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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday that Judge Neil Gorsuch did little to win over Democrats and predicted that Republicans will not get the votes needed to avoid a filibuster Schumer was among five senators to declare their opposition to Gorsuch Thursday, even before the Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination had ended. Schumer said
Liz Peek, This is the truth: the Freedom Caucus has breathed new life into the demolished Democratic Party. It is Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer who are celebrating the breakdown of efforts to pass the Affordable Care Act – not the country. For eight years Democrats have accused Republicans of being the “Party of No”,
Scott Rasmussen, There are 3,088 counties in America and only 206 of them voted for the winner in each of the last three presidential elections. In other words, these Pivot Counties voted twice for President Obama before switching sides to vote for President Trump in 2016. The Pivot Counties had an outsized impact on the
Michael Qazvini, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), cousin to “horribly unfunny” feminist comedian Amy Schumer, has said that he will filibuster Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s nomination in an attempt to oppose the Republican majority in Congress. Schumer made the pledge in the waning moments of Thursday’s confirmation hearing. The top-ranking Democratic senator has asked
Jacob Sullum, “Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared last week. The main problem with that message: It isn’t true. Yes, using drugs, both legal and illegal ones, can destroy your life, but typically it doesn’t. By arguing that drug education should
Betsy McCaughey, Globalists and Democrats shrieked last week when President Donald Trump proposed cutting American funding for the United Nations by 50 percent. The president dismisses the U.N. as a “waste of time and money.” That’s the least of it. U.S. taxpayers bankroll the U.N. with $10 billion a year. Our hard-earned money perpetuates an
Hank Berrien, According to The Los Angeles Times, Fox News senior judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, has been suspended indefinitely because of the unverified claims he made that British intelligence, urged on by former President Barack Obama, wiretapped Trump Tower. The Times reported Fox News did not respond to inquiries on Monday. Napolitano’s absence on Monday was
Pat Buchanan, The big losers of the Russian hacking scandal may yet be those who invested all their capital in a script that turned out to based on a fairy tale. In Monday’s Intelligence Committee hearings, James Comey did confirm that his FBI has found nothing to support President Trump’s tweet that President Obama ordered
Jim Stinson, Hayden says fewer than 100 agents would have leaked information, president could get names. President Donald Trump could track down the leakers in the federal government who spilled highly classified information to the media last month, said former CIA Director Michael Hayden Thursday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham asked
Hank Berrien, On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, targeted by House Democrats over President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, made a startling admission, boasting, “I’m the best thing that happened to DACA. It is still on the books.” Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, aka DACA, was implemented by the Obama administration in June 2012, permitting
Fox News Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano claimed “three intelligence sources” say President Obama looked to British spy agency GCHQ to obtain transcripts of conversations involving President Donald Trump. Napolitano said, “[T]hree intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn’t use the NSA. He didn’t use
Paul Driessen, The Trump White House wants significant reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency: two dozen or more programs, including a dozen dealing with President Obama’s climate initiatives; a 20% downsizing in EPA’s 15,000-person workforce; and a one-fourth reduction in its $8.1 billion budget. The plan requires congressional approval, and thus is hardly a “done