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This afternoon, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before a congressional hearing, and he wasn't prepared for the kind of metaphorical beating he was going to receive. Senator Ted Cruz gave one helluva performance, skull dragging Garland for every single person in the chamber to see. It made for very compelling television. It was magnificent. And before Garland could even begin to process anything, Cruz eviscerated him. He demonstrated just how the AG did, in fact, weaponize the DOJ against parents in an act of political persecution. Garland played stupid—which is never difficult for a leftist hack—as Cruz drilled into him...

US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A defiant Garland stood by his letter labeling parents who protest CRT “domestic terrorists” even though the National School Board Association on Friday apologized for the letter. A Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) wasn’t having it and erupted on Merrick Garland for writing the threatening letter ‘citing news reports’ claiming parents were a danger to school board members. The news reports were referring to Scott Smith, the father a teenage girl who was raped by a boy wearing a skirt in a girl’s bathroom on campus at a...

Arkansas Senator slams Obama administration over treatment of Israel at UN, says Palestinian Authority to blame for conflict. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (Rep.) doubled down on his criticism of the Obama administration's handling of the US-Israel relationship, condemning on Sunday the White House's decision to abstain on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 targeting Israel. Cotton, Arkansas' junior senator who strongly opposed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, lambasted the Obama administration's tacit support for the recently passed UNSC resolution which labelled Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as illegal. Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Cotton reiterated earlier attacks on...