Tlaib, Omar All About Weakening Israel, They Stay Silent on Hamas, Palestinian Authority “It should come as no shock that Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan are unwelcome in Israel, a nation they are taking great pains to tear down. Their latest PR stunt is an attempt to victimize themselves, whitewash history and spin reality – providing even further proof of their worst of intentions,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) writes in Fox News. “The two congresswomen attack Israel while remaining silent on Hamas using women and children as human shields, denying humanitarian aid to its own people, calling jihad an obligation, and launching rockets into Israel that kill innocent civilians.” Click here to read more.

Both heroin and prescription drug abuse dropped last year, “a bright signal of hope” in confronting one of our country’s most devastating problems, Cassidy Morrison reports for the Washington Examiner. The number of Americans misusing opioids fell by more than 1 million—a “significant decrease,” according to Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Dr. Elinore F. McCance-Katz.

“For more than two years, the editors at [The New York Times] produced hundreds of weak articles pushing a story they claimed was solid as a rock: President Trump and his campaign coterie colluded with Russia to alter the outcome of the 2016 election,” Joseph Curl writes in The Washington Times. With that story dead, The New York Times’ editors now openly admit they’re moving on to a new narrative. “Hey, it doesn’t have to be true — the Russia collusion canard wasn’t. But clearly, the once-great New York Times isn’t going to let a pesky thing like facts get in the way of a good story.”

“Activists and Democratic politicians like to portray President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the ineffectual and counterproductive Paris Agreement as an example of his ‘inaction’ on the environment,” former EPA official Mandy Gunasekara writes in USA Today. “In reality, the quality of our air and water has only improved since he took office. Carbon emissions fell 2.7% in President Trump’s first year. While emissions rose in 2018 due to robust economic growth, carbon dioxide is projected to decrease in 2019 and 2020.”