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Appearing Wednesday on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) conviction speech made him emotional and added that he would like his children to be like the Utah Republican.

Did you watch the State of the Union speech? The context of the speech was a bit surreal when one considers that the members of the Senate present to hear this address would be voting the next day on whether to convict and remove the President from office. Since the president didn’t dignify that partisan coup attempt against him with even a mention in the SOTU, I’ll refrain from commenting on that sordid subject here. But I do want to comment on the other surreal spectacle: the members of the Democrat Party refusing to acknowledge, one after another, Trump’s incredible...

George Washington University Law professor and self described Democrat Jonathan Turley is calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resign if she can't maintain the dignity of her position. "While many will celebrate her trolling of the president, she tore up something far more important than a speech. Pelosi has shredded decades of tradition, decorum, and civility that the nation could use now more than ever. The House speaker is more than a political partisan, particularly when carrying out functions such as the State of the Union address. A president appears in the House as a guest of both chambers...

Like most of his Orthodox friends, Richard Goldberg was raised a Democrat. But by 2000, Goldberg had affixed a Republican congressional campaign bumper sticker to the maroon Lincoln Town Car he drove to his Orthodox Jewish high school in Chicago. Spurred by concerns about President Bill Clinton’s Israeli-Arab peace process, disgust with the Monica Lewinsky scandal and a desire to emulate his older brother, Goldberg had decided to become a Republican. Though he was not yet old enough to vote, Goldberg knew he was unusual. He remembers walking into Chicago’s largest Judaica store, Rosenblum’s, to see stacks of yarmulkes adorned...

Democrat women minus AOC plan to revive last year’s white dress code to make a statement at tonight’s State of the Union Address. Moments ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced she will become the 6th Democrat to boycott Trump’s State of the Union address. AOC tweeted: After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution. None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it. Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union. This is a deeply personal decision for...

The Iowa Democratic Party released its first set of results ...

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is getting plenty of heat for tweeting her awful interpretation about why Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was squatting in the aisle of President Trump's plane on Tuesday. According to the Democrat, the Trump campaign was trying to use Carson as their token black surrogate. Claire McCaskill ✔@clairecmc One of these things is not like the others. Hint: they made him squat in the aisle so he was visible. 4,138 10:47 AM - Feb 4, 2020 If McCaskill didn't regret her hot take after the first round of backlash, she sure did after...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) predicted that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) will subpoena former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Nunes said, “I actually have some bad news for you tonight…the president’s going to be acquitted. But the problem is, this isn’t going to end. I just can’t imagine that Adam Schiff, after three-and-a-half years of this nonsense, and Jerry Nadler are not going to continue this, right? They’re going to go back and they’re going...

You could smell the desperation right through the TV. It seems as though it was for the last day that democrats saved the most colossal stupidity. Mazie Hirono let slip that democrats have no use for the Constitution "I don't care what kind of nice, little, legal, constitutional defenses that they came up with" Constitution be damned. I thought that if we waited long enough democrats would reveal themselves. Hakeem Jeffries appeared to be a Trump plant. He argued that the Steele dossier wasn't foreign interference because it was "purchased." Joe Biden drifted off into some distant ethereal world when...

Before Robert “Beto” Francis O’Rourke’s frenetic mannerisms, weird statements, and bold call for total gun confiscation knocked him out of the Democrat presidential primaries, he was considered one of the great hopes of the Democrat Party in Texas. After all, in 2018, in the great, red state of Texas, he had almost beaten Senator Ted Cruz’s bid for reelection. Eliz Markowitz was Beto’s designated successor and really thought she could win in Texas House District 28, a Houston suburb. But just like Beto, Markowitz flamed out, although more spectacularly than Beto did. Markowitz, a Ph.D. who calls herself “doctor” (making...

Just wondering - I've seen all of the headlines filled with wishful thinking - Mitt Romney pledges to have ‘open mind’ during Trump impeachment trial Collins and Romney hold the keys in the impeachment trial. Here’s what they signaled on Day One. Keith Watts: Time for Utah’s senators to make us proud Republican senators consider turning on Trump as impeachment trial set to start Handful of key Senate Republicans will determine whether to call witnesses at President Trump's trial

With the end of the primary season, the Democratic Party leadership and their allies in the national security apparatus have completed the first stage of what might be termed a “friendly takeover” of the Democrats by candidates recruited from among military, CIA and civilian national security cadres. The World Socialist Web Site first identified the phenomenon of the CIA Democrats in a series published in March. At the time we noted the large number of candidates drawn from the military-intelligence apparatus seeking Democratic nominations in competitive congressional districts. If the Democrats won the November election, we warned, such military-intelligence operatives...

James Dees, 53, was released on bond from Leon County, Florida jail on Friday He was arrested after hidden camera caught him writing graffiti on airport walls Dees was fired from his job as a pilot for Endeavor Air, a Delta-owned subsidiary He admitted to police that he wrote racist graffiti against blacks, Hispanics The graffiti included '#MAGA,' 'TRUMP4EVER,' and 'Send them ALL back'  An airline pilot was caught on hidden camera vandalizing a Florida airport with graffiti that included racial slurs and slogans both supporting and opposing President Trump, according to authorities. James Dees, 53, was released on bond from a Leon County...

democrats have unveiled their 2020 campaign platform. It is exactly the same as 2016 and 2018 platforms. Hate Trump. As a preview, Mad Max(ine Waters) has promised that impeachment will be a perennial process for democrats. Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have remarked “In that case, let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” democrats are making a yuge mistake. ABC contributor Sara Fagen notes that the country has moved on, but democrats have not. Jonathan Swan observed that the growing backlash is helping the GOP democrat...

"Most of the big ‘investigations’ in the news in recent years have not been at all what they pretended to be. The sham investigations of Hillary’s email, or the Clinton Foundation, or Weiner’s laptop, or Uranium One, or Mueller’s witch hunt, or Huber’s big nothing, or the IG’s whitewash, or the Schiff-Pelosi charades, have all been premeditated deceptions." The investigations are political theater. The column explores three types of fake investigations.

Ilhan Omar finds herself under investigation by at least three federal agencies. Here’s a timeline of her crime spree. YouTube The FBI has been trying to unweave the complex web of felonies committed by House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5th) and have been outsourcing the heavy load to multiple federal agencies including ICE and the U.S. Department of Education. The investigation began back in October of 2019 when Rep. Steve Drazkowski filed a complaint with the Department of Justice about the overwhelming evidence that had been accruing against Omar indicating she committed a multitude of felonies related to her immigration to...

What’s it like barreling through mountain passes in whiteout conditions – translation for the uninitiated: the combination of snow and wind that results in zero visibility? It sucks. Nobody enjoys it: not thrill seeking adrenaline junkies, ordinary junkies, type A or B personalities, liberals, conservatives, not global warmists or deniers…NOBODY. You are unsafe at any speed and you know it.Allow me to share a little of the “thrill” for those of you south of the Mason-Dixon line who’ve never seen the necessity of learning how to steer into a skid:Yes, that about captures it. I know you can’t see anything...

MYRTLE POINT, Ore. - Melissa Morris was arrested on New Year’s Eve after she told deputies she punched her boyfriend in the face for leaving her dog outside in the rain. Police say they responded to a call of a suspected assault where they were met by the Oregon woman’s boyfriend, James, who said she punched him in the face two times. Investigators say they saw a marble-sized welt and scratch mark on James’ right eyebrow. James told police that he was talking to Morris when she began hitting him. Morris was then taken into custody on a domestic...

A twisted leftist was sentenced on Thursday to 90 days in jail for spitting on a 67-year-old, MAGA-hat wearing Trump supporter in October. The surprising justice meted out to Matthias George Ajple was attributable at least in part because the crime was caught in on camera in living color at Hurricane Grill & Wings in Vero Beach, Florida. The registered Democrat will not only sit and stew in the Indian River County Jail for three months, but he will also serve 12 months on probation, pay a fine of $695, and fork out restitution in the amount of $155 to...

The family of a man who Democratic donor Ed Buck allegedly killed by supplying him with methamphetamine filed a wrongful death suit in civil court against him, a report said. In the suit, sisters of Timothy Dean claim Buck “forcibly and repeatedly injected Mr. Dean with crystal methamphetamine” against his will, NBC reported. Dean died of a meth overdose in Buck’s West Hollywood home in January 2019. Buck pleaded not guilty in October to federal charges that he caused the overdose deaths of Dean and another man, Gemmel Moore. In their suit, Dean’s family claim Buck has, “a history of...