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Pretty incredible how @IlhanMN and @CoriBush, who both claim to support climate action, voted in the interest of Big Russian Oil here https://t.co/EVoBaQBMTd— Brent Peabody 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@brent_peabody) March 10, 2022

Roughly 75 percent of registered voters believe defunding police departments is either a “major” or “minor” reason for rising violent crime in the United States, a new Morning Consult/Politico poll found. The survey, conducted on Feb. 5-6 with 2,005 registered voters and a ±2 percentage point margin of error, found that nearly half — 49 percent — think defunding police departments is a “major reason” for rising violent crime. Twenty-six percent believe cutting funds is a minor reason, and a quarter of those polled do not think defunding police departments have contributed to rising violent crime at all. The survey...

Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), who spent thousands on her own private security last year, continues to champion the “Defund the Police” movement, despite its floundering popularity among Democrats. “My colleagues keep telling us to wait. They keep telling us defunding the police and investing in communities won’t work,” the congresswoman tweeted. “Well their policies keep ending up with police murdering Black people. Enough patronizing. Listen to the movements that are telling you how to save lives.” Bush’s tweet follows a comment from President Joe Biden slamming the “Defund the Police” movement and blaming guns from the crime wave in...

The anti-cop 'Defund the Police' rhetoric pushing Democrat Rep. Cori Bush announced on social media that her car was hit by bullets and then she got wrecked in the comment section. This happened back in June of 2020, but we're just seeing it now because we had no idea how we missed it. Cori Bush is a mouthy Democrat who couldn't make the cut of AOC's "The Squad" and it's hilarious in a hypocritical way that the one person talking so much trash about police is about to need the cops in a major way. Her stinking car was SHOT,...

The American Civil Liberties Union should not cavalierly take the side of prosecutors against the concept of self-defense. Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot and killed two men during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer, was acquitted on Friday. Prosecutors had charged him with first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, but the jury was persuaded by Rittenhouse's argument that he acted in self-defense. For anyone who had followed the trial closely, this outcome is unsurprising. The prosecution simply did not meet its burden of proof, and Rittenhouse's...

A group of House Democrats will propose a resolution urging the Biden administration to condemn Israel and support six Palestinian groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Jewish state. Rep. Betty McCollum (D., Minn.) plans to introduce a resolution celebrating the designated Palestinian groups for the "value and importance" of their "courageous work," according to Haaretz. The resolution will be cosponsored by several House Democrats, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.). Among the groups backed in the Democratic resolution are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated...

Congresswoman Cori Bush’s abortion story is full of contradictions. Earlier this month, the Missouri politician told her story to Congress to advocate for abortion on demand. But the heartbreaking details she shared about her experience betrayed her goal. She admitted to experiencing racism within the abortion industry and acknowledged that aborting her unborn baby led to “the darkest period of my life.” In a new interview with Vogue, Bush insisted that her abortion was about “mov[ing] on with my life,” and she slammed state lawmakers’ efforts to protect unborn babies through heartbeat laws and other legislation as “ludicrous.” “The narrative...

Multiple congresswomen recently shared their personal stories about abortion. The media focused on three of them. But a fourth – a story about choosing life – should be told too. On September 30, three Democratic representatives made headlines after telling their abortion stories during a House hearing on “Examining the Urgent Need to Protect and Expand Abortion Rights and Access.” Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, and Rep. Barbara Lee of California delivered their testimonies. Of the three, the media led with Rep. Bush’s story. After graduating high school at 17, Rep. Bush remembered joining a...

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.) is silent on whether he will return a $3,000 donation from a prominent Palestinian activist who called Israel a "parasite" that "sucks the blood of America." Osama Abuirshaid, the executive director of American Muslims for Palestine, during an interview with Jordan's Yarmouk TV on Sept. 22 described Israel as "a parasite living off the American body" that "sucks the blood of America and scatters its attention," according to a translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute. Abuirshaid, who has a history of anti-Semitic comments, donated $3,000 to Meeks in March,...

Video Learn how the media (mis)reports Palestinian casualty numbers to tarnish Israel's reputation.

House of Representatives approves $1b. for Iron Dome by landslide Eight Democrats — Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Andre Carson, Marie Newman, Jesus Garcia, Raul Grivalva — and one Republican, Rep. Tom Massie, voted against

Fresh off of her comments to CBSN about needing private security as she calls for the defunding of police to leave her constituents unprotected from violent offenders, Squad member and Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) was welcomed like a conquering hero Sunday morning on CNN's State of the Union as co-host Dana Bush bought into Bush's savior shtick.Teasing the segment, Bash said that with her recent sit-in on the Capitol steps, Bush had thrown "millions of struggling Americans a potential lifeline." And Bash praised Bush for "forcing action." The CNN host was effusive in her praise as she began her questioning...

VIDEOOn the heels of Congresswoman Cori Bush telling everybody to "suck it up" because she has private security while demanding to defund the police, a worried Dana Bash on CNN's "State Of The Union" asked Bush if she was concerned that her self-centered rant could harm the Democrats. What followed was another Cori Bush rant that avoided answering the question while hilariously sending poor Dana Bash into shock. For best comedic effect, focus your eyes on Bash's stunned face while Bush rants incoherently.

Appearing on CNN's New Day this morning, a Democrat strategist accused Republicans of wanting "to basically turn Florida into a morgue."But in a mark of just how deep CNN and the Dems have dived into loony-left extremism, the guy, Michael Starr Hopkins, was brought on to represent the centrist wing of the party!Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The president knows what he ordered the CDC to do is illegal. He did it anyway to appease the left wing of his party.An astonishing thing happened this week in Washington that didn’t get much critical coverage from a media establishment loath to criticize President Biden. At the behest of congressional Democrats, Biden flouted the Constitution and broke his oath of office by issuing a ban on evictions that he and his advisers know to be illegal.By “ban on evictions” I mean the president issued a blatantly unconstitutional decree that renters all across America don’t have to pay rent. If...

Far-left Congressional Democrats Cori Bush (Missouri), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) slept in the rough on the Capitol steps over the weekend, surrounded by cases of bottled water, pizza boxes, staffers and fawning press. These Democrats, who are part of a group who call themselves "The Squad," are protesting the end of the federal moratorium on evictions, which expired Saturday night, and warning of soaring homelessness. They should have been shooed away by Capitol Police for their stunt. Camping on public property is against the law in the District of Columbia. It threatens public safety, creates disorder and...

Rep. Cori Bush has been sleeping on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The far-left Missouri Democrat and her allies are protesting Saturday’s expiration of the federal government’s order banning evictions nationwide. But a disturbing aspect of the congresswoman’s stunt makes this much more than a mere dispute over housing policy.... The “eviction moratorium” has, rather predictably, led to many properties being occupied by nonpaying tenants, bankrupting innocent landlords (whose mortgage payments and bills were not paused). It also has had the perverse effect of leading many landlords to keep possible rentals off the market... here are too many obvious...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday issued a moratorium on evictions targeting areas of the country with high levels of COVID-19 transmission, extending an eviction ban for much of the nation just days after a blanket moratorium had expired. The CDC order applies to counties experiencing significant levels of virus spread, which is defined by the agency as 50 to 100 cases per 100,000 people. A congressional source said the order will likely apply to roughly 90 percent of the renter population in the U.S. The order will expire on Oct. 3. It was issued after...

VIDEOAfter being castigated by her fellow leftists for her failure to ACT on moving Medicare For All forward, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez felt compelled into assuming Controlled Opposition Performance Art mode to hilariously pretend she (and Cori Bush) were unable to keep Congress from adjourning because they couldn't run fast enough through the halls of Congress. I kid you not. Yes, if only, if only AOC had just been just a little bit faster on her feet perhaps she could have extended the federal eviction moratorium. It sounds like a scene out of her future bio movie about the "radical" (but...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said Friday night that she would sleep outside the US Capitol in an effort to persuade Congress to extend the nationwide moratorium on evictions set to expire Saturday. “Many of my Democratic colleagues chose to go on vacation early today rather than staying to vote to keep people in their homes,” Bush tweeted. “I’ll be sleeping outside the Capitol tonight. We’ve still got work to do.” Bush, 45, who experienced a period of homelessness nearly two decades ago, sent a letter to her colleagues earlier Friday calling on them to stay in Washington DC a little...