Steve Cortes:
America needs a wall because Mexico is at war

Lee Smith: Deep State Used ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ to Stop Flynn’s Audit of Intelligence Agencies

Rich Lowry:
If Mitt Romney convinces the Senate to impeach Trump, the Republican Party will get routed in 2020

On this day in 1986,

Red Sox's Bill Buckner Boots Ground Ball

 in World Series Game 6

Video: The great Vin Scully calls the bizarre finish

Bill Barr quoting John Adams (video):
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people."

On this day in 1966,

U.S.S. Oriskany Fire in Gulf of Tonkin Kills 43

My immigrant neighbor’s only child, adopted, died in the fire

Oriskany now an artificial reef off Pensacola

58,000 American boys killed in Vietnam

On this day in 1881,

SHOOTOUT AT OK CORRAL

Video

President Trump Awarded Bipartisan Justice Award for First Step Act

Fox Business:

China Gives on Key U.S. Trade War Demand - 

Adopts Law Protecting Foreign IP

Clapper to WaPo journo: ‘Take the kill shot on Flynn.’

The Federalist:
How The FBI Trapped Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn’s Lawyers Claim Lisa Page Altered FBI Interview Record to Frame Him

Mike Pompeo: Obama is the one who invited Russia into Syria

Pat Buchanan:

Should we make America, again, in Jeane Kirkpatrick’s phrase, “a normal country in a normal time”?

On this day in 1983,

Reagan Orders U.S. Troops to Invade Grenada

On this day in 1854,

The Charge of the Light Brigade

A mistake in communications leads to a slaughter

Some one had blunder'd: 

Theirs not to make reply, 

Theirs not to reason why, 

Theirs but to do & die, 

Into the valley of Death 

Rode the six hundred.

NYT: Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Investigation

Sen. Rand Paul:

Isn’t all foreign aid supposed to be quid pro quo?

You can't make this up:
Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who tells police 

Alan Dershowitz:

Trump Has Not Committed An Impeachable Offense

On this day 50 years ago today,

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Opens

Famous last words: "Who are those guys?"

Battleground Poll: 7 in 10 say US ‘on the edge of civil war’

On this day in 1648,

Thirty Years' War Ends

Pope's Secular Power Broken

The origin of modern nation-states

Video summary

Zero Hedge:

The Fed has gone into full intervention mode. Not only into full intervention mode, but accelerated intervention mode.

Rasmussen Poll:
GOP voters still side with the president and think Romney is hurting their party.

Cliff's Book Notes

Team of Vipers

The best inside the Trump White House book.

(Spoiler alert: Gen. Kelly was a lousy chief of staff.)

Military Leader of Syrian Kurds Thanks Trump for Cease-Fire

Stephen Miller: ‘Permanent bureaucracy a mortal threat to America’

Lindsey Graham says Senate should dismiss impeachment without a trial because of unconstitutional House impeachment inquiry

Althouse:
Harvard students rise up against the student newspaper for covering both sides of Abolish Ice controversy.

Frank Bruni: "The Democrat panic is real" (video)

Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘This Is A Lynching In Every Sense’

RedState:
Apparently Every Democrat In Existence Used The Term “Lynching” To Defend The Clintons

That Time when Joe Biden Called the Clinton Impeachment a Lynching

New York Times Editorial Board Member: ‘Trump Is Right: The Deep State Is Alive and Well’

On this day in October, 1983:

241 Marines Killed in Lebanon 

On Peacekeeping Mission 

Iranian-Backed Group Bombs Barracks

Reagan withdraws from Lebanon

Great Reagan Speech with Video of Bombing Aftermath and Pictures of All Killed

Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump Going to Be ‘Very, Very Hard’ to Beat if He’s Not Impeached

The Federalist:
Is It Time For America To Begin Decoupling From Communist China?

The Federalist:
Forget Syria. What Is The U.S. Doing About The Failed State On Its Southern Border?

Andrew McCarthy:

Americans deserve a public impeachment inquiry – Schiff and Dems should end the secrecy

Zogby Poll

Trump Leading All Dem Candidates and has Expanded Support from Union Workers, Hispanics and Both Suburban and Large City Voters

Salena Zito:
Never Trump Republicans and Democrats won’t accept any blame for losing the public. Instead, they blame the public.

Ed Yardeni:
Do Future Earnings Indicate An Upside Stock Market Hook?

One America News:
Does the Ukraine "Whistleblower" Have Ties to Adam Schiff's Staff?

On this day in 1962, it seemed like the start of WWIII:

President Kennedy Goes On National TV and Announces Russian Missiles In Cuba and Blockade of Cuba

“Without question, it was the most perilous moment of the Cold War, and, one could argue further, the most dangerous moment in the history of mankind.” - Larry Sabato.

On this day in 1941,

The Odessa (Ukraine) Massacre

Romanians Kill 100,000 Jews

Pat Buchanan:
Is democracy a dying species?

Victor Davis Hanson nails it:

The Left Hates Trump Because He is Restoring a Conservative America

Does Dunham's Trail Lead to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence?

Tom Fitton Breaking — Obama admin knew weapons were shipped from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists

Supreme Court Throws Out Michigan Gerrymandering Ruling in Win for GOP

WaPo Blues:
Want Trump removed? New data shows Fox News is a huge obstacle.

‘Liked’ Tweets from Mitt Romney’s Secret “Pierre Delecto” Twitter Page Show Man Obsessed with Trump Hatred and Leading GOP Resistance

American Greatness:
No, the Biden-Ukraine Story Is Not a ‘Conspiracy Theory’

American Thinker
Here's what Peggy Noonan Needs to learn about Trump supporters

Byron York:

The Real Reasons Trump Wanted to Withhold Aid to Ukraine

Robert Shiller: Recession likely years away due to bullish Trump effect

"Syria critic Lindsey Graham reverses stance, says Trump's policy could succeed."

Kenneth Timmerman/NY Post
Trump didn’t sell out the Kurds by pulling out of Syria

Flashback Politico 1/11/17:

Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton.

Merkel says German multiculturalism has failed

NYT Discovers Spygate Investigation

On this day in 1973,

THE SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE

Nixon Fires Watergate Special Prosecutor

Hip Hughes History Video Summary

On this day in 1944,

Gen. MacArthur Returns to the Philippines