2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a firm response to fellow candidate Tim Ryan’s accusation that he “doesn’t know” what kinds of benefits Medicare for All would provide on Tuesday.
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Commentary: Democrats Have Nothing But Your Money After Dem Debate
There were two lucid moments during last night’s Democratic Debate. The first was former Rep. John Delaney who, in his opening statement, delivered a scathing rebuke to Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizbeth Warren for their “fairy tale economics” that risk bankrupting the economy.
Read MoreBeto O’Rourke Invites Michigan Football Players Who Knelt During National Anthem to Democratic Debates
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke placed national anthem kneelers front and center during the primary debate in Detroit Tuesday.
Read MoreDetroit More ‘Rodent-Infested’ Than Baltimore
President Donald Trump continues to face criticism for calling Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD-07) home city of Baltimore a “rat and rodent infested mess.”
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats Try to Stop Wall Funding They Voted for in 2018 After Recent Supreme Court Decision
Brick by brick, figuratively speaking, with a serious assist from the Supreme Court ruling that reprogramming $2.5 billion of counter-narcotics monies may be used, Donald Trump is fulfilling his promise to get the southern border wall built.
Read MoreGOP Touts Infrastructure in Michigan Ahead of Detroit Debate
Democrats held their second round of debates in Michigan Tuesday night, which is a key swing state in the next presidential election. However, Michigan Republicans want to remind liberals it has the “infrastructure” to win again in 2020.
Read MoreGrassroots Michigan Conservatives React to Ousted Miss Michigan
Ousted Miss Michigan Kathy Zhu struck a chord with grassroots conservatives across Michigan after Miss World America stripped her of her title.
Read MoreDetroit Billboard Raises a Beef With Gary Peters Over Green New Deal Plan to Restrict Red Meat Use
A new billboard campaign is pointing out that some Democratic presidential candidates do not think beef should be for any meal, period.
Read MorePompeo: Trump Wants Forces Reduced in Afghanistan by Next US Election
WASHINGTON/KABUL – U.S. President Donald Trump wants combat forces reduced in Afghanistan by the next U.S. presidential election, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, in comments that underlined the growing pressure from Washington to cut troop numbers there.
Read MoreLecturers Earn $6,000 Per Hour Pushing ‘White Privilege’ to Students
White liberal academics can earn more in a day lecturing about their own “white privilege” than the median black household makes in three months, public records obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation and U.S. Census data show.
Read MoreJudges Seated by Trump Begin to Transform ‘9th Circus’
The Trump administration gained a rare victory this summer in the most unlikely of venues—the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is widely viewed as the most liberal federal appeals court.
Read MoreTrump Warns China to Negotiate Trade Deal Now Rather Than Later
As U.S.-China trade talks are set to begin, U.S. President Donald Trump is warning China against negotiating a deal after the 2020 U.S. presidential election — declaring a delayed agreement would be less attractive than a deal reached in the near term.
Read MoreMan Who Shaun King Falsely Accused of Murdering Black Girl Dead from Apparent Suicide
A Houston-area man who social media activist Shaun King falsely accused of murdering a 7-year-old black girl late in 2018 has died from an apparent suicide after hanging himself in his jail cell earlier in July.
Read MoreCommentary: Nicholas Sandmann Was Denied the Justice He Deserves
A Jimmy Carter-appointed federal district court judge in Kentucky on Friday dismissed Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post. The Covington Catholic High School student’s two other suits against CNN and NBC remain active, however.
Read MoreAttorney General William Barr Puts Additional Limits on Asylum Claims
Attorney General William Barr ruled Monday that being a member of a family harassed by gangs is not enough to qualify for asylum.
Read MoreMichigan Students Fail to Improve Under Common Core
Students attending K-12 public schools in Michigan are failing to improve on nationally standardized tests after Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were fully implemented in the state. Funding was delayed until late 2013.
Read MoreQuestions CNN Should Ask Dems But Probably Won’t, Courtesy of GOP
CNN hosted the second round of Democratic debates, which kicked of Tuesday night and will continue Wednesday night in Detroit, Michigan.
Read MoreReport: Volunteer Firefighters in Michigan as Effective as Paid at Lower Cost to Taxpayers
A new report states that the 25 largest volunteer-led fire services in Michigan spend $19 million less annually than the top 25 largest full-time departments in the state.
Read MoreSmall Segments of Border Wall Matter in Stopping Illegal Aliens, Brian Kolfage Says During We Build the Wall Symposium
We Build the Wall sponsored a symposium Saturday to discuss border security issues and a “can-do attitude” that led to its construction of one segment of border wall.
The event was titled “Symposium at the Wall: Cartels, Trafficking, and Asylum.” The location was Sunland Park, New Mexico, near El Paso, Texas, where the organization built its first section of wall.
Read MoreCommentary: The Left and Their ‘Woke Racism’
Well before Sigmund Freud formalized the idea of “projectionism” – the defense of one’s own shortcomings and sins by attributing them to others – it was a common theme in classical literature and the New Testament: the ridiculing of the mole on someone else’s nose to hide one’s own boil.
Read MoreProfessor Finds Lower College GPAs Among Conservatives Compared to Liberals
Research finds that conservatives on average earn higher GPAs and test scores in high school, but ultimately receive lower GPAs in college when compared to their liberal classmates, at least partly due to liberal ideological bias. This grade discrepancy is even more evident in the humanities and social sciences, as compared to the more objective STEM fields.
Read MoreOne America News Network Demands Retraction from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and The Daily Beast
One America News Network (OANN) demanded retractions from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and The Daily Beast, threatening a lawsuit, after both suggested links to the network and Russian propaganda.
Read MoreNative of Scandinavia Debunks Myth of Nordic Countries as ‘Socialist’
Liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., frequently hold up Scandinavian countries as successful experiments in “democratic socialism.” A historian and native Swede, however, is speaking out against their failure to observe the clear capitalistic traits of Scandinavian markets.
Read MoreResearcher: Facebook Algorithm Changes Suppressed Journalism
Facebook’s News Feed algorithm determines what users see on its platform – from funny memes to comments from friends. The company regularly updates this algorithm, which can dramatically change what information people consume.
As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But what’s not getting enough attention is the role Facebook’s algorithm changes play, intentionally or not, in that kind of meddling.
Read MoreBiden Vows To Be More Aggressive, Reportedly Scrambles to Recover Support Before Dem Debates
Former Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly scrambling to reassure donors after his performance at the June Democratic debates, sources told Politico.
Read MoreDecorated Veteran Faces Jail Time for Using Property That ‘May’ Have a Spider On It
A case on appeal at the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals pits the rights of a taxpaying property owner against a spider.
Read MoreDHS Chief McAleenan Praises Supreme Court Decision: ‘Big Victory’ for Border Wall
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan lauded the Supreme Court decision allowing the administration to use military funds to build additional border wall.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Is Protecting Our Environment Without Sacrificing Economic Growth
Democrats are hell-bent on reducing the living standards of ordinary Americans in order to protect the environment, but President Trump is demonstrating that it’s possible to be a responsible ecological steward without sacrificing the country’s prosperity.
Read MoreTrump Not Far Off Mark in Calling Rep. Cummings’ Hometown ‘Rat and Rodent Infested’ as List of ‘Rattiest Cities’ Shows Baltimore as 9th Worst in Nation
When President Donald Trump called Baltimore a “rat and rodent infested mess,” he wasn’t far off the mark, according to a list of the “rattiest cities” in America.
Read MoreMichigan’s Governor Whitmer Pitches Graduated Income Tax on Top of Gas Tax Hike
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says Michigan needs to find an extra $2.5 billion to help fix the state’s roads as she reaches an impasse with Republican leaders on the 2020 budget.
Read MoreCopycat Progressive Tactics at the ‘People’s Convention’ in Detroit Spin Popular GOP Messaging
Organizers from the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) used some language during the second annual People’s Convention in Detroit July 25-27 that echoed popular themes from President Trump and the GOP.
Read MoreCommentary: The Multiculturalist Left Demands We Provide America’s Greatness to Everyone But Ourselves
The Trump versus “the squad” brouhaha merely affirms what pundits have been saying since Trump’s MAGA movement swept up the American Right in 2016: American politics, from here on out, is American nationalism versus multiculturalism. A drift on the American Right towards nationalism, and deeper polarization between multiculturalism and nationalism, seems inexorable.
Read MoreIsrael, US Test Missile Defense in Alaska
U.S. and Israeli officials say tests in Alaska of a jointly developed missile defense system have been successful.
Read MoreCountering China, Trump Seeks to Increase Domestic Production of Rare Earths
President Donald Trump recently invoked a provision of the Defense Production Act to ensure the timely delivery of rare earth materials to the nation’s industrial base. Having made the determination rare earths are “essential to national defense,” Trump authorized a wave of potential investment in the industry.
Read MoreCommentary: Google’s Algorithms Threaten Free and Fair Elections
In the wake of the dumpster fire that was the Mueller hearings this week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s reputation was left in ashes, the Democrats are covered in soot, and the Russian collusion fairytale is toast. The Democrats’ impeachment hopes are also dead, whether they choose to believe it or not. But the question of election meddling remains very much a vital topic of discussion, just not in the way Democrats and the leftist corporate media would like.
Read MoreWhen Asked if Antifa Should Be Designated a ‘Domestic Terror Organization,’ Students Say Yes
This month, Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy proposed a resolution that would officially label the radical leftist group Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”
Read MoreUS Marshals to Sell Seized North Korean Cargo Ship
The U.S. Marshals Service, which has custody of the North Korean-owned ship Wise Honest, is reviewing how to sell the seized vessel as ordered by a federal court that has yet to decide officially if the Otto Warmbier family will receive the sale proceeds.
Read MoreTrump: Rep. John Ratcliffe Will Replace Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence
Republican Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe will replace Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after months of issues between President Donald Trump and the intelligence community.
Read MoreWall Street Journal Corrects ‘Bombshell’ Report on North Korea Nukes
The Wall Street Journal quietly added a massive correction to a story that, if accurate, would have had significant implications for nuclear talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Read MoreNetfilx’s New Film Release ‘Secret Obsession’ Exposes California’s Dumb Gun Laws
When Netflix’s bland new psychological thriller “Secret Obsession” was released last week, I never expected keen political insights, let alone a unique cinematic twist. (Warning: Some spoilers ahead.) Under closer scrutiny, however, the film solidifies the need for individual rights, and presents a damning picture of California’s unconstitutional gun laws.
Read MoreTop 10 Michigan Superintendents Each Earn Above $200K with Benefits, Report Says
It pays to be a public school superintendent in Michigan, regardless of results, according to a report by Michigan Capitol Confidential.
Read MoreBelated Military Honors for Out of State Veteran at Fort Custer National Cemetery
AUGUSTA, Michigan – On Friday, a funeral cortege left Otsego, traveling through rolling countryside to honor a Vietnam veteran at Fort Custer National Cemetery. His unclaimed body had occupied a pauper’s grave in Texas since 2016.
Read MoreMichigan Voter on CNN Panel: Joe Biden Is ‘Hillary Clinton 2.0’
CNN sat down with a group of undecided voters from Dearborn, Michigan this week to discuss their favorite candidates in the Democratic field. At one point, moderator Randi Kaye pointed out that one contender was noticeably missing from the conversation—Joe Biden.
Read MoreCommentary: Teaching Kids Violence and Hate in Chicago
It’s reminiscent of the Hamas summer camps where little kids are taught to hate and slaughter Jews. But in this case, the young kids are taught to hate and beat ICE not Jews and unlike the terrorist camps, they weren’t founded by UNICEF A local chamber of commerce gathered 25 local businesses together to host an East Side [of Chicago ]community day where kids took turns smashing a piñata designed to look like an ICE officer. When the kids weren’t beating ICE officer piñata, they got to throw balls at President Trump.
Read MorePelosi Accuses Supreme Court of Allowing Trump to ‘Steal Military Funds’ to Build Border Wall
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12) accused the Supreme Court of allowing President Donald Trump to “steal military funds” to build the wall and called the court a “monarchy.”
Read MoreMichigan Voters Oppose Medicare for All, Split on Repealing the Affordable Care Act
Michigan voters oppose the elimination of private insurance in favor of a “Medicare for All” plan, but are split on repealing the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent poll published by the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Read MoreHamline Univ. Offers Social Justice Major Complete with ‘Gender Politics’ Course
A Minnesota university is offering a social justice degree with courses ranging from “Gender Politics” to “Diversity and Education.”
Read MoreEx-Miss Michigan Kathy Zhu Joins Trump Reelection Board
Ex-Miss Michigan Kathy Zhu joined the Women for Trump Coalition Advisory Board Friday after Miss World America (MWA) stripped her of her title earlier in July, which she attributes to her conservative beliefs.
Read MoreMore US Marines in Custody in Human Smuggling Investigation
PENTAGON – The number of U.S. military personnel taken into custody in connection with an alleged human smuggling operation in southern California is growing.
Read MoreUS, Guatemala Sign Deal to Restrict Central American Asylum-Seekers
President Donald Trump says Guatemala has signed a deal with the U.S. that would restrict Central Americans from seeking asylum in the United States.
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