ROBERT KNIGHT — Munch. Munch. Wow, these Maria cookies made by Goya sure are crispy. And only 25 calories each. We've got a boatload of Goya products in our pantry now, one of our pushbacks against the left's increasingly aggressive culture war on America.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — New Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said Friday that he expects President Trump to win all the states he captured in 2016 and possibly pick up several more, despite national polls showing the president trailing Democrat Joseph R. Biden by double digits.... (more)

AMERICAN THINKER — American Thinker's readers will be shocked to learn of the passing of Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party icon, prolific American Thinker contributor, and conservative activist extraordinaire. Lloyd proudly called himself "the unhyphenated American." Lloyd suffered an apparent heart attack early Friday, dying before medical assistance could arrive. His beloved wife Mary was at his side at the time.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed agreement with President Trump's plan to deploy federal police to the city during a Wednesday evening phone call with the president, according to the mayor's office.... (more)

RED STATE — I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the national Black Lives Matter organization is nothing more than white progressives in political blackface. This truth has become evident in cities like Portland, OR, where predominantly white leftist organizations are wreaking havoc and mayhem ostensibly in the name of black America.... (more)

RICH LOWRY — We live in an age of viral videos that often can be deceiving. That's certainly the case in Portland, where the hyperbolic charges of federal stormtroopers hunting down peaceful protesters first began based on videos that didn't tell the whole story. Now that Department of Homeland Security officials have explained the operation, there's no excuse for the continued Nazi references – not that there ever really was.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Conference of Jewish Affairs has called the use of the term "stormtroopers" by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in reference to federal officers sent to Portland to quell violent protests in the city "offensive to Jews across the world." Pelosi recently called agents from the Department of Homeland Security "stormtroopers" and claimed they were kidnapping people on the streets.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Nearly 50 retired military officers have signed a letter supporting President Trump' consideration of federalizing the National Guard or mobilizing the military as a last resort to quell violence in cities where local government has lost control.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Mark and Patricia McCloskey had every legal right to stand in front of their home holding guns while a group of rowdy protesters trespassed on their property, Newsmax legal analyst Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax TV.... (more)

NEWSMAX — After apologizing for abruptly approaching Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., explained to Newsmax TV what he said to her on the Capitol Hill steps. "I said, 'you can't be that ignorant, and your policies are freaking crazy,'" Yoho told Wednesday's "Greg Kelly Reports" after asking her about advocating for struggling Americans to steal bread.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Officials in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Miami-Dade County, Fla., have acknowledged that anti-police protests and riots may have led to increased spread of the coronavirus, according to a Fox News report.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — President Trump signed an executive action on Tuesday to prevent illegal immigrants from being included in the 2020 census for congressional apportionment, saying the U.S. shouldn't give political power "to people who should not be here at all."... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf on Tuesday hit back at criticism of the department's officers deployed in Portland, Ore., slamming media coverage of federal police activities in the city as well as local officials' response to rioting.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — The president of the Portland Police Association ripped elected officials in Oregon for ceding the city's security to violent rioters and looters. Portland police union boss Daryl Turner held a press conference in front of the union's offices in Portland on Sunday, less than a full day after rioters had broken into the building and set fires inside, according to The Oregonian. Video taken after the Saturday night ransacking showed offices strewn with trash and supplies and charred from fires.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Nearly a hundred people in Connecticut who received positive coronavirus tests didn't actually have the disease, reports said. A total of 90 out of 144 people tested between June 15 and July 17, many of whom are nursing home residents, received the false positives because of a flaw in the test used at the state's public health laboratory, NBC Connecticut reported.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Americans are becoming increasingly more skeptical about the reported coronavirus death count, a Tuesday poll suggests. Over 140,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United States as of July 20, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — "Trump Spares Stone from Imprisonment, Sparking Howls of Amnesiac Democrats" was the colorful headline of a recent Wall St. Journal article by journalist, author, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Andrew C. McCarthy.... (more)

THE DENVER CHANNEL — Black Lives Matter supporters verbally, and in some instances physically, clashed with law enforcement supporters, during a set of dueling rallies Sunday afternoon at Civic Center Park. Police later said they used pepper balls and a can of pepper spray to disperse part of the larger BLM supporters crowd, after some people "made aggressive moves" toward officers.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Media polls are deliberately underplaying Republican voters by as much as 9% to give the false impression that President Donald Trump is well behind in the race for the November election, Trump pollster John McLaughlin said on Sunday.... (more)

DAILY SIGNAL — Some of America's largest corporations have pledged or donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the main Black Lives Matter organization, founded by "trained Marxists," that calls for replacing the nuclear family with a "village."... (more)

NEWSMAX — The tensions among New York City leaders reached a crescendo late this week as NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea blasted them as "cowards" who "don't have a [expletive] clue what they're talking about."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Garrett Powell had no idea that sharing an Instagram post would cause him to lose tens of thousands of followers and unleash an onslaught of anger against him. But when most celebrities were posting black squares to call attention to Black Lives Matter, the former Bachelorette contestant posted an American flag -- and Powell says the backlash opened his eyes to the dangers of political conformity.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The slew of recent attacks against Christian statues and churches is disturbing and likely represents something darker than mere vandalism. On Wednesday, a statue of Jesus was discovered beheaded and knocked off its pedestal on the grounds of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Miami, WSVN-TV reported.... (more)

YOUTUBE — South Dakota took a different path, a remarkable one: we gave our people their Freedom.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Reporters keep asking White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany if the president will consider a mask-wearing mandate. Journalists keep writing about federal mandates. House speaker Nancy Pelosi says a federal mandate on mask wearing is "long overdue." Joe Biden promises that if he's elected this November, he would require all Americans to wear masks in public.... (more)