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After taking on Big Bird over his Covid-19 vaccination, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is going after the Library of Congress for abandoning the use of the term “illegal alien” as a subject heading for organizing materials. The Library of Congress confirmed Thursday that it will change the subject headings “aliens” to “noncitizens” and “illegal aliens” to “noncitizens” and “illegal immigration.” The headings are used to catalog materials at the library in Washington. Cruz protested the changes in a letter dated Wednesday and posted on his website. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., also signed the letter. The library had originally sought to...

The wife of a major Democratic donor who landed in hot water for contributing to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial “pay-to-play” nonprofit is in line for a plum post as US ambassador to Portugal — after helping raise more than $100,000 for President Biden’s campaign last year. Randi Charno Levine’s nomination to be the top-ranking diplomat to the scenic Mediterranean country was sent to the US Senate for confirmation earlier this month following Biden’s announcement of her appointment on Oct. 29.... ...It’s unclear when the Senate will take up Randi Levine’s nomination, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has reportedly been...

@Liz_Cheney I know you’re posturing for the secessionist vote, Ted. But my party, the Republican party, saved the Union. You swore an oath to the Constitution. Act like it.

Sen. Ted Cruz went after Hillary Clinton on Tuesday for defending Big Bird, who Cruz had blasted as a propagandist after the Sesame Street character shared he had received his COVID-19 shot. 'Captured in the wild, rare image of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch…,' Cruz wrote, commenting on Clinton's tweet. Clinton had shared a vintage photo with Big Bird from her first lady days, writing, 'It's a bird that teaches children things. Like how to stay healthy. That's it.'

Regaining Republican control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections is at the top of Sen. Ted Cruz's political agenda. And toward that end, the Texas conservative views Tuesday's elections as "enormously consequential." "I think the elections in Virginia, the elections in New Jersey, they’re foreshadowing what’s coming next year in 2022," Cruz said in an interview with Fox News on Friday night, ahead of his speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas. [cut] Cruz was the runner-up to former President Donald Trump in the rough and tumble 2016 Republican primary and...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has introduced a bill aimed at banning the federal government and public schools from requiring COVID-19 vaccines for children. The bill would prevent the federal government and any entity at the federal, state, and local level that receives federal funding, including school districts, from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for minors. "Parents should have the right to decide what is best for their children in consultation with their family doctor," Cruz said in a statement. "My view on the COVID-19 vaccine has remained clear: no mandates of any kind. President (Joe) Biden and his administration have repeatedly ignored...

As resident Joe Biden jet sets off to another useless climate change conference, he is leaving behind a government defined by such indifference and ineptitude that the hapless chief executive might as well take an extended vacation. Does the apparent deteriorating mental acuity of a president affect those around him? Whether or not there is any basis to such an assumption, the cast of characters who comprise resident Joe Biden’s cabinet would seem to suggest that there is at least some truth in that observation. Whenever Biden’s henchmen appear before the Washington media – a sympathetic clique for the Democrats...

Like the ACLU famously did in its legal defense of neo-Nazis who wanted to march in a Jewish-majority Chicago suburb 40 years ago, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday in a hearing defended the First Amendment right of a man to invoke a Nazi salute to express his view that school board members were acting like fascists. In fact, in the Senate oversight hearing, Attorney General Merrick Garland agreed with Cruz that the man's action was constitutionally protected. Nevertheless, the Daily Beast was among many left-wing outlets that framed the exchange as "Ted Cruz Defends Parents Doing Nazi Salutes at...

Our favorite Based Iranian Father returned to the Loudoun County School Board last night. Rather, I should call him Master Based Iranian Father. The last time we saw him, he said "Master" is his preferred pronoun. Master B.I.F. returned to express his disagreement over how the school board covered up one or two alleged rapes that happened in the school. You wanna push that garbage down my kid's throats, I will make you call my kids KING and QUEEN. That's how you will address my son and daughter. And when you look at me, you will call me Master." Barack...

This afternoon, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before a congressional hearing, and he wasn't prepared for the kind of metaphorical beating he was going to receive. Senator Ted Cruz gave one helluva performance, skull dragging Garland for every single person in the chamber to see. It made for very compelling television. It was magnificent. And before Garland could even begin to process anything, Cruz eviscerated him. He demonstrated just how the AG did, in fact, weaponize the DOJ against parents in an act of political persecution. Garland played stupid—which is never difficult for a leftist hack—as Cruz drilled into him...

George Soros Backs New Media Firm to Fight Disinformation Called “Good Information Inc.” Conservatives are calling out Soros for this clearly "Orwellian" move. Tell me this isn’t the most purely “Orwellian” thing you’ve ever heard… According to Axios, George Soros is backing a new media firm in a move to help combat disinformation. The working name of this group? “Good Information Inc.” See, that’s how you know you can trust it, because it has “good information” in the title… Clearly this is just Soros being the great arbiter of truth that he is, right?.. Follow on Telegram @WeLoveTrumpNoah Joining Soros...

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a quartet of former senators and widows of former senators to key ambassadorial posts, in a rare move by the chamber to approve some of President Biden’s diplomatic nominees. The Senate unanimously confirmed former senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) as U.S. ambassador to Turkey; former senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) as ambassador to New Zealand; Victoria Reggie Kennedy as ambassador to Austria; and Cindy McCain as ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, which encompasses three U.N. agencies.... ...Tuesday’s votes came as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has threatened to delay the confirmations of dozens...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a bill this week to transfer migrant detention facilities from border towns to ritzy areas where “Democrat elites host their cocktail parties,” such as Martha’s Vineyard. “President Biden and Democrats need to step up to defend our southern border and support our heroic Customs and Border Protection officials,” he said. The bill, dubbed the Stop the Surge of Unsafe Rio Grande Encampments (SURGE) Act, would help the federal government get control of the southern border after President Joe Biden “willingly surrendered” it to “dangerous criminal cartels” without any “thought given to the South Texas border...

Conservative figures and politicians opposing vaccine and mask mandates have blamed more than 2,000 recent flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines on vaccine mandates, but both the airline and pilots union have said the massive number of flight disruptions had nothing to do with it. That didn't stop some politicians, like former president Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Rep. Andy Biggs from Arizona, from trying to link the cancellations to federal vaccine mandates even though they offered no evidence of it. "The weekend challenges were not a result of Southwest Employee demonstrations, as some are reporting," a spokesperson...

Saturday Night Live took aim at the Congressional hearings against social media giant Facebook in its latest episode Cast member Heidi Gardner played Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who testified before Congress on Tuesday In the sketch, she has to field questions from Congressmembers about how social media works Sen. Diane Feinstein, played by Cecily Strong, asks her if 2,000 friends on Facebook is a high number Sen. Neely Kennedy also asks her where the algorithm is located and how big it is, while Sen. Ted Cruz asks how he could stop being cyberbullied Lindsey Graham also says he is...

In multiple interviews, Former President Donald Trump unloads on the rigged 2020 election, Republicans who screwed him, and why he regrets elevating Anthony Fauci during the pandemic.What follows is adapted from three interviews of President Donald Trump for Mollie Hemingway’s latest book “Rigged: How The Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,” out October 12. “I don’t like her … and I don’t like me.”Former President Donald Trump was looking at a photo of the two of us that his assistant had just taken on my phone. It wasn’t up to his specifications. We’d just completed the second...

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz mocked Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her previous visit to a migrant facility, and issued a "simple challenge" to her and her colleagues to visit the "Biden cages" holding migrants amid the border crisis. "Mr. President, every Democrat who stood up and lamented kids in cages, in the House of Representatives, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, has a famous photo of her grasping her head by the kids in cages," Cruz said as he imitated the photo. "Well, I’m going to give a simple challenge for Representative Ocasio-Cortez and for every Democrat in this body. Go see the Biden...

Full title should read: Ted Cruz asks Richard Blumenthal a simple question about African American voter participation, and Blumenthal’s answer ‘speaks volumes’ [video

Mr. Sulu, people WANT TO WORK.Your party destroys millions of jobs and then pays people NOT to work.That’s not compassionate; it’s stupid, and deeply harmful. pic.twitter.com/5UAC8GkTBy— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 8, 2021 .@BetteMidler is unhappy with me.🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/hVwPUznzSG— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 8, 2021#Ted "Get a Job" #Cruz has a great job; he sits on his fat ass all day, collects $175,000 a year for doing ZIP but opposing #progress, with staff, office, police escorts, donors & bootlickers galore, and a pension vested after 5 years of "service". He deserves to lose that job.— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) September 7, 2021Dems really...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday dispelled rumors that he may be running for president in 2024, referring to the buzz around the subject as "purely manufactured." "All the speculation about me is purely manufactured," DeSantis said during a news conference to discuss a new COVID-19 treatment unit in St. Cloud, Florida. "I just do my job and we work hard… I hear all this stuff and DeSantis' remarks on the subject come just days before he headlines a Nebraska event with other potential 2024 candidates to celebrate agriculture on Sept. 12 in Nebraska City. During the gathering, DeSantis will...