By: Adam Shaw – foxnews.com – January 20, 2019 President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration in an effort to end the nearly monthlong partial government shutdown — although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a “non-starter” before Trump even spoke. Trump announced that he was prepared to...

By: Malachi Bailey – westernjournal.com – January 17, 2019 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has canceled an appearance scheduled for Los Angeles later this month, and that’s not a good sign for liberals. The liberal justice was expected to make an appearance at the Skirball Cultural Center on Jan. 29, but she had to cancel for health reasons. “The...

By: WND Staff – mobile.wnd.com – January 17, 2019 President Trump on Thursday ordered the postponement of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional junket to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan only an hour before its departure was scheduled. The president argued it would be better for her to be in Washington so she could negotiate an end to the government shutdown. “Due...

By: streiff – redstate.com – January 17, 2019 I’ve posted on the anti-constitutional antics of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Mazie Hirono, Corey Booker and Kamala Harris in viewing the possession of orthodox Catholic beliefs as a disqualification for office. While Dianne Feinstein’s “the dogma lives loudly in you” has become the most famous, the most egregious...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – January We all knew that there would be zero bipartisanship this Congress. We started the year with the government in a shutdown over border security. House Democrats retook the majority in 2018. They’re in no mood to play ball with the Trump White House. The fight is over a mere $5 billion for part...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 16, 2019 Yesterday, Beto O’Rourke made news. In her Washington Post article yesterday on O’Rourke’s immigration stance, Jenna Johnson made the rather interesting point that he often favors proposing debates and raising questions rather than proposing policies. “O’Rourke says he is being open-minded, as he wishes more politicians would be,” Johnsons writes. Exhibit...

By: Tal Axelrod – thehill.com – January 15, 2019 Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) panned House Republican leaders on Tuesday for their criticism over remarks he made in an interview with The New York Times last week regarding white supremacy. “[House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy [R-Calif.] decided he’s going to believe The New York Times over Steve King, and that’s a...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – January 15, 2019 The FBI took it upon itself to determine whether the president of the United States is a threat to national security. No one had ever before thought that this was an appropriate role for the FBI, a subordinate agency in the executive branch, but Donald Trump isn’t the only one in...

By: Lathan Watts – dailysignal.com – January 14, 2019 This new year will quickly reveal to the American people whether some Democrats in Washington have resolved to abandon their overused—and unconstitutional—religious test for office. Two Democrats in the Senate, Sens. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Kamala Harris of California, recently objected to the nomination of Brian Buescher to a U.S....

By: Elizabeth Vaughn – redstate.com – January 13, 2019 USA Today has never been a “must read” publication for me, but the title of an article listed at the top of the Real Clear Politics home page happened to catch my eye. So I clicked. The op-ed, written by Paul Brandus, was entitled “6 Real Emergencies That Should Be More...