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In Venezuela, President Trump is reminding us that America First doesn’t mean America alone.Yesterday, President Trump announced a total economic embargo of Venezuela to freeze all assets controlled by the Maduro regime and its business dealings.Today, Trump Administration officials are in Peru to discuss how democracy will be restored by the people of Venezuela and how the United States and our Latin American allies will continue to provide needed humanitarian assistance to Venezuelans. The United States will be joined in Peru by representatives from 59 countries, including 18 Latin American countries, the Vatican, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea,...

People on the right and the left have been warning of a “new Civil War” for some time now. There may or may not be something brewing in the future, where liberals and conservatives simply cannot live together, but we aren’t there yet. There is, however, a war raging right now, and it threatens our ability not only to avoid something horrible, but communicate at all. Progressives are actively working to control what people say by controlling what words are acceptable to use. If you can control the language, you can control the people. And controlling people is the...

A suspect armed with "machete knives" fatally stabbed four random people and wounded two others in a Southern California stabbing spree Wednesday, police said. An unidentified 33-year-old Orange County man who police said was "full of anger" was arrested. He allegedly stabbed a woman at an insurance business, two men at the Garden Grove apartment complex where he lived and a man at a gas station. The crimes spanned a period of two hours from Garden Grove to Santa Ana, which are under 10 miles from each other

No10 aides think holding a vote hours after we quit Europe would give the Conservatives a boost from Leave voters. Today’s Spectator magazine reports that officials are keen to negate the threat posed to the Tories by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. The timing of the poll would also hamper Remainers who currently claim that they can stop us crashing out of the EU without a trade deal. PM Johnson has promised Brexit will happen on October 31. If he goes to the country the next day, it would be the first time since 1931 that a General Election has been...

The gunning down of abortion doctor David Gunn in Florida last week shows us how small the barrier has become that separates civilized from uncivilized behavior in American life. In our time, the United States suffers every day of the week because there are now so many marginalized people among us who don't understand the rules, who don't think that rules of personal or civil conduct apply to them, who have no notion of self-control. We are the country that has a TV commercial on all the time that says: "Just do it." Michael Frederick Griffin just did it.... As...

The mass murder in Dayton Ohio appears to have started with the killing of the perpetrator's sister and the wounding of her boyfriend. Several rampage murders have started with the killing of relatives. Ideologically motivated rampage murders seldom do.  Images of the firearm used have been released by the Dayton Police Department.The firearm appears to be a pistol customized from an Anderson AM-15 lower receiver and other parts, including a blade arm brace. The AM-15 is not a typo. The AM stands for Anderson Manufacturing. The AM-15 was ordered from Texas, online, and delivered to a local Ohio federal...

In response to the barbed discourse that can come from President Trump himself, the responses of his enemies have ramped up over the years, intensified by a crowd of Democrats who seek to oust him. What began as simple recoil against his policies has morphed into personal attacks that have sought to paint him as a racist, a homophobe, an Islamophobe, a xenophobe, a misogynist, a serial sexual predator and a Russian spy. It is hard to imagine a tactic that would even raise eyebrows after years of such onslaughts. That’s why one of the lowest, most repulsive acts by...

It was quite a surprise to find out that we Trump voters were personally responsible for the savage murder sprees of a creep who dug single-payer and a satanist fan of Big Chief Warren. The El Paso scumbag decided he wanted to murder Hispanics because migration would somehow destroy the environment, which falls right in line with classical progressive eugenics balderdash. The Democrat from Dayton was full-on #Resistance. But apparently we conservatives were to blame for their actions because we refuse to give up our rights. Now, those links I just outlined between these idiots’ political beliefs and liberals should...

Left’s fearmongering is becoming more extreme. From the Tucker Carlson Show last night.The first nine minutes are EXCELLENT …….. Enjoy this clear illustration of the pernicious and deadly INSANITY directed toward DJT. If this isn’t a civil war it looks like it will be.

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Like a human wave every few minutes, two hundred or so tourists surge towards the "Mona Lisa," mobile phones in hand to make the best of every second of their time in front of the world's most famous painting. Hundreds of other hearts sink as museum attendants swiftly draw the rope across to hold back the next wave of the queue that snakes round the vast gallery in the Louvre in Paris.

It’s no shocker that President Trump is on the way to a second term if this keeps up. Democrats are embracing immensely unpopular policy positions on health care and immigration. It’s a full-blown clown show. Democrats want open borders. Sorry, when you push decriminalizing border crossings and giving health care to illegal aliens, that’s open borders and something that a supermajority of Americans oppose. They also oppose Medicare for All if it replaces private insurance, which it will. There’s no getting around that either. Hundreds of millions of plans will be gutted. The debate on the Left is whether to...

Claire Fox: Brexit party MEP for the North WestAs the by-election result came through from Wales last week, one Tory Leaver tweeted this:“Brecon and Radnor is a timely warning to Brexiteers. Vote for the @brexitparty_uk and you will hand another seat to Remain. How could you be so stupid?”. I was furious at the arrogance. But this view has now become the narrative popularised by some Tory grandees and voters Does the rise of the new Brexity Boris and his band of Brexiteer advisors signal the end for the newly formed, insurgent Brexit party? Should the Brexit party stand down...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a top Democrat in the 2020 presidential elections, said President Trump is a white supremacist and has done “everything in his power to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country. Warren made the comments in an interview with The New York Times, which was published early Thursday. The remarks came after two mass shootings last weekend that resulted in 31 deaths. Democrats have placed the blame on Trump’s rhetoric for the shooting. Beto O’Rourke also labeled the president a white supremacist.

Several times now, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has compared aborting an unborn baby to having tonsils removed. But a new fact check by Politifact may confuse some voters about the truth. On Wednesday, it ran the headline: “The Elizabeth Warren quote likening abortion to tonsil removal? It’s edited and taken out of context.” Some voters could take that to mean that Warren never made the comparison at all, but she clearly did. The Massachusetts senator made the comparison twice in writing in 2018, something Politifact acknowledged. Politifact based its fact check on a post about Warren that Facebook recently...

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Not until the waning days of the Philadelphia Convention in September did our Framers complete their plan of the Electoral College. As with the other major institutions of their Constitution, (House, Senate, Judiciary) they were careful to properly match electors to these institutions, meaning those who installed the members of the House, Senate, Presidency and Judiciary had a natural interest in the duties of the institutions. It is why, for instance, the people did not elect Senators and states did not elect Representatives to the House. Delegates established a quorum eleven days after the scheduled start date of May 14th....

A man accused of killing Los Angeles Police Department Officer Juan Diaz outside a taco stand in Lincoln Heights after the policeman and a friend told him to stop tagging a sidewalk has been charged with murder, authorities said Tuesday. Diaz, 24, was off-duty when he was gunned down near Avenue 26 and Humboldt Street around 1 a.m. on July 27. But those accused of killing him were involved in a series of other crimes that same night, including another shooting, according to LAPD. That second shooting allegedly targeted an ex-boyfriend. Cristian Adrian Facundo, the 20-year-old suspected of fatally shooting...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 70-year-old man camping in a Walmart parking lot put a hot cook stove in his van, causing it to catch fire and spread to another van, burning two young sisters and killing one of them, authorities said Wednesday. Prosecutors charged Roberto Lino Hipolito of Long Beach, California, with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of negligent fire, all felonies. According to the complaint, Hipolito and his wife slept overnight in their van outside a Walmart in Fridley, Minnesota, a northern Minneapolis suburb. Surveillance video shows Hipolito cooking something on the stove, then putting it in the van...

College is too expensive for students to waste money paying incompetent professors who teach the long discredited belief that carbon dioxide has a magical power to affect the temperature of the air. I recognize that some of the professors who push Enron's global warming scam are crooked rather than incompetent. The science version of prostitutes will say science is whatever their employers want it to be. The claim that slight changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2 could affect air temperature is based on a primitive early 19th Century belief that infrared radiation was "heat" and the atmosphere was heated...