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February 20, 2020

Roger Stone Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Roger Stone to 40 months in prison Thursday.

February 20, 2020

Commentary: The Impatience of the Democratic Primary

A few takeaways after two weeks of stomping where the candidates were stumping and stalking Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. “It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes.” Or in the case of the Democrats’...

February 20, 2020

Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Target Bloomberg at Fiery Nevada Debate

WASHINGTON - Six U.S. Democratic presidential candidates squared off in a contentious debate late Wednesday, with billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg the target of sharp attacks from his challengers in their first face-to-face encounter.

February 20, 2020

Minneapolis Museum Drapes Refugee Life Jackets Over Exterior Columns

The Minneapolis Institute of Art has draped thousands of life jackets worn by refugees over the museum’s exterior columns.

February 20, 2020

Carol Swain Commentary: A Dangerous Revisionist History of America’s Founding Pushes a False and Destructive Narrative

Under the guise of a venture called the “1619 Project,” revisionist history about race in America is being introduced into classrooms across America without undergoing the normal peer review expected of educational materials. August 2019 marked the birth of the...

February 20, 2020

Massachusetts City Allowing Illegal Aliens to Drive Without A License

City councilors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to prohibit police officers from arresting illegal aliens if they are caught operating a vehicle without a license.

February 20, 2020

Three More Minnesota Counties Become Second Amendment Sanctuaries

Three more Minnesota counties declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries during their Tuesday night board meetings.

February 20, 2020

Coronavirus Death Toll Hits 2,000

WASHINGTON - The death toll from the new coronavirus climbed past the 2,000 mark Wednesday, China's health commission announced, even while the number of confirmed cases hit a monthly low.

February 20, 2020

Mexican Citizen Arrested for Working with Russians

A Mexican citizen was charged Tuesday with being an “unregistered foreign agent” for Russia. He is accused of spying on at least one U.S. informant in South Florida.

February 20, 2020

Emails: Burisma Consultant Linked to Hunter Biden Approached Top State Department Official to Arrange Ukraine Meeting

A Democratic consultant working for Burisma Holdings and connected to Hunter Biden approached Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken at an event for a liberal think tank in June 2016 to arrange a meeting to discuss “troubling events” in Ukraine,...

February 20, 2020

The Trump Admin Is Waiving Contracting Laws to Expedite Border Wall Construction

The Trump administration is waiving federal contracting laws to hasten the time it takes to build border walls between the U.S. and Mexico.

February 20, 2020

Commentary: How the Ruling Class Might Elect Bloomberg and Realign American Politics

The Democratic Party’s establishment might well succeed in making Michael Bloomberg president of the United States—not on Election Night 2020, however. But it could happen if a third party were to win some electoral votes and, with no candidate receiving...

February 20, 2020

Congressman Jim Hagedorn Reveals He’s Being Treated for Cancer

U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-01) revealed Wednesday that he was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in February of last year.

February 19, 2020

Trump Activists Mobbed on Ohio University Campus While Officers Watched

Two conservative activists were mobbed and harassed Monday on Ohio University’s Athens campus while multiple police officers watched.

February 19, 2020

Commentary: Bernie Sanders, Not Jeff Bezos, Is the Face of Greed

Until Bernie Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981, he had never held a steady job. Almost 40, he had been “virtually unemployed” his entire adult life. Those who knew Sanders before he was elected mayor say “he...

February 19, 2020

Buttigieg: Legal Immigration Not Letting Enough People in America

Breitbart reports former Mayor Pete Buttigieg complained on Monday that America’s legal immigration system was not allowing enough immigrants into the United States.

February 19, 2020

Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy Admits He Secretly Met With Iranian Foreign Minister

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) admitted Tuesday morning that he and several other Democrats did indeed hold a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, arguing that it would be dangerous NOT...

February 19, 2020

George Soros Demands Facebook Oust Zuckerberg for Supposedly Being in League With Trump

Billionaire financier George Soros stepped up his campaign Tuesday to thwart what he says is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to help President Donald Trump win reelection in 2020.

February 19, 2020

Commentary: The Chinese Threat the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to Know About

While we were distracted, the communist Chinese government, the largest dictatorial regime on earth, has been lobbying all fifty of our U.S. governors to make deals. These “deals” promise infusions of cash into state budgets, but with insidious strings attached...

February 19, 2020

Trump Commutes Blagojevich’s Sentence, Pardons Other High Profile Individuals

After thinking about it for over a year, President Trump announced on Tuesday that he has granted clemency to Rod Blagojevich, the Democrat Illinois governor who was convicted in 2010 of a wide array of corruption charges.

February 19, 2020

‘Pandering to the Left’: Former ICE Chief Reacts to 2020 Democrats’ ‘Flip-Flop’ On Immigration

Former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan accused 2020 Democrats of “pandering to the left” when discussing changes in their immigration positions.

February 19, 2020

Candid Video Shows Minneapolis Mayor Accusing Lawmaker of Lying After House GOP Unveils New Crime Bill

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey crashed a Monday press conference called by House Republicans who unveiled a package of bills aimed at addressing an increase in violent crime in the Twin Cities.

February 18, 2020

ICE Slaps Another ‘Sanctuary’ State with Subpoenas to Force Cooperation

Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) served immigration subpoenas to the State of Connecticut demanding information on three criminal illegal aliens, whom local officials refused to hand over and instead released back into the community, ICE said in a statement.

February 18, 2020

Trump Raises Stakes in Fight with Boris Johnson, Says Using Huawei Jeopardizes US Intelligence

President Donald Trump issued a warning Sunday to countries that use Chinese tech company firm, Huawei.

February 18, 2020

Commentary: The Myth of the Moderate Democrat

Our friend Deroy Murdock posted a great column about the Democrat candidates for President which we caught on NewsMax. Mr. Murdock’s point was that while not all of those still in the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President may...

February 18, 2020

Rivals Target Bloomberg as He Rises in Democratic Presidential Race

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s name is not on any of the ballots for the first four U.S. Democratic presidential nominating contests, and he has yet to qualify for the candidates’ next debate on Wednesday night. But it is...

February 18, 2020

Hunter Biden Was on Board of Trade Coalition Lobbying Obama Admin on Ukraine Aid

Hunter Biden was on the board of a trade coalition that lobbied the Obama administration in 2014 on foreign assistance to Ukraine, and appears to have set up a State Department meeting for the group’s president. Biden’s links to the...

February 18, 2020

‘Gun-Free’ Businesses Would Be Held Responsible for Shootings Under New Minnesota Bill

A new bill introduced in the Minnesota House would allow gun owners to pursue civil litigation if they suffer an injury, or worse, while in a gun-free zone.

February 17, 2020

Former Ohio Congressman, Jim Renacci Joins Leahy to Discuss Ohio as a Battleground State for Election 2020

During a live recording on Friday’s Battleground State Report – a one-hour radio show from Star News Digital Media in the early stages of national weekend syndication roll out – host Leahy was joined on the line by Jim Renacci former (R)...

February 17, 2020

Commentary: On Presidents Day, Remembering Why We Have a Strong Commander in Chief

On Presidents Day, we celebrate the life and accomplishments of our first president, George Washington, the father of our country, and Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president and one of our most renowned statesmen. On that day, Feb. 17 this year,...

February 17, 2020

Metro Leaders Testify About Steps to Reduce Light Rail Crime

Metro leaders testified in front of the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee Thursday to discuss transit safety solutions a week after a fatal bus shooting.

February 17, 2020

Commentary: The GOP’s Silly ‘Carbon Capture’ Dodge

House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) is releasing a climate bill this week. The purpose is “to put the GOP on the map on climate” in response to polls reporting that enough young voters have finally succumbed to a lifetime...

February 17, 2020

U.S. Court of Appeals Panel Strikes Down Medicaid Work Requirement

A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower court's decision Friday blocking the Trump administration's work requirements for Medicaid recipients.

February 17, 2020

Granddaughter of Slaying Victim, 92, Backs Trump’s Fight Against Illegal-Immigrant ‘Sanctuaries’

Daria Ortiz’s voice cracked when speaking at a White House event Friday, as she described how New York City’s “sanctuary city” status let her family—and the rest of the city’s residents—down.

February 17, 2020

US Confirms ‘Reduction in Violence’ Negotiated With Afghan Taliban

ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS — The United States confirmed Thursday it has negotiated a “seven-day reduction in violence” proposal with the Taliban to move toward a political settlement to the war in Afghanistan.

February 17, 2020

CNN and MSNBC Analysts Sign Petition Urging William Barr to Resign

Eight legal analysts who work for CNN and MSNBC or appear frequently on the networks signed a petition Sunday calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign over his handling of Roger Stone’s case.

February 17, 2020

McCabe’s Leak Denials Cast Suspicion on His Loyal Aide, Lisa Page

Andrew McCabe’s denials to his FBI colleagues that he was behind a media leak related to the Clinton Foundation investigation in October 2016 cast suspicion on his loyal aide, Lisa Page, former FBI Director James Comey said in an interview...

February 17, 2020

Facebook Will Pay Reuters to Fact-Check the News, ‘Deepfakes’

Social media giant Facebook is partnering with the news agency Reuters to fact-check and verify news headlines, user-generated videos and photos, and other content in English and Spanish on its behalf. Adding a high-profile name to its worldwide roster of...

February 17, 2020

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