Court papers show that the Trump campaign had debunked election conspiracy theories before Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell accused Dominion Voting Systems of conspiring to steal the presidency. The accusation by Giuliani and Powell came in a bizarre press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on November 19. (The New York Times) The court […]
The president’s party almost always loses seats in midterm elections, but a new poll out of the heartland is particularly ominous for Democrats. Though no longer the swing state it once was, Iowa remains competitive for Democrats in the right environment. Polling shows they have their work cut out for them this cycle. CNN’s Chris […]
We all know that guns claim innocent lives every year, but a new report from RealClearInvestigations chronicles how gun owners use firearms far more often to save lives than widely believed. Americans who look only at the daily headlines would be surprised to learn that, according to academic estimates, defensive gun uses — including instances when guns […]
Sorry, liberals—despite what you might think, border patrol agents weren’t whipping migrants huddled under the Del Rio bridge. A Tweet from Vice News this week claimed that law enforcement agents “are whipping Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border in Texas.” Yet neither the story nor the accompanying video shows mounted police whipping migrants. The El Paso […]
Bipartisan police reform efforts in the wake of high-profile incidents of police violence have officially ended. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) didn’t hide his disappointment from the media after negotiations with his Democratic colleague New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker failed to achieve consensus more than one year after the death of George Floyd. Sens. Scott and […]
McConnell Hopeful to Get Republicans Out of the Woods Post-Trump
With another day comes another excerpt from Bob Woodward and Robert Acosta’s book, Peril, that takes us inside the proverbial smoke-filled rooms of Washington, D.C. The latest revelation from Woodward and Acosta is that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) not only doesn’t fear Donald Trump’s wrath; he doesn’t believe embracing Trump is a viable path out of the […]