By: John R. Lott, Jr. – townhall.com – February 03, 2020 Mike Bloomberg is running two misleading gun control ads during the Super Bowl. One ad focuses on the 2007 Trolley Square Mall shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah where five people were killed. The other ad greatly misstates the number of children killed by firearms each year, while also overlooking the...

By: AP Staff – newsmax.com – February 2, 2020 Standing before lawmakers in the grand-domed Capitol where his impeachment trial is still underway, President Donald Trump on Tuesday night will declare the state of the union strong, even when it is bitterly divided as he asks Americans for a second term. After becoming just the third president in U.S. history...

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com –  February 1, 2020 Clive, Iowa — Even though he was not physically present due to impeachment trial votes in the Senate, Bernie Sanders drew a crowd in Iowa on Friday night many times the size of any other Democratic campaign event this week. Sanders had a few advantages other candidates haven’t had: a free concert...

By: Gerry Shih, Emily Rauhala, Lena Sun – msn.com – February 2, 2020 It was almost the Lunar New Year and Pan Chuntao was feeling festive. He knew there were reports of a virus in his city, Wuhan. But local officials urged calmness. There was no evidence it was transmitted person to person, they said. They had not reported a new case...

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – January 10, 2020 Nine years ago I published a piece that asserted, “Voters around the country are concluding it’s better to be red than dead,” applying almost the exact opposite meaning to an old phrase referring to communism. New Census Bureau figures appear to confirm my prediction — mostly. My point was that many...

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: 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: 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: Brad Slager – redstate.com – January 20, 2020 Nothing like proving your critics correct as you complain about their charges. When it comes to obliviousness and lack of self-awareness it is tough to find a group afflicted worse than our contemporary press corps. Maybe it is that they are charged with ferreting out and then delivering the facts that their...