Republican Senator John Kennedy, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said on Sunday there were no real rules for how the U.S. Senate should run its impeachment trial and that the chamber could choose to hear witnesses and evidence. “When it comes to impeachment, the rule is that there are virtually no substantive rules,” […]
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Twitter system ‘outage’ briefly blocked Trump whistleblower tweet
A tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts. In recent days, Trump shared an unsubstantiated media report and a second post that appeared to […]
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US conducts airstrikes in Iraq, Syria after contractor killed
The U.S. military carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Sunday — days after a U.S. defense contractor was killed at a military compound in a rocket attack. Military jet fighters conducted “precision defensive strikes” on five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, Jonathan Hoffman, a spokesperson for the Pentagon told Fox […]
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The 40 Best Conservative Columnists of 2019
John Hawkins, There are enough extremely talented conservative columnists that I read and respect that this could have easily been 50 deep. Congrats to everyone that made it this year! 40) Megan Fox 39) Michael Brown 38) John Podhoretz 37) John Nolte 36) Mike Adams 35) Andrew Klavan 34) Rachel Alexander 33) Kat Timpf 32) Philip Klein 31) Matthew Continetti 30) Dan Gainor 29) Mollie Hemingway 28) John […]
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Children Are Our Future…Unless We Stop Using Them
Derek Hunter, As 2019 comes to an end, one of the (many) things it will be remembered for is the year politicians weaponized children. Politicians have always used kids as props, but now they’re routinely tossed around as explosive devices to short circuit or end discussions adults don’t want to take place. And we’re all […]
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Christianity Today’s split with Trump highlights deeper issue in white evangelical America
Simon Lewis and Heather Thomas, After evangelical publication Christianity Today published a blistering editorial on what it called Donald Trump’s “grossly immoral character”, some church leaders and the U.S. president himself denounced the criticism as elitist and out-of-touch. The Dec. 19 editorial sparked a Christmas holiday debate over religion in U.S. politics, and posed new […]
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Obama-Warren story highlights this major problem facing Democrats in 2020
David L. Bahnsen, The Hill recently published a telling piece about President Obama “going to bat” for Sen. Elizabeth Warren with significant Wall Street donors and wealthy Democratic supporters. The article reveals something crucially important about today’s Democratic Party. While many honed in on the fact that Obama was not talking up his own VP, Joe Biden, or that it portrayed the former president defending someone who has at times been a […]
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Suspect in Hanukkah stabbing at NY rabbi’s home pleads not guilty
The man accused of entering the home of a New York rabbi and stabbing five people with a machete in a horrifying anti-Semitic attack on Saturday night pleaded not guilty to multiple murder charges hours after the attack. Wearing a white jumpsuit, Grafton E. Thomas, 37, of Greenwood Lake, N.Y., appeared at the Ramapo Town Hall in Ramapo, N.Y. […]
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U.S. promises action on any North Korea missile test: White House
The United States would be very disappointed if North Korea tested a long-range or nuclear missile and would take appropriate action as a leading military and economic power, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Sunday. Washington has many “tools in its tool kit” to respond to any such test, O’Brien said in […]
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5 Things to Watch in 2020
Newt Gingrich, The U.S. Presidential race and election, Brexit, North Korea and more. Newt discusses the five most important things to watch in 2020. Hong Kong Hong Kong’s First Recession in a Decade Could Be Even Worse Than Feared – CNN Hong Kong Protests and Economic Woes are Pushing the City’s Major Broadcaster to Cut […]