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On Friday, Trump fired the inspector general of the State Department, Steve Linick. In accordance with the 2008 Inspector General Reform Act, which protects inspectors general from being fired without cause, Trump informed Congress in writing about the intent to fire Linick, expressing that he no longer had the “fullest confidence” in Linick, who was appointed to that position in 2013 by Barack Obama. Democrats naturally have come out of the woodwork to express their faux outrage, and to launch an investigation into the firing over allegations that Trump acted to protect Pompeo. But where were these Democrats in 2009...

As the burning wreckage of Obamacare continues to fill the air with its toxicity, an alternative is already working its way through the House, courtesy of the conservative House Study Committee.

Under this act, any new legislation that proposes a mandate on state and local governments estimated to cost more than $50 million dollars must have a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate and provide the funding to pay for the mandates. How many states are going to have to deal with unfunded mandates that far exceed $50 million dollars and into the tens of billions of dollars each year and pertain to a host of services that will have to be funded by the federal gov't under ObamaCare? If the unfunded mandates are funded, that would skyrocket the actual cost of...

<p>House Republicans on Friday unveiled a "comprehensive" measure to overhaul the U.S. intelligence community -- but the bill is a bit too comprehensive for some Democrats and moderate Republicans.</p> <p>The bill would create a national intelligence director with budget and personnel authority and a national counter-terrorism center, as recommended by the Sept. 11 commission. But it would go beyond that, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said at a brief news conference today, including provisions he said would aid the government in the "prevention and prosecution" of terrorism.</p>