2020 could see Trump, Bloomberg, and Howard Schultz of Starbucks all running Read more On Friday afternoon, within minutes of President Trump ending the shutdown, the left declared victory Read more An attempt to restore democracy will fail without the world’s help Read more THE debate over border security, which prompted the partial federal government shutdown, drags on with seemingly with no end in sight Read more " Privatization," we noted two years ago, “ is a classic scare-word among liberals.” We were pointing out that the Department of Veterans Affairs, after its disgraceful neglect of veterans was first revealed in a series of scandals earlier this decade, had no leg to stand on in arguing that VA patients should not be allowed to seek care from private healthcare providers Read more North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," said President Trump's tough talk has ultimately strengthened the 70-year-old alliance by leading member nations to contribute tens of billions of additional dollars to ensure their own security Read more Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and conspiracy theorist, said Sunday that he would be happy to testify against Roger Stone and let his testimony about what occurred during the 2016 presidential election and whether anyone coordinated with WikiLeaks' efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign "speak for itself." Read more Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday said it would be a “terrible” idea for President Trump to invoke emergency powers to secure money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall without congressional approval and that he doubted the White House would ultimately go that route Read more President Donald Trump relented to heightening pressure Friday and decided to end the shutdown for now, even though he still doesn’t have funding for a border wall Read more Venezuela's crisis quickly escalated Wednesday as an opposition leader backed by the Trump administration declared himself interim president in a direct challenge to embattled socialist Nicolas Maduro, who retaliated by breaking off relations with the United States, his biggest trade partner Read more Cohen’s decision to postpone his testimony was due to ‘ongoing threats against his family from President Trump’, his lawyer said Read more Republican Senator Joni Ernst says that she was raped in college by someone she knew and that her ex-husband physically abused her, making her one of the highest-profile women in her party to allege assaults in the era of the #MeToo movement Read more China: Is China's economic miracle coming to an end? It sure looks that way. Recent data and startling demographic changes portend much slower economic growth down the not-so-silken road to the future. Can China reverse the slide? Maybe not Read more President Donald Trump said he is postponing his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, yielding after a weeklong showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Read more President Trump’s chief economist said Wednesday that the partial government shutdown could wipe out an entire quarter of GDP growth if it lasts until the end of March Read more Conservatives are turning up the heat on Senate Democrats to fill the growing number of federal judicial vacancies, blaming the backlog in part on Democratic hostility to the traditional religious beliefs of some White House nominees Read more The Senate is prepping dueling votes while House centrists are pushing Pelosi to counter Trump with her own compromise proposal Read more Beto writing about people asking if he’s Beto might be the most Beto thing ever Read more
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