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By the time you read this, you'll know whether the federal government has been partially shut down for the holidays. You'll also know whether Donald Trump had the political courage and brains to do what Republicans running Congress have failed to do for two years-- put their butts on the line to fund a stronger border wall on our southern border. And you'll know whether the president's chances for getting reelected in 2020 have gone up or down. Going into Friday, everything about a potential government shutdown over Trump's wall was still up in the air. President Trump was threatening...

Senator Marco Rubio is engaged in his signature “say one thing do another” move on amnesty and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, only this time Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul aren’t letting him get away with it. In the past few days both liberty-loving Senators have called out Rubio, with Ted Cruz being especially strong on Laura Ingraham’s radio program. “Talk is cheap. You know where someone is based on their actions,” Cruz told Ingraham. As a voter, when politicians say things that are the exact opposite of what they’ve done in office, I treat that with a pretty healthy degree...

Unclassified documents and emails, never published in Western media until now, regarding the secret Muslim Brotherhood spy working for the America Embassy in Cairo, are being presented in the trial of Mohammed Mursi. They reveal the activities of a liaison between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the Muslim Brotherhood’s most senior leaders. Though employed by the embassy, Ahmed Aleiba does not have diplomatic immunities and was arrested by Egyptian authorities last month, according to the New York Times Bureau Chief, David Kirkpatrick. The trial, which begins on February 16th, will determine if Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Khairat Al-Shater and ousted...