WES VERNON — Victoria Toensing, one of the insightful attorneys on Fox News, cut to the quick the other night when she spoke with her fellow panelists of the odd statement by House Speaker Paul Ryan that there was "no evidence" that then President Obama ordered the FBI to "spy" on the Trump campaign.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — "A true democrat, lowercase 'd,' thinks they're no better than anybody else. That's what a Democrat is. And the party regains that when white, black, Hispanic people, everybody, starts to think of themselves as one of them instead of being better than them."... (more)

CNN — Nearly five hours of unprecedented and surreal talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un culminated on Tuesday with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague pledges of nuclear disarmament. For Trump, that amounted to a triumphant outcome in his extraordinary gamble with the rogue kingdom's despotic leader. But there were scant details on what new commitments had been secured from Kim, even as Trump announced he would end the regular military exercises the US conducts with South Korea.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — First lady Melania Trump is thoughtful, classy, intelligent and kind. And it drives the media nuts. There's nothing -- not one thing -- to legitimately criticize Mrs. Trump about. So they create fake news (aka: lies) in a vain attempt to vilify, discredit or embarrass her.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will begin their historic summit with a one-on-one meeting, focusing on their personal rapport as they seek a deal for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, an administration official said Monday.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro used unusually harsh language Sunday in blasting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for holding a "stunt" press conference to say his nation will not be pushed around by tariffs imposed by President Trump.... (more)

POLITICO — Mitt Romney is mapping out plans to become a major player in the Senate -- positioning himself to be the spokesman of a listless Republican Party establishment that's been steamrolled by President Donald Trump.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Those blaming the deadly Parkland shooting on the National Rifle Association need to take a harder look at the Broward County school superintendent and sheriff, according to NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch. She told the Western Conservative Summit that school authorities "protected" the confessed mass shooter by failing to get tough on him in the name of reducing student arrests prior to the Feb. 14 shooting.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Since November 2016, the deep state and its media allies have spent considerable time and money cultivating animus toward President Trump and the Republican-led Congress among younger voters. Many millennials came unglued in the wake of the election and still are. The left is counting on their turning out to elect progressives in November. Social media bristle with anti-Trump and anti-conservative invectives, and some of it spills over into anti-American rants.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — Black Americans can escape the cycle of failed schools, rampant poverty and government dependence if America as a whole embraces the proven values that made it the envy of the world, according to a new report from the conservative Project 21 Black Leadership Network.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump said Saturday he has "a clear objective" for his upcoming nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, though he acknowledged that potential progress "will always be spur of the moment." He described the meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Singapore as a "one-time shot" for Kim, and Trump said he was about to undertake a "mission of peace" as he left the Group of Seven meeting with world leaders in Canada.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A Kim Jong Un lookalike was detained and questioned upon his arrival in Singapore on Friday, days before a summit between the North Korean leader and President Donald Trump.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump has forced the nation's top trading partners to realize that "the era of American complacency in the international marketplace is over," White House Trade Council Director Peter Navarro said Saturday.... (more)

THE HILL — President Trump reportedly asked world leaders at the Group of Seven Summit on Friday to consider "no tariffs" at all amid growing tensions over the administration's trade moves.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — For George Soros, things started going bad Nov. 8, 2016, and they've continued to deteriorate. It started with Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton and has gone downhill since then, he candidly told the Washington Post from his plush hotel suite by Lake Zurich. "Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong," he said. But, at 87, the hedge-funds multi-billionaire is not giving up on funding his left-wing agenda. "The bigger the danger, the bigger the threat, the more I feel engaged to confront it," Soros said.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Talk show host and comedian Bill Maher said he's "hoping" for the U.S. economy to crash if that's what it takes to "get rid" of President Donald Trump, Mediaite reported. "I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point. And by the way, I'm hoping for it. Because I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession," Maher said Friday during a panel discussion about the economy on his HBO show "Real Time With Bill Maher."... (more)

FOX NEWS — Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed the heartbreaking news that he is in the final stages of a losing battle with cancer.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who comforted diarist Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months before its liberation, has died. She was 95.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Before being sworn into officer as a Georgia county commissioner, 26-year-old Mariah Parker was asked if she would like a Bible on which to place her right hand."... (more)

WES VERNON — In this century, as our nation appears on the verge of a (mostly so far) non-shooting civil war brought about by cultural battles and an attempt to overthrow a sitting president, Americans wonder: How did we get into this mess? It's axiomatic that one of the best ways to find one's way out of a bad predicament is to understand how we got there in the first place. Herewith comes an information-loaded analysis titled Betrayal At Bethesda.... (more)

SIENA HOEFLING — It was a decision that tossed a crumb to religious liberty with one hand, while it took the whole cake away with the other. The "cake-baker case," properly called Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, convinced conservatives they had won a battle in the culture war.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — I must respectfully disagree with the editors regarding the Supreme Court's ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop. Professor Steve Vladek is right: The decision is "remarkably narrow." One cannot help but be struck by the majority's reticence from the outset: "Whatever the outcome of some future controversy involving facts similar to these, the Commission's actions here violated the Free Exercise Clause." Mind you, this is from the pen of Anthony Kennedy, a judicial supremacist who ordinarily interrupts his liberty bender only to scold the People -- formerly known as the sovereign -- to pipe down and quit grousing once the Robed Nine have spoken.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators are reportedly asking witnesses to turn over their personal phones so agents can examine private conversations on messaging programs like WhatsApp, Confide, Signal, and Dust. Fearing a subpoena, the witnesses have complied with the request, CNBC reported, citing unnamed sources.... (more)

NEWSMAX — White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow predicts that the U.S. economy, the fastest growing among industrialized nations, is on the path to even greater prosperity under President Donald Trump. "The United States now has the fastest growing economy in the world, according to the OECD, or at least the fasting growing economy among the industrialized nations," Kudlow told reporters at a White House press conference.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — Social Security and Medicare are on the path to insolvency sooner than previously thought, and Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., is frustrated that Congress won't act to stave off fiscal disaster when the solution seems obvious to him.... (more)