NEWSMAX — The U.S. Surgeon General is making an exasperating plea for Americans to stop inundating face mask suppliers with individual orders, adding the masks are "not effective" for the general public's safety. They are best used for those with the virus, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Former Vice President Joe Biden decisively won the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, claiming his first victory of the 2020 race and giving a crucial boost to his struggling campaign ahead of Super Tuesday. The victory tracked with polls indicating that Biden, buoyed by support among black voters, had a significant lead in the state for months over Sen. Bernie Sanders and others, despite the surging Vermont senator beginning to close the gap after early primary wins that rocketed him to front-runner status. Fox News projects Sanders will finish second, followed by wealthy progressive activist Tom Steyer -- who ended his campaign within hours of polls closing.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — The United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban Saturday that would end America's longest war, if the group keeps its commitments. Under the deal, the U.S. would reduce deployment numbers in Afghanistan from 13,000 to 8,600 over the next several months. The U.S. will withdraw completely within 14 months if the Taliban holds to the deal's commitments of controlling terrorism.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli urged calm over fears of a coronavirus epidemic, crediting President Trump with a preemptive response to the global outbreak. The president has been "whipping us with wet noodles for weeks now" to stay ahead of the spread of coronavirus, Cuccinelli said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. "There's a reason the threat is low in the United States as of now."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Friday that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., "can kiss Florida goodbye" after the Democratic presidential candidate praised some of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's policies. In a recent "60 Minutes" interview, Sanders praised Cuba's literacy rates during Castro's rule, and said, "it's unfair to simply say everything is bad" about how Castro ran the country.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson teed off on Fox News host Tucker Carlson during a hearing Tuesday for Roger Stone, who requested a new trial. Stone, a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, wants a new trial on the grounds that the jury forewoman was found to have been a virulent anti-Trumper on social media.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Democrats have renewed their Russia-collusion narrative against President Trump, claiming he's on the side of the Kremlin, not the Pentagon. John Brennan, who was CIA director under Barack Obama, recently claimed that by "trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to Congress, Trump is abetting a Russian covert operation to keep him in office for Moscow's interests, not America's."... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — President Trump is in a difficult situation. If he were to disclose circumstantial evidence that the coronavirus virus is a Chinese bioweapon, there would be calls for retaliation against the Communist regime. Such a declaration could lead to more fear, the threat of war, and perhaps a global economic collapse. As it is, the virus is causing a market meltdown. He does not want to contribute to a panic and further collapse.... (more)

ART MOORE — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is preparing a procedural vote that condemns Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' praise of purported accomplishments by communist regimes.... (more)

FOX NEWS — It may look as if President Trump's trip to India boils down to little more than media optics and Taj Mahal photo-shoots. But there is much more significance to it than that. Over 100,000 people packed a cricket stadium to hear Trump and the Indian prime minister reprise the "Howdie Modi" event in Houston, Texas a few months ago, with each leader spotlighting the accomplishments of the other and discussing the strengthening bilateral relationship between our two countries.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — President Trump's campaign has filed a libel lawsuit against news outlet he often has described as "fake news," the New York Times, for "falsely" reporting that the campaign was colluding with Vladimir Putin.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — ABC News has suspended political correspondent David Wright after he told an undercover journalist he is a socialist and the establishment media "can't figure out how to challenge" President Trump.... (more)

BEN SHAPIRO — This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the socialist Democratic presidential front-runner, made waves when he merely reiterated his lifelong warmth toward the viciously evil Cuban Communist regime. Brushing off the human rights violations of Fidel Castro -- a man whose revolution ended with the murder or imprisonment of tens of thousands of his countrymen, and decades of impoverishment and repression for millions -- Sanders explained: "We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. ... When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did it?"... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders invoked Barack Obama during Tuesday evening's Democratic debate as part of the Vermont senator's defense of his previous remarks praising aspects of the regime of late Cuban Communist leader Fidel Castro.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A Palestinian rocket attack missed a Jewish school in the Israeli city of Sderot on Monday afternoon but damaged its adjacent playground in a scenario all too common in that region. The school is located near the Gaza Strip, where violence against Israelis is ongoing.... (more)

CONRAD BLACK — It is timely to look more closely at Senator Bernie Sanders. He is 78, was born and raised in Brooklyn in a Jewish family; his antecedents on both sides came from Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Poland). His father emigrated to New York in 1921 some years after Sanders's mother's family. An older brother, Larry, lives in England and was a Green Party city councilor in Oxford (he and I were opponents in a debate in 2016 in London about the U.S. election, and he was amiable and soft-spoken -- none of Bernie's arm-waving and shouting). Sanders was a capable athlete in his early years but an indifferent student.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared to just stop himself Tuesday from saying he "bought" the majority in the House of Representatives that Democrats gained in the 2018 midterms. Bloomberg's remarks came during the Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — Former New York mayor and multibillionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, four years ago at Oxford, England, dismissed farming, ancient and modern. He lectured that agriculture was little more than the rote labor of dropping seeds into the ground and watching corn sprout -- easy, mindless, automatic.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — House Republicans led by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., plan to make criminal referrals on members of Robert Mueller's special counsel team, alleging they lied to a court about former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Five years after two different abortions, a Connecticut mother decided to go back to the Planned Parenthood where her babies' lives ended: one by medication and one through surgery. Erika Kapustinski has been on a journey of healing since 2018 when she attended a post-abortion program at her local faith-based pregnancy center. Her trip back to Planned Parenthood was the latest step of healing; She wanted her medical records so she could look at the ultrasound pictures that she was never allowed to see.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden claimed claimed last night at the debate in South Carolina that 150 million people in America have been killed by gun violence since 2007. That would be nearly half the nation's population.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump's trip to India and the potential for a trade deal "changes the course of history going forward," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Monday. "With what Indian-Americans have contributed to our society and others, this just creates a much bigger bond," the California Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "For the president to do this and build with [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, this makes the world stronger."... (more)

NEWSMAX — There is a public clamoring for the firing of MSNBC host Chris Matthews after he made a reference to the Nazi invasion of France in talking about the blowout Nevada caucus victory of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. During a conversation with anchor Brian Williams Saturday night, Matthews likened the democratic socialist's sweeping Nevada victory to the Nazi's victory over France in World War II.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — MSNBC host Chris Matthews wondered if the Democratic Party would be better off if President Trump wins reelection rather than if Sen. Bernie Sanders takes over the White House. Matthews, 74, brought up the possibility that centrist Democrats may prefer Trump over the socialist Sanders during the network's Saturday afternoon coverage of the Nevada caucuses. The host of Hardball with Chris Matthews was leading a conversation about how centrist candidates were splitting the vote, likely a detriment to one another but a benefit for Sanders.... (more)

NEWSMAX — After his poor debate debut, Mike Bloomberg has no path to the Democratic nomination, save for working to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who would suffer the "worst presidential defeat" since George McGovern in 1972, according to former Clinton guru Dick Morris.... (more)