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By: Ben Shapiro – dailysignal.com – January 15, 2020 In 2008, Democrats nominated for president a first-term U.S. senator with no serious legislative experience, Barack Obama. They nominated him over the long-championed, long-celebrated presumptive heir apparent to the Democratic leadership, Hillary Clinton. Obama was, of course, the first black Democratic nominee, and he would be the first black president. Yet in…

By: Victor Davis Hans0n – nationalreview.com – January 14, 2020 The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability … The Left sees Donald Trump’s comportment, rallies, and tweets as a new low in presidential behavior that justifies extraordinary countermeasures. But Trump’s personal characteristics are idiosyncratic and may…

By: Emily Larsen & Naomi Lim – washingtonexaminer.com – January 14, 2020 With Iowa polls showing a tight, fluid race between the top four candidates in the 2020 Democratic field, the last debate before the first votes are cast could be a critical moment for the White House hopefuls. Former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy…

By: Scott Wong – thehill.com – January 13, 2020 Senate GOP leaders say opening arguments in the impeachment trial for President Trump will likely kick off early next week. But several procedural steps need to happen before the meat of the trial begins. Here’s what to watch for in the coming days as the impeachment process finally shifts from the House…

By: Olivia Beavers & Mike Lillis – thehill.com – January 12, 2020 Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday ended weeks of speculation surrounding the Democrats’ impeachment effort, announcing the House would vote as early as next week to send a pair of articles to the Senate. The move is indication that the Speaker, who’d delayed the transmission of the articles…

By: Derek Hunter – townhall.com – January 12, 2020 It was the best of people, it was the worst of people… Osama bin Laden deserved to die. Only the fringe of the fringe disagree with this statement (looking at you, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn), which is why no one seemed to mind when Seal Team 6 invaded Pakistan to upgrade his…

By: John Fund – nationalreview.com – January 12, 2020 If he won Iowa, the party might unite behind an Anybody But Bernie candidate. In 2016, insurgent candidates roiled the nomination process of both major parties. Donald Trump, running as a populist, won 44 percent of the primary vote against a divided field and won the GOP nomination. Bernie Sanders, running as…

By: Eric Metaxas – wsj.com – January 7, 2020 It’s myopic to focus on his personal behavior when important moral issues like abortion are at stake. The magazine Christianity Today—which bore the imprimatur of its founder, Billy Graham —once arguably represented the broad middle of “American evangelicalism.” But a recent editorial calling for President Trump’s removal through impeachment confirmed the…

By: Jordain Carney – thehill.com – January 9, 2020 McConnell tells GOP senators to expect impeachment trial next week Jordain Carney01/09/20 03:57 PM EST Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Republicans during a closed-door lunch on Thursday to expect President Trump’s impeachment trial to start next week. Three GOP senators said the Republican leader warned lawmakers during the caucus meeting…

By: Zachary Basu – axios.com – January 10, 2020 The House voted 224-194 on Thursday in favor of a symbolic war powers resolution directing President Trump to halt the use of military force against Iran unless he obtains approval from Congress. The big picture: A classified briefing Wednesday on the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani left Democrats and even some Republicans…

By: Streiff – redstate.com – January 8, 2020 Rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a Ukrainian plane crash in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital’s main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of…