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Despite being a Democrat and a Hillary Clinton supporter, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has been relentlessly critical of the Trump opposition for the last three years. Clear-eyed about the constitutional ramifications of what the FBI/DOJ did to Trump with the Russia hoax, sober of thought when it comes to all of the ludicrous court rulings that have come down against ...

Keeping the Festivus spirit alive for 2019 is Sen. Rand Paul, whose annual “airing of grievances” has long been one of our favorite aspects of the Christmas season. Paul can hammer Washington for dumb decisions and financial waste like no other Republican on The Hill, and the fact that he can do it with a sense of humor makes his ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who never met a Marxist-Leninist she didn’t love, told supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday that America was turning into the modern equivalent of Nazi Germany under the leadership of Donald Trump. Apparently not having heard that comparing Trump to Hitler was already overkill in 2016, AOC is still out there trying to convince the world that ...

The thirty or forty people who tuned into watch the latest Democratic Party debate on PBS were in for a treat on Thursday. In a departure from tradition, the candidates used their time in front of a national television audience to explain, in great detail, why neither they nor anyone in their party should ever be allowed anywhere near the ...

In an excellent op-ed for The New York Times this weekend, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner laid out a thorough case against impeachment, explaining why he chose to vote no on Wednesday’s historic charges. Sensenbrenner, who was on Capitol Hill way back in the late 1990s when the time came to vote for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, said the differences ...

Even in a process that has been riddled with secrecy, unprecedented levels of partisan vitriol, departures from long-established norms, and a stunning absence of evidence, Democrats managed to outdo themselves following their vote to impeach President Donald Trump. Only minutes after the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slyly indicated that they might just “sit” on the impeachment articles until they ...

In a speech on the floor of the Senate on Thursday, Mitch McConnell scoffed at the “shoddy work” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats had done in bringing impeachment against President Donald Trump. McConnell noted Pelosi’s remarks at a press conference after the vote as well, speculating that the Democrats may be “too afraid” to finish this business by ...

After receiving a rebuke and a warning from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Waco-based Judge Dianne Hensley is filing a lawsuit against the agency, claiming that they are attempting to violate her right to exercise her religion in good faith. Hensley decided after the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage that she would refuse to officiate any same-sex ...

USA Today ran a story on Tuesday with the remarkable slant that 92% of Americans believe that their rights are being threatened. According to a Harris/Purple Project poll, nearly everyone in the country thinks that their rights are under siege from one group or another – though of course no one really agrees about which rights are being endangered. 48% ...

We knew it couldn’t last. When we learned this week that Hallmark Channel, under pressure from conservative groups like One Million Moms, was pulling an advertisement from their airwaves because it featured a lesbian wedding and a kiss between two women, we knew that wouldn’t be the end of it. When, in the last four or five years, do you ...