Acampus speech by Reagan Administration economist Arthur “Art” Laffer was shut down by violent far-left protesters on Monday at Binghamton University in New York, the Washington Times reports.
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Democrats Experience Premature Articulation of Impeachment During Sondland ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Testimony
When U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified before the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday, Democrats initially believed he had given them the testimony they’ve been seeking for three years to build an article of impeachment against President Trump. “I know that members of…
Read MoreMichigan Secretary of State Makes It Easier for Transgender People to Change Driver’s License
Transgender residents of Michigan can now more easily switch the sex-indicator on their driver’s license, according to a change announced by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Monday. Individuals wanting to correct their license no longer need a birth certificate, passport or court order. Instead, they can change the…
Read MoreCommentary: Attorney General Barr is Right, the Left is Deconstructing the Constitution and the Presidency
Apparently now saying that Article II of the Federal Constitution’s vesting of executive power to the President was an unambiguous, broad grant of unitary executive authority to the President of the United States by the Framers of the Constitution, and arguing for preserving such separation of powers from encroachment, is an impeachable offense.
Read MoreInside The Media Conspiracy to Hype Greta Thunberg And the UN Climate Conference
Over 250 news outlets and journalists partnered with Columbia University School of Journalism’s flagship magazine to shape control of “climate crisis” coverage in the lead up to the United Nations climate conference. The coverage-coordination initiative included directing how much time, space and prominence should be devoted to the coverage, and asking that climate “news” be added to seemingly unrelated stories.
Read MoreCommentary: Neglect of Foreign Policy Led to the Deep State
Questions of foreign policy, particularly those of war and peace, are among the most critical in politics. A lost war can destroy an empire and erase a nation. Victory can attain safety, security, and prosperity for many generations. An inconclusive campaign—such as our neverending stalemate in Afghanistan—can sap national confidence and shatter the minds and bodies of a generation of veterans.
Read MoreClinton Foundation Continues to Hemorrhage Money Following Hillary’s Loss
The Clinton Foundation’s revenue dropped to a 16-year low in 2018 and reported a third-straight year of losses, a trend that began in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was defeated by President Donald Trump.
Read MoreTrump Admin to Begin Enforcing Asylum Agreements With Central American Governments
The Trump administration will soon begin enforcing its asylum cooperation agreements with three Central American governments, allowing the U.S. to send back many aliens who appear at America’s southern border.
Read MoreMore Than Two-Thirds of Americans Support State Safeguards on Abortions, Poll Shows
More than two-thirds of Americans support the ability of states to safeguard abortion practices, according to a national poll released Tuesday.
Read MoreOutlets Retract Stories After Realizing the Report Actually Cites How Many Children the Obama Administration Detained
Multiple outlets deleted entire stories Tuesday after falsely reporting the number of children in migrated-related U.S. custody.
Read MoreGrand Valley State University Reinstates Pledge of Allegiance Before Student Senate Meetings
The Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Student Senate has reinstated the Pledge of Allegiance to its “internal operating agenda” after voting last week to stop reciting the pledge at its meetings.
Read MoreAnalysis: How a Trade School in Pennsylvania Shows a Way Up and Out
A three-year trade school in Pennsylvania has become a shining example of how learning a trade can scoop people out of low-income situations and place them firmly in high-paying careers.
Read MoreMichigan University Student Government Votes to Ban the Pledge of Allegiance
Student government leaders at a Michigan university have banned the Pledge of Allegiance from meetings. The student senate, which had previously made time for the Pledge each meeting, deemed the verbiage to be non-inclusive.
Read MoreCommentary: The Heavy Wages of Trump Fixation
Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: “If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists.”
In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged.
Read MoreCommentary: Fracking Bans Will Cost Democrats the White House
It often seems as if Democrats want to reelect Donald Trump. Why else would their top presidential candidates advocate a ban on fracking, the drilling technique that supports millions of jobs and accounts for half of all U.S. oil production?
Read MoreIllegal Border Apprehensions Drop 73 Percent in Five Months
The number of migrants arrested for illegally crossing the southern border from Mexico significantly dropped 73 percent in October for a fifth consecutive month, down from nearly 133,000 arrests in May to just over 35,000 in October.
Read MoreFedEx CEO Challenges NYT Publisher to Public Debate After ‘Factually Incorrect’ Article
The CEO of FedEx challenged New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger to a public debate Sunday after the publication reported that the company didn’t pay any federal taxes in 2018.
Read MoreKen Cuccinelli Tapped for Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
Ken Cuccinelli, a former attorney general of Virginia, has been tapped to be the acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security, which makes him second in command of the department.
Read MoreSenate Sets Date For FISA Abuse Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Dec. 11 to examine the findings from a Justice Department inspector general’s investigation into the FBI’s alleged abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance court during the Trump investigation, the committee said on Monday.
Read MoreRep. McCarthy Sends Letter to ABC Demanding Information on Killed Epstein Story
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter Sunday to ABC News demanding answers surrounding allegations that the network killed a 2015 story about dead alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, journalist Megyn Kelly said.
Read MoreD.C. Area Students Leave Class, Shut Down Streets in Support of Illegal Immigrants
Hundreds of Washington D.C. college students walked out of class to raise awareness for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ahead of the Supreme Court arguments that were heard on November 12.
Read MoreUS, South Korea Postpone Joint Military Drills as ‘Act of Goodwill’ Toward North Korea
The U.S. and South Korea said Sunday they are postponing joint military drills.
Read MoreRashida Tlaib Brags About 2016 Altercation with Secret Service at Trump Event
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13) recently bragged about the fact that Secret Service had to remove her from a 2016 Trump event, saying “it’s going to take more than six Secret Service to take me out.”
Read MoreCommentary: Confronting the Administrative State Is the Key to Shutting Down the Democrats’ Alternative Universe
By now, only a person living in Alternate Universe One could fail to understand that the past three years have precisely nothing to do with Russian collusion or Ukraine corruption and everything to do with who makes decisions about American policy: the duly elected president of the United States or the administrative state. That is the struggle right now. The crux is a struggle between advocates of our constitutional republic and those who prefer government by an administrative state composed of unelected elites.
Read MoreOutlets Avoid Reporting on Recommendation to Subpoena Tlaib Amid Investigation
Multiple outlets avoided reporting on the ethics committee’s recommendation to subpoena Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her campaign payments.
Read MoreVice President Mike Pence Affirms Pro-Life Stance at Every Stage of Life
Vice President Pence delivered remarks at the Administration for Children and Families’ 2019 National Adoption Month Celebration reinforcing that every child is deserving of a loving family of his or her own.
Read MoreReview: ‘Harriet’ Is a Great Pro-Christian Pro-Gun Movie
There is near-universal agreement among movie critics that Cynthia Erivo, who plays the title role in Harriet, not only carries the movie, but makes it engaging, suspenseful, and rousing. Erivo is nothing short of spectacular, said Breitbart’s John Nolte, and we agree.
Read MoreOpponents of Immigration Enforcement Suffer Another Loss at the Ballot Box
A former GOP congressman declared victory in a Colorado mayoral election days after Election Day, marking yet another defeat for anti-ICE activists and other immigration enforcement opponents who failed to mobilize voters in 2019.
Read MoreGOP Reps: OMB Witness Saturday Blew Another Big Hole in Dems’ Impeachment Fairy Tale
In closed-door testimony Saturday, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official Mark Sandy blew another giant hole in the Democrats’ impeachment probe, according to two Republican lawmakers following the testimony.
Read MoreCommentary: A DACA Ruling Won’t Solve the DACA Dilemma
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard highly anticipated arguments in the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Read MoreRussian Hybrid Warfare Has Weaponized Disinformation
As the Russian shells and rockets rained down on them in the frontline town of Debaltseve in February 2015, Ukrainian troops began to receive curious, anonymous text messages on their cellphones.
Read MoreOhio Public School Worker Wins Back Pay Settlement in Lawsuit Over Forced Union Dues
An Ohio worker won settlement money from a public union after the union refused to honor her request to leave the union and continued to collect union dues. The union will have to fully refund her dues from the point at which she requested to leave it and stop collecting any union dues from her into the future.
Read MoreNearly 80,000 Illegal Aliens Carried An Arrest Record Before Winning DACA Approval, Government Data Show
Tens of thousands of people who successfully enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program carried prior arrest records, according to data the Trump administration released Saturday.
Read MoreSteve Bannon Says He Pushed for Alleged Whistleblower to be Removed from National Security Council
Steve Bannon said in an interview that when he was at the White House in 2017, he was involved in an effort to remove an intelligence officer suspected of being the Trump whistleblower from the National Security Council due to concerns about leaks.
Read MoreRep Jim Jordan Says Ukraine Got Money Because its President Was Worth the Risk
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican representing Ohio’s Fourth Congressional District, said on CBS Sunday that Ukraine received U.S. aid because that country’s president, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, was worth the risk.
Read MoreMichigan’s Rep. Slotkin’s Support for Impeachment Inspires Four GOP Challengers
Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-MI-08) support for the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has inspired four Republicans to challenge the first-term congresswoman in 2020.
Read MoreWealthy Liberal Super PAC Continues to Target Michigan Election Laws
A powerful liberal super PAC has filed a third lawsuit in Michigan in an effort to overturn election laws it considers unconstitutional.
Read MoreCommentary: Embrace Fiscal Responsibility, Not Tax Cuts, in 2020
As Democratic presidential candidates stumble over one another in a headlong rush towards socialism and fiscal insanity—promising trillions in new spending on everything from child care, health care, and higher education for all, to “the Green New Deal” and slavery reparations—President Trump faces a critical choice.
Read MoreReport: Trump Admin to Seize Private Land for Border Wall Construction
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to submit court filings to take over private land on the U.S.-Mexico border, allowing border wall construction to move forward.
Read MoreCommentary: USPS Leadership Must Stamp Out Multi-Billion Dollar Losses
America’s mail carrier was once a shining example of governmental innovation, being at the cutting edge of technological achievements such as using planes and trucks to haul mail cross-country. But the United States Postal Service (USPS) has fallen far and fast over the past couple of decades, accumulating more than $70 billion in debt since 2007.
Read MoreOxford Provost Faces Backlash After Attempting to Abolish Tradition of Latin Grace Before Meals
Prof. Kate Tunstall, an interim provost of Worcester College, one of the colleges at Oxford, came under fire from students over an attempt to abolish the historic traditions practiced at formal hall, which include saying grace before meals and standing for dons.
Read MoreGoogle Favors Planned Parenthood Results More Than Twice as Much as Other Search Engines Do, Report Finds
Google favors Planned Parenthood results for “abortion” more than twice as much as other search engines do, a Wall Street Journal report released Friday found.
Read MoreSix Key Moments From Day Two of the Public Impeachment Hearings
The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the ousted ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday.
Read MoreReports: Consumers Still Carrying Debt From Last Holiday Season, Expected to Spend $1.1 Trillion This Holiday Season
About 35 million Americans still have holiday credit card debt leftover from last year, according to WalletHub’s 2019 Holiday Shopping Survey.
Read MoreIMPEACHMENT: Leahy and Kellett Examine Missing Elements of Truth, Fairness, and Due Process
On Friday’s Battleground State Report with Michael Patrick Leahy and Doug Kellett – a one-hour radio show from Star News Digital Media in the early stages of national weekend syndication rollout – Leahy and Kellet deliberated the concept of fairness as it pertains to the impeachment of the President.
Read MorePoll: Nearly Half of Likely US Voters Oppose Medicare for All
Nearly half of likely U.S. voters oppose Medicare for All, according to a Rasmussen national poll published Thursday.
Read MoreWealthy Liberal Super PAC Continues to Target Michigan Election Laws
A powerful liberal super PAC has filed a third lawsuit in Michigan in an effort to overturn election laws it considers unconstitutional.
Read MoreMichigan Will Begin Awarding Colleges for Increasing Voter Turnout on Campus
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced a new program Thursday that will award two-year and four-year colleges with the highest voter registration and turnout rates.
Read MoreMichigan Will Begin Awarding Colleges for Increasing Voter Turnout on Campus
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced a new program Thursday that will award two-year and four-year colleges with the highest voter registration and turnout rates.
Read MoreCommentary: A History of the Deep State
Every presidential administration finds some degree of internal resistance. That which has confronted the Trump Administration, however, seems to be the most active and aggressive ever. From “Anonymous”, to a record number of leakers, to physically hiding documents from the President, a large and active bureaucratic resistance is at work to stymie many of the Executive branch’s goals. Everything from secret military plans to embarrassing aspects of daily life in White House has been made public.
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