By: William Cummings – USAToday.com – November 11, 2019 Republican lawmakers stepped up pressure Sunday on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to allow them to call Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to testify in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. The GOP lawmakers said if the Intelligence Committee’s Democrats block the committee’s minority choices of witnesses, it would cast further doubt...

By: Felicia Sonmez – washingtonpost.com – November 10, 2019 Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Sunday that women in politics are held to a higher standard than men, arguing that a female candidate with South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s experience probably would not make it to the presidential debate stage. Klobuchar’s comments mark the latest instance of a 2020 presidential contender taking aim...

By: William A. Galston – wsj.com – November 5, 2019 Is the country ready for the “big structural change” that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is promising? Would the Democratic Party be wise to bet that it is? The answers to these questions will shape the outcome of the nomination contest and the general election. Now that Ms. Warren has released her long-awaited Medicare...

By Rebecca Klar – thehill.com – November 10, 2019 Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claims two of President Trump’s former senior advisers tried to get her to undermine him to “save the country,” The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing Haley’s upcoming memoir and an interview with her.  According to the newspaper, Haley said former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and...

By: Caleb Parke – foxnews.com – November 7, 2019 An atheist group has complained about new decals on a Florida county’s patrol cars that feature an American flag and the phrase “In God We Trust.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) argues the new “patriotic” decal, suggested by a local military veteran, is “frightening and politically dubious” in a letter to the Brevard County Sheriff’s...

By: Caleb Parke – foxnews.com – November 7, 2019 An atheist group has complained about new decals on a Florida county’s patrol cars that feature an American flag and the phrase “In God We Trust.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) argues the new “patriotic” decal, suggested by a local military veteran, is “frightening and politically dubious” in a letter to the Brevard County Sheriff’s...

By: Kelly Shackelford – dailywire.com – November 6, 2019 The American Bar Association (ABA) portrays itself as a neutral assessor of federal judicial nominees. Their recent actions undercut that neutrality and should have us all re-evaluating the special place the ABA holds in the nomination process. In a recent letter to the United States Senate, the ABA rated Lawrence VanDyke,...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – November 7, 2019 Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal Communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Venezuela are unfree, poor, and failed states. Baathism — a synonym...

By: Benjamin Siegel & Katherine Faulders – abcnews.go.com – November 7, 2019 House Democrats have considered drafting as many as three articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, as they prepare to take their Ukraine impeachment inquiry public next week after a month of closed-door depositions, according to multiple sources familiar with the deliberations. No decisions have been made, and what...

By: Rebecca Klar – thehill.com – November 7, 2019 President Trump has officially appointed one in four circuit court judges as of Thursday, a milestone cheered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has often touted the rate of Trump’s judicial appointments. Leader McConnell ✔ @senatemajldr As of this afternoon, one in every four judges on the federal courts of appeals will...