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By: Will Weissert – apnews.com – January 29, 2020 Most presidential candidates try to manage expectations in the final stretch of a campaign knowing a surprise win is always better than an expected one. Not Bernie Sanders. Ever the insurgent, Sanders is spending his final days on the trail in Iowa predicting a win here and beyond. He has boasted of…

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – January 29, 2020 While many Americans were focused on Washington this week, I was paying special attention to Fort Bend County, Texas. What took place in that Houston suburb may reveal more about the 2020 election than the impeachment trial in the Senate does. Fort Bend held a special runoff election to fill a…

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – January 28, 2020 A superb documentary delivers a measure of justice to an extraordinary justice. Among the most prominent figures in American politics, perhaps none is as poorly understood as Justice Clarence Thomas. Watching him tell his riveting story at length on camera for the first time, it becomes evident that the man has…

By: Pat Buchanan – townhall.com – January 28, 2020 In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act that had been enacted by Congress over his veto in 1867. Defying the law, Johnson fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, without getting Senate approval, as the act required him to do. In his 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, John F….

By: Reid Wilson – thehill.com – January 26, 2020 This year’s election is the most important in our lifetime. It is a tired cliché, one parroted by presidents and politicians every two years in hopes of driving their voters to the polls. But clichés become clichés for a reason: They tend to be true. This year, the decisions voters make…

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – January 24, 2020 Pro-life demonstrators recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally before the start of the 47th annual March For Life in Washington, January 24, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Friday’s rally saw a standout speech from Louisiana state representative Katrina Jackson, a Democrat who spearheaded the state’s abortion restrictions. Louisiana state representative…

By: ESPN Staff – espn.com – January 26, 2020 Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among several people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bryant was 41. Drafted 13th overall in 1996 out of Lower Merion High School outside of Philadelphia, Bryant was a five-time NBA champion, a two-time NBA…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 20, 2020 When the Montana Legislature created a K-12 scholarship program funded via private donations and tax credits, it was a godsend to Kendra Espinoza. An office assistant by day and janitor by night, the single mom had pulled her two daughters out of public school. One was bullied for studying the…

By: James Freeman – wsj.com – January 23, 2020 Senate jurors are responding in different ways to the impeachment case being made by House Democrats. “Gum-chewing, snacking, yawning and alleged napping could be seen throughout the cramped chamber,” reports Laurie Kellman of the Associated Press. But just because a prosecution’s case is boring doesn’t mean it can’t also be misleading. Senators…

By: Staff – newsmax.com – January 24, 2020 Democrats on Thursday pressed their case for removing President Donald Trump from office by trying to turn the words of his own allies against him at his Senate impeachment trial. Their goal: to make the point that his actions constituted impeachment offenses, but that his fellow Republicans showed no signs of turning against…

By: Meredith Lawrence – dallasobserver.com – January 15, 2020 A federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday morning blocking the executive order that allowed Gov. Greg Abbott to reject all new refugees to Texas. In a 31-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte blocked the order, stating that the plaintiffs would…