WES VERNON — "Somebody's going to be hurt or killed," warn the pundits regarding the vile insults and threats coming from the far left these days. Now we're seeing an apparent eager anticipation of just that outcome: Writing an op-ed posted by "a leftist website indirectly owned by Univision" named Splinter News, Hamilton Nolan predicts terror ahead.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Ronald Reagan appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 11, 1987. In his nominating speech, President Reagan described the U.S. Circuit Judge Kennedy as "a true conservative – one who believes that our constitutional system is one of enumerated power – that it is we, the people, who have granted certain rights to the government, not the other way around.... Those three words, 'We the People,' are an all important reminder of the only legitimate source of the government's authority over its citizens...."... (more)

VICTOR SHARPE — Neil Diamond's acclaimed hit song, "They're Coming to America," was his patriotic interpretation of historic and legal immigration into the United States. The powerful melody ends with an interpolation of the traditional and patriotic song, "My Country, Tis of Thee."... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — To the joy of authentic conservatives all across America, Anthony Kennedy this week announced his retirement from the United States Supreme Court. As if signaling his upcoming departure, Kennedy joined the conservative majority in a flurry of very important opinions published toward the very end of his last term -- opinions that protected First Amendment protections for crisis pregnancy clinics, Christian wedding vendors, and non-union members, and upheld the president's authority to restrict immigration in order to protect national security.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Remember when President Trump said we were going to win so much that we are going to get tired of it? That's exactly how it felt this past month. But I'm not tired. Far from it. The Supreme Court has been delivering, big time, on Mr. Trump's promise to restore the rule of law. And the left is showing America its profoundly un-American and uncivil face every single day. On June 4, the Court upheld the right of Christian baker Jack Phillips in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission not to be forced to help facilitate a same-sex "wedding."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rod Rosenstein's testimony before Congress this week has been analyzed and spun by pundits on all sides, each interpreting the testimony in a way that fits their preferred narrative of the Mueller investigation. However, to any current or former military officer or law enforcement executive, the most striking takeaway from this testimony is how Rod Rosenstein thoroughly demonstrated his abject lack of leadership and fundamental misunderstanding of the responsibilities of command.... (more)

NERWSMAX — Mitt Romney said it is too early to say whether he would vote to re-elect President Donald Trump in 2020. "It's too early to say who I will support," said the former GOP presidential candidate, who is now running for a Senate seat from Utah.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Michael Brendan Dougherty has some advice for President Trump that I think is worth repeating, in regards to replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy this fall: Appoint Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's recent addition to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The facts of Barrett's life -- that she is a mother of seven children, and that when she speaks about her Catholic faith, she speaks about God as if she really believes in His existence -- will provoke nasty and bigoted statements from Democratic senators and liberal media personalities. Again.... It won't just be her faith.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'You're the boss." That was Representative Jim Jordan's terse rejoinder during a feisty exchange with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the House Judiciary Committee's oversight hearing on Thursday. The Ohio Republican was blasting Rosenstein over information Republicans say Justice Department officials have concealed from Congress for a year.... (more)

LOS ANGELES TIMES — President Trump is expected to move quickly to nominate a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's soon-to-be-vacant Supreme Court seat, and two leading candidates are veteran Washington, D.C., appellate Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor and recent Trump appointee to the 7th Circuit in Chicago.... (more)

SLATE — It's no secret that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his imminent retirement on Wednesday, always had an eye toward his legacy. During this 30-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Kennedy often wrote grandiose opinions that seemed designed to be quoted and admired by future generations. That line of thinking was particularly evident in a series of decisions protecting gay Americans' right to equal dignity. Yet by choosing to retire under President Donald Trump, Kennedy imperils that legacy, throwing his most celebrated and far-reaching decisions into serious jeopardy.... (more)

NEWSMAX — North Korea may be engaged in an international game of "hide and seek," according to U.S. intelligence agencies, NBC News reported Friday. According to NBC sources, North Korea may be upping its production of weapons-grade nuclear material at secret sites, and its leader, Kim Jong Un, will keep both the production and the location of those sites under wraps while seeking concessions from the U.S.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — It seems the Trump administration knows the law better than the Obama administration. The Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed positions of the Obama administration in four cases decided by the Supreme Court this year -- and won all four of them.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The man and woman creep down the school hallway back-to-back, guns drawn. A tap on the backside signals they are ready to move into the next room. He keeps his weapon pointed straight ahead. She scans for dangers that may spring up behind them.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Two 16-year-old brothers have been arrested and are being held without bond for the gang-related Silver Springs, Maryland, stabbing death of another teen, Fox 5 DC reported. The two MS-13 member brothers, Lenin and Bryan Mancias-Callejas, arrived in the United States as unaccompanied minors and are both El Salvadoran nationals, according to The Daily Caller.... (more)

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — Weeks after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, Dinesh D'Souza is unveiling the trailer for his latest movie. Quality Flix opens the conservative's latest documentary film, Death of a Nation, in 1,000 theaters on Aug. 3. The film likens Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump -- saying that the situations they found themselves in as U.S. presidents are very similar, according to the filmmaker. "Lincoln was elected to unite a country and stop slavery. Democrats smeared him; went to war against him; assassinated him. Now, their target is Trump," D'Souza intones at the top of the trailer before announcing the movie is produced by Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of Schindler's List and Jurassic Park.... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — Nobody has ever proved that Andy Warhol said "in the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But he has been misquoted so often that a lot of people think he did. (Read the quotation carefully). A wiser man did say that "nothing recedes like success," and we see that proved all around us every day.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A reporter at The Republican newspaper in Massachusetts resigned Friday after falsely claiming on Twitter that the man accused of gunning down five journalists Thursday at a Maryland newspaper wore a "Make America Great Again" hat as he carried out his attack. Conor Berry apologized for the mistake in a pinned tweet, calling it "stupid" and "regrettable." His Twitter bio now states, "Former newspaper reporter."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A pro-Net Neutrality activist is facing federal charges after police say he threatened to kill the children of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai. In a December email, sent just after the FCC revoked the Obama-era Net Neutrality policy, Markara Man listed addresses of several preschools near Mr. Pai's home in Arlington.... (more)

ART MOORE — Mocking people who are urging civility in public discourse regarding President Trump's enforcement of federal immigration laws, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on Democrats to resist her 2016 opponent with "strength and resolve."... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — In Hillary's cringe-producing appearances over the past year and a half -- since she lost the U.S. presidency in 2016 to Donald J. Trump -- she has offered upward of 38 excuses to rationalize her loss, which Amanda Prestigiacomo has documented here exquisitely.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Youth is a factor as President Trump searches for his pivotal nominee to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, a task that the president said Thursday is already in high gear. The president is looking for a nominee who can leave a conservative mark on the high court for most of the next half-century, extending Mr. Trump's impact far beyond his presidency. "We have to pick one that's going to be there for 40 years, 45 years," Mr. Trump said Wednesday night.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The House approved a Republican-backed resolution demanding that the Justice Department turn over all remaining documents sought by congressional committees on the investigation into Russian election interference and President Donald Trump's campaign.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — The Bible is being used by both sides in the current immigration debate. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is quoting Romans 13 on how we should obey the government, since it's been ordained by God.... (more)

AP NEWS — Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's decisive man in the middle on abortion, gay rights and other contentious issues, announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the nation's highest court.... (more)