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Former President Donald Trump is facing a backlash after calling one of the most conservative members of Congress a RINO who should be primaried—one week after the filing deadline. Trump blasted Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, on Truth Social after the congressman endorsed Trump’s rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for president. “Has any smart and energetic Republican in the Great State of Texas decided to run in the Primary against RINO Congressman Chip Roy,” Trump wrote. “For the right person, he is very beatable. If interested, let me know!!!” Trump’s comments appeared to...

A conservative columnist was escorted out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday after slamming President Trump and conservatives for behaving like "hypocrites" when it comes to women's issues. Mona Charen, a National Review writer and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was asked during a panel about the Left's treatment of women what has left her most fired up in the Trump era...

Can you stomach the spectacle of a “Republican” sucking up to Joy Reid? If so, keep reading . . . Last week, we noted Joy Reid scolding “Republican strategist” Evan Siegfried for having the temerity to [ever-so-cautiously] mention Al Franken in a segment about Roy Moore. Siegfried, back on Reid’s MSNBC show this morning, was clearly trying his best to get back in Reid’s good graces. He broke out an obviously canned line, casting Moore as a pedophile: “The only reason he should be [knocking] on doors is to tell people he’s not allowed within 500 yards of a school.”...

On April 19th, 1775, the earth shook as the first shots of the American Revolution rang out. The fault had finally slipped forcing a Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. So began the making of a new Republic, an American Republic. A new Representative Democracy. That is what the United States is, a Republic, NOT a Democracy. Republics have elected representatives which represent, legislate, and govern in the people's interests. Democracy, or citizenship democracy is government of the masses --the mob, or any other direct meeting by the mob. Thus, evolving into a mobocracy; resulting in views of Communism,...