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For those of you pining for the sturm und drang of Donald Trump’s first term, I’m the bearer of good news: The first attempt to impeach the newly minted president is already underway. Sure, as political pseudoevents go, it’s about as anticlimactic, low profile, and ill-conceived as a Limp Bizkit reunion album. But #TheResistance 2.0 has to begin somewhere, and it’s apparently beginning with leftist interest group Free Speech For People. The group — whose website looks like it dates from the era where Daily Kos’ site interface looked positively cutting edge — bills itself as a “non-partisan campaign, but...

Former CNN host Chris Cuomo might be no longer employed by one of the country’s premier liberal propagandists, but he’s proving one thing: He can’t handle the truth. And conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly speaking the truth about Vice President Kamala Harris was a case in point.

A Las Vegas man has been charged with making threats to a U.S. senator from Nevada. The office of Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, who is Jewish, confirmed that she was the target, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. John Anthony Miller, 43, was charged with one count of threatening a federal official due to a stream of voicemails, according to a news release from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada. The release said Miller “threatened to assault, kidnap, or murder the United States Senator.” Miller was arrested on Thursday. He faces a preliminary...

An Oregon Republican on Sunday achieved what she called a “historic victory” by flipping a congressional seat held by a Democrat. The contest for the 5th Congressional District had been too close to call until Sunday, when The Associated Press called the victory for Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer over Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner, according to KATU-TV. in Portland. McLeod-Skinner had defeated incumbent Democrat Kurt Schrader in a primary. Associated Press totals published in The New York Times gave Chavez-DeRemer 51.1 percent of the vote against 48.9 percent for McLeod-Skinner. According to Fox News results as of Monday morning, the victory gives Republicans...

In a case of highly charged sticker shock, a Florida Chevrolet dealer admits that it offered to replace the battery in a hybrid car for more than the vehicle is worth. As reported by the website AutoEvolution, the case of the almost-$30,000 battery was being bandied about on social media for days, with some folks believing the tale and other relegating it to the pile of urban myths. The story was based on a copy of an estimate for the battery of a 2012 Chevrolet Volt that was making the rounds. The Volt was a hybrid that was produced as...