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January 19, 2020

‘I Want Trump Out!’: Migrants Plan to Cross US Border Once Trump Leaves Office

Central American migrants hoping to enter the United States have said they will wait in Mexico in the hope that President Donald Trump loses reelection, where they will then cross the U.S. border.

January 19, 2020

Commentary: This Ohio Town Is Seeing Manufacturing Jobs Come Back

Thirty miles west of Cleveland along the Lake Erie shoreline sits a town named Lorain, Ohio. Famous for being the birthplace of Toni Morrison, Lorain was once a bustling steel town that drew people from all over the country for...

January 19, 2020

Seventeen Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Tyranny, Liberty, and Rights

Americans remember Benjamin Franklin as one of our founders. That is fitting because he was not just our most famous citizen at our country’s birth, but he was also so much a central part of that birth that he has...

January 19, 2020

Supreme Court to Decide on ‘Faithless Elector’ Bans, ACA Contraception Mandate

The Supreme Court took up two high-profile disputes Friday as it rounds out its docket for the 2019-2020 term, agreeing to decide on the Trump administration’s bid to enforce exemptions from the Obamacare contraception mandate for religious dissenters, and whether...

January 19, 2020

Commentary: The Rising Generation’s Intuitive Populism

A modern populist movement with the twin goals of expanding individual liberty and strengthening the bonds of community exists as a result of a communications revolution that has empowered people to control their own lives. That’s good news. The danger,...

January 19, 2020

Rand Paul Says He Fears Republicans Won’t Let Trump ‘Choose His Witnesses’ in Impeachment Trial

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he’s worried that his fellow Republican senators will block testimonies from the witnesses President Donald Trump wants called in his impeachment trial, Paul told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday.

January 19, 2020

Commentary: Saving the Real American Dream in 2020

In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America.

January 19, 2020

Flashback: 152 Years Ago an Ohio Senator Stood One Vote Away From Becoming President During the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson

U.S. Sen. Benjamin Wade of Ohio, the chamber’s president pro tempore, for a time stood one vote away from becoming president in the Senate’s impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

January 18, 2020

Trump Taps Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr for Impeachment Trial Defense

President Donald Trump added two big name attorneys to his legal counsel for next week’s Senate impeachment trial hearings.

January 18, 2020

Minnesota ‘Teacher of the Year’ Kneels During Anthem, Skipped Meeting with Trump

Minnesota’s 2019 “Teacher of the Year” took a knee during the national anthem when she and her fellow honorees were being recognized at Monday night’s college football championship game.

January 18, 2020

Commentary: This Tawdry Impeachment Spectacle Must Run Its Course

As far as can be determined, the question of whether the Senate should conduct a trial or dismiss the spurious articles of impeachment as unworthy of trial by vote of the majority, is being addressed as a matter of President...

January 18, 2020

Commentary: Why ‘1917’ Is Such a Good Movie

Yes, it’s up for this year’s “Best Picture” Oscar, but that hasn’t stopped critics delivering decidedly mixed reviews to “1917.”

January 18, 2020

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Deals Brutal Blow to Teens Who Sued Trump Over Climate Change

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled Friday that children do not have standing to sue the Trump administration and the federal government for not adequately addressing climate change.

January 18, 2020

Pompeo Says State Department Will Investigate Surveillance Threats Against Yovanovitch

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that the State Department will investigate whether a Republican congressional candidate and a former associate of Rudy Giuliani had Marie Yovanovitch under surveillance last year when she served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

January 18, 2020

Commentary: Rowling and King Slam Into the Woke Diversity Cult

Nothing is more appetizing than watching the limbs of progressive icons mulch between the jaws of the Woke.

January 18, 2020

‘Using Every Tool Available’: ICE Subpoenas Sanctuary City for Information on Wanted Illegal Aliens

Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoenaed Denver officials for information on four illegal aliens wanted for deportation, marking a dramatic escalation in how the agency is dealing with sanctuary cities.

January 18, 2020

ICE Chief Pleads With NYC to End Sanctuary Policies Following Grisly Murder of 92-Year-Old

Matthew Albence, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), held a press conference in New York City to “plead” with city leaders to end their sanctuary policies.

January 18, 2020

Ilhan Omar Says ‘We Must Stop Detaining’ Illegal Immigrants

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday called for the U.S. government to cease detaining illegal immigrants.

January 18, 2020

Ohio Department of Medicaid Director Blames Kasich Administration for Ohio’s Medicaid Program Problems in Year-End Memo

Maureen Corcoran, the Ohio Department of Medicaid director, told Gov. Mike DeWine in a 2019 year-end memo that the Medicaid program she inherited from the John Kasich administration was a “mess.”

January 17, 2020

General Motors and LG Chemical Reveal Site for their New Electric Battery Cell Plant in Ohio

General Motors (GM) and LG Chemical announced this week they will build their new electric battery cell plant right next to the old GM Lordstown assembly plant that closed last year.

January 17, 2020

Commentary: Trump Secures Historic Trade Deal With China Proving His Trade Critics Wrong Yet Again

President Donald Trump has once again done the impossible and secured a phase one trade agreement with China that leaves existing tariffs of 25 percent on $250 billion of goods and another 7.5 percent on the remaining $300 billion of...

January 17, 2020

Another Caravan Is Headed for the US Border, But DHS Says It’s Ready

Hundreds of Central American migrants are headed toward the United States, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the border programs it has put in place, along with international cooperation, will keep them at bay.

January 17, 2020

US Senate Approves New North American Trade Deal

The U.S. Senate approved a new North American trade agreement Thursday, a key victory for President Donald Trump as the Senate officially opened an historic impeachment trial against him.

January 17, 2020

A Full Third of Flint’s Emergency $390 Million Water Funds Did Not Go to Clean Water

Four years ago this month, then-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared an emergency in Flint, and $390 million in state aid began pouring in. Much of the money, however, was spent on activities only peripherally related to lead in water, state...

January 17, 2020

Commentary: The Benefits of Trump’s ‘Transactional’ Foreign Policy

The recent drone attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and a Shiite militia leader in Iraq led predictably to a retaliatory strike by Iran. Twenty or so ballistic missiles were launched at bases in Iraq where U.S. troops were...

January 17, 2020

Muslim Refugee Journalist Challenges Ilhan Omar’s Congressional Seat: ‘She Does Not Speak for Me’

A Muslim refugee and journalist is challenging Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar as a Republican, saying the Minnesota representative causes division in the United States.

January 17, 2020

Just In Time for the Senate Impeachment Trial, Government Watchdog Issues Damning ‘Legal Opinion’ on Ukraine Aid

The Trump administration violated the law by withholding $214 million in security assistance to Ukraine in the summer of 2019, according to a legal opinion by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

January 17, 2020

Commentary: Remembering the Way Farming Used to Be

by Victor Davis Hanson Almost all the pragmatic agricultural wisdom that my grandparents taught me has long ago been superseded by technology. I don’t anymore calibrate, as I once did when farming in the 1980s, the trajectory of an...

January 17, 2020

Ohio County Releases Dozens of Illegal Aliens, Including Sex Offender, After Ignoring ICE Detainers

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed Thursday that the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office has released 29 criminal aliens, including a sex offender, after ignoring written detainer requests filed by the federal agency.

January 16, 2020

UPDATED – The Deep State Strikes Again: A Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Halts President Trump’s Refugee Resettlement Executive Order

A Clinton-appointed federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday halting President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13888 which allowed state and local governments to decide if they want refugee resettlement within their communities.

January 16, 2020

Michael Flynn Seeks to Withdraw Guilty Plea, Accuses Prosecutors of ‘Retaliation’

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn filed a court motion Tuesday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in a case that originated with the special counsel’s investigation.

January 16, 2020

Dark Money Group Linked to Ocasio-Cortez to Spend $500,000 Attacking Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg

A dark money group with ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced Tuesday it will spend over $500,000 on digital ads attacking former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

January 16, 2020

Commentary: Europe’s Migration Influx Was Premeditated and Problematic

Western Europe stands before an immigration crisis that neither its immigration-enthusiastic governments nor any electoral majority in these countries seem interested in addressing. Consider these numbers:

January 16, 2020

US, China Sign ‘Phase 1’ Trade Deal

WHITE HOUSE - Declaring “it doesn’t get any bigger than this,” President Donald Trump, alongside Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, signed an initial deal to resolve what had been an escalating 18-month trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies....

January 16, 2020

Commentary: The Most Important Thing About the Trade Deal Is the Deal Itself

Chinese Vice Premier and Communist Party Politburo member Liu He is in Washington this week to sign a trade agreement with the Trump Administration.

January 16, 2020

WaPo, NYT Aiding China’s Global Propaganda Efforts, Watchdog Warns

America’s leading newspapers are aiding China’s communist regime by running the oppressive government’s propaganda, respected watchdog organization Freedom House reported.

January 16, 2020

Commentary: Democrat Debate Shows Worst Place to be on February 3 Is in Iowa

Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard and Michael Bloomberg weren’t there with the rest of the viable Democrat candidates on Tuesday night, but did anyone notice… or care? (Note: Booker, Castro and Marianne Williamson (!) bailed out of the race...

January 16, 2020

Judge Rules Trump Administration Acting Within Authority in Family Separation at Border

WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ruled that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is acting within its authority when it comes to separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border without any violation of the "rights to family integrity". The...

January 16, 2020

Portman Calls on Senators to Pass a Piece of Legislation That Criminalizes Fentanyl

In three weeks an order that criminalizes fentanyl-related substances is set to expire; however, one Ohio Senator aims to make sure it becomes law, permanently.

January 15, 2020

Ohio Gov DeWine’s Office Dodges Question on Resettlement of Refugees Australia Refused to Accept

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s decision on December 24 that would say yes to more refugees in Ohio would allow the federal government to resettle them from any country, including from an estimated 300 to 720 refugees from the Middle East...

January 15, 2020

Bill Proposal Would Let Ohio Police Pull Over Drivers for Distracted Driving

Ohio State Rep. Mary Lightbody (D-Westerville) introduced a bill Monday that would let police pull over people who are using their phones or electronic devices while operating a vehicle. Currently, police can’t pull over people they see using their...

January 15, 2020

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