By Jack Phillips The mayor pro tem of a Northern California city resigned after he pleaded guilty to election fraud, according to local reports last week. Crescent City Mayor Pro Tem Alex Campbell entered the plea to making a false declaration of candidacy in Del Norte County’s Superior Court, according to the city’s clerk’s office, as reported local news outlet Wild […]
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Biden’s Attorney General Pick Says Portland Riots May Not Have Been ‘Domestic Terrorism’
By Zachary Stieber Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland said this week that the riots in Portland last year may not have qualified as domestic terrorism. “My own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in an attempt to disrupt democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse, […]
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Opinion: Rush Limbaugh’s Life-Affirming Strength
By Wesley J. Smith Commentary I deeply admire Rush Limbaugh. Not because of his conservative viewpoints, and not because he’s a uniquely talented broadcaster who can make dropping a pencil interesting radio. No. I have been most impressed over the years by Limbaugh’s strength of character, a crucial leadership attribute in woefully short supply at a […]
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Aim of Impeachment Was to Paint All Trump Voters as Criminals
By Tom Ozimek Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) says Democrats used the impeachment of former President Donald Trump as a tool to paint all of his supporters with the brush of Capitol breach-related criminality. Johnson told Breitbart News in an interview on Feb. 14 that the ultimate aim of impeaching Trump a second time was to associate the 75 million Americans who […]
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Federal Court Rules Trump Can Bar Uninsured Immigrants From Entering United States
By Tom Ozimek A federal appeals court in California on Thursday ruled to lift a ban on President Donald Trump’s proclamation that blocks immigrants from entering the United States if they lack health insurance or the means to pay for hospital bills. In a Dec. 31 opinion (pdf), the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in […]
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Rush Limbaugh’s Life-Affirming Strength
By Wesley J. Smith Commentary I deeply admire Rush Limbaugh. Not because of his conservative viewpoints. Not because he is a uniquely talented broadcaster who can make dropping a pencil interesting radio. No. I have been most impressed over the years by Limbaugh’s strength of character, a crucial leadership attribute in woefully short supply at a […]
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Case for President Trump Invoking Insurrection Act to Restore Election Integrity
By Stephen B. Meister Commentary During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Tenth Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was then signed by Jefferson into law, to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise […]
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2020 Election Boosts GOP State Legislator Advantage by 67 Percent
By Petr Svab Republicans expanded their control of state legislatures in the 2020 election, flipping both chambers in one state while gaining more than 160 seats overall. Their lead over Democrats thus increased to more than 700 seats (about 67 percent) from over 400, although that number can still change with some remaining contests still […]
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House of cards? Pelosi to have a hard time becoming speaker, GOP officials say
By Marisa Schultz | Fox News Democrats will have a slimmer majority in 2021. Republican leaders, gloating at flipping several House seats, took jabs at Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday for her shrinking majority and cast doubt on her ability to win enough votes to become House speaker again. “I mean Nancy Pelosi doesn’t even have a majority where she can […]
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Was my vote counted? A state-by-state guide to tracking your absentee ballot
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News Many states offer online ballot tracking systems, others require contacting election officials. Voting by mail has been extremely popular among Americans participating in the 2020 presidential election this year. More than 64 million absentee ballots have been cast as of Tuesday out of more than 100 million total votes in the U.S., and more than […]
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Newt Gingrich: Elections are never predictable — every vote matters
By Newt Gingrich | Gingrich360.com It is vitally important that you vote — and that you encourage and help your friends and family to vote. The most consequential election in our lifetimes is less than a week away. By now, I expect many of you who are reading this have made up your minds about who you want to be […]
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Clawing back votes: 7 states allow voters to resubmit ballots
By Ronn Blitzer, Audrey Conklin | Fox News Several states have already reached more than 60% of their 2016 voter turnout. Many Americans are voting early in the 2020 presidential election amid concerns regarding the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. Postal Service timing. More than 59 million total ballots cast as of Monday morning suggested a record turnout for this year’s race compared to the 47.2 million […]
