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    The House Has Impeached President Trump. Where Do We Go From Here?

    Well, the House Democrats finally did it. Donald Trump is now the 20th person—and third president—to be impeached by the House of Representatives in our nation’s history. On Jan. 20, 2017, the day Trump was sworn in as president, a Washington Post headline read: “The campaign to impeach Trump has begun.” Ten days later, Mark…
    John G. Malcolm
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    3 Democrats Defect as House Votes to Impeach Trump

    The Democrat-controlled House voted Wednesday night to approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after about 10 hours of debate. In two historic votes largely along party lines, the House charged Trump with abusing his power by a vote of 229 to 197 and obstructing Congress by a vote of 228 to 198. …
    Fred Lucas
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    Is Trump the Only Adult in the Room?

    Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year effort to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. Do we remember the effort to subvert the Electoral College…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Is Delivering Economic Wins for Rural America

    Following the Great Recession in 2008, many economists and liberal thinkers argued that rural America would never again be an engine for economic growth. While more folks today reside in metropolitan areas, I can tell you from firsthand experience that rural communities continue to play an integral role in job creation and our national economy….
    Rep. Ted Budd
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    House Democrats Propose to Impeach Trump for Abuse of Power, Obstructing Congress

    After a two-month investigation, House Democrats announced Tuesday that they have drafted articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on broad charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  The vague “abuse of power” charge comes after hours of hearings in which House Democrats used criminal terms such as “bribery” and “extortion” to describe…
    Fred Lucas
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    In a Blow to Political Correctness, Trump Praises Salvation Army

    America isn’t the only thing making a comeback under President Donald Trump—so is Christmas! The candidate who vowed, “We’re gonna be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” delivered on that promise again in a big way Thursday night. Thirty feet of big, to be exact. In front of the giant spruce, the president made it very clear…
    Tony Perkins
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    Trump Administration to Close Food Stamp Eligibility Loopholes for Able-Bodied Adults

    Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is expected to announce a finalized rule Wednesday to promote self-sufficiency for able-bodied adults without children who receive food stamps.  The rule aims to close loopholes used by states that frequently grant broad exemptions for recipients to remain on food stamps longer without actively seeking a job or work training.  The…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Acts to Curb Violence Against Native Americans, Reopen Cold Cases

    More than 5,000 Native American women and children are reported missing each year, and Native American women are 10 times more likely to be murdered than the average American is, according to the White House.  These are some of the numbers that spurred the Trump administration to establish a task force Tuesday to tackle the…
    Fred Lucas
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    How the Trump Administration Could Clear Up Regulated ‘Waters’

    The Trump administration last month repealed the Obama administration’s infamous “waters of the United States” rule, by which bureaucrats tried to use the Clean Water Act to regulate almost every water imaginable. But this repeal was just the first step in efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to develop…
    Daren Bakst
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    Did Trump Critic Rep. Rashida Tlaib Violate Campaign Finance Laws and Ethics Rules?

    “It’s pretty simple,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted last March, in calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “No one is above the law, including the President of the United States.” But perhaps Tlaib—among Trump’s harshest critics in Congress—needs to follow up with another tweet, in the interests of transparency. This tweet could read: “No one is above the law….
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Trump Flips Another Federal Court to Majority GOP Appointees

    As House Democrats continued their impeachment push, President Donald Trump scored yet another victory toward reshaping the federal judiciary—flipping a third appeals court to a majority of Republican-president nominees.  Moreover, as the House engaged in partisan bickering, the Senate voted to confirm Barbara Lagoa to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Backs Raising Vaping Age, but Backpedals on Flavor Ban

    President Donald Trump said he’s open to increasing the age for buying e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, but is resisting an outright ban, which he fears could fuel a black market.  Trump on Friday convened public health advocates, federal officials, and tobacco executives and said, “Twenty-one, we are going to be doing,” regarding the minimum…
    Fred Lucas
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    Liberals Are Mainstreaming Paranoid Theories About Trump

    One of the most durable conspiracy theories of our times finds Vladimir Putin recruiting a billionaire media personality named Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. In some iterations of the tale, Trump is willingly serving his Kremlin comrades; in others, he is merely the victim of kompromat. In every version, he is an asset of…
    David Harsanyi
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    Obama Tried to Discriminate Against Conservative Faith Groups. Trump Is Reversing That.

    Several faith-based adoption agencies have been tangled in litigation over allegedly “discriminating” against prospective parents. Thankfully, a new Trump administration rule could alleviate some of their legal battles, protect religious liberty, and help kids in need of adoption. On Nov. 1, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that would reverse…
    Nicole Russell
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    Trump Touts Success in Appointing Conservative Judges

    President Donald Trump reminisced Wednesday about the 2016 campaign, when not every conservative trusted him to name Supreme Court justices and other federal judges.  “People knew me very well, but they didn’t know, ‘Is he liberal, conservative? Who are your judges?” Trump recalled in the White House East Room, celebrating his success in appointing  judges. …
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Challenges California’s Sanctuary Law at Supreme Court

    The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to quash California’s migrant sanctuary law, which broadly prohibits state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. The dispute over the California Values Act, or SB 54, is ideologically scrambled, featuring President Donald Trump’s conservative administration arguing for strong federal power against California liberals…
    Kevin Daley
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    Trump Administration Is Right to Eye Free-Market Health Plan Finders

    One lesson learned from the disastrous 2013 launch of the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, is that the federal government isn’t much of a tech-savvy e-commerce innovator. Even so, six years later, the feds are still running and upgrading HealthCare.gov and its Medicare sister site, Medicare.gov. Will the Trump administration apply the lessons learned and get out…
    Joel White
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    Cartoon: Trump vs. Congress

    Michael Ramirez
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    Trump’s ‘Haters’ Are the Ones Breaking America, Says Kimberley Strassel

    More and more Democrats have come out in favor of impeachment, but it’s worth remembering that some wanted to impeach President Donald Trump from Day One. Those voices are often associated with “the resistance.” In today’s episode, Kimberley Strassel of The Wall Street Journal argues that the resistance is the truly destructive force in American…
    Daniel Davis
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    Trump Should Imitate Ellen DeGeneres

    Depending on the polls you read and how you read them, nearly half of those surveyed want the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump to continue. That is not the same as wanting him impeached, much less convicted by the Senate and removed from office, but it represents a momentum the president needs to…
    Cal Thomas
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