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Red alert! HJR1018, the $293 million tax increase for highways Constitutional Amendment has been deceptively scheduled for today upon adjournment of the AR Senate around 2-3? I'll try to livestream the event on my facebook page with commentary or you can watch it on your own here: Arkansas Legislator website) Agenda that was not available last night)

Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security released new numbers showing 76,000 illegal aliens crossed the southern border into the United States in February, a significant increase from the 58,000 individuals who crossed in January. Today Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is holding a hearing about the problem. "Contrary to what some political opponents and media outlets claim the situation at our southern border is dangerous and growing worse. It’s not a hoax. It’s not a manufactured crisis. It’s not a cable television ploy. It is real. It is serious. It is a threat. And it poses a direct...

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The breakneck speed with which Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has shepherded Trump-friendly judges through the confirmation process is apparently not enough — according to Politico, McConnell is clearing the way to smash the glass on the new nuclear option. McConnell wants to change the rules so that lower-court nominees can be confirmed by a simple majority vote, an easy way to circumvent Democratic obstinance. Per Politico, Republicans think they have the 50 votes for the nuclear option but would prefer party unity. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) was reportedly on the Senate floor trying to woo moderate Sen. Susan...

Donald Trump is in trouble in Florida, a state that’s crucial to his reelection hopes. Just 40 percent of Florida voters said they believed the president should be reelected, while 53 percent were opposed to a second term, according to a new Bendixen & Amandi International poll. Trump’s approval ratings were also poor, with 43 percent having a favorable impression of Trump, and 52 percent viewing him unfavorably — and 46 percent very unfavorably. Trump’s approval ratings look even worse when compared with the man he helped make Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, who has a 50 percent approval rating while...

In that regard Bernie Sanders is still Hillary Clinton’s straw man Had it not been for Hillary Clinton, Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders would never have been in the 2016 Democrat primaries. True that the then 75-year-old Sanders would have been the same old, same old Vermont senator spouting off his crazed Socialist ideas from Senate back benches, but he became Clinton’s straw man in 2016 primaries—to keep anyone with a better chance of winning DNC sanction—leaving the coast clear for a soon-to-be-defeated Hillary Clinton.

He isn’t obsessed with you, Hillary. It is YOU who is über obsessed with him Falling up the stairs, being tossed into a van like a side of beef by her staff doesn’t work for Hillary Clinton anymore. Photo ops and media attention are much harder to find now that she’s just Citizen Clinton. Citizen Clinton must have thought she hit pay dirt when she announced that she was not running for 2020 election yesterday—and scored even more news headlines when it came out today that she “wasn’t trying to ‘close the door’ on 2020” when she said she was...

She’s been playing this game for months. “I’d like to be president,” she said in October, stressing that “the work would be work that I feel very well prepared for having been at the Senate for eight years, having been a diplomat in the State Department.” She said she’d think about her role in the party after the midterms — but added that no, she wasn’t running. Did that mean she wasn’t running at the moment or that she wouldn’t run? Her spokesman pointed to that “no” when reporters came calling, seemingly closing the door on Hillary 2020.

The top 11 U.S. pay TV operators lost 2.87 million customers in 2018, nearly double the 1.5 million the domestic ecosystem shed in 2017. These are the latest quarterly findings by Leichtman Research Group (LRG), which measures the leading operators covering 95% of the U.S. market. The big negative drivers were the two satellite TV companies, DirecTV and Dish Network, which lost a ton of customers on the linear side, but this time couldn’t make up for it with gains by their low-margin virtual pay TV services. The two satellite carriers lost a combined 2.36 million linear customers in 2018,...

Opposition to President Trump's emergency border declaration is snowballing in the Senate, forcing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to scramble for a way to avoid a major embarrassment for the president. While McConnell has long viewed a resolution of disapproval backed by Democrats as likely to pass the Senate, support for the measure is growing. Some senators and aides say they think it could get as many as 15 Republican votes, which would put it in striking distance of a veto-proof majority. "Members of the Senate ought to have a real problem and not be flippant about allowing the president...

Wisconsin Democrats fear they are about to ignored again by national leaders as the party weighs whether to hold its 2020 presidential convention in Milwaukee or Miami. "Let's face it, Wisconsin was neglected, forgotten by Hillary Clinton," said Matt Rothschild, executive director of the progressive activist organization Wisconsin Democratic Campaign. He was referring to Clinton's fateful decision not to campaign at all in the state during the 2016 general election campaign. He suggested that national party leaders are being influenced by big-money donors and tantalized by Miami's beaches and trendy clubs at the expense of the Midwest. "Democrats in Wisconsin...

Civil liberties activists have long argued that bulk collection of Americans’ phone records doesn’t make us any safer. Now, we’ve got pretty clear evidence that’s the case. Luke Murry, an adviser to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told the Lawfare Podcast on Saturday that for the last six months the Trump administration “hasn’t actually been using” the phone record collection program authorized by the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act. He added that he’s unsure if the administration will ask Congress to reauthorize this program at the end of the year. If Murry is telling the truth about the administration’s non-use...

Some 18 months after being rescued from stone-throwing children, a street-dwelling mongrel has emerged as India's top dog in the country's elite bomb- and drug-sniffing squad. "Asha" - meaning "hope" in Hindi - was rescued by West Bengal police when they found her being mistreated outside their training facility. "The dog was bleeding when she was taken inside the campus," senior West Bengal Police Training Academy official Dipankar Bhattacharya told AFP. Officers originally intended keeping the mixed-breed stray as a pet, but Asha turned out to have a nose every bit as good as the German Shepherds and Labradors usually...

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When I look at what’s happening on the other side, I encourage it,” President Trump told CPAC attendees on Saturday. “Is the wind blowing today? I’d like to watch television, darling.” The president was making a fundamental and inarguable point. No one can rely 100 percent on renewable energy because it’s not available anywhere close to 100 percent of the time. Thanks to the "Green New Deal," energy (or rather the lack of it) will be one of the top three issues in the 2020 election. Yet the president will go into this fight with one arm tied behind his...

Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security released new numbers showing 76,000 illegal aliens crossed the southern border into the United States in February, further overwhelming and hemoraging resources. They were apprehended. White House Press Secretary Sanders is putting that number into context. Saagar Enjeti ✔@esaagar Sarah Sanders on new border apprehension numbers: "76,000 illegal individuals came across our border just last month alone.... That would fill MetLife stadium.... If that doesn't define crisis, I don't know what does." 134 In January, 58,000 individuals crossed. "As border personnel deal with the surge of family unit aliens and alien minors arriving...

President Trump and his son Eric Trump helped fulfill a terminally ill man's dying wish with a phone call on Tuesday evening. And it all came to pass because of his Democrat sister. Connecticut native Jay Barrett has been struggling with cystic fibrosis and undergoing palliative care at his sister's home. With doctors giving him six months to live, Barrett asked his sister, West Haven City Councilwoman Bridgette Hoskie, for a favor: contact with the president before he dies.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday defended President Trump's assessment that the situation at the southern border constitutes a national emergency, telling lawmakers that an extended influx in migrants could "overwhelm" the immigration system. Nielsen testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security that illegal immigration "is spiraling out of control and threatening public safety and national security." Democrats pressed her on whether the situation genuinely required Trump's emergency declaration, which the House voted to overturn last week. "Although we may disagree on solutions, I hope there can be a consensus that the current system isn’t working and that...

Hey CNN: you want an example of a President truly being distracted from important official business by personal matters? That would be Bill Clinton, being attended to by Monica Lewinsky while on the phone with a congressman regarding US troops in Bosnia. Now that's a concerning distraction. Yet on this morning's New Day, co-host John Berman fretted that President Trump's signing of a check on days he was also fulfilling his official duties constituted a "jarring juxtaposition." Alisyn Camerota echoed Berman's concern over the "juxtaposition." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.