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    Cartoon: Impeachment Fatigue

    Michael Ramirez
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    Senate Continues to Obstruct Trump’s Capable Nominees

    If you don’t believe our government is complex and inefficient, just ask presidential appointees navigating the Senate confirmation process. Under our constitutional framework, the president hires the people he wants to run the executive branch, many of whom require Senate confirmation. This includes about 1,200 of the most senior employees, such as ambassadors or Cabinet…
    Thomas Spoehr
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    6 Big Moments From Day 5 of Public Impeachment Hearings

    Two career foreign policy officials testified Thursday that President Donald Trump altered U.S. policy toward Ukraine for a political agenda of going after former Vice President Joe Biden.   Fiona Hill, a former official with the National Security Council who was Trump’s adviser on Russia, and David Holmes, political counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Problematic Women: Christine Blasey Ford, Chick-Fil-A, and Impeachment

    On this week’s episode of “Problematic Women,” we tackle the news you need to know in a rapid-fire format: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is called “trash” by feminists who oppose her role in House Democrats’ impeachment hearings. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, wins an award for courage from the ACLU. The “Charlie’s Angels”…
    Virginia Allen
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    7 Key Moments From Gordon Sondland’s Testimony on Day 4 of Public Impeachment Hearings

    Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, delivered an apparently mixed message Wednesday to lawmakers about what President Donald Trump wanted from Ukraine. In the fourth day of House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings, Sondland first testified that there was a “quid pro quo” in which Ukraine’s new president would have to announce specific investigations…
    Fred Lucas
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    7 Big Moments From Day 3 of the Public Impeachment Hearings

    Two experts on Ukraine who listened in on President Donald Trump’s phone call with the former Soviet republic’s new leader testified Tuesday on the third day of House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings. The impeachment inquiry sprang from allegations that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during that call to investigate the Ukrainian business dealings of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Left’s Rhetoric in Impeachment Hearings Reveals Desperation

    If you are in need of more evidence as to why so many Americans are cynical about politics in general and Washington in particular (and isn’t current evidence sufficient?), you need look no further than the etymological shift taken by Democrats during the House impeachment hearings. As The Washington Post first reported, the decision to…
    Cal Thomas
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    These Are the 8 Witnesses Set to Testify at This Week’s Impeachment Hearings

    The second week of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is moving out of the “heard it from a friend” stage to focus on witnesses who actually listened in on the phone call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine, or who talked directly with Trump about administration policy toward the former Soviet republic. Here’s…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Suggests He’ll ‘Consider’ Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry

    President Donald Trump said Monday that he will “strongly consider” testifying in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!” the president said in a tweet, referring…
    Chris White
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    6 Key Moments From Day 2 of the Public Impeachment Hearings

    The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the ousted ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday. Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled and reassigned six months ago, also said she felt threatened by President…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Impeachment Not Justified by Evidence and Testimony Made Public So Far

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., hasn’t yet produced most of his witnesses in the public impeachment hearings regarding President Donald Trump. But if the State Department’s George Kent and acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor are representative of the testimony Democrats are relying on, future historians may label this episode “The Big Impeachment Blowout.”…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Everything You Need to Know About What’s Happening in Impeachment Process

    “Democrats are intent on impeaching President Trump for something. It really doesn’t matter to them what it is,” says Heritage Foundation legal scholar Tom Jipping. He joins the podcast to explain why lawyers, not lawmakers, are doing much of the questioning; what’s next for the impeachment process; and what the main takeaways are from the…
    Daniel Davis
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    Here Are the Backgrounds of 4 Lawyers for Impeachment Witnesses

    The lawyer for one of the first witnesses at House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings has a resume that includes the Obama White House, former Vice President Al Gore’s office, and House Democrats themselves.  The lawyer for another impeachment witness in the public process raised the specter of impeaching President Donald Trump in 2018, has represented…
    Fred Lucas
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    6 Key Moments From the First Day of Public Impeachment Hearings

    Who’s in charge of the Trump administration’s policy on Ukraine and the president’s focus on the business dealings there of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son were main topics of two veteran foreign service officers’ testimony Wednesday before the House committee pursuing impeachment. Offering sworn testimony as lead-off witnesses in House Democrats’ first public hearings on…
    Fred Lucas
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    Impeachment Is the Left’s Sad Final Attempt to Beat Trump

    If you are paying attention to the Washington circus that is the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s handling of the much maligned Ukraine call, this is what real collusion looks like: a media largely committed to advancing the goal of Democrats to severely damage or remove him from office, a series of at-first private…
    Cal Thomas
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    4 Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public

    After a month of closed hearings, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is slated to hold public impeachment hearings Wednesday and Friday. The committee, under Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will hear testimony from three witnesses regarding President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Democrats seek to find out whether…
    Fred Lucas
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    Democrats’ Unprecedented Approach to the Trump Impeachment

    Much of the attention on House Resolution 660, adopted by House Democrats on Halloween to advance the impeach of President Donald Trump, has failed to note the significant differences with resolutions authorizing previous presidential impeachments. Two writers on the Lawfare blog, for example, claimed that HR 660 incorporates “a structure similar to what was in…
    Thomas Jipping
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    This Impeachment Effort About Ideology, Not Constitution

    Two American women of color. Two diametrically opposed views about America. This clash of worldviews helps us to understand that what is going on in our nation is not a legitimate impeachment process but an attempt to wipe out a sitting president for personal and ideological reasons. Rep. Rashida Tlaib was sworn in as a…
    Star Parker
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    Cartoon: Impeachment Inquiry 2.0

    Michael Ramirez
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    Sen. Joni Ernst Wants to Cut Absurd Washington Spending

    As the national debt grows larger and larger, our lawmakers continue to spend obliviously—and even on frivolous things. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is not happy about how much government agencies are spending on swag, and she recently introduced legislation to end things like the government spending over $600,000 on coloring books. Read a lightly edited transcript…
    Rachel del Guidice
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