by Molly Prince Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar played on her phone in the back of the chamber as the House of Representatives voted on the resolution that was intended as a reprimand for the congresswoman’s anti-Semitic comments, according to a report published Friday. The House passed a resolution…
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Commentary: Congress Is to Blame for the Trump Administration Reverting Back to ‘Catch and Release’
by James Carafano Reports have surfaced, citing government officials, that border officials no longer will refer detained migrant families to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Instead, due to constrained resources, they will “begin releasing hundreds of families caught each day in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.” As a result,…
Read MoreSPLC President Richard Cohen Resigns From Embattled Left-Wing Nonprofit
by Peter Hasson Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen resigned Friday, in the latest blow to the embattled left-wing nonprofit. Cohen’s resignation came nine days after the SPLC fired co-founder Morris Dees on March 13, citing unspecified conduct issues. Cohen announced his resignation in a staff-wide email Friday…
Read MoreCommentary: The Real Islamophobia
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken While attending a vigil for the shooting victims at two New Zealand mosques last Friday evening, a visibly pregnant Chelsea Clinton was accosted by a pair of left-wing “activists.” The two specifically blamed Clinton for the atrocity. This was a stunning charge. In his 72-page…
Read MoreIllegal Alien Admits to Killing Four People to Score Money for Meth
by Jason Hopkins An illegal immigrant confessed during an interrogation that he killed four people because he needed money to purchase meth. Wilbur Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, a 20-year-old from El Salvador living in the U.S. illegally, broke down into tears as he confessed to being behind four gruesome murders in…
Read MoreEx-FBI Official: Fusion GPS Founder Tried to ‘Elevate’ Dossier by Spreading It all Around Washington
by Chuck Ross James Baker, the former general counsel for the FBI, told Congress last October that the bureau was aware that the founder of Fusion GPS was spreading the Steele dossier “to a lot of different” people in government and the media in an effort to “elevate” the…
Read MoreNo More Indictments Coming From Mueller, Undercutting Trump Critics’ Hopes for Russia Probe
by Chuck Ross Special counsel Robert Mueller will not issue any additional indictments in the Russia investigation and has not filed any charges under seal, a senior Justice Department official told news outlets Friday. The revelation would seem to be a positive sign for President Donald Trump and several…
Read MoreUS Hits Iran With New Sanctions While Pompeo Visits Lebanon
The Trump administration hit Iran with new sanctions on Friday while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was denouncing Iran’s growing influence on a visit to Lebanon. The Treasury Department said the sanctions target 31 Iranian scientists, technicians and companies affiliated with Iran’s Organization for Defense Innovation and Research, which had…
Read MoreOverwhelmed ICE Facilities Forced to Release 100,000 Illegal Aliens in Past Three Months
by Jason Hopkins ICE detainment centers have become so overwhelmed with illegal aliens that the agency has been forced to release over 100,000 migrant family members in the past three months. While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Nathalie Asher, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, revealed that…
Read MoreGM Announces Jobs, Electric Vehicle After Trump Criticism
Less than a week after a series of critical tweets from the president over an Ohio plant closure, General Motors is announcing plans to add 400 jobs and build a new electric vehicle at a factory north of Detroit. The company says it will spend $300 million at its plant…
Read MoreJames Comey in Op-Ed Says He Doesn’t Care What Investigation Uncovers
by Chuck Ross James Comey claimed in an op-ed Thursday that he does not care one way or the other whether special counsel Robert Mueller finds evidence that President Donald Trump conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election or obstructed the FBI’s collusion probe. But the claim, which…
Read MoreUnemployment Jumps, Minnesota Loses 8,800 Jobs During Walz’s First Full Month
Minnesota’s Department of Employment and Economic Development, or DEED, released its monthly jobs report Thursday, and the results weren’t good for Gov. Tim Walz’s first full month in office. According to the report, Minnesota lost 8,800 seasonally adjusted jobs in February, and the unemployment rate climbed from 3 percent to…
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