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    Angry at Trump, Liberals Propose Unconstitutional Bill to Punish Him

    Democrats have twice impeached Donald Trump in the House and twice failed to convict him in the Senate. They’re angry about failing, and double angry about failing twice. That’s understandable. Nobody likes to fail. But they’ve now fallen into the trap of letting their anger get the better of their reason and their oaths to uphold…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Liberals Claim to Support Independent Agencies. So Why Is Biden Firing Trump Appointees?

    Conservatives have long criticized the notion of independent executive branch agencies.  Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution provides that “[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America”—not some executive power, but all of it, unless the Constitution explicitly provides otherwise.  That is often referred to as the…
    John G. Malcolm
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    8 Takeaways as Senate Again Fails to Convict Trump, This Time With 7 GOP Votes

    With seven Republicans voting with all Democrats to convict, the Senate nevertheless voted Saturday afternoon to acquit former President Donald Trump, in his second impeachment trial, of a single charge of incitement of insurrection. Americans, and apparently most senators, were under the impression that the Saturday session would feature closing arguments and perhaps a verdict. …
    Fred Lucas
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    Journalist Compares Covering Trump to Fighting Nazis

    One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump’s presidency was that anti-Trump journalists would eventually feel a heated rush of nostalgia about their heroic crusade to keep democracy from dying. But it came earlier than expected. Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote a piece for the Democrat-endorsing website The Atlantic…
    Tim Graham
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    4 Takeaways From Democrats’ Second Full Day of Arguments to Disqualify Trump

    In a second full day of making their case for disqualifying Donald Trump from running again for president, House Democrats reminded the Senate of the Charlottesville riot in 2017 and a plot last year to kidnap Michigan’s governor.  The nine House impeachment managers, or prosecutors, kept most of the focus Thursday on a mob’s Jan. 6 …
    Fred Lucas
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    6 of Democrats’ Arguments for Disqualifying Trump From Seeking Office Again

    House prosecutors argued Wednesday that former President Donald Trump not only is responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but was involved in a “premeditated” effort after he “ran out of nonviolent measures” to keep power.  Day Two of Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial was the first full day for Democrats’ House impeachment…
    Fred Lucas
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    Biden Firing Nearly All Trump-Appointed US Attorneys, but Keeping 2 Key Prosecutors in Place

    President Joe Biden will ask nearly all Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys to tender their resignations as early as Tuesday, while allowing two federal prosecutors to continue their politically-charged investigations. According to CNN and other news outlets, Biden will ask for resignations of 55 of the 56 U.S. attorneys currently in office. David C. Weiss, the U.S….
    Chuck Ross
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    Left’s Ongoing Obsession With Trump Hurts Unity

    The election is over; Joe Biden is in the White House; and Donald Trump has returned to his home in Florida. While vocally unhappy with the outcome, Trump didn’t refuse to leave Washington, which was suggested as a remote possibility by Forbes senior contributor Jack Kelly. In the wake of the election, Trump has been…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Trump’s Policy Achievements Strong Foundation for Conservative Future

    The Congressional Budget Office now projects that economic recovery in 2021 will be faster than it predicted last July. It projects that the economy will be back to its pre-pandemic levels by mid-2021. This very good news reflects the fact that the economic turndown was not as severe as the federal agency had expected, and…
    Star Parker
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    The ‘After Trump’ Era Begins

    The new AT age—“After Trump”—began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented. Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn’t. Then, stranger still, it appeared—a few…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    After Tracking Trump ‘Falsehoods,’ Washington Post Says It Won’t Do the Same for Biden

    The Washington Post will have a lot more time on its hands now that President Joe Biden has been sworn in. According to the paper’s spokesperson, it can call off its whole fact-checking operation. Apparently, it’s not necessary now that its preferred party is in office. The Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott reached out to the…
    Tony Perkins
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    Biden to Sign Multiple Climate Change Orders, Reversing Trump Policies

    President Joe Biden is expected to sign multiple executive orders aimed at combating climate change on his first day in office. The orders—which block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, rejoin the Paris climate accords, and temporarily halt oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—would directly reverse policies implemented by former President…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Trump Made Foster Children a Priority. That Shouldn’t Change Under Biden.

    “Every child deserves a family,” begins President Donald Trump’s executive order last June on “Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.”  The Trump administration made foster children a priority, working with state and local groups to place children in loving homes more quickly and to ensure that fewer children are entering the system to…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Challenge for Conservatives in a Post-Trump World

    We often hear calls for national unity when presidents are inaugurated. And we’re sure to hear them again, despite the fact that we are still divided, red and blue, liberal and conservative, coastal city and heartland town. But we should not despair. We’ve been divided since the birth of the republic, when the Federalists and…
    Lee Edwards
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    4 Key Points About Trump and ‘Incitement’ Law

    If and when the Senate holds its second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, this time after he no longer is president, one argument in his defense may well be based on a legal precedent that has guided incitement cases since 1969.  The House of Representatives impeached the president Wednesday for “incitement to insurrection” because of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Is This Moment When GOP Will Stand Up to Trump?

    The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. On Jan. 6, I saw with my own eyes the breakdown of our society and our democracy. It was sickening, outrageous, 100% unacceptable, illegal, immoral, and unpatriotic. And it will be the…
    Armstrong Williams
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    YouTube Suspends Trump Account for at Least 7 Days

    YouTube became the latest social media platform to ban President Donald Trump, announcing late Tuesday that he wouldn’t be able to post new content for seven days. YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, said it took the action against Trump because of the potential for violence to be sparked from his content. The massive video-sharing platform…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    9 Takeaways as 10 Republicans Join Democrats to Impeach Trump Again

    With seven days left in President Donald Trump’s term, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted for a second time to impeach him—this time gaining some Republican support.  The vote was 232-197, with 10 House Republicans joining all House Democrats.  The House impeached Trump on a charge of “incitement to insurrection” based on his speech to…
    Fred Lucas
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    What You Need to Know About Big Tech’s Crackdown on Trump, Parler

    Following the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol last week, Facebook suspended President Donald Trump from its platform, and Twitter followed suit shortly thereafter. Over the weekend, Google and Apple removed Parler, a social media platform widely used by conservatives, from its app stores. Then, Amazon suspended Parler from its web services Sunday evening. Now,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Over Half of Americans Want Trump Gone Before Inauguration Day

    Fifty-six percent of Americans want President Donald Trump out of office before Inauguration Day after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. Additionally, two-thirds of those surveyed said that Trump deserved “a great deal or a good amount” of blame for the riots, the poll showed. But while the majority…
    Samantha Aschieris
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