A Republican lawmaker has asked the Sherburne County Board of Commissioners to declare itself Minnesota’s first “Second Amendment sanctuary county.”
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Commentary: The Effect of the Trump Impeachment on Our Republic
With the attempt to impeach Donald Trump, the United States of America has come to a decisive point in its history.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Won’t Rush Obamacare Case, Dealing Setback for Democrats
The Supreme Court will not fast-track two petitions that ask the high court to again review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
Read MoreTrump Impeachment Trial Begins With Debate on Rules
WASHINGTON – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump began in full Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, with a spirited debate over the rules governing the third such trial in U.S. history over whether a president should be ousted from the White House for allegedly violating his oath of office.
Read MoreWarren Pledges DOJ Task Force to Investigate Political Opponent
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren will create a Justice Department task force if elected president to investigate alleged corruption during the Trump administration, she said in a plan released Tuesday.
Read MoreTrump Confirms He Is Preparing to Expand a Travel Ban
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is preparing to expand a travel ban, a move that will likely showcase his immigration enforcement agenda ahead of the 2020 election.
Read MoreMigrant Caravan Illegally Enters Mexico, Facing Off With Mexican Authorities
Amigrant caravan of hundreds of Central American aliens crossed the Guatemala-Mexico border illegally on Monday, in a standoff with Mexico’s security forces, as NPR reports.
Read MoreIllegal Immigrant Who Killed Minnesota Father of 10 Deported to El Salvador
An illegal immigrant who struck and killed a Minnesota father of 10 last year was deported to his home country of El Salvador, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday.
Read MoreConservative Research Fellow Challenges Walz to Consider ‘Dissenting’ Voices on Climate Change
A conservative policy fellow with the Center of the American Experiment applied for Gov. Tim Walz’s “Advisory Council on Climate Change,” which promised to “represent different perspectives and experiences.”
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats Hoist Their Own Petard
Since at least 2016, CNN has mostly ceased being a news agency, but that hasn’t stopped it from being an active participant in #TheResistance. The network is so caught up in the fervor of this movement that many of its guests and regular hosts have been fired, reprimanded, or apologized for threats to the president or general obscene references (e.g., Reza Aslan, the late Anthony Bourdain, Kathy Griffin).
Read MoreChiefs, 49ers Earn Super Bowl Spots
The field for this year’s Super Bowl is set, with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers earning the right to play for the National Football League championship on Feb. 2 in Miami.
Read MoreTrump Lawyers: President Did ‘Absolutely Nothing Wrong’ on Ukraine
President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday assailed the impeachment case against him as a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution,” asserting he did “absolutely nothing wrong” in pressing Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit himself politically.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Surrogate Says Biden ‘Has A Big Corruption Problem’
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a “big corruption problem,” a prominent backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid said in an op-ed Monday.
Read MoreBette Midler Proposes ‘Osc-hers’ in Response to All Male Director Nominees
On Tuesday, actress and singer Bette Midler angrily responded to the lack of women nominated for the Academy Awards Best Director, by suggesting the creation of an alternative awards show – “we just get our own show called the Osc-hers” in order to redress the absence of female nominees in this year’s directing category, Breitbart reports.
Read MorePennsylvania Professor Arrested for Spending Federal Research Money at Strip Clubs
Pennsylvania professor has been arrested and charged after it was revealed that he allegedly misspent federal research money at strip clubs.
Read MoreCalifornia ‘Dreamers’ Set to Receive More State Funding
The University of California and California State University graduate students who fall under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will soon be eligible for special loans to help pay for school.
Read MoreCommentary: ‘Density Ideology’ Will Destroy America
If you’re searching for an organizing principle that unites the Left, density ideology should be at or near the top of your list. Far from being a sideshow, density ideology is behind the leftist drive to cram America’s rising population into the footprint of existing cities.
Read MoreDHS Chief Calls Out Double Standard From Border Wall Opponents
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), accused many border wall critics in Congress of having a double standard, noting how many of them became opponents during the Trump administration.
Read MoreReport: President Trump to Crack Down on ‘Birth Tourism’
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to crack down on foreign nationals who visit the United States with the explicit intention to give birth, taking advantage of the country’s birthright citizen laws.
Read More2A Ground Zero: ‘It’s Not a Virginia Thing; It’s an America Thing’
RICHMOND, Virginia – Thousands of 2nd Amendment supporters gathered peacefully in Virginia Monday, demonstrating that the commitment to defend the God-given, constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms extends far beyond the Commonwealth’s borders.
Read MoreThe New York Times Mocked for ‘Profoundly Stupid’ Endorsement of Both Klobuchar and Warren
Commentators from across the political spectrum ruthlessly mocked The New York Times editorial board for its reality-TV style endorsement process, which resulted in the endorsements of both Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.
Read MoreTeamsters Local 320 Strike From Snowplows, St. Louis County Has Contingency Plans
Snowplow drivers of Teamsters Local 320 in St. Louis County rejected a final contract offer from County officials that led to a strike starting Wednesday.
Read MoreAudit Finds Minnesota’s Medical Cannabis Program Lacks ‘Adequate’ Internal Controls
A new report found that the Minnesota Department of Health’s “internal controls” for its medical cannabis program “were generally not adequate to safeguard financial assets and ensure compliance with selected legal requirements.”
Read MorePresident Trump Announces Protections for the Right to Prayer in School
President Trump recently declared his intentions to “safeguard” the right to pray in schools, as he ramps up efforts to energize the Evangelical vote ahead of the 2020 election, according to USA Today.
Read MoreKanye West Performs Sunday Service Concerts at Youth Conference in Pigeon Forge
Rapper-turned-Christian evangelist Kanye West brought his Sunday Service gospel worship service to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, on Sunday in two performances for a youth conference.
Read MoreApple’s Digital Assistant Siri Told Users Israel’s Reuvin Rivlin Was the ‘President of the Zionist Occupation State’
by Chris White Apple’s voice-controlled assistant told the big tech company’s customers Saturday night that Israel President Reuvin Rivlin is the leader of the Zionist occupation state.” Someone changed Rivlin’s Wikipedia page to describe Israel’s president as the “main child of Israel,” Israel’s i24 News reported Saturday. Apple and Google often rely…
Read MoreCommentary: California Now Pushing Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrant Seniors
California is at it again with a proposal to extend free health care to illegal immigrant senior citizens.
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Eventually, I am going to get around to saying something about CNN’s hostility to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) – evidenced, most recently, by its energetic exertions on behalf of the campaign to elect Elizabeth Warren at last Tuesday’s Democratic debate. And I’ll say something, too, about the delicious exhibition of angst-filled hand-wringing that said hostility occasioned in many precincts of the leftwing media.
First, however, since CNN apparently undertook its cheerleading for Warren in order to declare its feminist bona fides, I would like to pose a few questions as a sort of prolegomenon, what Kierkegaard, in another context, called a “preliminary expectoration.” 1) Why are feminists so unpleasant? 2) Why do they insist on whining instead of getting on with the task at hand? 3) Why do they tend to blame other people for their failures?
Read MoreConnecticut School Board Votes to Restore Native American Mascot
AConnecticut high school is reinstating its former mascot — just months after it was ditched because some deemed it racist.
Read MoreFlynn Lawyer Sidney Powell: We Have a Witness to Missing Exculpatory FBI 302
Attorney Sidney Powell announced Friday that she has a witness to exculpatory FBI notes (known as a 302) from former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s FBI interview with Peter Strzok and another agent.
Read MoreICE Escalates Fight with NYC’s Sanctuary Laws, Slaps City with Subpoenas
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenaed New York City for information on several illegal aliens, ratcheting up its fight with the city’s sanctuary policies.
Read MoreSanders’ Field Organizer Kyle Jurek Bailed Out After Arrest, Still No Comment from Campaign Over ‘Gulag’ Rants Caught on Camera
by Debra Heine In the latest Project Veritas sting video, Kyle Jurek, the self-proclaimed anarcho-communist Soviet Gulag fan who is a field organizer for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Iowa, admits that he was recently arrested for “weed” after knocking on doors for the campaign. Jurek told the Veritas…
Read MoreAhead of Second Amendment Lobby Day and Rally in Virginia Monday, Warnings of a ‘Set-Up’ Against Supporters Spread
RICHMOND, Virginia – Supporters of the 2nd Amendment have received warnings about being set up at the annual rally at the Commonwealth of Virginia capitol, which has become ground-zero for the constitutionally protected right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
For nearly two decades, Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) has organized an annual trek to the General Assembly on Martin Luther King Day to peacefully assemble and lobby their legislators on the 2nd Amendment.
Read MoreEllison Joins Lawsuit Against ICE Over Practice of Arresting Illegals in Courthouses
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced his support last week for a lawsuit that would halt the federal immigration arrests of illegal immigrants in and around state courthouses across the country.
Read MoreCity Council Wants to Ban Fur Sales in Minneapolis
Two Minneapolis City Council members plan to introduce an ordinance that would ban the sale of animal fur products in city limits.
Read MoreCommentary: The Rising Generation’s Intuitive Populism
A modern populist movement with the twin goals of expanding individual liberty and strengthening the bonds of community exists as a result of a communications revolution that has empowered people to control their own lives. That’s good news. The danger, however, is that the new populism will succumb to the old temptations of collectivism—a devolution made possible by the conflation and prioritization of virtual community over traditional community.
Read More‘I Want Trump Out!’: Migrants Plan to Cross US Border Once Trump Leaves Office
Central American migrants hoping to enter the United States have said they will wait in Mexico in the hope that President Donald Trump loses reelection, where they will then cross the U.S. border.
Read MoreSeventeen Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Tyranny, Liberty, and Rights
Americans remember Benjamin Franklin as one of our founders. That is fitting because he was not just our most famous citizen at our country’s birth, but he was also so much a central part of that birth that he has been called “The First American.”
Read MoreSupreme Court to Decide on ‘Faithless Elector’ Bans, ACA Contraception Mandate
The Supreme Court took up two high-profile disputes Friday as it rounds out its docket for the 2019-2020 term, agreeing to decide on the Trump administration’s bid to enforce exemptions from the Obamacare contraception mandate for religious dissenters, and whether state laws punishing “faithless” presidential electors are unconstitutional.
Read MoreRand Paul Says He Fears Republicans Won’t Let Trump ‘Choose His Witnesses’ in Impeachment Trial
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he’s worried that his fellow Republican senators will block testimonies from the witnesses President Donald Trump wants called in his impeachment trial, Paul told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday.
Read MoreCommentary: This Ohio Town Is Seeing Manufacturing Jobs Come Back
Thirty miles west of Cleveland along the Lake Erie shoreline sits a town named Lorain, Ohio. Famous for being the birthplace of Toni Morrison, Lorain was once a bustling steel town that drew people from all over the country for manufacturing work. Even the high school football team was named “The Steelmen.” But today, like many Rust Belt towns, Lorain shows signs of decay: ramshackle houses, vacant buildings covered in graffiti, and abandoned plants and factories — lots of them.
Read MoreCommentary: Saving the Real American Dream in 2020
In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America.
Read MoreEllison Sues Trump Administration Over Food-Stamp Work Requirements
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined 15 attorneys general and New York City in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps.
Read MoreTrump Taps Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr for Impeachment Trial Defense
President Donald Trump added two big name attorneys to his legal counsel for next week’s Senate impeachment trial hearings.
Read MoreEllison and Omar Vote for Bernie As Early Voting Begins in Minnesota
Minnesota voters began casting their votes early Friday in the state’s first presidential primary since 1992.
Read MoreCommentary: This Tawdry Impeachment Spectacle Must Run Its Course
As far as can be determined, the question of whether the Senate should conduct a trial or dismiss the spurious articles of impeachment as unworthy of trial by vote of the majority, is being addressed as a matter of President Trump’s political convenience.
Read MoreNinth Circuit Court of Appeals Deals Brutal Blow to Teens Who Sued Trump Over Climate Change
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled Friday that children do not have standing to sue the Trump administration and the federal government for not adequately addressing climate change.
Read MorePompeo Says State Department Will Investigate Surveillance Threats Against Yovanovitch
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that the State Department will investigate whether a Republican congressional candidate and a former associate of Rudy Giuliani had Marie Yovanovitch under surveillance last year when she served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Read More‘Using Every Tool Available’: ICE Subpoenas Sanctuary City for Information on Wanted Illegal Aliens
Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoenaed Denver officials for information on four illegal aliens wanted for deportation, marking a dramatic escalation in how the agency is dealing with sanctuary cities.
Read MoreCommentary: Rowling and King Slam Into the Woke Diversity Cult
Nothing is more appetizing than watching the limbs of progressive icons mulch between the jaws of the Woke.
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