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PART ONE The Department of Justice has announced it’s mounting a full-scale operation to arrest and charge people who broke into the Capitol on January 6. There will be a wide-ranging menu of charges, starting with criminal trespass, and moving all the way to weapons possession, theft of National Security data, assault, and sedition. The DOJ list of charges is meant to impress the American people. Of course, an impressive DOJ list could have been leveled against thousands of people who participated in Antifa/BLM-led burning, looting, theft, and assault across the US over the past six months. But that didn’t...

WASHINGTON - No Republican senator has said publicly he will challenge Mississippi's Trent Lott for majority leader. Attention, however, is focusing on four lawmakers should GOP senators decide to oust Lott when they meet Jan. 6: Don Nickles, 54, of Oklahoma, won a seat in the Senate in 1980 at age 31. For the past six years, he has served as GOP whip, second in power to the party leader. He is set to take over as Budget Committee chairman in the next Congress, where his pro-business, pro-defense views would shape future budgets. He has suggested that savings could be...