Minnesota’s presidential primary will cost $11.9 million in taxpayer funds to administer, Secretary of State Steve Simon told reporters Friday.
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Day: September 8, 2019
Commentary: Delaying Tariffs Is Not the Answer to China’s Trade Practices
For the past two years, President Donald Trump has argued that China was paying the cost of the trade war. Following a delay in some of the tariffs from the latest round in the dispute with China, however, the president has acknowledged for the first time that tariffs have an impact on American families.
Read MoreDemocratic Senators Want Facebook to Shut Down Firearm Sales That Are ‘Slipping Through The Cracks’
Fifteen Democratic senators sent a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg demanding more information regarding the latent sale of firearms on Facebook Marketplace, a practice the company called a “clear violation” of policies.
Read MoreTrump Administration Proposes Changing Deadline on Work Permits for Asylum Seekers
Asylum seekers hoping to work in the U.S. may soon have to wait longer to find out the fate of their applications if a government proposal is successfully implemented.
Read MoreHurricane Dorian Heads Toward Nova Scotia
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Dorian has slightly weakened, but is expected to move over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland “with hurricane-force winds” Saturday. Dorian is moving with maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour.
Read MoreButtigieg Draws on Bible, Suggests Unborn Babies Can Be Aborted Up Until Their First Breath
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested Friday that unborn babies can be aborted up until they draw their first breath, saying parts of the Bible mention “how life begins with breath.”
Read MoreLiberal Activists in Boston Protest Amazon’s Partnership With ICE, Block Traffic
Hundreds of people blocked rush-hour traffic Thursday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in a dozen arrests for trespassing on Amazon property.
Read MoreCommentary: The Inertial State
One of the nobler elements of the American system is its jealous protection of the rights of minority interests. Going back to James Madison’s strictures about balancing faction against faction in Federalist #10, and Abraham Lincoln’s warnings against unfettered popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Americans have long held to a noble tradition of respecting minority rights, rather than simply riding roughshod over minority factions in the name of decisive majoritarian action.
Read More‘The Waste Report’ Details $50 Billion in Questionable Government Spending
In his Summer 2019 edition of The Waste Report, U.S. Senator Rand Paul details more than $50.2 billion of government spending that he says wasted hard-earned taxpayer money.
Read MoreDean Phillips Goes Off on Trump: ‘I Just Cannot Believe That This Man Represents the United States’
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN-03) hosted a town hall Saturday morning in Chanhassen, Minnesota, where the first-term congressman let the audience know how he really feels about President Donald Trump.
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