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In July Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe stood on the platform of a train station in Alexandria to announce that the U.S. Department of Transportation had granted $165 million for the Atlantic Gateway project.While this is a multimodal project featuring rail, bus, and highway improvements, it was clearly the latter that most enthused the governor. At one point during his remarks, he declared that because of the road projects, “Today, the congestion is going to end!”The primary focus of the highway improvements will be an extension of the HOT (high occupancy toll) lanes on I-95 and I-395. The only other speaker...

Subtitle – Article V to Avoid a General Convention.Publius Huldah. Upon declaring Independence in July of 1776, the states operated under the Articles of Confederation (AC). (Timeline: 22:00 – 24:00. View her speech.) Delegates to the federal convention of 1787 disobeyed congress and their states when they went beyond their orders to draft revisions of the AC. Ms. Huldah cites Article XIII of the AC as governing authority. As demonstrated in Philadelphia, convention delegates then as now have inherent authority to do as they please. Therefore, it will be impossible to stop similar antics at a future convention of states.Rodney...

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to place on Friday evening a congratulatory call to US president-elect Donald Trump, a Palace official confirmed. Presidential Communications Office Assistant Sec. Ana Marie Banaag said she does not have yet any information on what the talking points would be between the equally controversial personalities. Banaag also said she is also not yet sure whether Duterte will be invited to Trump’s inauguration in January. The phone conversation could signal an improvement of ties between the US and the Philippines, two long-time allies in the Pacific. The US, under outgoing President Barack Obama, has...

Two weeks in and it’s already ancient news that 120 people, including several Portland State students, were arrested during a demonstration in downtown Portland on Nov. 12. The myriad of ongoing demonstrations have included blocked freeways, a shooting on the Morrison Bridge, disruption caused by violent factions—and subsequent fundraising efforts to repair property damage—and the ongoing drama of post-election rumors of fraud and recount petitions. It is easy to lose sight of those individually affected by current events. Daniel Vega, a senior at PSU studying music composition and completing his Bachelor of Music degree, was among those arrested on Nov....

Progressive media pundit Nomiki Konst is under fire for her comments accusing Ohio State University Officer Alan Horujko of having “rushed to judgment” by shooting terror suspect Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who carried out an attack at the school this past Monday. (video below) Fox News host Megyn Kelly had asked Konst for her thoughts on the following tweet from Democrat Tim Kaine, which prematurely described the incident as an act of gun violence. Konst responded by saying, “Senator Kaine should not have rushed to judgment, should have waited for the facts to come in, as should have the police...

This afternoon, members of the Energy & Commerce Committee's Select Investigative Panel revealed on the House floor some of the results of their nearly year-long investigation of Planned Parenthood's baby parts trafficking business. Rep. Mia Love announced that the Panel has referred Planned Parenthood and some of its biggest business partners to state, federal, and local law enforcement for criminal prosecution:

this video shows hundreds of illegal Africans being allowed to cross the border.....I just don't no about this the date for the video being taken is the 30th of november

At Donald Trump's first post-victory "Thank You" rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, the president-elect outlined his "America First" policy. He said that attempts to "separate us by race, by age, by income, by place of birth, and by geography" were over. He said: "Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us. You know what that is? America." He continued: "We hear a lot of talk about how we are becoming a 'globalized world.' But the relationships that people value in this country are local." "There is no global anthem. No global currency. No certificate of global...

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The myth that a complete replacement package has to be in place the moment Obamacare is repealed refuses to die First congressional Republicans said they couldn’t repeal Obamacare because they didn’t have full control of Congress. Then when they gained control of both chambers of Congress congressional Republicans said they couldn’t repeal Obamacare because they didn’t control the White House.

If I offended you by calling you stupid, I’m really sorry, but I thought you already knew! Everyone has a constitutional right to be stupid but politicians have abused the privilege. Liberals/progressives have been taking control of America’s institutions for over a hundred years: churches, public schools, universities, entertainment, politics, etc. So how has that worked out? Are we better off now than we were 25 years ago? Churches are supposed to be the moral compass of this nation but the churches have lost their way. Most of the mainline denominational churches are led by educated fools who are afraid...

"Tax returns?” We ain't got no tax returns. We don't need no tax returns. We don't have to show you any stinking tax returns! “The top Senate Democrats on several committees will launch a push Thursday to require President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees to provide their tax returns to committees before their confirmation hearings. “Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Patty Murray of Washington and Ron Wyden of Oregon will hold a press conference at noon to press for a Senate rules change requiring all Cabinet nominees to submit three years of their tax returns to the panel charged with reviewing their...

If after all the devious machinations Trump still wins this will be used by the Sandernistas and the Clintonites to cry rigged system The recount in Wisconsin and the coming ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania will not change the outcomes in any of those states.  Even though the party of Mayor Daley, Boss Tweed, and their big city machines are famous for winning recounts by finding bags of votes in candy store basements no recount has ever changed thousands of votes let alone tens of thousands.  I do not believe changing the outcome is the purpose. It is instead changing...

I found out Donald Trump had won the Electoral College while midstream in providing a urine sample for the emergency psychiatric staff of a New York City public hospital. The unlockable bathroom door in this unescapable wing was ajar, and I could hear the victorious Mike Pence’s sinister Sunday-school baritone taunting me with the truth from the hallway television. For the preceding witching hours of election night, I had lain in a fetal position amidst a cast of anonymous men nursing their own crises, my hands clasped tightly over my ears. It wasn’t that I minded the howls of the...

This is disturbing. How many African Muslim Migrants are actually coming into the U.S? Video

The deal that President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence brokered to keep Carrier jobs in Indiana likely hinges on its parent company's fear about losing business with the federal government, said an official who will play a critical role in approving the agreement. Trump and Pence will visit Indiana on Thursday to announce they’ve delivered on a campaign promise to keep about 1,000 factory jobs from moving to Monterrey, Mexico. The agreement reportedly includes $7 million in state tax breaks over ten years offered by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, a quasi-public entity that doesn't require legislative approval...

Brutal She calls it “cultural homelessness,” and her theory is that Muslims who come to the United States don’t feel like they’re accepted by their new country - thus prompting them to commit terror attacks like the one that occured at Ohio State University on Monday. It’s kind of a weird theory considering that she then goes on to claim American “right-wing extremists” commit more terrorist attacks than radical Islamists. Are they culturally homeless? Anyway, I suppose you have to give Georgetown Professor Engy Abdelkader credit for bringing this premise to Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News. You go on...

in October 2015, I wrote that the picture of Trump as “the white power candidate” and “the first openly white supremacist candidate to have a shot at the Presidency in the modern era” was overblown. I . . . predicted that: If Trump were the Republican nominee, he could probably count on equal or greater support from minorities as Romney or McCain before him. Now the votes are in, and Trump got greater support from minorities than Romney or McCain before him . . . Trump made gains among blacks. He made gains among Latinos. He made gains among Asians....

Homeschooled, conservative, pro-life -- he's the Left's worst nightmare Some people run before they learn to walk. I’m referring to Sam Oosterhoff, who was sworn in yesterday as an MPP (Member of the Provincial Parliament) in Ontario, Canada. The 19-year-old is the youngest MPP in Ontario’s history after winning in a special election earlier that month. The young conservative lawmaker is already under attack by the Left in his home country.

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