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July 23, 2019

Democrats Join Forces to Urge the Supreme Court to Block the Southern Border Barrier Based on ‘the Environment’

by Kevin Daley Environmental groups and House Democrats urged the Supreme Court not to disturb a lower court order blocking the reallocation of military funds for border wall projects. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to put that ruling on hold...

July 23, 2019

Commentary: Trump’s Big Win Over Public-Sector Unions

by John W. York Public-sector unions and their progressive allies just lost a major battle in their ceaseless legal campaign against this president. Last summer, one district court judge struck down nearly every provision in a package of executive...

July 23, 2019

Nineteen People Have Died from Drinking Tainted Alcohol in Costa Rica, Officials Say

by Hanna Panreck Costa Rica issued a national alert warning citizens about tainted alcohol after officials confirmed 19 people died from methanol poisoning. Fourteen men and five women between the ages of 32 and 72 died from methanol poisoning since...

July 23, 2019

Commentary: The Banality of Google’s Wokeness

by Emina Melonic Although many people don’t see it or refuse to acknowledge it, we are living in a mangled version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. There are technological and morally dubious (at best!) forces that control the...

July 23, 2019

Senator Schumer Calls for Federal Probe Into Russia-Based FaceApp

by Kaylee Greenlee Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced recently on Twitter the “need” for a federal investigation into the popular Russia-based image-editing technology for smartphones called “FaceApp.” “BIG: Share if you used #FaceApp: The FBI and FTC must look...

July 23, 2019

Leaked Docs Reportedly Show Huawei Secretly Built Up North Korea’s Wireless Phone Network

by Chris White A Chinese tech company at the center of President Donald Trump’s trade war with China secretly helped North Korea maintain its commercial wireless network, The Washington Post reported Monday. Huawei partnered with a massive Chinese state-owned...

July 23, 2019

Washington Braces for Mueller’s Appearance Wednesday

A leading House Democrat says special counsel Robert Mueller will give “very substantial evidence” that will make the case for impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump. “This is a president who has violated the law six ways from Sunday,” House...

July 23, 2019

Left Primaries Rep. Richard Neal, the Democrat Who Refuses to Turn Over President Trump’s Taxes

by Whitney Tipton Alex Morse, the mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, announced plans to challenge House Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal in 2020 Monday. Morse, 30, is being encouraged to run by progressive Democrats who are frustrated by Neal’s delay...

July 23, 2019

SOLVED: Vice President Mike Pence’s Cancelled Air Force Two Trip to New Hampshire Was Reportedly Due to a Guest Under Investigation for Drug Trafficking

by Chris White The White House abruptly cancelled a trip Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to take because he likely would’ve come face-to-face with an alleged interstate drug dealer, Politico reported Monday, citing law enforcement officials. One of...

July 23, 2019

Amazon to Open Two Fulfillment Centers in Ohio, Bringing 2,500 Jobs to the State

Amazon announced Monday that it plans to open two fulfillment centers in Ohio, one in Akron and a second in Rossford, creating more than 2,500 full-time jobs in the state. “Ohio has been a great place to do business,...

July 22, 2019

Ohio and the Counties of Columbiana, Greene, Mercer, and Montgomery Will Receive $18 Million in FEMA Aid for Tornado Damage

by Tyler Arnold Four Ohio counties and the state of Ohio will have access to federal aid to assist with costs associated with the destruction caused by 21 tornadoes touching down in Ohio in late May. The Federal Emergency...

July 22, 2019

Forgotten Founder Pelatiah Webster: America’s First Economist

by Lawrence Reed Everybody knows who America’s first president was, but can you identify the country’s first economist? If any man or woman deserves that description, it is surely the one who wrote this and so much more: I...

July 22, 2019

Former DHS Chief Janet Napalitano Turned University of California President Trashes Immigration Agency She Once Oversaw

by Celine Ryan University of California System President Janet Napolitano denounced large-scale immigration enforcement on Sunday, claiming that such efforts “are designed to strike fear in our immigrant communities” and adding that “the University of California will not be a...

July 22, 2019

Report: US May Set Refugee Cap at Zero for Coming Year

by Victoria Macchi The Trump administration is considering more dramatic cuts to the U.S. refugee program, with one official suggesting the White House not allow any refugees into the country in the coming fiscal year. In a Politico report released...

July 22, 2019

Trump on ‘The Squad:’ They Are Not Capable of Loving Our Country

by Chris White President Donald Trump said Sunday he doesn’t believe congresswomen in the “Squad” are capable of being patriotic Americans, adding that they are “destroying” the Democratic Party. “I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving...

July 22, 2019

Britain Drafts Plans to Sanction Iran Over Tanker Heist

by Jamie Dettmer British officials are drawing up plans to target Iran with sanctions for its seizing of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait off Hormuz, and it may urge European Union countries to reimpose sanctions that were lifted...

July 22, 2019

Commentary: Can President Trump’s New Asylum Rules Stem the Illegal Tide?

by Rachel Bovard Illegal immigration numbers remain at levels triple that of previous years, and Congress continues to bicker, foot stomp, other otherwise ignore the problem. In the face of this, the Trump Administration released its latest attempt to bring the border...

July 22, 2019

Commentary: Hollywood’s ‘Fierce Resistance’ Kowtows to China’s Censors in ‘Top Gun 2’

by Thaddeus G. McCotter Hollywood, the cultural epicenter of the “resistance” to the faux totalitarianism attributed to President Trump, has a vastly different approach to the real totalitarianism of Communist China: capitulation and self-censorship. As noted by Mark MacKinnon, the...

July 22, 2019

House Republicans Want Nellie Ohr’s Oppo Research of Trump’s Family: Report

by Chuck Ross House Republicans are reportedly seeking documents from former Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr related to her research into President Donald Trump’s family, including his wife and children. During a congressional interview Oct. 19, 2018, Ohr said while she...

July 22, 2019

Jim Jordan Releases Report Showing ‘Overwhelming Majority’ of Migrant Children Reunited With Families

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH-04) and his Republican colleagues on the House Oversight Committee released a report last week showing that most separated migrant children have been reunited with their families. “The Committee’s oversight to date contradicts the Democrat narrative...

July 21, 2019

Drag Queen No Show at Planned Crawford County Fair Protest

BUCYRUS, Ohio — Kyle Gale, the drag queen whose Drag 101 class had to be moved from the public library in Delaware County, planned to protest State Senate candidate Melissa Ackison at the Crawford County Fair on Friday. At the...

July 21, 2019

Last Minute Anti-Lawyer Language in Ohio Budget Could Be Unconstitutional

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The budget compromise reached last week was lauded by politicians on both sides of the aisle. State Sen. Matt Huffman (R-Lima) supported the bill but criticized a last-minute provision that appears to violate the Equal Protection...

July 21, 2019

Oberlin College Ordered to Pay $6.5 Million in Attorney’s Fees on Top of $25 Million in Damages

A judge has ordered Oberlin College to pay $6.5 million in attorney’s fees to the law firm that represented Gibson’s Bakery in its defamation suit against the school. That’s on top of the $25 million in compensatory and punitive...

July 21, 2019

Commentary: One of the Left’s Goals Is to Abolish Citizenship

by Matthew Goose Few issues so clearly separate those who care about America from those who do not like immigration. In recent days, Democrats have advised illegal immigrants to defy the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, suggested decriminalizing illegal...

July 21, 2019

UK Knife Crime Hits Record High, Despite London Mayor’s ‘Knife Control’

by Jake Dima The U.K., most notably London, has experienced a sharp increase in knife-related crime, despite “knife control” efforts to curb the violence, newly released figures detail. Knife crime in both England and Wales is up 8% from...

July 21, 2019

The Supreme Court Might Overturn One of Justice Stevens’s Landmark Decisions

by Kevin Daley Late Justice John Paul Stevens left a far-reaching legal legacy in his 34 years on the Supreme Court, writing landmark decisions on presidential powers, property rights and the death penalty. Yet the endurance of his legacy...

July 21, 2019

Commentary: Maine and Nevada Show Why the Electoral College Helps Small States, Not Red States

by Hans Von Spakovsky Last month, both Maine and Nevada did what was in the best interests of their states: They rejected bills that would have enrolled their states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an unwise effort to...

July 21, 2019

No 2020 Democrats Will Attend Muslim Caucus Conference

by Sarah Price None of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have agreed to attend the first Muslim-American national gathering on July 23rd and 24th, according to the Huffington Post. Both the Muslim Conference and the Huffington Post reached out...

July 21, 2019

Carson Says Trump ‘Not a Racist’

by Joshua Nelson While many Democrats are accusing President Donald Trump of “racism” because of a controversial tweet, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is countering the narrative by touting the president’s policies. “I have an advantage of...

July 21, 2019

Commentary: Support for $15 Minimum Wage Plummets When Americans Are Told Its Economic Impact

by Jon Miltimore Minimum wage laws, I’ve noted, are popular with the public. This no doubt explains why House Democrats passed a bill Thursday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Yet the minimum wage’s...

July 21, 2019

Brooklyn Man Charged After Joining ISIS, Training Other Members

by Audrey Conklin The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday charged a Brooklyn man who joined ISIS with providing and attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized American citizen born in...

July 21, 2019

Ilhan Omar Begins to Refer to Somalia as ‘My Country’ Before Catching Slip-Up

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) began to refer to Somalia as “my country” before catching herself and calling it the “country I came from” during a recent speech. The slip-up came during her remarks to a crowd of supporters gathered...

July 21, 2019

Sherrod Brown Cites Bible to Attack Trump’s ‘Inhumane’ Immigration Policies

After visiting the southern border, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced sweeping legislation that would impose a number of new regulations on Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention centers. “We cannot accept children being deprived of basic necessities and living...

July 20, 2019

Conservative, Liberal Groups Dissatisfied with Ohio Budget

by Tyler Arnold Neither right-leaning groups nor left-leaning groups are satisfied with Ohio’s changes to the tax law included in the two-year operating budget that was passed by the state legislature on Wednesday and signed into law by Gov....

July 20, 2019

Commentary: Fifty Years Ago, the Eagle Landed

by Lee Edwards Let us pause to celebrate the 50th-anniversary today of a mission once thought impossible: the landing of a man on the moon. Let us proclaim, without embarrassment, that America, and only America, had the requisite leadership,...

July 20, 2019

Trump Is Nominating Justice Scalia’s Son for Labor Secretary

by Kevin Daley President Donald Trump will nominate the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s son Eugene Scalia as labor secretary. The New York Times was first to report that Trump is considering Scalia for the position. The pair reportedly met...

July 20, 2019

Movies to Watch This Weekend

The Lion King: The long-awaited “live-action” re-imagining of The Lion King is here. Simba (JD McCrary) and King Mufasa (James Earl Jones) are returning to the big screen after a 25-year hiatus. In this Disney version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet,...

July 20, 2019

Ohio Budget Bill Aims to Invalidate Lake Erie Bill of Rights

A provision in the recently passed Ohio budget could negate the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) and end the ability of citizens to file lawsuits on behalf of ecosystems. In February, voters in Toledo passed a citizen-led initiative...

July 20, 2019

Commentary: To End Border Crisis, Trump Administration Restricts Central American Asylum Claims

by Robert Romano Under current immigration and asylum regulations, it was impossible to enforce the law on the southern border. The hundreds of thousands of Central Americans flooding the border the past several months gamed the system, betting that...

July 20, 2019

Report: Michigan Police Kept $15 Million Taken Mostly from Small Seizures in 2018

by Scott McClallen Michigan police used civil asset forfeiture to seize $15 million worth of property and cash from more than 6,000 people in 2018, according to a report from Michigan State Police. State Police detailed $13.4 million in...

July 20, 2019

US Shot Down Iranian Drone, Trump Says

President Donald Trump said a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian drone Thursday that was threatening the ship and its crew in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump told reporters at a White House event that the drone came within...

July 20, 2019

Michigan Beauty Pageant Winner Stripped of Title Over Past ‘Insensitive’ Tweets

A model who supports President Donald Trump had her beauty queen crown removed after “inappropriate” past social media posts were discovered. Kathy Zhu, a Chinese immigrant, believes her Miss Michigan World America title was stripped because of her conservative...

July 20, 2019

Kyrsten Sinema, Eight Other Senators Sign Letter to Speed Up Removal of Certain Migrants

by Shelby Talcott Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is aiming to implement a program at the U.S.-Mexico border that would speed up the removal of migrants without valid asylum claims. The Arizona Democrat joined eight other senators in signing a letter...

July 20, 2019

ICE Is Considering Opening a Detention Center in Maryland

by Matt M. Miller U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is considering opening a detention facility capable of containing hundreds of illegal migrants in Maryland. ICE posted an advertisement on a federal contracts forum in April that it was...

July 20, 2019

Ohio Budget Raises Smoking Age from 18 to 21 With No Exceptions

Under Ohio’s newly-passed budget, the legal age to purchase cigarettes and vaping products in the state will jump from 18 to 21. The 3,200-page budget document contains several pages of new tobacco-related provisions, all of which make it “illegal...

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