Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN-07) recently revealed that Republican leadership has been pressuring him to join their ranks and defect from the Democratic Party.
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Month: December 2019
Angie Craig Will Vote in Favor of Both Articles of Impeachment
After taking the weekend to sit with the committee testimony and the House Intelligence Committee’s final report, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN-02) announced Sunday that she will vote in favor of both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Read MoreMinneapolis City Council Passes $1.6B Budget, Largest Property Tax Increase in a Decade
The Minneapolis City Council on Wednesday approved a $1.6 billion budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year funded by the largest property tax levy increase in 10 years.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump’s Real Offense Is That He Dared to Make Politics Political Again
As Democrats in the House of Representatives prepare themselves for a vote on the articles of impeachment against President Trump – preparing the way to boot him from office and nullify the results of the 2016 election – Americans should reflect on the audacity it takes to do that.
Read MoreGowdy: ‘Too Damn Late’ for Comey to Admit He Was Wrong About FISA Abuse
Former Rep. Trey Gowdy said Sunday that it is “too damn late” for James Comey to admit he was wrong about FBI abuse of the FISA process, as the former FBI director did in an interview on Fox News earlier in the day.
Read MoreNadler: Trump Is a ‘Threat’ to National Security
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Sunday that President Donald Trump is a “threat” to national security.
Read MoreCampus Conservatives Call Out Professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau for Quiz Comparing Trump’s ‘America First’ Slogan to KKK
A professor at Texas State University gave a quiz in film class asking students whether President Donald Trump’s “America First” platform is comparable to white supremacy and the KKK.
According to the student publication at Texas State, The University Star, English professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau asked students in an Introduction to Film course, “What is true about the ‘America First’ slogan in the film and present day?”
Read MoreBiden Paid Women Staffers Less Than Men for Decades, Report Says
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden paid his female staffers less on average than male staffers over several decades, new analysis finds.
Read MoreConservative Leader Calls on Undecided House Dems to Follow Collin Peterson and Vote No on Impeachment
The chairman of an organization that promotes national sovereignty is calling on 17 specific Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote no on likely articles of impeachment against U.S. Republican President Donald Trump.
Read MoreU.S. Supreme Court to Review Political Ratio Requirements for State Court Judges
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted a new case for the new year, Carney v. Adams, to determine whether state constitutions can require courts to have a ratio of judges based on their political party affiliation.
Read MoreComey Says He Was ‘Wrong’ About FBI’s Surveillance Abuse, but Downplays His Own Role in Bungled Case
James Comey said Sunday that he was “wrong” about the FBI’s handling of surveillance warrants against Carter Page, who the former FBI director acknowledged was “treated unfairly” by having his name leaked to the press as a suspected Russian agent.
Read MoreSchiff Refuses to Say He Was Wrong About FBI’s Surveillance of Trump Aide Carter Page
Rep. Adam Schiff admitted Sunday that the FBI committed “serious abuses” of the foreign surveillance court process in order to spy on Carter Page, though the California Democrat stopped short of acknowledging he was wrong to defend the bureau and in his promotion of the infamous Steele dossier.
Read MoreMillennials Leaving Religion En Masse, New Studies Show
Millennials are abandoning religion in numbers not seen in any other generation in modern history, according to a long-form piece on the subject by FiveThirtyEight.
Read MoreCommentary: The Inevitable Unraveling of Our Post-World War II Institutions
Post-World War II institutions are unraveling, and there’s panic here and abroad about it.
The transnational Left is starting to lose the means by which it seeks to shape the world without voter involvement. And the neo-cons are seeing their means of geopolitical intervention weaken.
Read MoreCollin Peterson Will Vote Against Both Articles of Impeachment: ‘President Has Not Committed a Crime’
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN-07) confirmed Saturday that he will vote against the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump “unless they come up with something between now and Wednesday.”
Read MoreSenate DFL Launches New ‘Climate Caucus’ to Push Walz’s Climate Agenda Through Senate
DFL members of the Minnesota Senate announced the formation of a new “Senate DFL Clean Energy and Climate Caucus” last week.
Read MoreCommentary: Latins for Trump? It Could Happen
When I was young, I hated being Latin and was embarrassed by it. All the macho overcompensation, the loud talking, the even louder clothes made of colors and fabrics not found in nature, the old-country ways, the conniving emotionalism, and the obstinacy I thought vulgar and crude. It turned me at a young age into an Anglophile. But as I grew older, I noticed something. Along with the crudeness there is a certain raw energy.
Read MoreCounty Clerk Sounds Alarm at New York Allowing Driver’s Licenses For Illegal Aliens: ‘Concerned For Our Safety’
A New York county clerk expressed deep concern over the state’s new law allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses, arguing that such a law risks public safety and paves the way for voter fraud.
Read MoreReports: As States Increase Cigarette Taxes, Interstate Smuggling Also Rises
As cigarette taxes have risen across the country, so too has cigarette smuggling across state lines, causing billions of dollars of tax revenue losses for high-tax states.
Read MorePlanned Parenthood Targets Los Angeles High Schoolers
Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday a plan to open 50 health centers at Los Angeles high schools.
Read MoreOver a Million People Sign Petition Bashing Netflix Movie Implying Jesus Christ Is Gay
Over a million people signed a petition against a Netflix movie that implies Jesus Christ is gay.
Read MoreAnalysis: Lack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
Early in 2019, a firestorm of criticism descended upon veteran journalist Tom Brokaw because he said on NBC’s Meet the Press that Hispanics “should work harder at assimilation” and shouldn’t isolate themselves “in their communities.” NBC condemned his comments as “inaccurate and inappropriate,” media outlets ran articles and editorials calling them racist and factually wrong, and Brokaw apologized.
Read MoreSupreme Court to Decide Whether Trump Must Release Financial Records to Investigators
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether President Donald Trump may resist subpoenas for his accounting and tax records, teeing up a major decision on presidential immunity and Trump’s opaque finances ahead of the 2020 election.
Read MoreCommentary: Britain’s ‘Red Tory’ Future
It appears that social media is not the real world. Indeed, contrary to the predictions I read there, the most seismic election in British history was not even close.
Boris Johnson on Friday morning returned as Great Britain’s prime minister atop a landslide of voters whom the progressive Left abandoned long ago.
Read MoreModerate Republican Fred Upton Will Vote Against ‘Highly Partisan’ Impeachment
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI-06) announced that he will vote against the articles of impeachment brought against President Donald Trump.
Read MoreGov. Walz Hires Consultant to Tell Another Consultant How to Conduct Review of DHS
Gov. Tim Walz announced Friday that his administration has started a formal process to look into breaking up Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, but Republicans criticized the Democratic governor’s plan for involving an excessive number of outside consultants.
Read MoreJustice Democrats Candidate for Minnesota House Wants to Pass ‘Sanctuary State’ Law, Says Cars Aren’t a ‘Long Term Transportation Plan’
A graduate of the Justice Democrats’ “Movement School” recently launched a campaign for Minnesota House District 60A, which was left vacant after the passing of Rep. Diane Loeffler (DFL-Minneapolis).
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Threatens to ‘Snapback’ Tariffs on China if Beijing Breaks New Trade Deal
U.S. and China trade negotiators once again have a deal in principle on a first stage trade agreement, just days before a Dec. 15 deadline when President Donald Trump had threatened to further increase tariffs on Chinese goods.
Read MoreNearly All Migrants Removed Under New Asylum Deal Are Opting to Go Back Home
Nearly every single migrant removed from the United States under a newly-implemented asylum deal is simply choosing to return home instead of remaining in Guatemala, a result the Trump administration intended.
Read MoreTaylor Swift Decries Soros for Buying Her Music Rights
Taylor Swift on Thursday blasted music manager Scooter Braun and the billionaire George Soros family for allegedly buying the rights to her music. Swift made the remarks during her acceptance speech for Billboard’s Woman of the Decade award Thursday, according to a story by Breitbart. She lamented the “unregulated…
Read MoreBoris Johnson’s Conservatives Win in a Landslide, Labour and Liberal Democrats Crushed
In the United Kingdom’s general election, the Conservative Party has reclaimed a working majority by an even larger margin than most predictions and opinion polls expected, as reported by The Guardian.
Read MoreBoston City Council Doubles Down on Sanctuary City Policies
Boston, a deep-blue city that has long resisted cooperation with federal immigration authorities, doubled down on its sanctuary laws in a recent city council vote.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump ‘Disdainers’ Are Worse Than the Haters, But Equally Irrelevant
While Donald Trump’s haters intrepidly maintain there are grounds to impeach the president, the mere Trump disdainers at times can be more tiresome, because they approve of Trump’s policies but do everything necessary to avoid being branded Trump apologists.
Read MoreTeen Hospitalized After Being Savagely Attacked on Florida School Bus for Wearing Trump Hat
A14-year-old boy was hospitalized last month after being savagely beaten by a group of older black teens on a school bus in Hamilton County, Florida, and now shocking video of the brutal attack has been released online. The boy’s mother said on Twitter that her son Tyler was attacked because he wore a Trump 2020 hat to school. She is calling the vicious interracial assault a hate crime.
Read MoreNew Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Gives Nonviolent Felons the Right to Vote, Run for Public Office
New Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear isn’t wasting time enacting liberal agendas, having signed an executive order Thursday restoring the right to vote and the right to run for public office to hundreds of thousands of felons convicted of nonviolent crimes, according to a story by Jurist.
Read MoreGov. Walz Consents to Continued Refugee Resettlement: ‘The Inn Is Not Full’
Gov. Tim Walz offered his consent to continue Minnesota’s participation in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program in a letter sent Friday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Kimberly Guilfoyle Commentary: Horowitz Didn’t Exonerate the FBI – He Eviscerated It
The recent congressional testimony of Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz suggests there are only two possible explanations for the botched Russia collusion probe: either the FBI team responsible for the investigation were incompetent or they were corrupt.
Read MoreSix Illegal Aliens Arrested for Sex Trafficking Girl in Wisconsin
Officials in Green Lake County, Wisconsin said they have arrested six men suspected of being in the country illegally for sex trafficking a young girl who escaped from captivity last month.
Read MoreCommentary: James Comey’s War on America
James Comey’s investigation into the Trump campaign didn’t just taint candidate Donald Trump right before the 2016 election.
Read MoreTens of Thousands of Foreign Nationals on Temporary Visas Are Giving Birth in the US Every Year, Study Finds
A newly-released study estimates that there are tens of thousands births annually in the United States by foreign nationals on temporary visas, highlighting the robust “birth tourism” industry.
Read MoreJoe Biden Unveils Immigration Platform, Acknowledges ‘Pain’ of Deportations During Obama Era
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden published a sweeping immigration plan that called for an overhaul of the Trump administration’s agenda, but it remained largely moderate compared to his progressive contenders.
Read MoreCarter Page: ‘Going To Take This Right Up to the Supreme Court’
Carter Page said Thursday he is willing to go all the way to the Supreme Court in lawsuits he plans to file against the U.S. government over a Justice Department report released Monday that said the FBI misled federal judges in order to conduct surveillance against the former Trump campaign aide.
Read MoreRashida Tlaib Falsely Blames White Supremacists for New Jersey Shooting
Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib falsely blamed a shooting in New Jersey on white supremacists Thursday.
Read MoreCommentary: The Never-Ending PC Assault
Forty years ago, 30 percent of believers belonged to mainline Protestant churches like the Methodists, Episcopalians, and liberal Presbyterians. Today mainline church attendance stands at about 10 percent of the nation’s total. Some suggest doctrinal weakness and liberalism as the reason for this decline.
Read MoreAngie Craig Still Undecided on Impeachment, Dean Phillips an ‘Absolutely’
Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN-02) hasn’t made a decision yet on whether she will support the articles of impeachment brought against President Donald Trump, the first-term congresswoman told reporters Wednesday.
Read MoreMinnesota Counties Grapple with Trump Executive Order Requiring Local Consent for Refugee Resettlement
All of Minnesota’s 87 counties will soon have to take up the issue of refugee resettlement as a result of an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
Read MoreCommentary: The Standing of Blacks in the Republican Party
Barack Obama launched his meteoric political rise in 2004 by plagiarizing a message published in my 1991 essay, “Black and White Together: A Reconsideration,” which was included in the book Reassessing Civil Rights. Unfortunately, while Obama embraced the winning rhetoric, he did not embrace the argument. Otherwise, he would have transformed the political character of our nation. For the first thing he would have done would have been to lead the Democratic Party away from its practice of maintaining political ghettos for minorities.
Read MorePentagon Inspector General to Review Legality of Trump’s Troop Deployment to Southern Border
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General has opened a review into President Donald Trump’s deployment of military personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border following calls from Democratic lawmakers.
Read MoreCommentary: Students’ Test Scores Unchanged After Decades of Federal Intervention in Education
Federal “Highly Qualified Teacher” mandates. Adequate Yearly Progress requirements. Smaller learning communities. Improving Teacher Quality State Grants. Reading First. Early Reading First. The dozens of other federal programs authorized via No Child Left Behind. School Improvement Grants. Race to the Top. Common Core.
Read MoreGreta Thunberg Named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
Time magazine announced its “Person of the Year” as the Swedish teenager and “global warming” activist Greta Thunberg, NBC reports.
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