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North Korea Is Definitely a State Sponsor of Terrorism

Since 2009, each edition of the State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism has contained a cheerful fiction...  Read more

Bill targets environmental lawsuits that block infrastructure projects

Not allowing citizens to sue the government over permits for projects that could affect them limits due process, one activist said...  Read more

FERC sidelined while energy subsidy fight rages

The nation's grid watchdog has been out of service for nearly a month because of political wrangling in Washington, and already the ripple effects are forcing a faceoff among states, the utility industry and fossil fuel companies over nuclear subsidies...  Read more

How Republicans could try to get importers to support tax reform

Enough Republican senators have raised concerns about the import tax’s effects on consumer prices that the math for passing reform in the upper chamber is daunting...  Read more

A Mere Blip in the Bathroom Wars?

The bathroom wars wage on. Repealing the Obama-era edict that hardened the conflict, as President Trump did Wednesday, changes little in practice...  Read more

Pants on Fireball

Is there nothing so louche that Trump supporters won't indulge in it?...  Read more

Democratic congressman Jim Himes: GOP would be impeaching Clinton if she behaved like Trump

A Democratic congressman said Friday if Hillary Clinton were elected president and a report came out about her chief of staff contacting the FBI about an open case, Republicans would be impeaching her the next day...  Read more

Tensions rise as China defends missile sites in South China Sea

China has claimed sovereignty over approximately 90 percent of the South China Sea, a subject of hot dispute...  Read more

Trump's CPAC speech a return to 'the start of it all'

President Trump's journey to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday will bring full circle a political journey that started six years earlier with the provocative speech he delivered to the same crowd...  Read more

Republicans turn to the telephone to avoid hostile crowds

Some lawmakers are turning to conference calls with their constituents to avoid the hostile crowds that have greeted Republicans at their town halls across the country...  Read more

Seriously, Don't Watch the Oscars

Are you going to watch the Academy Awards this Sunday?...  Read more

Conservatives must remember conservatism

As the Conservative Political Action Conference comes to town, the Right — conservative activists, commentators, talk-radio hosts and Republican politicians — should keep actual conservatism at the front and center of their minds...  Read more

White House, VA split on anti-Trump tweets

A major split has emerged between President Trump's White House and the Department of Veterans Affairs over whether VA employees should be allowed to tweet out anti-Trump messages...  Read more

CPAC a chance for Trump to show unified White House

White House officials say their presence at CPAC shows President Trump's ongoing desire to maintain a dialogue. The president held a rally Saturday in Florida...  Read more

Two-thirds of Americans say Trump will get US in 'major war'

A new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll found two-thirds of U.S. adults are worried the U.S. will be dragged into war during President Trump's first term in office...  Read more

Reading Up on the New National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster

The selection of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be President Trump's new National Security Advisor has received near universal praise. But understanding why McMaster is highly regarded is another matter altogether...  Read more

Better ways to boost manufacturing and jobs

President Trump seems torn between his promise to drain the swamp and his desire to juice American companies. There's a schism in his inner circle between conservatives and finance types...  Read more

'Santa Trump' starts to deliver for immigration hawks

President Trump is ordering the federal government to step up enforcement of the nation's immigration laws, to the delight of enforcement-first immigration hawks who have been on the outside looking in during the last two administrations...  Read more