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    How Trump Could Change the Country’s Direction With These Court Vacancies

    There is likely no political issue more important to either side of the ideological spectrum than who controls the Supreme Court. Rumors are building that another justice is going to retire this summer. The odds-on favorites are two members in their 80s: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal justice, and Anthony Kennedy, the notorious swing vote….
    Genevieve Wood
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    Democrats Are Using Sham Lawsuits to Try to Obstruct and Impeach Trump

    Nearly 200 Democratic politicians—198 in total—are now plaintiffs in two lawsuits against President Donald Trump. The claims they raise are substantially similar to those made in a separate lawsuit brought by the advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which was filed against Trump in January. All three groups of plaintiffs claim…
    John-Michael Seibler
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    Liberals Mock Trump for Taking Pride in the Panama Canal

    It seems that the left will attack President Donald Trump’s comments on history merely because he’s the one saying it. In a meeting with Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela, Trump said that the Panama Canal is doing “quite well” and that “we did a good job building it, right?” Varela responded: “Yeah. One hundred years ago.”…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    If a Trump Supporter Had Shot a Democrat

    What would have happened if a Trump supporter had shot a Democratic congressman and other Democratic Washington officials? The answer is obvious. The New York Times, the rest of the left-wing media, and the Democratic Party would have made the shootings the dominant issue in American life. It is not possible to understand the left—and,…
    Dennis Prager
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    How Dissidents Are Responding to Trump’s Change in Cuba Policy

    The letter sent by Cuba’s main dissident group to President Donald Trump thanking him for his decision to prohibit U.S. trade with the military, security and intelligence services on the island—their tormentors—serves as a timely rebuke of President Barack Obama’s warm embrace of the Castro regime and those still defending it. The letter was sent…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Trump Will Reverse the Damage Done By Obama’s Cuba Policy

    If “America First” means anything, it must mean preventing a virulently anti-American criminal enterprise from perpetuating its existence next door and reproducing itself throughout the hemisphere. And since this is precisely what President Barack Obama’s opening to the Castros accomplished, President Donald Trump is duty-bound to reverse this mistake. In fact, if The New York…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    • News

    Results of Virginia’s Primary Hint at Future for Trump, Sanders Movements

    In one of the first major primary races after the 2016 presidential election, a Republican candidate for governor who campaigned on a pro-Trump platform nearly pulled off an upset, while a Democrat candidate who cast himself in Bernie Sanders’ progressive mold lost.  Candidates perceived by some as establishment won in both the Democratic and Republican primaries…
    Fred Lucas
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    50,000 Ask Bernie Sanders to Apologize for Attack on Trump Nominee’s Faith

    Over 50,000 individuals so far have signed an online petition asking Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to apologize for his public attack on the Christian beliefs of President Donald Trump’s nominee for a post in the Office of Management and Budget. Sanders “responded in anger after Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to be deputy director of…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Democrats’ Suit Claims Constitution Means One Thing for Obama, but Another for Trump

    The Justice Department filed a court brief Friday in support of its motion to dismiss a partisan group’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump for having been a businessman. In the lawsuit, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, alleges that Trump violates the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution whenever any entity of…
    John-Michael Seibler
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    The Left Was Wrong: Trump Did Not Produce Anti-Semitic Hysteria

    As I document in my book, “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph,” which is an explanation of Americanism, leftism, and Islamism, hysteria is a major tactic of the left. If you think about it, there is never an extended period of time—one year, let’s say—during which society is not…
    Dennis Prager
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    High School Removes Students’ Pro-Trump Slogans From Pictures

    A New Jersey high school scrubbed pro-Trump slogans displayed on clothing students wore for their yearbook photos. Multiple Wall Township High School students came forward to express outrage after they noticed their clothes had been altered in the photos, reported CNN Monday. “TRUMP: Make America Great Again” was removed from junior Grant Berardo’s shirt while student Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago…
    Amber Randall
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    Trump on Course to Achieve Conservative Policy Victories, His Legislative Point Man Says

    The Trump administration has made good progress on issues of importance to conservatives, despite pushback from the left, the president’s legislative point man told a gathering of Christian conservatives. “Do we have all the major things we wanted to get done, done? No. Are they all in process? Yes,” Paul Teller says. “It’s been like…
    Katrina Willis
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    Trump, Keeping Campaign Promise, Picks More Conservative Judges

    President Donald Trump submitted a new slate of judicial nominees to the Senate Wednesday, naming nine appointees to federal courts across the country. The list is the second such slate that the president has submitted to the Senate. The White House also indicated that Trump will officially nominate three more judicial candidates in the coming…
    Kevin Daley
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    Trump: ‘We Don’t Worship Government, We Worship God’

    “We will not back down from doing what is right.” Those were the words of President Donald Trump at the Road to Majority Conference Thursday. “A nation is more than just the geography,” Trump said in his speech. “A nation is the sum of its citizens, their hopes, their dreams, their values, their prayers ……
    Katrina Willis
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    Trump Was Right to Leave the Paris Agreement. Why He Shouldn’t Have Had to Withdraw in the First Place.

    Supporters of the Paris Agreement have expressed considerable angst over President Donald Trump’s decision to leave the climate agreement last week. Regardless of the merits of that decision—although for the record, Heritage Foundation analysts recommended that the U.S. withdraw—Trump should not have had to make that call. The Paris Agreement had all the hallmarks of…
    Brett Schaefer
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    Trump Doesn’t Like So Many Anonymous Sources, and Neither Do These Journalism Experts

    Last week, when pressed to answer questions about reports that Jared Kushner set up back-channel communications with the Russian government, White House press secretary Sean Spicer frequently responded by considering the source—or lack thereof. “I’m not going to dignify partisan accusations of anonymous sources and alleged—unsubstantiated attacks,” Spicer told reporters Tuesday during exchanges that became…
    Fred Lucas
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    Nationalism Puts Trump at Odds With EU Elites

    In his first four months at the White House, President Donald Trump has reiterated his commitment to pursuing “America first” policies on trade, economics, and foreign affairs. That agenda became all the more clear on his recent trip overseas, in which he pressed Middle Eastern leaders to expel Islamist terror from their lands and chastised…
    Christophe Barbier
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    Trump’s Paris Agreement Decision Shows He’s Not Afraid of Defying Global Elites

    All the heroes carrying the fate of the world on their shoulders phoned in to NPR Friday morning. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, and business magnate Richard Branson, all nearly snarling, attempted to cultivate hatred and mistrust toward President Donald Trump following his decision to…
    Arthur Milikh
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    The Facts About Trump’s ‘Heartless’ Education Plan

    A video of Rep. Rosa DeLauro slamming President Donald Trump’s budget on education, saying it is “heartless” and “cruel,” has gone viral. “Millions of kids around this country are going to suffer what has been done with a $9.2 billion cut to our education programs, which are supposed to serve our youngsters, make sure they…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    This Poor County Switched From Backing Obama to Trump. Here’s What Happened.

    COLEBROOK, N.H.—His left foot in a walking boot after surgery, Rick Samson, an independent-minded county commissioner in the northernmost part of New Hampshire, is behind the wheel of his pickup truck, describing how this region—“North Country” to locals—is used to going it alone. “I run as a Republican, however I consider myself neither a Republican…
    Josh Siegel
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