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Tune in to Disney’s Star Wars Blitz

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Disney is generating excitement and praise with its current blitz of Star Wars related teasers and information. At WIRED, Brian Barrett discusses the latest, writing: JUST AS MILLIONS of monarch butterflies migrate to Piedra Herrada each winter, thousands of Star Wars faithful have descended on Chicago for Star Wars Celebration 2019. But if you couldn’t make the trip—or […]

Libya: The Neocons and Hillary Clinton Fail Again

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Only a few short years after Barack Obama, urged on by Hillary Clinton and her fellow neocons, signed on to help radical Islamists take Libya from Muammar Gaddafi, a Russian backed force is on the verge of taking control of the country. The Clinton-supported destabilization created a power vacuum that allowed Libya to become a mass […]

Now Democrats Want to Tax You on Money You Never Had

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In what can only be described as a new level of idiocy, Democrats want to tax investors on unrealized gains each year. Yes, you read that correctly, they want to tax Americans on money that they’ve never actually had. The Wall Street Journal’s Gabriel Rubin and Richard Rubin report: The top Democrat on the Senate’s […]

Bernie Sanders Covering for Communists in Venezuela

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential aspirant and cranky socialist from Vermont, refuses to call Venezuela’s President Nicolas Madura a dictator, despite the political repression in the country. Sanders maintains that there are “still democratic operations taking place in that country.” Instead, he chose to deflect. Fox News reports: “Why have you stopped short of calling […]

Amy Coney Barrett: Trump’s Ready Replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

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Fox News reports that President Trump may be holding the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a ready replacement should the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg become vacant. Ginsburg’s recent health problems, which forced her to miss time on the bench, have made many wonder if she can continue to keep up the rigorous […]

VIDEO: The End of the Road for #NeverTrumpers

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The Editors at American Greatness write of the Never Trump movement: Time and again over the past two years, NeverTrumpers have tripped over themselves advancing the utterly discredited Russia-Trump collusion narrative. “Conservative Resurgence” has a great new video adapting Julie Kelly’s latest on NeverTrump’s shame and disgrace. CR makes “Because Trump is president” sound like a mantra […]

House Democrats Fail to Block Border Security

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Despite their best efforts to keep the southern border open and flowing freely with illegal immigrants, House Democrats failed to override President Trump’s veto of their bill blocking his emergency border wall funding. Susan Ferrechio reports for the Washington Examiner: Only a handful of Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats on the 248-181 […]

The Trump Administration Opens a New Front Against Obamacare

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On Monday the Department of Justice took a step to increase its pressure on Obamacare by supporting a federal judge’s ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act should be tossed. The DOJ’s earlier position maintained that only parts of the health care law needed to go. The Constitution Center reports: A Justice Department legal filing […]