WASHINGTON TIMES — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says all Americans should be worried about civil liberties in the wake of the FBI's raid on President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen. The nebulous limits to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russian investigation, coupled with his willingness to test them, had the Republican lawmaker ringing alarm bells Tuesday. Mr. Paul told a Fox News' Bill Hemmer that the FBI's legal tendrils have wandered far from their original target -- the truth about possible collusion between Russian state actors and Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Former U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power kept up a steady flow of emails lashing out at then-President-elect Trump, strategizing on how to undermine his agenda and coordinating opposition to him during her last few months of Barack Obama's tenure in the White House, a new report reveals.... (more)

ART MOORE — In much-anticipated testimony before a Senate committee amid anger over the sale of the personal data of 87 million users, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to lawmakers Tuesday he hasn't done enough to prevent his global social-media platform from being used "for harm."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off against senators Tuesday, acknowledging growing pains as his company evolved from a dorm-room project to internet colossus that now faces a crisis of confidence after mishandling users' data and seeing its platform abused by Russian operatives who meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Sen. Ted Cruz clearly rattled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday by grilling him about Facebook's well-documented censorship of conservatives.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook allegedly was fake, run by a white Australian man who used it to raise at least $100,000 for various causes, CNN reported. Titled Black Lives Matter, the page was suspended on Monday after CNN inquired about it. The reportedly fake account came to light as Facebook grapples with its public relations nightmare of allegedly failing to protect personal data of its users and for sharing fake news.... (more)

RICH LOWRY — Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is sorry. The founder of Facebook, who has apologized for privacy breaches throughout much of his company's existence, is back at it, on a much larger stage than ever before.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — Officials in London are responding to 50 stabbing deaths this year by declaring war on knives and pleading with people never to carry one in public, decisions one Second Amendment expert calls "silly" and says is proof that taking away people's guns doesn't remove the desire of criminals to harm people.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Florida lawmakers reacted to the deadly Parkland shooting by allowing certain teachers to carry firearms at school, but instructors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School won't be able to participate. The Broward County school board voted Tuesday against taking part in the newly enacted Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, named for a popular coach who died in the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17 people.... (more)

JOHN STOSSEL — We've been told conservatives don't believe in science and that there's a "Republican war on science." Sponsored But John Tierney, who's written about science for the New York Times for 25 years and now writes for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, told me in my latest online video, "The real war on science is the one from the left."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday for a government-wide review of welfare programs, with a goal of putting more people back to work, White House officials said. The order directs all federal agencies involved in providing more than $700 billion in low-income assistance annually to study programs that are "failing Americans," and to report back in 90 days with recommendations, said White House domestic policy council director Andrew Bremberg.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — In articles published earlier (read them here and here), I wrote about the strategic implications of Mexico's involvement with the so-called refugee caravan that was making its way through Mexico toward the U.S. border. According to the latest reports available as I write this, President Trump's firm, timely warnings to the Mexican government, along with the actions he has ordered to underline them, have had the desired effect.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans' tax cuts and the new spending bill Congress approved last month will send the economy surging this year to 3.3 percent growth -- but will also send the deficit soaring back to the record levels of the early Obama years, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday.... (more)

DAILY WIRE — An epidemic of stabbings and acid attacks in London has gotten so bad that London mayor Sadiq Khan is announcing broad new "knife control" policies designed to keep these weapons of war out of the hands of Londoners looking to cause others harm.... (more)

ONE NEWS NOW — Muslim London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced the addition of a knife control crusade to curb the endemic crime rate – after nearly 100 years of gun control enforcement in the city – but his recent move to lower searches he called "Islamophobic" could be responsible for the spike in violent crime.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — People are surging to sign up for training to carry concealed weapons in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, as experts say sustained media coverage and calls for more gun control encourage people to look for ways to protect themselves. Gun sales also appear to be on the rise, based on federal background checks.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Ripping FBI special counsel Robert Mueller as a political "zealot," Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz reminded staunch Mueller supporters about the former FBI director's role in protecting "notorious mass murderer" Whitey Bulger as an FBI informant.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday offered a truce to Sean Hannity after several days of trading barbs with the Fox News host and apologized for making fun of First Lady Melania Trump.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — One of the most vexing aspects of daily life is the nonstop flow of anti-Trump propaganda masquerading as news analysis. That is, unless you hate Donald Trump, as most of the media clearly do. Fake news oozes from nearly every media pore, some of it more subtle than others.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Supreme CourtJustice Neil M. Gorsuch took the seat of the late Antonin Scalia a year ago Tuesday, but court watchers say he has staked out a path closer to another conservative icon: Justice Clarence Thomas. It's early yet, and Justice Gorsuch has just 40 decided cases under his belt, but in 37 of those he agreed with Justice Thomas, including all 15 cases they both ruled on in the court's previous term.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — A former assistant special Watergate prosecutor suggested President Trump could be carted away by U.S. Marshals and brought before a federal judge if he were to defy a potential subpoena from the special counsel requesting an interview. "At that point, they would make a motion to hold Donald Trump in contempt," attorney Nick Akerman told host Joy Reid Saturday morning on MSNBC.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — According to the Washington Post, Robert Mueller says President Trump is not "a criminal target at this point." The Post's anonymous sources claim that the special counsel has conveyed that assurance to the president's private attorneys.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump took a shot at the Justice Department on Saturday after the agency failed to turn over documents by a Thursday subpoena deadline set by the House Judiciary Committee regarding the FBI's decision making during the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump will again skip the annual White House Correspondents dinner, but this time he's encouraging his aides to attend. "The White House has informed us that the president does not plan to participate in this year's dinner but that he will actively encourage members of the executive branch to attend and join us as we celebrate the First Amendment," said White House Correspondents Association President Margaret Talev.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — If there's one thing the national media can thank President Trump for, it's his completely turning the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner into a must-not-see bore.... (more)