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January 17, 2020

Muslim Refugee Journalist Challenges Ilhan Omar’s Congressional Seat: ‘She Does Not Speak for Me’

A Muslim refugee and journalist is challenging Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar as a Republican, saying the Minnesota representative causes division in the United States.
January 17, 2020

Commentary: Trump Secures Historic Trade Deal With China Proving His Trade Critics Wrong Yet Again

January 17, 2020

Another Caravan Is Headed for the US Border, But DHS Says It’s Ready

January 17, 2020

US Senate Approves New North American Trade Deal

January 17, 2020

A Full Third of Flint’s Emergency $390 Million Water Funds Did Not Go to Clean Water

January 17, 2020

Commentary: The Benefits of Trump’s ‘Transactional’ Foreign Policy

January 17, 2020

Ohio County Releases Dozens of Illegal Aliens, Including Sex Offender, After Ignoring ICE Detainers

January 17, 2020

Just In Time for the Senate Impeachment Trial, Government Watchdog Issues Damning ‘Legal Opinion’ on Ukraine Aid

January 17, 2020

Commentary: Remembering the Way Farming Used to Be

January 17, 2020

DFL Lawmakers Announce ‘Religious Freedom Day’ Resolution Condemning ‘Islamophobia,’ Promoting ‘Religious Pluralism’

Judge Peter Messitte and President Trump
January 16, 2020

UPDATED – The Deep State Strikes Again as a Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Halts President Trump’s Refugee Resettlement Executive Order

January 16, 2020

Commentary: Democrat Debate Shows Worst Place to be on February 3 Is in Iowa

January 16, 2020

Michael Flynn Seeks to Withdraw Guilty Plea, Accuses Prosecutors of ‘Retaliation’

January 16, 2020

Dark Money Group Linked to Ocasio-Cortez to Spend $500,000 Attacking Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg

January 16, 2020

Commentary: Europe’s Migration Influx Was Premeditated and Problematic

January 16, 2020

US, China Sign ‘Phase 1’ Trade Deal

January 16, 2020

Commentary: The Most Important Thing About the Trade Deal Is the Deal Itself


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Commentary

January 17, 2020

Commentary: Trump Secures Historic Trade Deal With China Proving His Trade Critics Wrong Yet Again

President Donald Trump has once again done the impossible and secured a phase one trade agreement with China that leaves existing tariffs of 25 percent on $250 billion of goods and another 7.5 percent on the remaining $300 billion of goods.
January 17, 2020

Commentary: The Benefits of Trump’s ‘Transactional’ Foreign Policy

January 17, 2020

Commentary: Remembering the Way Farming Used to Be

January 16, 2020

Commentary: Democrat Debate Shows Worst Place to be on February 3 Is in Iowa

January 16, 2020

Commentary: Europe’s Migration Influx Was Premeditated and Problematic

January 16, 2020

Commentary: The Most Important Thing About the Trade Deal Is the Deal Itself

January 15, 2020

Carol Swain Commentary: Critical Race Theory and Christian Education


Sports & Lifestyle

January 11, 2020

Recommended: Great Books to Resist Cultural Indoctrination

Those classics that are called the Great Books are most closely associated with Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Hutchins.1 When Hutchins became president of the University of Chicago in 1929, he hired Adler to teach philosophy in the law school and the psychology department. Upon arriving, Adler, rather brashly he...
January 7, 2020

Golden Globes Host Ricky Gervais Roasts Hollywood ‘Perverts’: ‘Let’s All Have a Laugh at Your Expense’

January 4, 2020

Commentary: Disney’s Journey Toward the Dark Side Is Complete

December 31, 2019

Review: ‘Richard Jewell’ Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest Portrayal of the Greatness of Ordinary Americans

December 18, 2019

Commentary: What Makes Christmas Movies So Popular?

December 7, 2019

Commentary: Ford v Ferrari and the Virtue of Courage

November 23, 2019

Mr. Rogers, Frozen and a NYPD Detective Wait for You on Movies to Watch This Weekend


Latest News

January 17, 2020

Muslim Refugee Journalist Challenges Ilhan Omar’s Congressional Seat: ‘She Does Not Speak for Me’

A Muslim refugee and journalist is challenging Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar as a Republican, saying the Minnesota representative causes division in the United States.
January 17, 2020

Commentary: Trump Secures Historic Trade Deal With China Proving His Trade Critics Wrong Yet Again

President Donald Trump has once again done the impossible and secured a phase one trade agreement with China that leaves existing tariffs of 25 percent on $250 billion of goods and another 7.5 percent on the remaining $300 billion of...
January 17, 2020

Another Caravan Is Headed for the US Border, But DHS Says It’s Ready

Hundreds of Central American migrants are headed toward the United States, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the border programs it has put in place, along with international cooperation, will keep them at bay.
January 17, 2020

US Senate Approves New North American Trade Deal

The U.S. Senate approved a new North American trade agreement Thursday, a key victory for President Donald Trump as the Senate officially opened an historic impeachment trial against him.
January 17, 2020

A Full Third of Flint’s Emergency $390 Million Water Funds Did Not Go to Clean Water

Four years ago this month, then-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared an emergency in Flint, and $390 million in state aid began pouring in. Much of the money, however, was spent on activities only peripherally related to lead in water, state...
January 17, 2020

Commentary: The Benefits of Trump’s ‘Transactional’ Foreign Policy

The recent drone attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and a Shiite militia leader in Iraq led predictably to a retaliatory strike by Iran. Twenty or so ballistic missiles were launched at bases in Iraq where U.S. troops were...
January 17, 2020

Ohio County Releases Dozens of Illegal Aliens, Including Sex Offender, After Ignoring ICE Detainers

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed Thursday that the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office has released 29 criminal aliens, including a sex offender, after ignoring written detainer requests filed by the federal agency.
January 17, 2020

Just In Time for the Senate Impeachment Trial, Government Watchdog Issues Damning ‘Legal Opinion’ on Ukraine Aid

The Trump administration violated the law by withholding $214 million in security assistance to Ukraine in the summer of 2019, according to a legal opinion by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.
January 17, 2020

Commentary: Remembering the Way Farming Used to Be

by Victor Davis Hanson   Almost all the pragmatic agricultural wisdom that my grandparents taught me has long ago been superseded by technology. I don’t anymore calibrate, as I once did when farming in the 1980s, the trajectory of an...
January 17, 2020

DFL Lawmakers Announce ‘Religious Freedom Day’ Resolution Condemning ‘Islamophobia,’ Promoting ‘Religious Pluralism’

Two DFL lawmakers plan to introduce a “Religious Freedom Day” resolution that condemns “Islamophobia” and celebrates “religious pluralism.”
Judge Peter Messitte and President Trump
January 16, 2020

UPDATED – The Deep State Strikes Again as a Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Halts President Trump’s Refugee Resettlement Executive Order

A Clinton-appointed federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday halting President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13888 which allowed state and local governments to decide if they want refugee resettlement within their communities.
January 16, 2020

Commentary: Democrat Debate Shows Worst Place to be on February 3 Is in Iowa

Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard and Michael Bloomberg weren’t there with the rest of the viable Democrat candidates on Tuesday night, but did anyone notice… or care? (Note: Booker, Castro and Marianne Williamson (!) bailed out of the race...
January 16, 2020

Michael Flynn Seeks to Withdraw Guilty Plea, Accuses Prosecutors of ‘Retaliation’

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn filed a court motion Tuesday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in a case that originated with the special counsel’s investigation.
January 16, 2020

Dark Money Group Linked to Ocasio-Cortez to Spend $500,000 Attacking Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg

A dark money group with ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Tuesday it will spend over $500,000 on digital ads attacking former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
January 16, 2020

Commentary: Europe’s Migration Influx Was Premeditated and Problematic

Western Europe stands before an immigration crisis that neither its immigration-enthusiastic governments nor any electoral majority in these countries seem interested in addressing. Consider these numbers:
January 16, 2020

US, China Sign ‘Phase 1’ Trade Deal

WHITE HOUSE - Declaring “it doesn’t get any bigger than this,” President Donald Trump, alongside Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, signed an initial deal to resolve what had been an escalating 18-month trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies....
January 16, 2020

Commentary: The Most Important Thing About the Trade Deal Is the Deal Itself

Chinese Vice Premier and Communist Party Politburo member Liu He is in Washington this week to sign a trade agreement with the Trump Administration.
January 16, 2020

WaPo, NYT Aiding China’s Global Propaganda Efforts, Watchdog Warns

America’s leading newspapers are aiding China’s communist regime by running the oppressive government’s propaganda, respected watchdog organization Freedom House reported.
January 16, 2020

Judge Rules Trump Administration Acting Within Authority in Family Separation at Border

WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ruled that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is acting within its authority when it comes to separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border without any violation of the "rights to family integrity". The...
January 16, 2020

Powerful Progressive Group in Minnesota Endorses Bernie Over Klobuchar

A progressive powerhouse in Minnesota politics has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for president over hometown candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
January 15, 2020

Gov. Walz’s Refugee Decision Allows Federal Government to Send Middle East Refugees to Minnesota That Australia Has Refused

Gov. Tim Walz’s December 13 decision to say yes to more refugees in Minnesota grants the federal government permission to resettle refugees from any country it desires into the state, including up to 720 refugees from Middle East countries that...
January 15, 2020

Somali Democrat Planning Bid for Fifth District Calls Omar a ‘Disgrace’ to ‘Baffled’ Somali Community

  Leila Shukri Adan, a Somali-American Democrat, plans to announce a campaign against Rep. Ilhan Omar in the coming days for the DFL nomination in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. Adan recently published an op-ed at Powerline in response to Omar...
January 15, 2020

Ramsey County Unanimously Consents to More Refugees

Both of Minnesota’s most populous counties will officially continue to accept refugees.
January 15, 2020

Carol Swain Commentary: Critical Race Theory and Christian Education

“Next to that of the family, there is no influence more potent for good or evil over the lives of individuals than the associations of school days.” David Lipscomb (Lipscomb University co-founder).
January 15, 2020

Commentary: A Real Obama Era Whistleblower vs. the Trump ‘Whistleblower’

The whistleblower, speaking to internal investigators, pulled no punches in his assessment of the government’s mishandling of the war in Afghanistan.
January 15, 2020

AG Barr Reveals Stricter Procedures for Counterintelligence Investigations of Presidential Campaigns

The attorney general and FBI director will have to approve counterintelligence investigations of future presidential campaigns, Attorney General William Barr said at a press conference Monday.
January 15, 2020

‘Time for Other States to Step Up’: Texas AG Explains Why the State Isn’t Accepting Refugees

Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, defended his governor’s decision to not accept refugees in 2020, noting that Texas has done more for refugees than any other state.
January 15, 2020

Sanders Field Organizer: MAGA People Need to Be Reeducated in Gulags

An “anti-fascist” field organizer for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Iowa was caught on tape saying that when Sanders becomes president of the United States “MAGA people” will have to be “reeducated” to learn “how to not be a f**king...
January 15, 2020

Russians Hacked Burisma: Report

Russian military hackers have successfully infiltrated Burisma, the Ukranian gas company that Hunter Biden worked for between 2014 and 2019.
January 15, 2020

US House Set to Vote Wednesday to Send Impeachment Charges to Senate

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives will vote Wednesday to send official impeachment charges to the Senate, bringing the start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s historical impeachment trial one step closer to reality.
January 14, 2020

Industry Report Touts Oil and Gas Contributions in Minnesota Economy

A new study by the American Petroleum Institute (API) credits Minnesota’s strong economy and job creation, in part, to the abundance of affordable fuels wrought by the country’s shale boom recognized through hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking.
January 14, 2020

Commentary: A ‘Fair’ Senate Impeachment Trial Is Exactly What Democrats Are Afraid Of

On January 7, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote her Democratic colleagues to explain her strategy and to respond to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) announcement that he would not negotiate impeachment trial procedures with the House. Instead, McConnell simply plans to...
January 14, 2020

FBI Director Tells Surveillance Court He ‘Deeply Regrets’ Failures in Carter Page FISA Process

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the federal surveillance court in a letter Friday that he “deeply regrets” the bureau’s many errors in the process to obtain surveillance warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
January 14, 2020

Megyn Kelly Advocates for ‘Proportionality in the #METOO Movement,’ Says She Doesn’t ‘Believe All Women’

Journalist Megyn Kelly advocated for “proportionality in the #MeToo movement,” saying she does not believe in the statement “believe all women.”
Gavin Wilson
January 14, 2020

Hours After Going Viral for Protesting ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Australian Student Wilson Gavin Dies in Apparent Suicide

A gay man who went viral for protesting a drag queen story hour died Monday in an apparent suicide.
President Trump signs Executive Order
January 14, 2020

Commentary: President Trump Is Preserving Religious Freedom for Future Generations

President Trump’s unwavering defense of religious liberty and the sanctity of human life, as well as his recognition of the value of America’s Christian heritage, are why I’m a charter member of the Evangelicals for Trump coalition that was just...
Pete Buttigeig, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders
January 14, 2020

Where the Top Democratic Candidates Stand on Health Care

Of all the public policy issues the top-tier Democratic presidential hopefuls have addressed, health care stands out as the one that separates them the most.
January 14, 2020

Ex-Treasury Department Official Pleads Guilty To Leaking Trump Associates’ Financial Documents To BuzzFeed

A former Treasury Department official pleaded guilty in federal court in New York City on Monday to leaking sensitive financial records of multiple Trump associates and figures in the Trump-Russia investigation to a reporter at BuzzFeed News.
Mike Rogers and the FCC
January 14, 2020

Exclusive: Former Rep. Mike Rogers Leads Group Calling On FCC to Move Quicker on 5G Tech

Former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers is heading up a group that is working to poke and prod the Federal Communications Commission into moving quicker on approving fifth generation development.
Caracas, Venezuela
January 14, 2020

Eight Industries Venezuela Nationalized (Besides Oil)

Venezuela has experienced one of the sharpest economic declines in modern history—rampant inflation, near-famine, and an exodus of millions of asylum seekers. Yet there remains disagreement over what caused it. Many refuse to blame socialism, instead citing the collapse of oil...
January 14, 2020

Minnesota’s Senate Republicans Unveil 2020 Agenda, Includes Consideration of Red Flag Laws, Clean Energy Proposals

Minnesota Senate Republicans unveiled their “2020 Vision” agenda during a Monday press conference, highlighting their priorities for the upcoming legislative session.
January 13, 2020

Duluth Snow Plow Drivers Reject County’s Offer, Will Strike As Early As This Week

A Teamsters union in Duluth mostly comprised of snow plow operators will likely go on strike this week after it voted Saturday to reject a final offer from St. Louis County.
January 13, 2020

Commentary: With Mike Flynn, the Bad Guys Won and Made a Mockery the Justice System

America’s eyes turned to Iraq and Iran over the past few days as President Trump made a bold decision to take out one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists and faced down the Iranian government and their proxies at MSNBC,...
January 13, 2020

GOP Governors Push for Refugee Resettlement as Trump Lowers Acceptance Cap

Republican governors around the country are working closely with refugee resettlement NGOs and contractors to circumvent President Trump’s efforts to lower the amount of refugees admitted to the United States, according to a memo obtained by Breitbart.
January 13, 2020

Dow Passes 29,000 for First Time in History Despite Jobs Report

The Dow Jones passed the 29,000 mark for the first time in history during early trading Friday following a record high opening of S&P.

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