By: David Horowitz – conservativereview.com – June 5, 2018 Something funny happens when you actually take time to analyze a gravely transformative piece of legislation. It’s something that not a single member of the House who voted for the aptly named First Step Act got a chance to do: You understand the consequences of the bill. Proponents of the bill,...

By: Guy Benson – townhill.com – June 7, 2018 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the upper chamber’s traditional August break would be severely limited this year. Democrats have lashed out at the decision, accusing McConnell of playing partisan hardball in an election year. They say he’s scheming to keep them in session, rather than back home (and...

By: Daniel Horowitz – conservativereview.com – May 29, 2018 “The liberal approach of coddling criminals didn’t work and never will. Nothing in our Constitution gives dangerous criminals a right to prey on innocent, law-abiding people.” ~Ronald Reagan, Feb. 18, 1984 The cool kids in Washington promoting the Michael Dukakis crime agenda have a clever way of enticing conservatives to support...

  By: Hank Berrien – dailywire.com – June 6, 2018 A tale of two Midwestern states: In 2014, Minnesota started implementing minimum wage increases, while Wisconsin did not. Minnesota instituted phased-in hourly increases on August 1 of each year through 2016, and indexed them to inflation based on economic conditions beginning January 2017. At the beginning of 2018, Minnesota’s minimum...

By: Erik Brady – usatoday.com – June 5, 2018 The Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to be at the White House Tuesday to celebrate their Super Bowl title. It’s one of those Washington traditions that is a sort of win-win for both sides. Presidents and players get to bask in each other’s reflected glory. They are America’s winners – of national...

By: Staff of Ted Cruz – cruz.senate.gov – May 25, 2018 HOUSTON, Texas – On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Gov. Greg Abbott, local law enforcement officials, and the victims and survivors of the Santa Fe High School, Alpine High School, and the Sutherland Springs church shootings in a roundtable discussion on the topic of school safety. Several...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2018 After reading the FBI’s latest report on active-shooter incidents in the United States, two things are increasingly clear. First, the United States has a growing problem with actual or attempted spree killers. And second, armed and alert citizens can be part of the solution. Let’s begin with the problem. The FBI...

By: David Horowitz – conservativereview.com – May 23, 2018 The Willie Horton jailbreak agenda is back in style. Michael Dukakis was just ahead of his time. The interests are so strong and one-sided that Steve King and Bill Huizenga were the only two Republicans in the entire House willing to publicly vote against the jailbreak bill. The bill passed under...

By: Emily Zanotti – dailywire.com – May 22, 2018 California lawmakers are poised to make the state the first in the nation to expand Medicaid benefits to adult “undocumented” immigrants, at a cost of more than $3 billion per year to California taxpayers. According to Politico, the proposal would greatly expand an existing program that grants Medicaid benefits to the...

By: Lydia Wheeler – thehill.com – May 23, 2018 A federal district court judge on Wednesday ruled that President Trump can’t block people from viewing his Twitter feed over their political views. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said President Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum and blocking people...