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Mar 14 2019
News
Strzok: Clinton was 'not considered a target' in email investigation
Hillary Clinton was not a target, witness, subject or suspect during the investigation into her storage and sending of classified emails on her home server, fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok told Congress last year, according to transcripts released Thursday.
“She was not considered a target by the Justice Department,” Mr. Strzok told the House Judiciary Committee, saying that while
Washington TimesJul 15 2013
News
Reid-McConnell clash latest evidence that genteel Senate has turned into a fight club
The U.S. Senate, once considered the most exclusive and chummiest club in America, has in recent years been transformed into an ideological war zone, where comity and compromise have lost their allure, while confrontation and showmanship now pay big dividends.
“The only way you get something is to become obnoxious,” Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) declared during the recent immigration
Washington PostMay 28 2019
News
Abortion: Democrats and Republicans whip up voters on extreme state laws
As Democrats and Republicans look to galvanize their base ahead of the 2020 election, a slew of state laws barring access to abortion have thrust the issue into the national spotlight and set up a potential court battle that could hold consequences for an entire generation.
Top Republicans have distanced themselves from a law in Alabama that effectively outlaws abortion and includes no
The GuardianMay 28 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Trump’s High-Wire Act of Reestablishing Deterrence without War
Trump’s opponents at home and abroad would love to see him get the U.S. into a messy intervention right before the election.
Donald Trump inherited a superficially stable world from Barack Obama that, in fact, was quite volatile. There had been no tense standoffs with North Korea, but also apparent intercontinental ballistic missiles with possible nuclear warheads now pointed at the
Victor HansonMar 12 2019
News
Trump's Budget Would Add $7.9 Trillion to the National Debt Over the Next Decade
And the real outcome is likely to be worse, since the budget relies on overly rosy assumptions about future economic growth.
Page 1 of President Donald Trump's proposed budget boldly promises to tame America's runaway national debt, which recently surpassed $22 trillion and continues to grow.
"My 2020 Budget builds on the tremendous progress we have made and provides a clear
ReasonSep 06 2015
News
Exclusive: DEA chief says heroin ‘back with a vengeance,’ drugs a national security threat
“Not much of a gambler,” Chuck Rosenberg says about himself, a tad sheepishly. Indeed, in the seven deadly sins department, the new chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration is something of a zero: He’s never smoked marijuana, doesn’t drink alcohol, and lists as his only vice an excessive intake of Diet Dr. Pepper.
Such abstemiousness may be a prized attribute in the head of the lead
Fox News (Online News)Mar 11 2019
News
Trump proposes $4.7 trillion budget with domestic cuts, $8.6 billion in new funding for border wall
President Trump is releasing a $4.7 trillion budget plan Monday that stands as a sharp challenge to Congress and the Democrats trying to unseat him, the first act in a multi-front struggle that could consume Washington for the next 18 months.
The budget proposal dramatically raises the possibility of another government shutdown in October, and Trump used to the budget to notify Congress
Washington PostSep 01 2015
News
Gay couples ask judge to hold clerk in contempt
Lawyers asked a federal judge to hold a county clerk here in contempt of court Tuesday after she defied the Supreme Court and again refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to allow Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ office to deny the licenses because of her religious beliefs. However, on Tuesday morning, she denied the licenses to at least four
USA TODAYMar 05 2020
News
Kevin McCarthy: Pelosi Delayed Coronavirus Funding Bill So Dems Could Run Anti-GOP Ads
So, did I hear that right? The House of Representatives could have passed the coronavirus funding bill sooner, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi held it up because the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wanted to run anti-GOP ads on Super Tuesday? Elizabeth Vaughn over at RedState wrote about this. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) detailed this in his interview with Fox News’ Laura
TownhallMar 08 2019
News
Payroll Gains Plunge to 20,000 as Wages Top Estimates
U.S. hiring was the weakest in more than a year while wage gains were the fastest of the expansion and the unemployment rate fell, a possible sign that America’s jobs engine is starting to slow down.
Treasuries rallied while the dollar and stock futures fell.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 20,000 after an upwardly revised 311,000 gain the prior month, a Labor Department report
Newsmax (News)