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Conservative women, a group that’s been under assault for years, has a new champion. Let me tell you why that’s so important in today’s political climate.For decades, particularly on college campuses, conservative women have been ridiculed, demeaned, verbally and physically attacked, and marginalized. Consider the experiences of these college women:“I was very active in a conservative college group … after the student organization fair, I was holding a campaign yard sign... as I got in line for dinner… a student sitting at the table directly next to me looked at the sign and said “get it out of my sight...

One of the more appalling moments in the recent history of the House of Representatives occurred recently in the Capitol Visitor Center. Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her weekly news conference and said that she had changed her position on the issue of passing a coronavirus relief bill. For months, as millions suffered the economic devastation associated with the pandemic, Pelosi stonewalled the Trump administration's efforts to pass targeted, short-term relief for those in need. Now, as if by magic, she's all for it. What happened? A new president has been elected, Pelosi explained, and coronavirus vaccines are nearing public distribution....

I have to choke back laughter every time I hear some leftist whine about the country needing “unity” now that the election is over. I have a two word answer, though not the two words I’d like to use (which start with “f” and “y”): no thanks. Listening to Democrats pretend to care about everyone, or as Joe Biden regularly reads off a teleprompter, “I will be President of all Americans,” really does make me sick. Given how these people have acted for at least the last 20 years, I’m down for anything Republicans do to oppose and thwart everything...

As we’ve previously reported, Democratic governors in California, New York, Virginia, North Carolina and other states are clamping down on the holiday excitement many Americans feel this time of the year by way of mandating indoor gatherings including those held at private residences be limited to no more than 10 people in a supposed effort to slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. Republicans have pushed back hard against such draconian and unconstitutional decrees, with some openly declaring their Thanksgiving plans in defiance of the “rules” put in place, rules that history has shown us that more often than not...

Even as people spilled into the streets of Washington D.C. over the weekend to celebrate the proclaimed defeat of President Trump, political insiders on the Left were feeling a bit unsatisfied. This was supposed to be their year.  All the stars had aligned for that big blue wave to usher in their wildest progressive dreams.  No one doubts that Trump was polarizing.  He energized opposition unlike anyone before him and, thanks to the coronavirus, it wasn’t just his hyperactive Twitter feed that was the problem. The nation was struggling. The pandemic wreaked psychological havoc on the country and had destroyed...

The Democrats’ buzzword of the moment is “mandate.” As in “Joe won one.” As reported by my RedState colleague Bonchie on Saturday morning, Democrat presidential NOMINEE Joe Biden on Friday night, while stopping short of claiming victory, declared “the people have given us a mandate for action” — but it was Nancy Pelosi earlier in the day who took the cake, declaring that Biden received a “tremendous mandate” — in an election that has still not been called, no less. The mask-wearing Speaker, who was miles away from the nearest reporter, said: “I wish we weren’t wearing masks (uh, sure...

Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives warned colleagues Thursday that promoting and campaigning on a far-left social agenda hurt them badly in 2020. “[If] we are going to run on Medicare for All, defund the police, socialized medicine, we’re not going to win,” House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina said on a leaked Democrat House caucus phone call.A Washington Post congressional reporter receiving leaked information from a source with access tweeted part of the more than two-hour phone call on Thursday afternoon. If we run this race again we will get fucking torn apart again...

Joe Biden may become the next president, which makes me want to chug bleach, but down-ticket was a different story. Democrats failed miserably to retake the Senate. At the state level, Democrats failed to retake key state legislatures. For the next decade, the GOP remains in control of a lot of the congressional maps. Yet, NBC News said it’s a foregone conclusion. Democrats will keep the House: Democrats will maintain control of the House of Representatives, NBC News projects, but their path to taking control of the Senate has narrowed significantly as numerous Republican incumbents fended off strong opposition. Democrats...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is applying a new pretext to reach a pre-desired outcome of using the 25th Amendment to oust President Donald Trump from office in nearly the same fashion House Democrats did with the last impeachment.  Readers of “Abuse of Power: The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump” will find that just as Democrats began talking about impeachment in 2017 before settling on a reason in 2019, Democrats began talking about using the 25th Amendment in 2017 before coming up with a reason to do so today. Pelosi and Rep. James Raskin, D-Md., are introducing legislation to establish a...

It’s time to set the record straight. The American people are wondering what Congress is going to do to help folks who are still struggling from the effects of COVID-19 on their health and on our economy. They see little movement in negotiations, and I’ve had folks back home ask me, what are you all doing up there? Sadly, the answer is not much because Speaker Pelosi prefers to play political games. In May, the Speaker used a public health crisis as an excuse to try and give new legislative life to several extreme partisan ideas that, on their face,...

"As everyone knows, I made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice." So Joe Biden promised. Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however, Biden has refused to produce a list of Black female judges and scholars whom he would consider for the now-vacant seat. What is his problem? Donald Trump had no such reluctance. In 2016, he listed a slew of candidates from among whom he promised to pick his justices. True to his word, Trump elevated federal appellate court judges Neil Gorsuch and Brett...

"Mother Earth is angry!" says Nancy Pelosi in my newest video. "The debate is over around climate change!" says California Governor Gavin Newsom, smirking, strangely. They're eager to blame climate change for the wildfires in their state. I'm surprised they didn't say it causes COVID-19, too. Newsom, ridiculously, says wildfires are another reason to get more electric cars on the road. I wonder if he even knows that electricity for such cars comes from natural gas. "This catastrophizing around climate change is just a huge distraction," says environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, author of the new bestseller, "Apocalypse Never," Shellenberger says: "Climate...

It's time for President Trump to start telling the raw truth to the American people. He knows it. I know it. Most voters who don't suffer from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" know it. Anyone with a brain and common sense knows it. If you think your choice in this election is Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, you're blind, deaf or really dumb. Biden's not the candidate. Biden is just a placeholder, a brand name at the top to scam voters. But he will never serve as the actual president. Who's dumb enough to not see that? The real behind-the-scenes winners will...

One of the things I like to analyze in political events is evidence of strategy. For instance, when Nancy Pelosi says the California wildfires mean that “Mother Earth is angry,” I think that is just reactive -- and primitive, because Mother Earth goddesses go way back. But when President Trump (or Jared Kushner) comes up with almost one peace deal a week -- first Israel-UAE, then Serbia-Kosovo, and now Israel-Bahrain -- and lo and behold, as if on cue, Swedish politicians start nominating him for Nobel Peace Prizes -- my strategy detector goes crazy. And now the Black Swan guy,...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the video of a mask-less Nancy Pelosi caught having her hair done at a shut-down San Francisco salon this past week is worth an entire dictionary. The Speaker of the House immediately deployed the Marion Barry defense. When caught on video smoking crack with a hooker in 1990, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. and city councilman at the time exclaimed, “B**** set me up!” Mrs. Pelosi said the same thing, albeit less colorfully. At least, in public. On August 26, in an interview with Fox’s Tucker Carlson, salon owner Erica Kious...

This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed President Trump’s acceptance speech before the 2020 Republican National Convention for not having the audience engage in social distancing. Pelosi told MSNBC: “what further evidence does anyone need that this president doesn’t care less about the spread of this virus than to see what he did, vandalizing, by the way, the White House by bringing all those people there, no mask, no distancing, and the rest? He slapped science right in the face, and what a bad example that was.” Of course, there is a certain irony with Nancy being caught this week...

We are living in truly dangerous times. In the midst of a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 180,000 Americans, protests, riots, looting, vandalism, and violence have gripped cities across the country for months.The most recent example occurred on Thursday, following President Trump’s Republican National Convention speech.Attendees of the address, including several convention speakers and members of Congress, were ruthlessly harassed and threatened by a mob of left-wing radicals as they exited the White House.Among those most in danger were Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., his wife, and two of their female friends. Just one block from his...

The Democrat Party does not have what it takes to unify America. By going to war against people of faith — and Christianity, in particular — the left is laying siege to the very soul of our nation.  Contrary to the claims of the “Black Lives Matter” activists, violent Antifa mobs are not rioting to promote justice and peace in our communities. In recent years, the main objective of the progressive movement has been to destroy America’s Christian heritage and to turn our country into a secular society.The Black Lives Matter platform, for instance, publicly condemns the very concept of...

Traditionally, funerals are supposed to serve at least three purposes: honor the life of the deceased, comfort those who mourn his passing and preach a message about eternity and the brevity of life. Tradition was discarded during John Lewis' funeral last week in Atlanta. Like the memorial service of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) in 2008, the Lewis service was a political event that included veiled denunciations of President Trump. There were allegations of voter suppression by Republicans and a comparison of Trump by former President Obama to the late Alabama governor and segregationist, George Wallace. On that last...

The Democrats keep coming up with new and creative ways to appease Communist China.  In late July, the Trump administration issued a warning that America’s biggest geopolitical adversaries, including China, Russia and Iran, are working to influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. But the statement didn’t sit well with some prominent members of the Democratic Party, who indignantly rejected the idea of holding Beijing to the same standards as Moscow. "The statement gives a false sense of equivalence to the actions of foreign adversaries by listing three countries of unequal intent, motivation and capability together," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and...