MICHAEL BARON — 'F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims," read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. "The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016," read a story in the May 21 edition of the Wall Street Journal.... (more)

ABC NEWS — Several parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre said that if former Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Scot Peterson, who stood outside the school for several minutes while bullets rang out, had done his job, their children might not have lost their lives.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" fame says it's difficult to award work-ethic scholarships through his mikeroweWORKS Foundation due to America's "safe space movement." The host of Facebook's "Returning the Favor" told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Thursday evening that each year it gets harder for him to essentially give out "free money" to Americans who need jobs training. His organization, which aims to close a professional skills gap, requires participants to write essays and sign a "sweat pledge."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The swiftness with which the media have brushed aside Stefan Halper's role in the Russia investigation should be a sign that he's certainly more important than they're admitting. Halper was identified by the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross last weekend as the professor who worked in some still-unknown capacity to inform the FBI on the Trump campaign in 2016 as part of the agency's probe of Russia's election meddling.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The "Deep State," the entrenched Washington bureaucrats who have worked to undermine every move by President Trump, may find details about their schemes on front pages soon. That's because FBI agents who have the information want Congress to subpoena them. Three sources in direct contact with active field agents who spoke to the Daily Caller said many agents would like to receive subpoenas from Congress "so they can reveal problems caused by former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rush Limbaugh angrily dismissed ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's assertion an informant in the Trump campaign was spying on Russians to protect the candidate -- asking why there were not spies in Hillary Clinton's camp.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump's accusations the FBI spied on his presidential campaign are "distorted," former Director of Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday. Clapper, during an interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS's NewsHour, said there was "a big gulf between a spy in the traditional sense -- employing spycraft or tradecraft -- and an informant who is open about . . . who he was and what the questions he was asking."... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'Cruz just dropped out of the race. It's going to be a Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable." It was a little after midnight on May 4, 2016. FBI lawyer Lisa Page was texting her paramour, FBI counterespionage agent Peter Strzok, about the most stunning development to date in the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump was now the inevitable Republican nominee. He would square off against Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' certain standard-bearer.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A lawsuit against YouTube's censorship of videos created by the conservative Prager University has gone to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal was filed by the web-based organization run by columnist and commentator Dennis Prager after a district judge dismissed the case. Prager University describes itself as a "conservative nonprofit digital media organization that is associated with and presents the views of leading conservative experts on current and historical events."... (more)

SACRAMENTO BEE — An Oregon high school student is suing his school, saying it violated his First Amendment rights when it suspended him for wearing a Trump T-shirt. The student, 18-year-old Addison Barnes, told FOX 12 that he was asked to cover up a T-shirt he was wearing that said "Donald J. Trump Construction Co." on it, or leave school. The shirt also included a Trump quote: "The wall just got 10 feet taller."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rahm Emanuel famously said that "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste," and apparently that included the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. Two days after the horrific school shooting, the Chicago mayor advised then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan to "[t]ap peoples emotions" as they discussed how to leverage the tragedy to push for gun-control restrictions, according to emails published Wednesday by the Baltimore Post.... (more)

ANITA CRANE — On May 25, Irish citizens will vote on the 8th Amendment of their constitution. The government is allowing voters to choose abortion on demand, and voices from Ireland's two most famous rock bands have spoken.... (more)

ESPN — NFL owners have unanimously approved a new national anthem policy that requires players to stand if they are on the field during the performance but gives them the option to remain in the locker room if they prefer, it was announced Wednesday.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump on Tuesday asked why an FBI source who met with some members of his 2016 campaign was paid by the government, arguing the informant was "there to spy for political purposes."... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Exactly when is the "late Spring"? Of all the questions that have been asked about what we've called the "Origination Story" of the Trump-Russia investigation, that may be the most important one. It may be the one that tells us when the Obama administration first formed the Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative.... (more)

SHARYL ATTKISSON — It may be true that President Trump illegally conspired with Russia and was so good at covering it up he's managed to outwit our best intel and media minds who've searched for irrefutable evidence for two years. (We still await special counsel Robert Mueller's findings.)... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do with their children. Beltway education bureaucrats abhor families who choose to keep their kids out of public schools -- unless it's to grandstand over gun control.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump touted his decision to impose new restrictions on federally funded family planning clinics like Planned Parenthood -- and vowed to help elect pro-life Republicans at a dinner with activists Tuesday night.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Keeping a house too clean can increase a child's risk for developing the most common form of childhood cancer, according to a new study. Publishing in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, study researcher Mel Greaves, a professor and biologist from The Institute of Cancer Research in London, reported on his analysis of about three decades' worth of data.... (more)

THE GUARDIAN — At the age of 46, DeWayne Johnson is not ready to die. But with cancer spread through most of his body, doctors say he probably has just months to live. Now Johnson, a husband and father of three in California, hopes to survive long enough to make Monsanto take the blame for his fate.... (more)

WES VERNON — So let's get this straight: It's just the entertainment properties of 21st Century Fox that the Walt Disney company wants to pick up in another media sale – not Fox News? Whew! Today's left-leaning Disney is no longer symbolized by Mickey Mouse. (In Mickey's time, nobody thought to wonder – let alone ask – what the Mouseketeer's politics were.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — "Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating." (Gen. George S. Patton's Address to the 3rd Army, as rendered by George C. Scott in the movie Patton, 1970. See video above, at 2:40 mark.)... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — On Sunday, President Trump tweeted a "demand" that the Justice Department investigate political spying in the 2016 campaign. This replays the political-spying controversy that surfaced in late February. Right now, the issue involves the Obama administration's use of at least one confidential informant -- a spy -- to snoop into the opposition party's presidential campaign; back in February, the issue was the Obama administration's electronic surveillance -- by FISA eavesdropping warrants -- for the same purpose.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump left a Monday meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with an agreement on future steps to facilitate the release of Russia-probe documents to Congress.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Department of Justice On Sunday said its inspector general will investigate whether the FBI engaged in politically motivated surveillance of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 following a public demand by Trump to do so, the Washington Examiner reported Sunday.... (more)