House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Peolsi (D-CA-12) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05), and Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC-06), passed a resolution Thursday morning that formalizes the procedure for going forward with an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
Read MoreMonth: October 2019
Operation Christmas Child in Central Ohio is About to Begin Collecting Shoeboxes Filled with Gifts and the Gospel for Needy Children Around the World
Delaware Bible Church is one of dozens of places around Central Ohio where people can drop off shoeboxes filled with gifts for needy children around the world as part of Operation Christmas Child. Marilyn Taynor is leading the effort at the local church. She introduced The Ohio Star to Michelle Williams, the Area Coordinator for the Columbus West Team. Williams and the entire volunteer crew are preparing for the busy season – thousands of filled boxes will be dropped off at various locations between November 18 and November 25.
Read MoreIlhan Omar Faces Backlash for Refusing to Support Bill Recognizing Armenian Genocide
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) was one of three U.S. representatives to vote “present” on a bill recognizing the Armenian Genocide and the only member of Minnesota’s congressional delegation to not support the bill. The bill passed Tuesday in a non-binding vote of 405-11 and affirms that it is “the…
Read MoreCommentary: How The Establishment Media Is Helping Schiff Promote Impeachment
Our friends at the Media Research Center (MRC) have just released a study that sheds a great deal of light on how the establishment media is shaping the narrative behind the Democrat push to impeach President Trump.
Read MoreElizabeth Warren Pledges to Crack Down on School Choice, Despite Sending Her Own Son to Elite Private School
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pledging to crack down on school choice if elected, despite the fact that she sent her own son to an elite private school, publicly available records show.
Read MoreCommentary: Five Reasons We Love Halloween
When I was a kid, Halloween was for kids only. Adults were there to hand out candy — and monitor the kids to make sure we weren’t enjoying the culture of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins too much. That would be dabbling in evil, and our souls might be corrupted. My mom, for example, banned fake blood from the house. At the age of 15 or so, your Halloween fun was expected to be over.
Read MoreDC Circuit Halts Disclosure Of Mueller Grand Jury Materials Just Hours Before Release
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit temporarily halted the release of grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation Tuesday, just hours ahead of their scheduled distribution.
Read MoreReading and Math Test Scores Remain Stagnant Despite Common Core
Despite numerous monumental government efforts to improve standardized testing scores around the country, the average test scores for reading and math have remained virtually the same as they were ten years ago, according to USA Today.
Read MoreCatholic Bishops Have Said These Politicians Should Not Receive Communion Because of Their Abortion Stances
Catholic bishops have a history of telling politicians who support abortion, like Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, that they should not receive communion at Catholic masses.
Read More‘Key Component To The Success’: Administration Expands ‘Remain In Mexico’ Program Along Border
The Trump administration announced the expansion of a program that transfers asylum applicants back to Mexico while they wait for their claims to be processed by a U.S. immigration judge.
Read MoreCommentary: Five Reasons the Chicago Teachers’ Strike Is Immoral
The Chicago Public School system’s 361,314 registered students are starting their tenth day at home this morning, as their teachers union strikes for its fourteenth cumulative day. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have publicly supported the 32,000 teachers and school staff (represented by the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU, respectively) on the picket line – but there are five reasons people of faith should not join them.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Leader of Evangelical Group that Supports Israel Reacts to ‘Hate Group’ Designation by the Southern Poverty Law Center
It was recently revealed that Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN) had been designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC, originally a legal group created to provide representation to African Americans following the civil rights movement, has expanded into an organization that identifies hate groups including anti-LGBT, holocaust deniers, male supremacists and anti-Muslim associations.
Read MoreCincinnati Christian University To Close, Announces New Partnership
Cincinnati Christian University will shut down at the end of the fall semester and become an extension site of another university, it announced October 28.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Minnesota’s Hennepin County Attorney’s Office on New Protocol: ‘No Privacy Rights in a Criminal Investigation’
Police departments in Hennepin County were recently notified by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office that the personal cellphones of officers involved in “critical incidents” will be subject to search and seizure, a source familiar with the situation told The Minnesota Sun.
Read MoreCommentary: D.C. Establishment Wants to Remove Trump Because He Wants to End the Endless Wars
It is fitting that the Washington, D.C. establishment wants President Donald Trump removed from office for considering withholding military assistance to Ukraine, or that the talk of impeachment intensified as Trump was announcing the U.S. military withdrawal from Syria, for it was that type of caution in the use of military force that helped Trump get elected in the first place in 2016.
Read MoreSessions Reportedly Eyeing His Old Alabama Senate Seat
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly considering a run for his old Alabama Senate seat, according to three Republicans familiar with the matter.
Read MoreCommentary: Kamikaze Schumer Wants to Repeal Private Health Insurance
While the Democrats continue their impeachment pantomime war dance in the mirror-clad corner in order to keep up their spirits, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is ginning up a much more fateful danse macabre on health care. He has promised to force a vote this week on various Trump Administration directives that have injected flexibility into Obamacare. As The Hill reports, “Senate Democrats plan to force vulnerable Republicans to vote on legislation that would overturn a controversial Trump administration directive on ObamaCare.”
Read MoreAmericans for Prosperity Exposes ‘Corporate Welfare Horror Show’ to Congress for Halloween
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) launched the latest installment of their Unrig the Economy campaign on Tuesday entitled “Corporate Welfare Horror Show.” AFP is continuing to encourage Congress to reject the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank and “zombie” tax extenders.
Read MoreTrump Administration Extends Temporary Protected Status to Salvadorans Living in the US
In the latest sign of cooling tensions between the U.S. and El Salvador, the two countries issued a joint statement Monday announcing the extension of temporary protected status to Salvadorans living in the U.S.
Read MoreJudge Allows Nick Sandmann’s $250 Million Lawsuit Against WaPo to Move Forward
A federal judge reversed his ruling Monday and announced that the family of Kentucky teenager Nick Sandmann can sue The Washington Post for libel over its coverage of the teenager.
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s Congressional Map Is Illegal Republican Gerrymander, Court Rules
A North Carolina court on Monday temporarily blocked the state from using its congressional map in next year’s elections and strongly suggested it would eventually rule the districts were illegally gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
Read MoreFederal Judge Temporarily Blocks Alabama Abortion Ban
A federal judge temporarily blocked the passage of Alabama’s abortion ban Tuesday.
Read MoreRep. Jim Jordan Compares Speaker Pelosi’s Plan to Hold Impeachment Vote to ‘Putting a Little Lipstick on the Pig’
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH-04) on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning gave quite the analogy when talking about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned impeachment vote.
Read MoreEven Before Ukraine Uproar, 10 of 13 Democrats on Intel Panel Backed Trump Impeachment Probe
In July, Rep. Andre Carson, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, voted for the then-most recent resolution calling for the ouster of President Donald Trump from office.
“I think it represents a larger, more important conversation that we need to have about … what we’re willing to tolerate as a citizenry from our commander in chief,” Politico quoted the Indiana Democrat as saying, “What responsibility the commander in chief has to the electorate in terms of not fanning the flames of Islamophobia, xenophobia, and outright hatred.”
Read MoreCommentary: Illegal Immigration Hurts Patients
The Democrats often claim that they alone will protect people with pre-existing conditions. Well, unfortunately for us, this popular catchphrase delivered the greatest catch in the history of politics: under Obamacare, insurance companies couldn’t deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions — but doctors could.
Read MoreEx-White House Aide Balks at Impeachment Inquiry Testimony
A former White House national security aide balked Monday at testifying in the ongoing Democratic-led impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump.
Read MoreCommentary: The Sophisticated Intelligence Operation to Destabilize and Overthrow the American Government
Americans outside the Beltway have been struggling for almost three years to figure out what’s been going on in Washington, what to call it and how to explain it.
Read MoreFacebook Flags a Doctored Video of Sen Lindsey Graham Praising Democrats’ Green New Deal
Facebook nixed a political ad Saturday that contained a doctored video of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham proclaiming his support for the Green New Deal.
Read MoreWilliam Barr Says US Attorney Investigating Trump-Russia Probe Origins Is Making ‘Great Progress’
Attorney General William Barr said Monday that the federal prosecutor leading an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has made “great progress.”
Read MoreOne-in-Three Millennials See Communism as Favorable, Survey Finds
A growing number of Millennials show support for communism and socialism, a survey from the Victims of Communism found.
Read MoreOhio State Representatives Seek Constitutional Amendment to Protect Infrastructure from Foreign Ownership
Ohio State Reps. Jamie Callender (R-Concord) and Don Manning (R-New Middletown) are sponsoring legislation to amend the state’s constitution that would ask voters to decide on a plan they say would protect infrastructure from being mostly foreign-owned.
Read MoreSpeaker Nancy Pelosi Caves to Progressive House Members, Announces Floor Vote on Impeachment as White House Fires Back
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issues a statement Monday afternoon announcing the House will vote on whether ot not to direct “certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, and for other purposes.”
Read MoreCourt Refers Extension Request for Anti-Bailout Petition to Ohio Supreme Court
A federal court denied a request from Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts for an extension for gathering petition signatures for a ballot initiative, instead referring the case to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Read MoreCommentary: Bureaucratic Rule by What Right?
Americans are just beginning to realize that opposition to Donald Trump is the least explanation for what bureaucrats, corporate officials and media magnates have been doing to negate the outcome of the 2016 election. Denying that government by the people is the only legitimate form of rule, they are asserting that legitimate rule flows from right-minded persons in the country’s institutions, elections notwithstanding. The following shows that this assertion flows merely from our ruling class’s will to power.
Read MoreFacebook Officially Rolls Out News Tab for Select Users
Facebook officially rolled out its Facebook News tab Friday to a select number of U.S. users, according to a blog post.
Read MoreMike Hodges Explains What It Means to ‘Live Dangerously’ at Hodges Foundation Debut
Advance Financial Chairman Mike Hodges, who launched the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation Friday night in Nashville, is popularly fond of Friedrich Nietzsche’s call to “live dangerously.”
Read MoreRussian Agent Maria Butina Released From Prison, to be Deported From The US
Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina was released from prison Friday and transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, where she awaits deportation from the U.S.
Read MoreCommentary: Seven Leftist Words in a Dictionary Near You
Consider yourself lucky if you started learning English before last year. With Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s addition of 1,373 new words and 4,000 revisions since 2018, you got in on the ground floor.
Read MoreTrump Says He Didn’t Notify Congress of Baghdadi Raid Out of Fear of Leaks
President Donald Trump said Sunday morning that he did not notify members of Congress ahead of the raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi out of fear of leaks that could put special forces in danger.
Read MoreAnother House Democrat Is Under Investigation for Allegedly Sleeping With Staffer
Another freshman Democrat in the House is under investigation for allegedly sleeping with a staffer, among other possible violations of House ethics rules.
Read MoreFISA Abuse Report Is ‘Lengthy’ And Has ‘Few’ Redactions, DOJ Watchdog Tells Congress
The Justice Department inspector general’s report on possible FBI abuse of the foreign surveillance process is “lengthy,” and is likely to be made public with “few” redactions, the inspector general told lawmakers Thursday, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Read MoreWashington Post Writes Obituary for ISIS Leader, Calls Him ‘Austere Religious Scholar’
The Washington Post ran an obituary Sunday morning for ISIS leader and serial rapist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who killed himself and at least three of his own children Saturday night during a U.S. military raid.
Read MoreRep. Katie Hill Resigns From Congress ‘With A Broken Heart’ Amid Ethics Investigation
Democratic California Rep. Katie Hill resigned Sunday after allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers surfaced, as well as the announcement of a House Ethics investigation.
Read MoreStudent of German Philosopher Werner Stegmaier Will Serve as Executive Director of Hodges Foundation
Dr. Reinhard Mueller just completed his PhD program in comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin with a dissertation on “philosophical reorentations in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and James Joyce.” His unlikely relationship with Nashville businessman Mike Hodges led to his new position as executive director of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation, which officially launched Friday night at The Parthenon.
Read MoreConservative Law Center Asks: Did You See Violence After the Minneapolis Trump Rally?
Doug Seaton, the Founder and President of the conservative Upper Midwest Law Center announce the public interest law firm was seeking witnesses to the violence by leftist Antifa and other counter-protesters at President Trump’s recent campaign-style rally held at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Read MoreUnited Church of Christ Stands with Democrats to Oppose HCR 11, Which Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
COLUMBUS, Ohio – State Representatives Candice Keller (R-Middletown) and Darrell Kick (R-Loudonville) watched as House Concurrent Resolution 11 (HCR 11), which recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, passed out of the Federalism Committee on Wednesday. The vote was 7 to 2, with the only two Democratic members present, Reps. Brigid…
Read MoreAuthor Carlin Romano Praises Hodges Foundation for Breaking Philosophy ‘Out of the Academic Discipline’
Friday night’s launch of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation at The Parthenon attracted some big names from the public intellectual world.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Sticks to His Principles for Our Troops
The Democrats’ presidential candidates were quick to attack President Trump’s foreign policy during their latest primary debate, but in the process, they revealed their own utter lack of any foreign policy plan for America.
Read MoreThe Hodges Foundation: the Product of a Successful Nashville Businessman Who Fell in Love with Philosophy
By all outward appearances, Mike and Tina Hodges, chairman and CEO of Advance Financial, respectively, have lived the American dream. They run their own business (and a highly-successful one at that) have children and a happy marriage, and are respected in their community.
Read MoreIlhan Omar Blamed Trump for Death of an Infant Who Is Still Alive Before Correcting Herself
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump for the death of an infant who is still alive before correcting herself.
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