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Nancy Pelosi: 'Appropriate' for House to investigate Keith Ellison domestic violence allegations

Washington Examiner Oct 01, 2018 Naomi Lim
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., welcomed Wednesday a congressional probe into domestic violence accusations leveled at Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. “In August, when allegations surfaced against Congressman Ellison, he immediately called for an independent investigation," Pelosi wrote in a statement released to reporters. "As that... Read more

Vermont governor poised to sign gun control bill passed by state legislature

Washington Examiner Mar 30, 2018 Diana Stancy Correll
The Vermont Senate cleared legislation on Friday that would raise the legal age to purchase firearms to 21 for most people, broadens backgrounds checks on private gun sales, and prohibits high-capacity magazines. The bill already passed in the Vermont House and has been sent to Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who says he will sign it into law. ... Read more

U.S. Forces Launch More Strikes Against ISIS

Daily Caller Mar 30, 2018 Joseph LaFave
President Trump has directed the U.S. military to rain Hell on ISIS in Iraq and Syria. According to officials from Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, during the two-week period between March 16 and March 29, U.S. and coalition forces launched 25 separate strikes against ISIS. Read more

What The Laura Ingraham Boycott Is Really About

Daily Caller Mar 30, 2018 Scott Greer
Advertisers are dropping Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she made fun of Parkland survivor David Hogg this week. On Wednesday, Ingraham tweeted a Daily Wire article mocking Hogg for whining about getting rejected by four different colleges. It was not a smart move for a cable news host to tease a high school student over such a matter, but... Read more

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appoints prosecutor to probe FBI, DOJ wrongdoing

Washington Examiner Mar 29, 2018 Kelly Cohen
Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed on Thursday that Utah’s top federal prosecutor is investigating allegations of misconduct atop the Justice Department and FBI. John Huber, is the lead U.S. attorney and top federal law enforcement officer in Utah, having served for two years under former President Barack Obama and reappointed by Session... Read more

Western Media Are Hamas’s Partners in the War Against Israel

Breitbart Mar 29, 2018 Caroline Glick
On Friday, the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is inaugurating what it is calling “The March of Return.” According to Hamas’s leadership, the “March of Return” is scheduled to run from March 30 – the eve of Passover — through May 15, the 70th anniversary of Israel’s establishment. According t Read more

Hillary Clinton Is Back On The Speaker Circuit — But She’s Taken a Massive Pay Cut

Daily Caller Mar 29, 2018 Virginia Kruta
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to speak at Rutgers University on Thursday, mainly on her role in women’s political history in America. Rutgers confirmed that Clinton is to be compensated — via an endowment — a sum of $25,000, which she reportedly intends to donate to charity. In the years leading up to her failed 2016 presidential campaign, how... Read more

Trump’s rising popularity only confounding to elites

Washington Times Mar 29, 2018 Cheryl K. Chumley
President Donald Trump’s approval numbers have just jumped, and according to newly released Associated Press and CNN polls, he’s up 7 percentage points from last month. And it’s not that difficult to see why. This is the direct fallout of positive White House economic moves coupled with rebound resistance to the overreach of the media and pol... Read more

Iran calls John Bolton’s appointment as national security adviser ‘a shame’

Washington Times Mar 25, 2018 Associated Press
Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States “a shame.” The Sunday report by the semi-official Fars news agency quotes Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, as saying for an “apparent superpower it is a matter of s... Read more

Obama envisions creating 'a million young Barack Obamas' during speech in Japan

Washington Examiner Mar 25, 2018 Daniel Chaitin
Former President Barack Obama talked about his future plans for his post-presidency life at a conference Sunday in Japan, addressing how he might shape "a million" new, young leaders in his mold. The wide-ranging discussion repeatedly touched on the Obama Foundation's efforts to engage the digital space to help young people in the U.S. and ac... Read more

Family of murdered Parkland student not allowed to speak at rally. Watch their message here instead.

The Blaze Mar 24, 2018 Chris Enloe
Meet Andrew and Hunter Pollack. Andrew lost his 18-year-old daughter, Meadow, when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, and Hunter lost his beloved sister. Hunter prepared a Read more

NBC/WSJ poll shocker: Majority of Americans say owning a gun increases safety

HotAir.com Mar 23, 2018 Ed Morrissey
Nearly six-in-10 Americans say that gun ownership increases safety, even as a plurality of respondents support gun-control organizations, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. … In the poll, 58 percent agree with the statement that gun ownership does more to increase safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect th Read more

Bank Of America Sponsors Anti-Gun Panel

Daily Caller Mar 23, 2018 Joe Simonson
Bank of America further solidified its corporate position in favor of gun control after sponsoring an anti-gun discussion hosted by Axios on Friday. Axios co-founder Mike Allen facilitated the talk between activist and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. The event, ... Read more

Trump signs omnibus spending bill but warns, 'I'm not going to do it again'

Washington Examiner Mar 23, 2018 Gabby Morrongiello
President Trump said he signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill into law on Friday, despite threatening hours earlier to veto the legislation due to frustrations with its paltry border security funding and failure to codify protections for undocumented youth. “My highest duty is to keep America safe,” Trump said. “Therefore, as a matter ... Read more

John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster as White House national security adviser, Trump says

Fox News Mar 22, 2018 Brooke Singman
“I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9,” Trump tweeted. The president’s announcement comes after month... Read more

House Probe Accuses Clapper of Misleading Congress

Washington Free Beacon Mar 22, 2018 Bill Gertz
A House Intelligence Committee investigation of Russian election meddling has concluded that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper misled Congress about disclosing information to CNN. The committee's final report on the investigation was approved on Thursday and now awaits an intelligence ag Read more

House Intel Votes To Shut Down Russia Investigation, Release Final Report

Daily Caller Mar 22, 2018 Chuck Ross
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines on Thursday to formally end the panel’s Russia investigation and to release a report about the probe to the rest of Congress. The 150-page report will now undergo a classification review by the intelligence community to determine what information must be redacted in ... Read more

Cambridge Analytica Is Not The Problem. Google And Facebook ARE The Problem

Daily Caller Mar 22, 2018 Robert Epstein
All hell has broken loose about the link between Cambridge Analytica, a British marketing firm that the Donald Trump campaign hired to drum up votes, and Facebook, which might have improperly supplied Cambridge Analytica with valuable information about 50 million American voters in 2014. A whistleblower, Christo Read more

Obama directive easing school discipline for minority students fueling classroom chaos

Washington Times Mar 21, 2018 Valerie Richardson
The Trump administration is being accused of racism for targeting an Obama-era directive compelling schools to ease up on discipline for minority students — even though the policy has made life more difficult for kids, including minorities, stuck in increasingly unruly classrooms. Ask Virginia Walden Ford, who runs a church-based after-school... Read more

Whose fault is it the last North Korean nuclear agreement didn't work?

Washington Examiner Mar 19, 2018 Michael Rubin
With U.S. and North Korea resuming high-level diplomacy and North Korea’s nuclear arsenal again on the table, what went wrong with the 1994 Agreed Framework is again on the table. That diplomatic deal meant to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and prevent the reclusive communist state from abandoning the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,... Read more