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    Trump Announces $50 Million for Christians, Other Minorities in Syria

    After facing criticism from Christian leaders over his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, President Donald Trump defended the decision in front of a largely evangelical crowd Saturday.  “This week I directed $50 million to support Christians and other religious minorities in Syria. I did it on Friday,” Trump said during his remarks at…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump on Possible Senate Trial: ‘I Don’t Know How You Can Impeach’

    The Senate sat in judgment of President Andrew Johnson for longer than two months in 1868. More than a hundred years later, in early 1999, it spent more than a month hearing the evidence against, and defense of, President Bill Clinton.  Some conservatives now call for Senate Republicans to stop a potential impeachment trial of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Sen. Tom Cotton Unloads on Intelligence Community IG Over ‘Evasive’ and ‘Obstructive’ Testimony About Trump Whistleblower

    Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton accused Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson of being “evasive” and “obstructive” during a closed-door hearing on Sept. 26 in which he refused to shed light on the potential political bias of a Trump whistleblower. “Your disappointing testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 26 was evasive to the point…
    Chuck Ross
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    What You Need to Know About Trump’s Syria Move

    Heritage Foundation foreign policy expert Jim Carafano weighs in on President Donald Trump’s decision to move troops around in Syria, after talking with the Turkish president. Carafano explains how this will affect the Kurds, whether it could boost ISIS, and why we’re in Syria in the first place. Read the lightly edited interview transcript, posted…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Trump Doesn’t Want Small-Ball Nuke Deals. Here Are 3 Reasons He’s Right.

    Voices are clamoring for President Donald Trump to make small nuclear deals with Iran and North Korea. All the arguments for doing so are bad. For Trump, making a small, unserious deal goes against his gut instinct. If there’s one thing he has consistently demonstrated as president, it’s that he knows snake oil foreign policy…
    James Carafano
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    Democrats’ Health Care Plan Would ‘Totally Obliterate Medicare,’ Trump Says

    Charles McLaughlin, a 71-year-old Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, recalls how useful Medicare and Medicare Advantage were when he was fighting another battle, this one with cancer.  “I know a lot about Medicare and the supplement. I used it for breathing tubes, feeding tubes, stitches, staples, MRIs, CAT scans, blood tests, hydration shots, chemo…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Thousands’ of Journalists Will Be Imprisoned If Trump Not Jailed, Economist Krugman Predicts

    Economist and New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman suggested Friday evening that either “thousands of journalists” will be imprisoned because of the administration or President Donald Trump will end up in jail. A formal impeachment inquiry was launched Tuesday after news that Trump had asked Ukrainian officials to look into Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter…
    Shelby Talcott
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    Trump Administration Signs Asylum Deal With Honduras

    The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement with the Honduran government Wednesday, marking the latest in a string of asylum deals with Latin American countries aimed at controlling the immigration crisis. The Department of Homeland Security announced it reached a deal with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, allowing the U.S. to send some asylum-seekers from “third” countries…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Trump Has Made Some Real Progress Changing the 9th Circuit

    Judge Stephen Reinhardt, once the liberal lion of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had a stock response whenever he was asked why he wrote decisions that had little chance of surviving Supreme Court review. “They can’t catch them all,” Reinhardt would quip. It was the kind of display that inflamed conservative animosity for…
    Kevin Daley
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    Trump Calls New Sanctions on Iran the Harshest Ever Placed on a Country

    President Donald Trump said Friday that new sanctions on Iran’s national bank are the strongest ever placed on a country, but reiterated that he hopes to avoid military action against the Islamist regime.  “I think sanctions work. The military would work. That’s a very severe form of winning,” Trump said during a joint White House…
    Fred Lucas
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    Venezuela Is Still Carrying Out Chavez’s Strategy to Poison America. But Trump Can Stop It.

    Venezuela continues to go down the drain. As the world wonders how thuggish Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro manages to cling to power, we received a fresh reminder that the problems plaguing Venezuelans started long before him. It was Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s predecessor and mentor, who set Venezuela on the road to ruin almost two decades ago. We have…
    James Carafano
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    The Real Reason for Trump Derangement Syndrome

    Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf. As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, his family, his…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Hints at New Iran Sanctions, Prefers to Avoid ‘Ultimate Option’ of War

    President Donald Trump says he will announce new actions by Friday regarding Iran’s suspected role in attacking oil fields in Saudi Arabia.  “We’ll be adding some very significant sanctions onto Iran,” Trump told reporters Wednesday in Los Angeles. “We’ll be announcing it over the next 48 hours.” Trump said he has “many options” and that…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘America Was Never Great!’: Communist Group Burns American Flag as Trump Visits

    A self-described group of communists burned the American flag outside of a Los Angeles hotel Tuesday as the president was in the city. Revolution Club Los Angeles tweeted out a video Wednesday of members burning the American flag and chanting “America was never great!” A clash broke out shortly after as a pro-Trump counterprotester tried to break into the…
    Shelby Talcott
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    Trump EPA Praised for Plan to End Use of Animal Testing in 15 Years

    The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to curtail its use of animal testing, ending it within 15 years, is drawing praise from members of Congress and a broad cross-section of advocacy groups. The Trump administration’s EPA this week set in motion an abrupt change in policy that requires the agency to seek alternative research methods.  A…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Supreme Court Lets New Trump Asylum Restrictions Take Effect

    The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce new immigration rules against asylum seekers at the southern border. The high court did not give reasons for its Wednesday night decision or disclose a vote count, as is typical of orders of this nature. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a short dissent, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
    Kevin Daley
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    Black Americans Are Doing Great Under Trump

    The August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed more great news for all Americans. And particularly for black Americans. The nation’s unemployment rate of 3.7% puts it near the lowest ever in the last half-century. Black unemployment is at an all-time low at 5.5%. Also at an all-time low is the gap…
    Star Parker
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    ‘A Force for Good’: Pompeo Explains the Trump Administration’s Vision for America’s Role in the World

    KYIV, Ukraine—America’s post-9/11 global fight against terrorism is another year older. After 18 years, American troops are still deployed around the world combatting terrorism; a fight in which they will likely remain engaged for another generation, or more. Yet, even as America’s counterterrorism campaigns go on and on, and casualties continue to mount slowly, the…
    Nolan Peterson
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    Trump Praises Historically Black Colleges, Saying Nation Owes Them ‘Profound and Enduring Debt’

    The United States “owes a profound and enduring debt of gratitude” to its historically black colleges and universities, President Donald Trump said in an address Tuesday, at which he announced new support from his administration for the institutions. “Previously, federal law restricted more than 40 faith-based HBCUs and seminaries from fully accessing federal support for…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Minorities Make Historic Employment Gains in Trump Era, Analysis Shows

    American minorities have made historic employment gains since the end of 2016 that have continued with President Donald Trump in office, according to a Washington Post analysis of Department of Labor data. The analysis revealed that American minorities comprise more than 86% of jobs added since the end of 2016. 5.2 million more Americans have…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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