P. Gardner Goldsmith , @gardgoldsmithJanuary. 16. 2020 The lead-up to Virginia’s annual rally for the right to keep and bear arms – to be held, as always, on MLK Day (Jan 20) as part of the traditional state “Lobby Day” — reveals explosive, utterly essential differences between those who breathe the noxious swamp vapors of […]Read More
By Tobias Hoonhout January 17, 2020 Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) said Thursday that Joe and Hunter Biden’s activity in Ukraine “goes to the heart of the matter” surrounding the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate, and argued that GOP senators must be willing to call President Trump’s preferred witnesses, or “all hell is […]Read More
By Melanie Arter | January 17, 2020 | 10:30am EST (CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump marked National Religious Freedom Day on Thursday by announcing steps his administration is taking to protect the First Amendment right to pray in schools. “This afternoon, we’re proudly announcing historic steps to protect the First Amendment right to pray in public schools. So […]Read More
By Tobias Hoonhout January 17, 2020 The vice president for the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association slammed New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday for instituting sanctuary city polices despite the fact that “every single one” of the union’s approximately 13,000 members wanted to help ICE take criminals off the street. SBA vice president Vincent […]Read More
By Michael W. Chapman | January 17, 2020 | 11:16am EST (CNSNews.com) — In a speech before health leaders from 35 countries on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II stressed that “there is no international human right to abortion,” but there is “an international human right to life.” Azar also rejected the “constant drumbeat” […]Read More
By RICH LOWRY January 17, 2020 Senate Republicans aren’t making their best case on witnesses either. The fate of the republic, we are now supposed to believe, hinges on whether there are witnesses at a Senate impeachment trial. Upon the long-anticipated transmittal of the articles of impeachment to the Senate, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said […]Read More
January 16, 2020 by Patrick J. Buchanan So weak is the case for impeachment that the elite in this city is demanding that the Senate do the work the House failed to do. About the impeachment of President Donald Trump she engineered with her Democratic majority, Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday: “It’s not personal. It’s not political. It’s […]Read More
As President Trump gears up for his big day in court the Senate on Tuesday, CNN reports that he is adding three more lawyers to his impeachment defense team. The new lawyers include Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, Clinton-era special prosecutor Ken Starr and Robert Ray, Starr’s successor at the Office of Independent Counsel during the Clinton administration. […]Read More
By ZACHARY EVANS January 16, 202 The Senate on Wednesday passed the USMCA trade agreement, the Trump administration’s update of NAFTA, by a vote of 89-10. The agreement will allow free trade between the U.S., Mexico and Canada among farmers and manufacturers, while updating certain rules in response to technological changes over the past several years. […]Read More
By MAIREAD MCARDLE January 16, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would consider former 2020 contenders Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro as running mates or members of his Cabinet should he get the party’s nomination. “I would consider either or both of them. I’ve spoken to each of them,” Biden told the Dallas Morning News. […]Read More