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January 22, 2020

Michigan Bills Banning Vitamin E Acetate Pass House Committee

Three bills passed by a committee in the House of Representatives could bring Michigan closer to safer e-cigarettes.

January 22, 2020

Commentary: The Effect of the Trump Impeachment on Our Republic

With the attempt to impeach Donald Trump, the United States of America has come to a decisive point in its history.

January 22, 2020

The Supreme Court Won’t Rush Obamacare Case, Dealing Setback for Democrats

The Supreme Court will not fast-track two petitions that ask the high court to again review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

January 22, 2020

Trump Impeachment Trial Begins With Debate on Rules

WASHINGTON - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump began in full Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, with a spirited debate over the rules governing the third such trial in U.S. history over whether a president should be ousted...

January 22, 2020

Library of Michigan Releases Michigan Notable Books List

The Library of Michigan released its list of Michigan Notable Books on Tuesday, saying that the list of 20 books “reflects the rich stories and cultures of our state.”

January 22, 2020

Warren Pledges DOJ Task Force to Investigate Political Opponent

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren will create a Justice Department task force if elected president to investigate alleged corruption during the Trump administration, she said in a plan released Tuesday.

January 22, 2020

Commentary: Afghanistan Is Joe Biden’s War

Joe Biden often brags that he was Barack Obama’s foreign affairs consigliere during their eight years together in the White House.

January 22, 2020

Trump Confirms He Is Preparing to Expand a Travel Ban

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is preparing to expand a travel ban, a move that will likely showcase his immigration enforcement agenda ahead of the 2020 election.

January 22, 2020

Migrant Caravan Illegally Enters Mexico, Facing Off With Mexican Authorities

Amigrant caravan of hundreds of Central American aliens crossed the Guatemala-Mexico border illegally on Monday, in a standoff with Mexico’s security forces, as NPR reports.

January 22, 2020

Michigan Democrat Accuses Republican Colleague of Sexual Harassment

A Michigan Democrat filed a sexual harassment complaint Tuesday against State Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Township) just a week after he was accused of making “sexist” and “belittling” comments towards a female reporter.

January 21, 2020

Michigan State University Considering Giving Students Election Day Off

Michigan State University could implement a new “fall break” that would give students Election Day off.

January 21, 2020

Commentary: Democrats Hoist Their Own Petard

Since at least 2016, CNN has mostly ceased being a news agency, but that hasn’t stopped it from being an active participant in #TheResistance. The network is so caught up in the fervor of this movement that many of its...

January 21, 2020

Chiefs, 49ers Earn Super Bowl Spots

The field for this year's Super Bowl is set, with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers earning the right to play for the National Football League championship on Feb. 2 in Miami.

January 21, 2020

Trump Lawyers: President Did ‘Absolutely Nothing Wrong’ on Ukraine

President Donald Trump's lawyers on Monday assailed the impeachment case against him as a "dangerous perversion of the Constitution," asserting he did "absolutely nothing wrong" in pressing Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit himself politically.

January 21, 2020

The New York Times Mocked for ‘Profoundly Stupid’ Endorsement of Both Klobuchar and Warren

Commentators from across the political spectrum ruthlessly mocked The New York Times editorial board for its reality-TV style endorsement process, which resulted in the endorsements of both Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.

January 21, 2020

Bernie Sanders Surrogate Says Biden ‘Has A Big Corruption Problem’

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a “big corruption problem,” a prominent backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid said in an op-ed Monday.

January 21, 2020

Bette Midler Proposes ‘Osc-hers’ in Response to All Male Director Nominees

On Tuesday, actress and singer Bette Midler angrily responded to the lack of women nominated for the Academy Awards Best Director, by suggesting the creation of an alternative awards show – “we just get our own show called the Osc-hers”...

January 21, 2020

Pennsylvania Professor Arrested for Spending Federal Research Money at Strip Clubs

Pennsylvania professor has been arrested and charged after it was revealed that he allegedly misspent federal research money at strip clubs.

January 21, 2020

California ‘Dreamers’ Set to Receive More State Funding

The University of California and California State University graduate students who fall under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will soon be eligible for special loans to help pay for school.

January 21, 2020

Commentary: ‘Density Ideology’ Will Destroy America

If you’re searching for an organizing principle that unites the Left, density ideology should be at or near the top of your list. Far from being a sideshow, density ideology is behind the leftist drive to cram America’s rising population...

January 21, 2020

DHS Chief Calls Out Double Standard From Border Wall Opponents

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), accused many border wall critics in Congress of having a double standard, noting how many of them became opponents during the Trump administration.

January 21, 2020

Report: President Trump to Crack Down on ‘Birth Tourism’

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to crack down on foreign nationals who visit the United States with the explicit intention to give birth, taking advantage of the country’s birthright citizen laws.

January 21, 2020

2A Ground Zero: ‘It’s Not a Virginia Thing; It’s an America Thing’

RICHMOND, Virginia – Thousands of 2nd Amendment supporters gathered peacefully in Virginia Monday, demonstrating that the commitment to defend the God-given, constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms extends far beyond the Commonwealth’s borders.

January 21, 2020

EGLE Awards $1 Million Grant to Detroit to Boost Recycling Education

The City of Detroit was awarded nearly $1 million in grants earlier this month as part of an expansion in recycling education. The grant is part of a first-ever public-private collaboration to increase state recycling costing $2.2 million.

January 20, 2020

Attorney General Nessel Appeals Line Five Court of Claims Decision

Michigan's attorney general is appealing a ruling in the ongoing battle over a proposed tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

January 20, 2020

Commentary: Democrats and the Narcissism of Small Differences

Eventually, I am going to get around to saying something about CNN’s hostility to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) - evidenced, most recently, by its energetic exertions on behalf of the campaign to elect Elizabeth Warren at last Tuesday’s Democratic debate....

January 20, 2020

President Trump Announces Protections for the Right to Prayer in School

President Trump recently declared his intentions to “safeguard” the right to pray in schools, as he ramps up efforts to energize the Evangelical vote ahead of the 2020 election, according to USA Today.

January 20, 2020

Apple’s Digital Assistant Siri Told Users Israel’s Reuvin Rivlin Was the ‘President of the Zionist Occupation State’

by Chris White Apple’s voice-controlled assistant told the big tech company’s customers Saturday night that Israel President Reuvin Rivlin is the leader of the Zionist occupation state.” Someone changed Rivlin’s Wikipedia page to describe Israel’s president as the “main...

January 20, 2020

Commentary: California Now Pushing Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrant Seniors

California is at it again with a proposal to extend free health care to illegal immigrant senior citizens.

January 20, 2020

Connecticut School Board Votes to Restore Native American Mascot

AConnecticut high school is reinstating its former mascot — just months after it was ditched because some deemed it racist.

January 20, 2020

Flynn Lawyer Sidney Powell: We Have a Witness to Missing Exculpatory FBI 302

Attorney Sidney Powell announced Friday that she has a witness to exculpatory FBI notes (known as a 302) from former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s FBI interview with Peter Strzok and another agent.

January 20, 2020

ICE Escalates Fight with NYC’s Sanctuary Laws, Slaps City with Subpoenas

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenaed New York City for information on several illegal aliens, ratcheting up its fight with the city’s sanctuary policies.

January 20, 2020

Sanders’ Field Organizer Kyle Jurek Bailed Out After Arrest, Still No Comment from Campaign Over ‘Gulag’ Rants Caught on Camera

by Debra Heine In the latest Project Veritas sting video, Kyle Jurek, the self-proclaimed anarcho-communist Soviet Gulag fan who is a field organizer for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Iowa, admits that he was recently arrested for “weed” after...

January 20, 2020

Kanye West Performs Sunday Service Concerts at Youth Conference in Pigeon Forge

Rapper-turned-Christian evangelist Kanye West brought his Sunday Service gospel worship service to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, on Sunday in two performances for a youth conference.

January 20, 2020

Ahead of Second Amendment Lobby Day and Rally in Virginia Monday, Warnings of a ‘Set-Up’ Against Supporters Spread

RICHMOND, Virginia – Supporters of the 2nd Amendment have received warnings about being set up at the annual rally at the Commonwealth of Virginia capitol, which has become ground-zero for the constitutionally protected right of Americans to keep and bear...

January 20, 2020

Michigan Bill to Make Public All Executive Branch Salaries Clears First Hurdle

A Michigan bill that would require every executive branch department and division to post the salary and benefit information of their employees unanimously cleared its first hurdle Thursday. House Bill 5015 easily cleared the House Oversight Committee and is...

January 19, 2020

‘I Want Trump Out!’: Migrants Plan to Cross US Border Once Trump Leaves Office

Central American migrants hoping to enter the United States have said they will wait in Mexico in the hope that President Donald Trump loses reelection, where they will then cross the U.S. border.

January 19, 2020

Commentary: The Rising Generation’s Intuitive Populism

A modern populist movement with the twin goals of expanding individual liberty and strengthening the bonds of community exists as a result of a communications revolution that has empowered people to control their own lives. That’s good news. The danger,...

January 19, 2020

Seventeen Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Tyranny, Liberty, and Rights

Americans remember Benjamin Franklin as one of our founders. That is fitting because he was not just our most famous citizen at our country’s birth, but he was also so much a central part of that birth that he has...

January 19, 2020

Supreme Court to Decide on ‘Faithless Elector’ Bans, ACA Contraception Mandate

The Supreme Court took up two high-profile disputes Friday as it rounds out its docket for the 2019-2020 term, agreeing to decide on the Trump administration’s bid to enforce exemptions from the Obamacare contraception mandate for religious dissenters, and whether...

January 19, 2020

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