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AP Images The GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week whether to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before Congress, pursuant to duly-issued subpoenas, about his and his father’s business activities. Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s announcement comes two days after the House Oversight and Judiciary committees voted to hold Boy Biden in contempt....

AP Images The U.S. House Judiciary and Oversight committees held Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress today for refusing to testify weeks ago after receiving a subpoena. The Judiciary party-line vote was 23-14; Oversight’s was 25-11. The votes send the motion to the full House. Neither was a surprise.  🚨 #NEWS: The House Judiciary Committee approved the resolution to hold...

After winning re-election 20 years ago, President George W. Bush wasted his political capital on a wild goose chase to partially privatize Social Security, an issue seldom discussed during the campaign. The more he pitched the concept during the early months of 2005, the less the public bought in. Nor could Dubya secure enough support from his enlarged majorities in...

AP Images Mike Johnson Taking a step toward avoiding a potential government shutdown in the next few weeks, House and Senate leaders on Sunday announced they had reached a $1.590 trillion top-line spending deal for government funding in 2024. The agreement is designed to allow lawmakers to now focus on approving 12 appropriations bills.  The Epoch Times reported that House...

AP Images Soviet-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff used to tell a joke about choice in the USSR. “In Soviet Union, there are two television stations,” he said (I’m paraphrasing). “Channel One is government propaganda.” Channel Two is a man wagging his finger and sternly saying, “Turn back to Channel One!” With respect to elections, Western pseudo-elites today do aim to offer...

Selwyn Duke When a child isn’t punished for throwing a tantrum and instead gets his way, he repeats the behavior in the future. So it will be with the Left, too, should Donald Trump win the presidency this year. Having gotten away with roiling the country in 2020 and driving him from office (by hook and crook), writes commentator Rich...

AP Images Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador In American politics today, much noise is made about the subject of foreign interference. While the Left has often hijacked the phrase to promote their conspiracy theories about Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia, real foreign interference is taking place — and many Democrats even cheer it on. Mexico’s leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez...

Mariusz Kielbowicz/iStock/Getty Images Plus Are ballot initiatives another characteristic of modern American politics that sounds good on paper but in reality has a disastrous effect on the Republic? Over the last few years, Florida has earned a reputation as one of the most conservative states in the Union. For decades, the Republican Party has dominated the Legislature and the governorship,...

Kreativorks/iStock/Getty Images Plus Another victory for the movement to protect children from predatory trans therapies underscores that the trend away from LGBT acceptance is growing. On Thursday, the Republican-dominated New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill banning sex-change surgeries from being performed on minors. It is now going to the Senate, where it is expected to also pass. Ultimately,...

Larry Elder At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America…. We are one people.” After announcing his candidacy for president, Sen. Obama appeared on “60 Minutes”: “60 Minutes”: “You think the country’s ready...

zimmytws/iStcok/Getty Images Plus The U.S. national debt surpassed $34 trillion for the first time in history on Friday, according to U.S. Treasury data. The growing record debt only highlights the need for political leaders to reduce government spending while making positive moves toward fiscal responsibility.  The national debt is the total of all outstanding government liabilities owed to the public or...

oxinoxi/iStock/Getty Images Plus In the run-up to an election, we so often hear people of a certain political persuasion swear that if ______ (fill in the blank) wins the presidency, they’ll leave the U.S. They never seem to, of course. Yet this doesn’t mean Americans aren’t voting with their feet. In fact, say some analysts, a “Big Sort” is occurring...

AP Images Shenna Bellows In a surprise decision released on Thursday afternoon, Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the office again because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” Maine is the second state to attempt to exclude Trump from the ballot after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to...

AP Images Nikki Haley Courtesy of an obvious plant for the Democrats or a GOP rival who appeared at Nikki Haley’s recent town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, the new gotcha question for GOP political candidates is this: “What caused the Civil War?” And as Haley just learned, any answer but “slavery” will blow up like a plugged Confederate Howitzer...

Janis Abolins / iStock / Getty Images Plus The British tabloid Daily Mail reported on Tuesday the results of its most recent polling of American likely voters in November’s president election and noted that Donald Trump’s lead over incumbent Joe Biden continues to widen. Trump was two points behind Biden in June but was one point ahead of Biden in...

As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans). And yet, despite this, only 4% of elected members of the House support even a temporary ceasefire,...

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AP Images Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced a House Resolution requesting the United States “drop all charges against and attempts to extradite” Julian Assange last week. The resolution in support of Assange was co-sponsored by bipartisan group of House Representatives that included six Republicans and two Democrats — Representatives James McGovern (D-Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Assange is an Australian...

AP Images Democrats are making much ado about Trump’s immigration rhetoric and its supposed ramifications for his candidacy among Latino voters. But the anticipated outrage among the important Latino Republican voting bloc of Florida has thus far failed to materialize. As Politico reports, Trump’s recent remark that illegal aliens are “poisoning the blood” of America may cause some discomfort among...

John Whitehead The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that they could be counted. There being no room for the couple at...