One of Aftab Pureval’s favorite topics is “diversity.” The 35-year-old Democrat, running for Ohio’s District 1 congressional seat against incumbent Republican Rep. Steve Chabot, loves to channel Hillary Clinton’s “diversity is our strength” message. He and his foot soldiers have spent a lot of time campaigning at the University of…
Read MoreMonth: August 2018
Pope Francis: Resign, and Let Pope Benedict Return from Retirement
by Richard A. Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons The sex abuse scandal and its cover-up within the Catholic Church require solutions that the institutional Church will be incapable of achieving on its own. But the more serious problem is that since Vatican II the Church has been AWOL on Biblically based…
Read MoreCommentary: Who Do You Trust More on Government, Reagan or ‘Pocahontas’ Warren?
by Jeffery Rendall “I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Reagan. Among the multitudes of unique qualities Ronald Reagan brought to the American political table – and…
Read MoreRepublican Dave Joyce Releases Campaign Ad Distancing Himself from Trump
In a risky political move, Rep. Dave Joyce recently tried to distance himself from President Trump in a congressional district that the president won by 12 percentage points in the 2016 Election. Joyce, who is seeking reelection in Ohio’s 14th Congressional District, recently released an ad in which he touts…
Read MoreDemocrat Abigail Spanberger Unhappy Her Past Was Revealed
by Richard McCarty Abigail Spanberger is mad. Real mad – and threatening legal action against the Congressional Leadership Fund. Spanberger is the Democrat candidate for Congress in Virginia’s 7th District. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC, recently obtained a document showing that Spanberger worked at the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy in…
Read MoreFAKE NEWS: Mainstream Media Continues to Prove It Is Nothing but Propaganda
By Printus LeBlanc To say the relationship between the mainstream media and President Trump is rocky would be an understatement. The mainstream media has waged a jihad against Trump since he descended from the escalator in Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, to announce his candidacy for President. The press…
Read MoreFlorida Georgia Line Tapped to Headline World’s Biggest USO Tour
Six-time CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the Year nominees Florida Georgia Line will vie for the acclaimed title, plus Single of the Year and Musical Event of the Year for their history-making, No. 1 collaboration “Meant to Be” with Bebe Rexha The 52nd Annual CMA Awards air live from Nashville on November…
Read MoreFacebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics
by John Miltimore Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year was significantly higher than other estimates. So NPR, with the assistance of the non-profit group Child…
Read MoreDemocrats Run Candidate for Ohio Secretary of State Backed By Soros-Obama-Clinton Political Machine
George Soros’s infamous Secretary of State Project may no longer be functioning, but it remains the worst-kept secret in Washington that the Soros-Obama-Clinton political machine is trying to get far-left activist Democrats elected to positions that oversee the elections process in key battleground states. Ohio is one of a handful…
Read MoreDanny O’Connor’s Campaign ‘Foot Soldiers’ Part of Orchestrated Campaign to Intimidate Conservatives
Of all Danny O’Connor’s far-left endorsements, from Planned Parenthood and MoveOn.org to various organizations funded by billionaire activists like George Soros, one of the most troubling may be a group called Indivisible. While O’Connor tries his best to play the role of “moderate” Democrat and craft his comments in a…
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Kills NAFTA
by CHQ Staff President Donald Trump has fulfilled another campaign promise and effectively killed the never “free” North American Free Trade Agreement by concluding a separate preliminary United States–Mexico Trade Agreement that modernizes and rebalances the trade relationship between the two countries. According to a White House news release…
Read MoreGun-Control Advocates Sending Mega-Bucks to Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown’s Campaign Coffers
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, never met a gun-control proposal he didn’t like, and one look at his campaign contributions explains why he is so enamored with the idea of disarming law-abiding Americans. According to data collected by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Brown is the second-leading politician in Washington…
Read MoreKeith Ellison’s Smear Campaign Against His Opponent Continues While He Avoids Responding to Abuse Accusations
Keith Ellison’s campaign for Minnesota attorney general is smearing Republican opponent Doug Wardlow for previously working for an organization labeled an “extremist group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “Wardlow has proudly worked for an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled an anti-LGBTQ ‘hate group,’ testified against allowing…
Read MoreSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller Used Hillary Clinton’s ‘Enemies List’ Disguised As an Intelligence Document
By Robert Romano When you get right down to it, almost every person being targeted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller or targeted by the Justice Department in 2016 and 2017 via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court was named in the Christopher Steele dossier, which was paid for by the…
Read MoreKoch Network Launches Massive Ad Campaign to Bring Down Incumbent Democrat Senators in MO and WI; Is Sherrod Brown in OH Next?
The Koch Network is preparing to launch a multi-million dollar ad campaign across three swing-states in the hopes of bringing down key Democrats in the midterm elections. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is not on the list of targets. . . yet. Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a Koch-backed group, announced Wednesday…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren’s Latest Attempt to End Capitalism
By Printus LeBlanc Senator Elizabeth Warren likes to paint herself as a warrior for the little guy and for those that don’t have the money to hire lobbyists in Washington D.C. That may be the image she wishes to portray to the voters ahead of the 2020 election, but…
Read MoreOpen Borders Bring a Higher Risk of Disease
by Walter Williams The Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that all immigrants and refugees undergo a medical screening examination to determine whether they have an inadmissible health condition. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has technical instructions for medical examination of prospective immigrants in their home countries before…
Read MoreAftab Pureval’s Campaign Targets Female Voters While He Talks Trash About Them on the Side
Aftab Pureval wants voters to perceive him as a supporter of women’s rights, but at least one woman he fired has a very different view of him. The candidate for Ohio’s first congressional district never misses an opportunity to tell voters how much he wants to “help women.” He is quick…
Read MorePureval Stakes His Congressional Run on Belief That Ohio’s First District Wants More Gun Control
If there’s one issue that could decide Ohio’s First Congressional District race, it’s gun control. Voters have a clear choice between Rep. Steve Chabot, an 11-term incumbent with a track record of supporting the Second Amendment, and his Democrat challenger Aftab Pureval, who has been upfront about his disdain for…
Read MoreWith the End of the Fiscal Year September 30, Congress Is Running Out of Time to Fund ‘The Wall’
By Robert Romano The 2018 fiscal year will end on Sept. 30 but Congress is no closer to achieving key Trump administration priorities including fully funding the southern border wall, something President Donald Trump has been demanding since 2017 and campaigned on extensively in 2016. So far, both the House…
Read MoreOhio-14 Candidate Betsy Rader Blatantly Violates Pledge to Not Accept Special-Interest PAC Money
Democrat congressional candidate Betsy Rader has made a big deal out of her Republican opponent’s acceptance of PAC money indirectly related to Ohio’s opiod crisis. She is running against incumbent Rep. David Joyce, R-Ohio, calling on the congressman to reject donations from three pharmaceutical companies caught up in the opiod…
Read MoreHundreds of Ohioans Back Push to Make Jim Jordan Next Speaker of the House
More than 200 Ohio business leaders and lawmakers are calling on the U.S. House to elect Rep. Jim Jordan as its next speaker after Paul Ryan steps down. In a July letter to his colleagues, Jordan announced that he would be running to replace Ryan, saying that Congress has “given…
Read MorePolice Records Show Keith Ellison Abused Another Woman In 2005
Records from a 2005 911 call reveal that Rep. Keith Ellison allegedly abused yet another woman, though the story has been swept under the rug by Minnesota’s media. In early August, Ellison, who vacated his safe seat in Congress to run for Minnesota’s attorney general, faced new accusations from his…
Read MoreCommentary: Is There a New Mexico Muslim Terrorist Compound Cover-Up?
by CHQ Staff Two weeks ago, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was arrested along with several other adults at a squalid compound in New Mexico. Wahhaj is the son of a Brooklyn imam, also named Siraj Wahhaj, who was named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade…
Read MoreThe SAT Is Feeding Students Solar Industry Propaganda
by James D. Agresti The famed SAT, or Scholastic Assessment Test, is a college readiness exam taken by more than 1.6 million students per year. In May of 2018, the College Board, which owns and operates the SAT, required test takers to read an article that claims: the cost…
Read MoreIn Minnesota Debate GOP Challenger Blasts Sen. Amy Klobuchar for Opposing SCOTUS Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Sen. Amy Klobuchar squared off against her Republican challenger State Rep. Jim Newberger at the Minnesota State Fair Friday, sparring over issues of immigration and President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Immediately out of the gate, Klobuchar boasted a record of being…
Read MoreRichard Cordray Tweets His Admiration for ‘Good People’ at Terror-Tied Islamic Organization
Richard Cordray, Ohio’s Democrat nominee for governor, attended a candidates’ forum Monday sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization that has been repeatedly tied to groups and people involved in terrorist-related activity. The U.S. Justice Department named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in a high-profile 2008 terror-funding trial involving the…
Read MoreTrump Words of Warning About Cordray: ‘He Was Terrible’ …’He Will Ruin Your State’
President Donald Trump weighed in with his opinion about the Democrat candidate for Ohio governor, a man he’s had some experience with in Washington. Trump singled out Richard Cordray during a speech Friday night before a Republican fundraiser in Columbus. Cordray spent six tumultuous years as the first director of…
Read MoreGOP Candidate for Attorney General in Minnesota Says Democrat Opponent Keith Ellison ‘Not Authorized to Practice Law’ in the State
In a damning Monday press release, Republican candidate for Minnesota attorney general Doug Wardlow claimed that his opponent Keith Ellison is “not authorized to practice law” in the state. According to the release, the State Office of Lawyer Registration reveals that Ellison surrendered his law license in 2012 and is…
Read MoreDemocrat Aftab Pureval Allegedly Broke Ohio Election Laws in Race to Upend Rep. Steve Chabot
Aftab Pureval, the Democratic challenger for Ohio’s District-1 congressional seat, violated state and federal elections laws when he comingled funds between two separate campaigns for two different offices, according to a complaint filed with the Ohio Elections Commission. Pureval spent money donated for his Clerk of Courts race in Hamilton…
Read MoreChina’s Long-Term Strategy Against the United States
By Printus LeBlanc Two world powers are on a collision course, the United States, and China. For now, the U.S. is the dominant world power, but China is fast approaching economic and military parity. That parity is more likely to bring the two nations closer to war, as the…
Read MoreFormer Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger Under Investigation For Bribery
An Ohio bill cracking down on the payday-lending industry was recently signed into law, just months after Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger resigned amid investigations into his connections to the industry. House Bill 123 was introduced in March 2017, but sat in committee until June 2018, when the House voted…
Read MoreDemocrats, Gay Rights Advocates Support Rader Effort to Unseat Republican Joyce in 14th Congressional District
Geauga County employment attorney Betsy Rader, a Democrat, is running to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. David Joyce in Ohio’s 14th Congressional District. Rader, a graduate of Yale Law School, advocates for employees’ rights, including discrimination cases and whistleblower protections. She also offers services as a mediator and human resources consultant.…
Read MoreCommentary: What the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Get About Trump Support
by ConservativeHQ.com Staff Much to the amazement of the establishment media, President Trump’s job approval rating held steady despite former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s conviction on tax and bank fraud charges and ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s guilty plea last week, according to the results of two polls released over…
Read MoreWhy is ‘Pro-Israel’ Sherrod Brown Accepting Money from Donors Tied to Anti-Israel Terrorists?
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, likes to tout his support for Israel and the “strong U.S.-Israel relationship,” but some of his supporters throwing money at his 2018 re-election campaign are known for having the opposite interest. Brown has scooped up thousands of dollars in donations from individuals associated with the Council…
Read MoreDNC Chair Tom Perez Runs Away When Asked If He Believes Keith Ellison Accuser
Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom Perez is refusing to state whether or not he believes the recent domestic-violence allegations leveled against his right-hand-man Keith Ellison. In a recent video first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, Perez is shown running away as he is asked if he believes…
Read MoreCarol Swain Commentary: The Destruction of Silent Sam
by Carol M. Swain American philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Those words are worth remembering. As a 1989 alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I am appalled how, on August 20, 2018, law-enforcement officers stood down while anarchists,…
Read MoreBuckeye Institute Files Its Third Lawsuit Calling for End to Compelled Union Representation for Public Employees
The Buckeye Institute filed its third lawsuit and corresponding preliminary injunction in Maine calling for an immediate end to laws that force public-sector employees who have refused to join a union to accept forced union representation. The think tank said it had previously filed lawsuits in federal district courts in…
Read MorePresident Trump Announces New Trade Deal Pending With Mexico, Stock Market Spikes
President Donald Trump’s Monday morning announcement of a pending new trade deal with Mexico generated new intraday record highs in the stock markets. Details of the negotiated arrangement are expected to be released soon. Most trade experts believe that a bilateral deal with Mexico increases pressure on Canada to make…
Read MoreBig Business Lobby Forces Ohioans to Compete For Jobs With Cheap Immigrant Labor
The Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), is a powerful and well-funded big-business-cheap-labor lobby led by business leaders, former politicians, and chambers of commerce. Renamed to the shortened New American Economy (NAE), the coalition continues its advocacy for comprehensive immigration reform by highlighting the work ethic and perceived business…
Read MoreGOP’s Balderson Declared the Winner in 12th Congressional District Special Election
Republican Troy Balderson was finally declared the winner on Friday of the Ohio District 12 congressional seat determined by voting that happened in a special election on Aug. 7. That was no surprise, as Balderson held a slim margin from the outset that seemed just barely enough to avoid a…
Read MoreSherrod Brown Sides With Planned Parenthood and NARAL Against Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Pick for Supreme Court
Facing re-election in November and pressure from his base, Ohio’s Democrat U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown put aside all pretense and let it be known he will not be voting for President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown came out Friday and announced he’d already made up his mind…
Read MoreIncomplete Ohio Report Makes Unbiased Assessment of Medicaid Expansion Impossible, Think Tank Says
A lack of methodology data from a new report on the expansion of Medicaid in Ohio means it’s impossible to validate the results, one expert says. The Buckeye Institute’s Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and policy vice president, spoke out about the 2018 Medicaid…
Read MoreCommentary: If Republicans Care About Winning in 2018 They’ll Play Follow the Leader
by Jeffrey A. Rendall Here’s a little quiz for you: what do West Virginia, Montana, Missouri, Florida, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio have in common? It’s an easy one for close watchers of the upcoming 2018 midterm elections, since all of these are states President Donald…
Read MoreRepublican-Turned-Democrat Gasper Aims to Unseat Incumbent Republican Congressman Turner
Dayton real estate mogul-turned-politician Theresa Gapser hopes to defeat Republican incumbent Mike Turner in Ohio’s 10th U.S. Congressional District race in November. What’s the catch? Gasper used to be a Republican in 2004, The Dayton Daily News said. She began drifting in her political values, and then voted for President…
Read MoreHome Care Workers Support Trump Regulation Limiting Unions’ Dues Collecting
By Richard McCarty For years, some blue states have been automatically deducting union dues from the checks of Medicaid caregivers. Many of these caregivers are relatives or friends of the person they care for and did not wish to join a union. The main beneficiary of this dues skim…
Read MoreDemocrat Candidate in First Congressional District Aftab Pureval Backed By Partial-Birth Abortion Provider Martin Haskell
Ohio Democrat Aftab Pureval is gaining some national attention in his bid to replace 11-term Republican Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH-01), but Pureval’s campaign has been dogged by election law violations ever since he officially declared his candidacy. The 35-year-old Democratic wonder-kid went unchallenged in May’s primary, and is hoping to…
Read MoreThe Constitution Series: A Republic, If You Can Keep It
This is the first of twenty-one weekly articles in The Star News Constitution Series, which will be published between now and February 2019 in the following Star News Digital Media, Inc. publications: The Tennessee Star, The Ohio Star, The Minnesota Sun, and The Michigan Star. Statewide Star News Constitution…
Read MoreSEC Transaction Fee Pilot Program Could Save Big Money for Small Investors, Pensioners
By Robert Romano In March, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new transaction fee pilot that would “subject stock exchange transaction fee pricing, including ‘maker-taker’ fee-and-rebate pricing models, to new temporary pricing restrictions across three test groups, and require the exchanges to prepare and publicly post data,”…
Read MoreFour New Inductees Added Into Music City Walk of Fame
Four more stars were awarded on Nashville’s Music City Walk of Fame. Brenda Lee, Jeannie Seely, Ray Stevens and Ben Folds received the 81st, 82nd, 83rd and 84th stars on the Walk of Fame. Inductees are recognized for their significant contributions to preserving the musical heritage of Nashville and for contributing to the world through song or other industry collaboration.
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