WASHINGTON TIMES — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says anyone who disagrees that there is a right to abortion is "not in line" with "where we are as a society." The remark was prompted at a town hall in Hamilton, Ontario, on Wednesday by an audience member who asked where the government draws the line on free speech.... (more)

WES VERNON — It says here, in an article by Washington Free Beacon's Bill Gertz, that China has secretly been supplying missiles to North Korea, and has been bolstering its war-making ability provided that North Korea "halts further nuclear tests." So this means "Rocket Man," who rules North Korea by starving his own people, gets to play with his toys as long as he doesn't use them?... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — One year ago, BuzzFeed took the momentous step of posting an unsubstantiated, 35-page scandal sheet against then-President-elect Trump -- and Washington hasn't been the same since. The news website's post, which oddly came with a disclaimer, immediately took on the name "dossier." Sometimes it was the "Trump dossier" or the "Russia-Trump dossier" or the "Steele dossier," after its author, former British spy Christopher Steele.... (more)

CONRAD BLACK — Having encountered Michael Wolff and having had an acidulous public exchange with him, I attest that he is an utterly odious man. He can't write properly, has no professional integrity, and is a sociophobic mud-slinger and myth-maker.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — George H. W. Bush gave up power quietly and turned to charity work and occasional ceremonial speaking after his reelection defeat in 1992. George W. Bush -- like Jerry Ford in 1977 and Ronald Reagan in 1989 -- did the same when Barack Obama assumed power in 2009. R... (more)

VALERIE RICHARDSON — Rancher Cliven Bundy no longer faces federal charges in the 2014 Nevada standoff, but that doesn't mean his legal fight with the Justice Department is over. Attorney Larry Klayman said Mr. Bundy is considering filing lawsuits for malicious prosecution and civil-rights violations stemming from the court battle that ended Monday with a federal judge dismissing all charges against him over "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct."... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — On January 20, 2017, the executive power peacefully transitioned from President Obama to President Trump. At least one judge in San Francisco didn't get the memo. Yesterday, Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump administration to keep its predecessor's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in place. This remarkable 49-page order has all the aesthetics of a judicial decision but is, at heart, an amateur act of punditry. Judge Alsup paints the picture of a divided White House, wherein "the Chief Executive publicly favors the very program [his Administration] has ended."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump had the power to name his own acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a judge ruled Wednesday, delivering a legal victory to the administration in its battle to control one of the government's most powerful independent agencies.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A film project examining Roe v. Wade from a pro-life prospective has Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, actor/producer Nick Loeb, and Alveda King involved. According to the crowdfunding site, Indiegogo, the feature-length film, "Roe v Wade: The Untold Story" will reprise "the most corrupt court case in history."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former lawman and now-Senate candidate Joe Arpaio declared Wednesday he is "not gonna back down" on the discredited claim President Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fake. In an interview with WABC radio hosts Rita Cosby and Curtis Sliwa, the ex-Arizona sheriff said he considers the issue a mission whether or not he wins the Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — He set up work camps for jail inmates and clothed them in pink during his decades as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. He also fought on the front lines of the war against illegal aliens entering the United States and sued Barack Obama over the issue.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — President Trump will make some important decisions this month that could not only end the controversial 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran but also convey America's support for Iranian protesters and hasten the overthrow of Iran's ruling mullahs.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — When you look at it hard, two conclusions are impossible to escape: First, at the height of the 2016 campaign, Obama intelligence officials anxiously adopted Christopher Steele's allegations of traitorous conduct by then-candidate Donald Trump rather than first subject his "dossier" to rigorous investigation -- even though Steele himself admits that his "raw," "unverified" reports might not be true.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Senators confirmed President Trump's 20th federal judge Tuesday, approving William L. Campbell Jr. to a seat on a federal court in Tennessee by a 97-0 vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said the Senate will have three more district court nominees on its agenda this week as well, but he complained it will consume the chamber's entire floor time as they overcome Democrats' procedural hurdles.... (more)

NEWSMAX — More than 163,000 people have signed a grassroots petition insisting The New York Times apologize for and rewrite its obituary of Thomas S. Monson, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Prophet who died last week.... (more)

ART MOORE — A third Muslim imam in the United States has been recorded citing an Islamic text that prophesies the killing of Jews by Muslims.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — In a Politico article published last month, Jason Schwartz asserts: "Authoritarian rulers across the globe are adopting President Donald Trump's favorite phrase to limit free speech, with prominent leaders or state media in at least 15 countries using his "fake news" line to denounce their critics, according to a Politico review."... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — When my husband Steve was almost 13, his grandfather died. Just a few months before, the old man he loved and respected had tutored him for his Bar Mitzvah. To this day, Steve remembers the burial ceremony vividly. When the rabbi had finished the prayers at the outdoor burial site and his grandfather's son and daughters and grandchildren were wiping the tears from their eyes, Steve told me that "my grandmother let out a blood-curdling scream and jumped into the grave -- literally -- right on top of the wooden coffin! And I remember three or four men had to reach in and jump in after her to lift her out."... (more)

USA TODAY — LAS VEGAS -- Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and a militia member will not face a retrial on charges that they led an armed rebellion against federal agents in 2014. A federal judge Monday said the federal prosecutors' conduct was "outrageous" and "violated due process rights" of the defendants.... (more)

BYRON YORK — There's been a lot of confusion about the decision by Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley and crime subcommittee chairman Lindsey Graham to refer Christopher Steele, author of the Trump dossier, to the Justice Department for a possible criminal investigation.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not hear cases challenging a Mississippi law that allows religious organizations to refuse to hire persons or provide services in situations that run afoul of their sincerely held religious beliefs. Gay-rights groups had challenged Mississippi's 2016 law, HB 1523, which was aimed at affirming rights of those who believe marriage is between a man and a woman, an individual's gender is determined at birth and sexual relations are reserved for married couples.... (more)

ART MOORE — The failure to repeal and replace Obamacare is regarded as perhaps the biggest legislative failure of President Trump's first year in office. Yet, Trump managed to eliminate the linchpin of Obama's signature law, the individual mandate, through the tax-reform bill passed in December.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — The Trump administration is advancing plans to open up the vast majority of the Outer Continental Shelf to energy exploration and development, a move that a leading national security voice in Congress says will be another major boost to the economy and protect American interests by ending any dependence on rogue states that sit on a lot of oil.... (more)

TIMES OF ISRAEL — Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested by authorities for allegedly inciting unrest against the government, the London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday, citing "reliable sources in Tehran."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Meteorologist Joe Bastardi had a decidedly unscientific term for the effort to link Thursday's frigid winter storm to human-caused climate change: "witchcraft." "This is flat out insanity and deception now," Mr. Bastardi said Thursday in a tweet. "To tell the public that events that have occurred countless times before with no climate change attribution, is now just that, is not science, [it's] witchcraft."... (more)