominent Washington watchdog is asking just how many Obama administration officials hid behind fake names while they worked for the U.S. government, after discovering that Loretta Lynch sometimes wasn't Loretta Lynch -- for email purposes -- while she was attorney general. She was Elizabeth Carlisle.... (more)

ART MOORE — The deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was the keynote speaker for the annual fundraiser for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based front for Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, reported Conservative Review.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Broward County Sheriff's deputies and employees are the subjects of more than 66 investigations – ranging from drug trafficking and sexual battery to kidnapping – since 2012, according to a new report.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — With unprecedented speed, the Trump administration has already implemented nearly two-thirds of the 334 agenda items called for by the Heritage Foundation, a pace faster than former President Reagan who embraced the conservative think tank's legendary "Mandate for Leadership" blueprint.... (more)