"Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children."

"With Hillary Clinton already part of the midterm scrum, Barack Obama's entry last Friday shows the old band is getting back together again. So far, the music is uninspiring.

"Clinton, as usual, is all about the money. Her latest slush fund, Operation Together, sent an e-mail offering donors a 'Resist' sticker if they send her $5. I was able to resist the offer.

"Obama, meanwhile, gave his first campaign speech since leaving the White House and his media handmaidens instantly swooned like giddy teenagers. ...

"Trump claimed he fell asleep during Obama's speech, but now that Obama and Clinton are active again, the president better wake up to seize advantage of the ripe target they present.

"If so, he will finally start releasing the files that chronicle the effort by the Obama White House, FBI, Justice Department, State Department and the CIA to help Clinton and stop him in 2016. The already-revealed misconduct at the top levels of the FBI amounts to a scandal of historic proportions -- and it is almost certainly the tip of the iceberg."

"There is one issue that unites America like no other: the pursuit of genuine energy independence. Our national security demands it. Our national economy demands it. It is technically possible, legally feasible, and necessary to protect hardworking taxpayers. ...

"In the quarter-century I have polled American priorities and policies, never have I encountered an issue that has such universal support. Fully 92 percent of the country supports a specific effort and priority to: 'Make America energy dominant by using more American-made energy, including American natural gas and biofuels like ethanol, and purchasing less foreign oil.'

"This isn't my language. This is President Trump's language and President Trump's policy -- and it has greater support than any other issue he has raised or supported since his election. As we approach the 2018 midterm congressional elections, the data teach us a powerful lesson: fully 99 percent of Republicans, 90 percent of independents and 87 percent of Democrats support an energy dominance policy that promotes American energy resources and reduces our purchasing of foreign oil. No other issue or proposal comes close."

"Self-described 'liberal, feminist lawyer' Lisa Blatt, who voted for Hillary Clinton and is an advocate of Roe v. Wade, sat before the Senate Judiciary Tuesday and gave a more powerful and full-throated endorsement of Brett Kavanaugh than anyone else the entire day.

"Lisa Blatt -- an attorney and Supreme Court veteran who has argued cases before the court more than any other woman, winning 32 of 35 cases -- fully endorsed the Trump nominee, even though she has filed cases against the Trump administration.

"In her surprising remarks, Blatt introduced herself as 'a liberal Democrat and an unapologetic defender of a woman's right to choose' and called liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg her 'hero,' and said she voted for Hillary and Obama.

"'I'm here today to introduce Judge Kavanaugh and urge the Senate to confirm him as a next associate justice of the Supreme Court,' Blatt said after the previewing of her liberal credentials, saying she received hate from her own party for supporting Trump's pick. 'Judge Kavanaugh is clearly qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.'"

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"A definition of totalitarianism might be the saturation of every facet of daily life by political agendas and social-justice messaging.

"At the present rate, America will soon resemble the dystopias of novels such as 1984 and Brave New World in which all aspects of life are warped by an all-encompassing ideology of coerced sameness. Or rather, the prevailing orthodoxy in America is the omnipresent attempt of an elite -- exempt from the consequences of its own ideology thanks to its supposed superior virtue and intelligence -- to mandate an equality of result. ...

"This new politicized borg ferrets out every aspect of our lives. Nothing is safe, nothing sacred. Dead or alive, the relentless social-justice messaging continues. Like some sort of time machine, we go back in time to alter history as if a few corrections and adjustments will change and thus improve the entire present.

"Progressive politics seeks to connect and energize us as millions of shared malignant cells inside a metastasizing tumor -- or to destroy us in the attempt."

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"Test your knowledge of current events by answering this question: Which organization remains stuck in deep cover-up mode?

A) The FBI
B) The Roman Catholic Church
C) Both of the above
D) Neither of the above

"If you get your news only from The New York Times, you believe the correct answer is D, neither of the above. Other people know the correct answer is C because they see the leaders of both organizations acting as if the public can't handle the truth.

"It is not my intent to suggest the FBI and the Vatican are in all ways comparable. Far from it.

"Yet they are in similar straits because each faces a crisis of public confidence. Those crises are severe because of internal decisions to parse, obscure and withhold important facts.

"While a desire to protect historically valuable institutions from external harm is understandable, the goal cannot come at the expense of honesty and truth. When it does, the damage grows."

"A hundred times every day, I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

"With their busy schedules and tight state budgets, Democratic attorneys general have little in the way of time and resources to advance climate-change policies, which is where billionaire Michael Bloomberg comes in.

"The former New York City mayor's fortune has bankrolled a year-long effort to place privately funded lawyers as 'special assistant attorneys general' in at least six states with specific instructions to work on 'clean energy, climate change, and environmental interests.'

"The program, run through the New York University School of Law, comes as the most disturbing example of the 'billion-dollar per year climate industry' gaining access to law-enforcement authority in pursuit of a political agenda, according to a report released Wednesday by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

"'The scheme raises serious questions about special interests setting states' policy and law enforcement agendas, without accountability to the taxpayers and voters whom these law enforcement officials supposedly serve,' said CEI senior fellow Chris Horner, who authored the report, 'Law Enforcement for Rent: How Special Interests Fund Climate Policy Through State Attorneys General.'"

"Playing God, even online, is not as easy as it looks. Facebook, Twitter and the other technology firms in control of the social-media universe are learning that with nearly limitless power comes the responsibility to administer it fairly. So far social media has failed. Bias, mostly but not all left-leaning, has obstructed the free flow of dialogue. Unless the tech giants figure out how to remedy their tendency to mediate political discourse by leaning left, the bloom will fade from the unmatched flower of human connectivity, and bad things will follow.

"In his 2003 fantasy film 'Bruce Almighty,' funny man Jim Carrey plays a TV reporter who, following several personal misfortunes, has the gall to loudly second-guess God. Annoyed, the Creator lets his critic try his hand at directing the affairs of men. The newly omnipotent reporter discovers the dilemma of adjudicating humanity's billions of competing petitions, and with rue and remorse begs the Almighty to take it all back.

"The tech giants that unleashed the cacophony of global communications are similarly overwhelmed. As the number of social-media enthusiasts has exploded across our orb, so has a list of complaints from users who say their messages are electronically folded, bent, spindled or mutilated simply because of an offending turn of phrase. ...

"Social media is regarded as electronic bulletin boards where everyone is free to post his thoughts. Such thoughts are exempt -- for now -- from the requirements of the Communications Decency Act that apply to paper-and-ink publishers who are liable for the content of third-party users. If the gatekeepers of conversation continue to tilt left as arbiters of acceptable speech, they, too, are likely to be subject on one sad day to the government's rules, and learn the perils of playing God online."

"Is Google manipulating its algorithm to prioritize left-leaning news outlets in their coverage of President Trump? It sure looks that way based on recent search results for news on the president.

"Conservatives and Trump supporters have for the last several years questioned whether Google was deprioritizing conservative news sites, hiding them from users who utilize their search engine. Google has maintained that all outlets are treated fairly, but nevertheless, conservative sites have reported reduced search traffic and, in the case of Google-owned YouTube, content creators have been banned and demonetized. Google's high-profile firing of conservative James Damore, purportedly over his conservative political views, only reinforces the idea that Google is picking winners and losers.

"To test the premise, I performed a Google search for 'Trump' using the search engine's 'News' tab and analyzed the results using Sharyl Attkisson's media bias chart.

"I expected to see some skewing of the results based on my extensive experience with Google, but I was not prepared for the blatant prioritization of left-leaning and anti-Trump media outlets. Looking at the first page of search results, I discovered that CNN was the big winner, scoring two of the first ten results. Other left-leaning sites that appeared on the first page were CBS, The Atlantic, CNBC, The New Yorker, Politico, Reuters, and USA Today (the last two outlets on this list could arguably be considered more centrist than the others).

"Not a single right-leaning site appeared on the first page of search results.

"But it got much, much worse when I analyzed the first 100 items that Google returned in a search for news on 'Trump.'"

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