TOWNHALL — The GOP-led House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to approve two new committees in the lower chamber, including one that's set on investigating how the Biden administration — as well as previous administrations — have used the federal bureaucracy as a cudgel against political or ideological opponents.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Three extremist Democrats, Reps. Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell, are being removed from their congressional committee assignments by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who as leader of the new GOP majority in the House is keeping campaign promises.... (more)

TOWNHALL — Following remarks alongside Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and Mexican President López Obrador on Tuesday in Mexico City, President Biden finally broke his silence on the growing scandal surrounding his improper handling of classified documents as the then-former vice president.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — President Trump is calling for primary opponents for all of the 18 Republican senators who supported Joe Biden's latest spending spree. He was referencing Biden's $1.7 trillion spending bill that passed Congress just before the holidays. "It's as though [Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell] just doesn’t care anymore, he pushes through anything the Democrats want. The $1.7 TRILLION quickly approved Bill of the week before was HORRIBLE. Zero for USA Border Security. If he waited just ten days, the now 'United Republican Congress' could have made it MUCH BETTER, or KILLED IT. Something is wrong with McConnell, and those Republican Senators that Vote with him. PRIMARY THEM ALL!!!" Trump wrote.... (more)

TOWNHALL — "Every day for the next four years, I will devote every ounce of my energy and every piece of my heart to making Arkansas the greatest state in America, so help me God," pledged Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her inaugural address just after being sworn in on Tuesday.... (more)

TOWNHALL — Dr. Peter Hotez, a frequent guest on CNN and MSNBC, said China's current surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths is the result of too much freedom stemming from unvaccinated individuals. "China COVID deaths accelerate to 9,000 a day – What you get when you allow a lethal virus to rip through an unvaccinated population. When they try to ram 'health freedom' propaganda down our throats, remember that number…" Hotez tweeted on Tuesday while sharing an article from Reuters.... (more)

ROBERT SPENCER — Lia Thomas did it, so why can’t Iszac Henig? Lia is the University of Pennsylvania swimmer who performed indifferently on the men’s team and then proclaimed that he was a woman. Competing on the women’s team, lo and behold, suddenly he became a championship swimmer, breaking records left and right and winning an NCAA swimming championship. It was the strength he got from being transgender and enduring bigotry and hate, right? So we should expect that Iszac Henig, who used to be a female swimmer and now says she is a male, would perform at the same stellar level, right? Well, it didn’t quite turn out that way. It turns out that in the cases of both Thomas and Henig, biological reality can’t simply be wished away.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — I received an email ad from a “conservative” website promising “Walter Cronkite-style” reporting. The terrible truth is that Walter Cronkite symbolized liberal media bias and used that bias with disastrous consequences for our nation and the world. That media bias today, some of which is on the right side of the political spectrum, aims to depict the Jewish President of Ukraine as a Nazi running a fascist regime. It is a variation of Russian KGB President Vladimir Putin’s communist propaganda.... (more)

PETER LABARBERA — An essay in the conservative Federalist approvingly quotes a "senior congressional aide" who calls the concessions won by dissident House Freedom Caucus members in the battle to elect the House Speaker the "most significant win for conservatives in a decade." “Everything that Republicans and conservatives say they hate — giant, thousand-page spending bills negotiated by a handful of people with little input from anyone else, plum committee assignments reserved for insiders, and a closed off amendment process — is addressed here,” the Republican aide told the Federalist culture editor Emily Jashinsky in her Jan. 9 piece.... (more)

FOX NEWS — The House of Representatives voted to rescind more than $70 billion in funding to the Internal Revenue Service on Monday night, fulfilling newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's promise to prevent the agency from hiring tens of thousands of new agents and conducting new audits on Americans. The bill — dubbed the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act and sponsored by Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., and Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif. — passed the House of Representatives, 221-210.... (more)

THE FEDERALIST — First comes love, then comes an indeterminate period of conveniently living together to decide whether your partner’s dishwasher-loading habits are a dealbreaker, then comes marriage. Today a lot of young daters assume moving in together is a prerequisite for matrimonial success. But it actually hikes up a couple’s proclivity toward divorce compared to spouses who wed without first cohabitating — a statistic that shocked hosts Jordyn Woodruff and Alex Bennett of Barstool Sports’ “Mean Girl” podcast in Wednesday’s episode.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Ashli Babbitt was the ONLY person shot and killed on Jan. 6, 2021, disturbance at the U.S. Capitol. She was unarmed, tiny and posed no visible threats. She was a married 14-year veteran of the U.S. military. That's where the lies began on Jan. 6. Almost everything the public has heard about it, the deliberately controlled information, from Day 1 has been whole-cloth disinformation shamelessly manufactured – a sham that makes a mockery of the U.S. Constitution.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Fox News' Mark Levin said House Republicans' prolonged vote for speaker reminded him of how the nation's Founding Fathers engaged in months of heated debate before coming to a consensus on a final draft of the Constitution. Levin read part of Benjamin Franklin's speech to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to highlight how the young delegates came together despite disagreements in his opening monologue on "Life Liberty & Levin."... (more)

JOE KOVACS — A college basketball player collapsed suddenly on the court Saturday, sparking fears among his teammates and fans watching the event. Imo Essien, a sophomore guard at Old Dominion University dropped to the floor while clutching his chest with just over 13 minutes remaining in the first half in a match between ODU and Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.... (more)

YOUTUBE — There was a tense exchange Friday night on the House floor between Matt Gaetz and Kevin McCarthy after the 14th round of voting in the House speaker election.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Kevin McCarthy’s difficult road to becoming House speaker ended early Saturday morning after Republicans appeared to have miscounted the number of votes they needed and left him one vote short of winning the gavel, then quickly voted one last time to give him the win – with help from some of his biggest detractors.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — He said it – finally. Steve Bannon said it. It was more than a question. It was a PLEA! Regarding the failure to elect a House speaker, Bannon said: "Why not Trump? Why not Trump?"... (more)

CONVENTION OF THE STATES — It's very likely that you have not heard anything from the fake news regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to meet on January 6, 2023, to discuss whether or not to place the case of Brunson v. Adams on the full Supreme Court’s docket. Brunson v. Alma S. Adams is a lawsuit that has been brought against 388 federal officers for failing to heed states’ warnings about illegal votes. The basis of this case involves Rule 11, which identifies this case as impacting our national security, allowing for an expedited path to the U.S. Supreme Court.... (more)

FOX NEWS — A group of nearly 50 conservative heavyweights co-signed a statement Wednesday calling to "change the status quo in Washington," and applauded the 20 members of Congress who Wednesday voted against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, sinking his bid for House speaker after six rounds of votes.... (more)

YOUTUBE — 60 Minutes promotes Climate laughingstock Dr. Paul Ehrlich…Ehrlich said billions would die from Global Cooling 40 years ago/60 MINUTES PROMOTES AGENDA’S & PROPAGANDA. Beware what you watch if you cannot think for yourself. In 2020, "60 minutes" cut off Trump when he tried to say something true. CBS claimed, "we can't verify" the Hunter Biden laptop, a bald-faced lie.... (more)

BEN SHAPIRO — Last week, Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church. His life was marked by adherence to a belief in an eternal truth above all. As he stated in a 2008 meeting with Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America, "Truth means more than knowledge: knowing the truth leads us to discover the good. … (W)e observe, with distress, the notion of freedom being distorted. Freedom is not an opting out. It is an opting in – a participation in Being itself. Hence authentic freedom can never be attained by turning away from God."... (more)

LIFE NEWS — New changes to the popular family game The Game of LIFE have some questioning if its creators are really anti-family. According to the Daily Wire, people have been complaining online about the “woke” new edition from Hasbro because of its de-emphasis on children and marriage. In the old version, “family was wealth, not liability,” said homeschool mom Lindsay Harold whose Facebook post went viral after her daughters got the new version for Christmas. Now, she said getting married and having children often can be detrimental. The new game even limits the number of children a player may have.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — In a statement that the news agency Just the News has described as a "stunning rebuke," former Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker charged that the bureau has been taken over by "liberal DOJ ideologues." The result, he said in an interview with the publication, is improper domestic spying and censorship. It is known now that during the 2020 election the bureau interfered in the ordinary campaign process by urging social media companies to censor accurate – but damaging – information about the Biden family's overseas business operations.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Once again, leave it to Tucker Carlson. Lost, apparently, in the shuffling of Republican priorities for investigation is one of the most serious breaches of protocol by the star chamber: the January 6 affair. Strangely, it has not been talked about by Republicans, despite over 800 prosecutions and with Americans many still awaiting trial.... (more)

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT — First, Happy New Year 2023. Second, I have more proof liberals, Democrats, and assorted socialists/communists/Marxists/globalists are dead wrong. This is the greatest nation in world history, ever blessed by God. The streets are paved with gold. This is the land of opportunity. Our history isn't evil; it's better than that of any country, ever.... (more)