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Kansas Republican’s Narrow Win Serves as Warning for GOP
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 16, 2026

Republican Ron Estes won a seat in Kansas’ 4th District on Tuesday that was vacated when President Donald Trump appointed Rep. Mike Pompeo to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Estes will takes the seat Pompeo held in the House of Representatives since 2011 before joining the CIA in January. Estes, Kansas’ state…

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5 Takeaways From Jeff Sessions’ Border Enforcement Trip
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 16, 2026

“We hear you and we have your back.” That is the message Attorney General Jeff Sessions shared with Customs and Border Protection personnel in Nogales, Arizona, on the U.S. southern border Tuesday. In a speech Tuesday, Sessions announced five changes to immigration prosecution and enforcement: A crackdown on individuals who transport and harbor illegal immigrants….

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Trump, NATO Leader to Talk About Allies’ Paying Fair Share
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 16, 2026

Less than a week after President Donald Trump rallied the world behind ending the violence in Syria, he will meet with the top civilian leader of NATO, an organization he criticized during the campaign as “obsolete.” “For the sake of NATO’s future, it will have to focus on terrorism,” @ARVershbow says. The top issues will…

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This 1 Change Trump Administration Made to White House Press Briefings Is Shaking Up the Media
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 16, 2026

From the moment he took office in January, President Donald Trump put the establishment media on notice. Through his tweets and press conferences, Trump isn’t shy about calling out news organizations by name or leveling criticism. And in the White House press briefing room, the Trump administration is changing the dynamic in a way that…

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Fresno State Launches Investigation Into ‘Trump Must Hang’ Professor
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 16, 2026

The president of California State University, Fresno has launched an investigation into the professor who tweeted that “Trump must hang” and that Republicans should be executed for each immigrant deported. “While Fresno State is committed to state and federal constitutional rights of free speech, the content of statements by Dr. [Lars] Maischak warrants further review…

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Why the Maryland Rape Case Is a National Issue, According to One Lawmaker
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 16, 2026

In the debate over illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities, and walls, there’s a great deal of existing policy undergoing re-examination. Last month, two young men, one 17 and one 18, who allegedly entered the country illegally and were enrolled in the ninth grade were charged with raping a 14-year-old girl at Rockville High School in Rockville,…

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How States Are Trying to Force Federal Government to Control Spending
By[email protected] April 11, 2017April 17, 2026

Georgia state Rep. Paulette Rakestraw helped lead her state to be the first to join a formal interstate compact to push the federal government to balance the budget since she doesn’t believe the federal government will fix its own fiscal mess. “The problem in Washington is the structure, you can replace everyone there and it’s…

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Peggy Noonan, Who Explored Why Trump Appeals to Americans, Wins Pulitzer for Commentary
By[email protected] April 10, 2017April 16, 2026

In a rare acknowledgement of conservative journalists by the most powerful arbiter of serious journalism, political commentator and columnist Peggy Noonan on Monday won a Pulitzer Prize for her columns for The Wall Street Journal on the 2016 presidential campaign. Awarding her the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, judges said Noonan earned it for…

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College May Punish Students Who Disrupted Conservative’s Speech
By[email protected] April 10, 2017April 16, 2026

Claremont McKenna College officials have announced possible repercussions for students who protested a conservative speaker’s speech last week. Protesters successfully blocked students and professors from entering an on-campus building to hear Heather Mac Donald’s pro-police speech, as reported by The Daily Signal last Friday. Mac Donald is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think…

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What’s at Stake in the Coming 4-Day Spending Fight
By[email protected] April 10, 2017April 17, 2026

When Congress returns from its Easter recess April 24, lawmakers will have only four legislative days left to decide on a spending plan that prevents a government shutdown. With such a narrow window, the House and Senate will have little choice but to pass a huge, omnibus spending bill and again put off a return…

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E-Cigarette Critics Get Research Dollars From Industry Competitors
By[email protected] April 10, 2017April 16, 2026

Some interesting news recently landed in Jeff Stier’s inbox. “Today’s a good day to quit smoking!” proclaimed an email from NYC Quits, part of a statewide tobacco control program that gives away free nicotine patches and gum every year. Stier said the fact that the patch has government backing as a smoking cessation product is…

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OMB Director Set to Tell Agencies to Prep for Substantial Cuts
By[email protected] April 10, 2017April 17, 2026

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is reportedly slated to send a letter to federal agencies later this week warning them to prep for substantial budget cuts. The guidance letter falls in line with President Donald Trump’s March 13 executive order aimed at making the government leaner and more efficient, Axios first reported. The order…

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Gorsuch Joins the Supreme Court With Nod to Scalia
By[email protected] April 10, 2017April 16, 2026

Neil M. Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court on Monday morning as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch once clerked, administered the judicial oath of office in a formal Rose Garden ceremony. The White House event shortly after 11 a.m. followed a private swearing-in two hours earlier at the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice John…

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Trump’s First Big Foreign Policy Move a Departure From Stump Speeches
By[email protected] April 7, 2017April 16, 2026

The defining foreign policy decision of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days is a significant shift from his noninterventionist rhetoric on the campaign trail in facing down Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. “I am flexible and I’m proud of that flexibility,” @POTUS says. Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, longtime…

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Claremont College Students Shut Down Conservative Speaker
By[email protected] April 7, 2017April 16, 2026

Protesters from the Claremont Colleges successfully prevented conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald from speaking on the Claremont Mckenna College campus. Students at the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of undergraduate and graduate liberal arts colleges in Claremont, California, blocked entrances to the building that Mac Donald was scheduled to speak in. Mac Donald, a senior fellow…

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4 Lessons Conservatives Should Learn From Getting Gorsuch Through
By[email protected] April 7, 2017April 16, 2026

Leaders of organizations that worked to help win Senate confirmation for Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, say conservatives can learn valuable lessons from the process. “I think first of all you start with an incredibly talented, well-qualified candidate like Gorsuch and that makes the whole job easier,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel…

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After Missile Attack, the Challenges Facing Trump in Syria
By[email protected] April 7, 2017April 16, 2026

After President Donald Trump was mostly cheered by the international community for his missile strikes targeted at the Syrian government, he must now grapple with how to pair his first use of decisive military force with a strategy to contest a six-year-old war that has challenged the world. U.S. officials described Trump’s sudden decision to…

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US Cruise Missiles and an EU Vote Deal Putin 2 Setbacks in 1 Day
By[email protected] April 7, 2017April 16, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine—Thursday was a bad day for the Kremlin. In the span of a few hours, Russia’s two foreign policy mantelpieces—its military adventures in Ukraine and Syria—were both dealt body blows. One came from a United States cruise missile attack on a Syrian regime air base where Russian military forces were deployed. The strike was…

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Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court
By[email protected] April 7, 2017April 16, 2026

The Senate voted 54-45 on Friday to confirm Judge Neil M. Gorsuch as the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge who was nominated Jan. 31 by President Donald Trump, will be sworn into office in two ceremonies Monday, the White House said. “As a deep believer in the…

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US Cruise Missiles Strike Air Base in Syria
By[email protected] April 6, 2017April 16, 2026

The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at an airfield in Syria that military officials said was the source of the poison gas attack by the Assad regime that killed at least 80 civilians less than 48 hours earlier. “No child of God should ever suffer such horror," @POTUS says. President Donald Trump said…

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