The Republican-controlled Senate rejected a Democratic bid to force the White House to produce more documents and evidence on Tuesday, in a sign the third impeachment trial in U.S. history could proceed along lines favorable to President Donald Trump. As the impeachment trial began in earnest, senators voted 53-47 along party lines to block a […]
Posted inJustice
Washington Has a Dangerous Obsession With Secret Courts
Mytheos Holt, Article One, Section 9, clause 2 of the United States Constitution states, “the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.” It says something about the importance of that clause that, to this day, the right of habeas corpus has […]
Posted inWorld News
The deadly Wuhan virus has spread to the US — authorities have confirmed a case in Washington state
The US has its first case of a deadly coronavirus known as the Wuhan virus. The virus, which can be transmitted between humans, likely originated at a seafood market in Wuhan, China. The US patient in question — a man in his 30s — landed in Seattle after visiting China, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
Posted inImmigration
Mexico Begins Deporting Migrants Who Rushed The Border Monday
JOHN SEXTON, Yesterday a caravan of roughly 2,500 migrants stopped trying to cross Mexico’s southern border by bridge and instead waded across the river and attempted to get past a line of Mexican National Guardsmen waiting on the other side. That led to some rock-throwing by both sides but hundreds of migrants wound up being taken into […]
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‘Nobody likes him’ – Hillary Clinton bashes Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator who accomplished little because “nobody liked him.” Clinton also weighed in on the dispute between Sanders and 2020 Democratic presidential rival Elizabeth Warren centering around the electability of […]
Posted inRepublicans
Trump, Republicans working to help our country — despite Democratic obstruction
It’s hard to imagine a more vivid or disturbing illustration of the situation in Washington, D.C. than what we have seen in Congress. While Democrats have kept up their never-ending crusade to remove President Trump from office, Republicans are helping the president fulfill yet another promise to the American people. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., finally abandoned her […]
Posted inPolitics
Senate impeachment trial set to begin
After an opening salvo of back-and-forth arguments from President Trump’s attorneys and Democrats’ impeachment managers on Monday, Senate impeachment trial proceedings are set to begin at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday with the expectation they will stretch well into a wild night on Capitol Hill — even as key procedural questions, including the timeline for debate and whether additional witnesses will testify, remain undecided and hotly contentious. […]
Posted inReligion
If Islam permits deceit, why should non-Muslims let their guard down?
Raymond Ibrahim, In his recent defense of the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya (dismantled here), Usama Hasan, of the UK think tank Quilliam, made the following admission: It is true that hardened islamist terrorists, such as the Al-Qaeda & ISIS supporter Usman Khan who murdered two people at Fishmongers’ Hall [after pretending to have been “rehabilitated”], do misuse the […]
Posted inConstitution
The Constitution and Rule of Law – When It Suits Them
Robert Knight, Upon delivering two articles of impeachment to the Senate on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Mr. Trump was guilty of “an assault on the Constitution of the United States.” Wow. That was some phone call he made to Ukraine’s president. Who knew that, if unaddressed, it would unravel the nation’s founding […]
Posted inSenate
The Show Trial Begins
Cal Thomas, The contrast could not have been starker. One picture showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi smiling as she signed (with numerous pens) two articles of impeachment against President Trump. She passed out the pens like souvenirs to fellow Democrats. They were embossed in gold with her signature and rested on silver trays. The other […]