Trump signals support for background checks on gun sales
As has become typical after any mass shooting tragedy, anti-gun Democrats immediately rushed to propose gun control infringements upon the Second Amendment after the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, while many Republicans reiterated their firm stance against more restrictions on gun owners. President Donald Trump, a generally pragmatic dealmaker in search of […]
Puerto Rico Supreme Court orders new governor to step down
The island territory of Puerto Rico has been in a state of flux for several weeks now after disgraced Governor Ricardo Rosselló and much of his equally disgraced administration were ousted amid corruption and scandal. The island’s government is still in a state of flux, however, as the Puerto Rican Supreme Court just ruled that […]
Kellyanne Conway slams Democrats for politicizing El Paso, Dayton shootings
In the wake of two horrific mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend, numerous elected Democrats — including several 2020 presidential candidates — together with liberal media figures wasted no time in blaming the murderous acts on President Donald Trump. That rush by Democrats and the media to immediately politicize […]
House Dems demand end to August recess, immediate action on gun control
Following the reportedly racially-motivated mass shooting in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, numerous Democrats — when not blaming President Donald Trump instead of the murderer for the shooting — have loudly decried white nationalism and white supremacy as forms of domestic terrorism that must be immediately addressed with legislative action. In yet another direct challenge […]
Trump blasts Beto O’Rourke ahead of El Paso visit: ‘Be quiet!’
In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that is now suspected to have been racially motivated — and, to a lesser extent, an inexplicable mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio — countless Democrats and media figures immediately sought to lay sole blame for the multiple fatalities not on the murderous gunmen, but […]
Republican Texas Rep. Kenny Marchant says he will not seek re-election in 2020
A top priority for the Republican Party in 2020, aside from seeing President Donald Trump elected to a second term, is to regain majority control of the House of Representatives and maintain control over Republican-majority red states. That is looking to be a difficult prospect to achieve in light of the recent announcements from a […]
Joe Biden’s brother, hedge fund manager facing fraud allegations
Former vice president and top 2020 Democrat candidate Joe Biden has already faced some questions over dubious business dealings by members of his family, and now there is a whole new angle in that regard in relation to the politician’s brother, James Biden, who is being sued over allegations of fraud. James Biden is among […]
Report: Active duty military suicides reached record level in 2018
While incidents of suicide are a sad and terrible thing in our society, they can be particularly troubling when they occur among the ranks of the men and women who serve and defend this nation in the armed forces. A recent report released by the Department of Defense showed quite tragically that suicides in the […]
Trump addresses El Paso, Dayton mass shootings, outlines potential reforms
There were two tragic and fatal mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that received extensive media coverage and elicited the typical shouts for the government to “do something” to address the horrific incidents of mass murder that occur all too frequently these days. While most on the left reiterated […]
Iran seizes Iraqi-flagged tanker in Persian Gulf: Reports
The already high tensions in the Persian Gulf have ratcheted up another notch after the Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly seized yet another oil tanker ship, the third such seizure in the past month. Iranian state-run TV claimed on Sunday that an Iraqi-flagged tanker ship was seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after it […]
Fox News’ Ed Henry to promote public awareness of need for living organ donors
Ed Henry, chief national correspondent for Fox News, hasn’t appeared on the air for several weeks now as he continues to recover from successful surgery in which he donated part of his liver to his sister, Colleen. Though Henry always intended to make the reason for his absence known to the public, he hadn’t anticipated […]
Report: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff faces probe into alleged campaign finance violations
Some big changes came to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office last Friday when the New York Democrat’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, and communications director, Corbin Trent, announced their sudden resignations. While Trent moved on to focus on AOC’s 2020 re-election campaign, Chakrabarti joined a progressive organization focused on climate change and the Green New Deal […]
Michelle Obama confirms there is ‘zero chance’ she will run for president
There has yet to emerge a clear favorite among the roughly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates who would be an odds-on favorite to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020, and worried Democrats are beginning to look elsewhere. One name that is repeatedly mentioned as a potential last-minute candidate is former first lady Michelle Obama — […]
Sarah Silverman: Lindsey Graham will ‘go to jail’ for enforcing the border
Despite their assertions to the contrary, progressives have made it clear in recent months that they support open borders. And now, one leftist has gone so far as to say that enforcing our nation’s laws is a crime “against humanity.” After Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) rightly argued that decriminalizing “illegal entry into the U.S.” would […]
Trump blasts ‘horrible, disgusting conditions’ in Democrat-run cities: ‘We could name one after another’
President Donald Trump recently sparked the ire of Democrats and their media allies when he (accurately) pointed out the corruption, crime, and disgusting “decay” plaguing the Democrat-run city of Baltimore — but despite the backlash, the president hasn’t backed down. In fact, Trump stepped up his criticisms of the “horrible, disgusting conditions” in several Democrat-run […]
Federal judge temporarily blocks latest Democrat effort to obtain Trump’s tax returns
Democrats have made it clear that they won’t stop until they see President Donald Trump’s tax returns, but the president isn’t budging. And now, the White House just scored another — albeit temporary — victory. A federal judge in Washington has put a stop to recent Democrat efforts to obtain Trump’s tax records from the […]
President Trump formally nominates Jovita Carranza for role of SBA chief
When it was revealed in April that former wrestling executive Linda McMahon would be stepping down from her role as the head of the Small Business Association (SBA) to head a pro-Trump super PAC, the president wasted no time in announcing his pick for her replacement: current U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza. Now, President Donald Trump […]
Trump on his ‘most difficult’ days in office: ‘You just never can really get over’ school shootings
In an interview with C-SPAN that aired earlier this week, President Donald Trump described his “most difficult” days in office — and they’re lined with tragedy. “When you have a school shooting…it angers me,” Trump said. “That’s something that you just never can really get over.” “How can a thing like this happen?” The Daily […]
Joe Biden ends rocky debate performance with warning of ‘eight more years of Donald Trump’
There have been questions raised on both sides of the political aisle about former Vice President Joe Biden and his ability (or lack thereof) to successfully serve as president of the United States — and his latest debate performance didn’t help matters. The career politician butchered one of his prepared lines in his closing statement on […]
Army veteran, police officer announces campaign to unseat Ilhan Omar in 2020
Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has proven to be nothing but trouble for her own party and the country since winning her congressional seat in 2018, a brief tenure that has been characterized by a series of remarks viewed by many as anti-American and anti-Semitic. A 2020 challenger to Omar has already emerged in the […]
Diversity concerns at DCCC prompt leadership shakeup
To the casual observer, it might have looked like the Democratic Party was sitting pretty at the moment, having just won the majority in the House in 2018 and with a large field of candidates engaged in a spirited debate to see who would take on the mutually-despised President Donald Trump in 2020. But it […]
DNC hacking lawsuit against WikiLeaks, Trump campaign dismissed
In the wake of the Democrat Party’s stunning defeat in 2016, Democrats convinced themselves the loss was due solely to interference by the Russian government working in league with then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign and other actors such as WikiLeaks, most notably with regard to the alleged hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails and internal […]
Poll: Support for Kamala Harris dips as Joe Biden ‘regains footing’
Democrat California Sen. Kamala Harris surged toward the front of the field of 2020 candidates following her strong performance in her party’s first primary debate in late June and was considered to be a top contender to challenge former Vice President Joe Biden for the nomination to take on President Donald Trump. It appears that […]
Trump endorses Daniel Cameron for Kentucky attorney general
With the campaign season for the 2020 election cycle already heating up, President Donald Trump has begun to use his considerable influence to endorse certain candidates across the country he believes will prove helpful to furthering his agenda to Make America Great Again. On Monday, that included Trump issuing a strong public endorsement of a […]
Utah Republican Rob Bishop retiring from House in 2020
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), the longest-serving member of the state’s congressional delegation, recently faced a dilemma — continue to serve in Congress at the behest of his strongest supporters, or keep a promise made in a prior election cycle to eventually step aside and make room for others to serve the state’s voters. Bishop confirmed […]
RNC’s Ronna McDaniel: AG Bill Barr must ‘get to the bottom’ of Mueller probe’s origins
More than two years into President Donald Trump’s first term in office, he is still fighting off the cloud of suspicion cast upon him by baseless, politically motivated investigations that began under the administration of former President Barack Obama. Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said during an interview Sunday that it […]
Elizabeth Warren says she supports impeachment, but is ‘not running on it’
From the very day he was sworn into office, there have been elected Democrats in Congress demanding the impeachment of President Donald Trump for a variety of reasons, despite there being no evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that would warrant his removal from office. The latest Democrat politician to call for such action is […]
Trump considers designating Antifa a ‘major organization of terror’
There should be little debate that Antifa — the so-called “anti-fascist” movement that labels everyone to the ideological right of Karl Marx as a “fascist” — is a group of subversive troublemakers that glorifies the use of violence to achieve political change. Given that the group fits the definition of a domestic terror organization, there […]
Supreme Court OKs use of Defense funds for border wall construction
On Feb. 15, after weeks of failed negotations with Democrats and following a record-setting government shutdown, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in hopes of diverting military funds to build his highly anticipated wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. It didn’t take long for the move to be challenged in the courts, and a liberal […]
Trump says he will win Minnesota in 2020 ‘because of’ Ilhan Omar
Despite the faux outrage and contrived controversy in the political and media establishment over President Donald Trump’s feud with the “Squad” in the Democrat-controlled House, the president has seemingly embraced the battle that he believes will ultimately turn out in his favor. The president specifically called out Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar in a tweet […]