RED STATE — Just in case you needed yet another reason not to take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seriously, this story should suffice. The agency released a study on Friday recommending that people wear face masks, among other measures, to avoid catching monkeypox. The problem? The precautions the CDC suggested do not line up with what the data shows about the spread of the illness.... (more)

ROBERT SPENCER — Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed on Wednesday that he has about as much chance of being the Republican nominee for president in 2024 as Nancy Pelosi has of joining the Radio City Rockettes. Demonstrating a tone-deafness of Olympian proportions, Pence had harsh words for the Republicans who are appalled at how the FBI has become a tool of the partisan vendetta of Old Joe Biden and Merrick Garland against Donald Trump. In Pence’s world, the stout-hearted G-Men are still of unquestionable integrity, square-jawed, patriotic, non-partisan, and ever-vigilant for truth, justice, and the American way. It hasn’t been that way for a long time if it ever was, but Mike hasn’t noticed.... (more)

ART MOORE — Dr. Robert Malone, a leading critic of the COVID-19 vaccines and an inventor of the mRNA technology platform on which they are based, filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post on Friday for accusing him of spreading "dangerous lies" and "leading his followers on a journey to illness, suffering and possible death."... (more)

ART MOORE — A federal judge has temporarily halted the discharge of hundreds of Marines who were denied religious exemptions from the military's requirement that they receive the experimental COVID-19 vaccine shots, which have not prevented infection and the spread of the virus as promised. U.S. District Judge Steve Merryday, a George H.W. Bush appointee, ruled Thursday that the Marine Corps failed to adhere to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Epoch Times reported.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Fox News host Sean Hannity appraises the lowly state of the Biden presidency in the opening monologue of ‘Hannity.’... (more)

ART MOORE — The Justice Department may have pressured the FBI to raid Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate at the instruction of the Biden administration, a former bureau special agent said. Maureen O'Connell, an FBI specialist in forensics, gangs and cartel-level narcotics from 1991 and 2016, said the DOJ was "trying to push" the FBI "to do this warrant."... (more)

SIENA HOEFLING — [Editor's note: In view of the Supreme Court's recent ruling that Roe v. Wade never was sound constitutional law, we thought it timely to revisit an April 2017 article by Siena Hoefling that poignantly made the same point—both in writing and with a masterful video featuring the song "Prayer of the Children," sung by Three Dog Night.]... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Professor Jonathan Turley was on Fox saying he had supported the confirmation of Merrick Garland as Attorney General but now says he is disappointed in Garland’s political pursuit of Trump. Turley still doesn’t get it. Garland is an agent of Barack Hussein Obama, who approved Hillary’s plan to launch the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation of Trump.... (more)

CNBC — Concerns are mounting that the window of opportunity for containing the escalating monkeypox outbreak may be closing, with vaccine shortages leaving some at-risk groups waiting weeks to get jabbed. Health professionals have warned that a failure to get the outbreak under control could see it spill over into other populations or species.... (more)

DENNIS PRAGER — Fewer young Americans affiliate with any organized religion than ever before in American history. This means, therefore, that the children—and certainly the grandchildren—of millions of faithful Christians have abandoned Christianity. The same holds true for Jews, but that decline began somewhat earlier. Until the 20th century, nearly all Jews were religious (which nearly always meant Orthodox). Today about 15 percent of Jews are Orthodox, while most Conservative and Reform Jews have the same values as the secular Left, and very few of their children attend synagogue.... (more)

YOUTUBE — ‘The Five’ discuss how schools continue to push the woke agenda amid teacher shortages and how the American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten is blaming the GOP.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, has joined the agenda to censor Americans' free speech, unleashing an executive order banning "conversion therapy." While that term has been used by opponents derogatorily, a common understanding is that it is talk therapy delivered by professionals to those who have unwanted same-sex attractions.... (more)

JACK CASHILL — Unlike the rest of the world, here in the Show-Me State we are inclined to ask questions before voluntarily abandoning our cars, surrendering our farms and wrecking our economy. Question 1: Is our world really growing warmer? If so, show us the data, the real data, not the computer projections, not the CO2 index, not the tales of heat spells in Sri Lanka or Shangri-La, but the data that matters, the temperatures close to home that we can verify.... (more)

YOUTUBE — "Lawrence Jones Cross Country" host Lawrence Jones joins "Fox & Friends" to discuss the latest on the FBI's Trump raid and Joe Rogan's thoughts on the motive behind the incident.... (more)

PJ MEDIA — As is expected, Rep. Liz Cheney went down in flames in her bid to fend off her opponent, Harriet Hageman, in Tuesday’s Wyoming At-Large Republican Primary (see the complete results below). Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) was able to call the race for Hageman just before 9:30 p.m. EDT with only 7% of the vote in:... (more)

RED STATE — Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tested positive for COVID Monday despite receiving four injections of his company’s vaccine, which was developed with BioNTech. He says he’s experiencing mild symptoms and is taking a course of Paxlovid. Paxlovid, coincidentally made by Pfizer, is an anti-viral that is now used to treat symptoms of the virus. Bourla was quick to point out that he was “thankful” for the vaccines, which is especially rich considering that he recently revealed that he had to cancel a 2021 trip to Israel due to not being fully vaccinated – with his own product.... (more)

LIFE SITE NEWS — Texas MassResistance is leading the way back to normalcy. On July 24 the Texas Tribune, a prominent left-wing newspaper, published a banner article “‘We failed’: Gay Republicans who fought for acceptance in Texas GOP see little progress,” describing how the Texas branch of the Log Cabin Republican organization, which pushes homosexual and transgender issues into the Republican Party across the country, was now admitting defeat in Texas.... (more)

PETER LEMISKA — Political polling data can often be confusing and misleading. A recent Monmouth University poll indicates that the vast majority of Americans – 88 percent, in fact – believe the country is on the wrong track. Other polls support those results with similar numbers. They suggest that Americans are fed up with Joe Biden’s radical agenda and that the "red wave" in November, predicted by many, would bring the country back on course.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Communism has come to America, but the conservative and Republican establishments can’t admit it. They are afraid of being labeled “McCarthyites.” An outfit called the Conservative Action Project, comprised of the conservative elite, just released a “Memo for the Movement“ entitled “Garland and Wray Must Be Impeached,” referring to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. It’s too little too late. We can’t impeach our way out of this predicament.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — More than a dozen FBI whistleblowers have come forward to Republican investigators in Congress, according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The congressman, who is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News host Trey Gowdy the number has risen to 14 after the FBI raid at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.... (more)

TOWNHALL — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) didn’t have to end her career this way. She’s the daughter of arguably the most powerful vice president in our history and part of a political dynasty in Wyoming. If she had just read the tea leaves, she could have been a congresswoman for life. No one could touch her in a primary challenge, but the incumbent Republican launched an all-out war on Trump. In 2020, more Wyoming voters cast their ballots for the former president than her, which was probably the most significant sign that maybe you shouldn’t go about setting yourself on fire in fighting your own party. Cheney didn’t listen. She lost her leadership position in the House and promised to stop Donald Trump from running again at all costs.... (more)

FOX NEWS — On “The Ingraham Angle” Aug. 13, Fox News’ Sean Duffy interviewed Trump lawyer Christina Bobb about the unsealed warrant that led to Monday’s FBI raid on Mar-a-lago, a raid she called “clearly politically motivated.”... (more)

FOX NEWS — The Five's panelists weighed in Aug. 12 on the FBI's search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence being unsealed by a judge.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., believes the FBI acted in a biased manner with its search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort this week. He also found some humor in one of the reported accusations involving Trump stealing paper copies of nuclear codes. The confiscated items were not ''a national security immediate threat," Mullin told Friday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" guest host Tom Basile. "[That the FBI would] go to this 'nuclear' level of raiding a former president of the United States' house" and removing documents that "are already declassified" has political overtones.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A recent study indicates that a same-sex male couple could have given monkeypox to their four-year-old greyhound, as questions over the virus's human-to-animal transmission still loom. The Lancet reported the finding in a medical journal entry published on Wednesday, which observed that the couple's greyhound started contracting the virus nearly two weeks into their own cases.... (more)