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A House panel voted Wednesday to censure IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for what Republicans allege was his obstruction of an investigation into whether the IRS improperly scrutinized conservative groups.

The National Football League and its players association announced Thursday that the league would hold off on enforcing its new national anthem policy while the two sides attempt to resolve the issue.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday night that she will vote to allow new witnesses and documents as part of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.

Fears that climate change will make the Earth uninhabitable are leading some Americans to decide against having kids, according to a report Friday. The first-of-its-kind study found that 96.5 perce…

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., drew a close comparison between Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin and those who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Velma's into women -- the character's been confirmed as lesbian after years of fan theories -- in a new cartoon 'Scooby-Doo' movie ... and the LGBTQ+ crowd is all about it.

Thomas Mair gives his name as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain" as he appears in court charged with the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

A man will not be charged after fatally shooting another man in front of his girlfriend and son at a Florida convenience store during an argument over a handicapped parking spot.

The debate about immigration is being hijacked by a conflict over alt-right racists that the White House and others on the right must condemn.

The FBI has reached out to an election integrity researcher for evidence of potential crimes in the 2020 ...

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House Impeachment Manager Rep. Adam Schiff warned that President Donald Trump might give Alaska to the Russians if he is not impeached.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show "Deadline" that Republicans were willing to "sell their soul" by not speaking out about President Donald Trump's claims there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, which she said was a "big lie." | Clips

Health Minister Adrian Dix hopes most will still get vaccinated to they can return to work

Is a carbon tax a conservative idea whose time has come? Carbon tax proponents have been preaching that message for years. It is nonsense.

In a Wednesday morning speech on the U.S. Senate floor in anticipation of an expected ultimate impeachment acquittal vote later today, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) announced that he will “reluctantly” vote to convict President Donald Trump on each of the two articles of impeachment adopted by the U.S. House: “Abuse of power” and “obstruction of […]

Trump conceding or not conceding actually has nothing to do with it. Half the country doesn’t trust the results. wizardpc Still not saying one way or the other about the election’s results, b…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clarified on Saturday that foreign nationals under the age of 18 ...

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Shortly after the United Kingdom voted narrowly to leave the European Union, Donald Trump’s campaign and its allies seized on the moment to cheer the supposed demise of the “globalists.” Trump’s Kremlin-friendly campaign manager, Paul Manafort, explained on NBC with Chuck Todd that Brexit represented the realization that “the promises that globalism is the solution, the promise that government’s going to make your life better if you just give up your freedoms, the promises that we know better than you on how to make your lives better, have been rejected. That’s what Donald Trump has identified, that’s what Brexit identified, and that’s what’s going to be the basis for the election in 2016.” #ad#Manafort is certainly correct that Brexit stood for national sovereignty above international bureaucracy, national democracy above global governance from above. But there is one problem: Brexit’s brand of anti-globalism isn’t Trump’s brand of anti-globalism. Conflating the two is both rhetorically dishonest and ideologically dangerous. In TrumpWorld, “globalism” has been a buzzword bugaboo for months, ever since Trump dumped it in the middle of a foreign-policy speech. “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism,” Trump thundered back in April. “The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.” So far, this definition of anti-globalism lines up with Brexit’s: prizing local sovereignty over a faraway, unrepresentative authority. Actually, it’s pure founding ideology — in Federalist 9 and 10, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively, argued in favor of devolving most control to local governance, based largely on the ideas of Montesquieu. Internationally, the idea would be that each civilization ought to be able to control its future, something that certainly holds true for both Britain and the United States. If that were all Trump meant by “globalist” — that we should not delegate control over our republic to Brussels or the assemblage of moral idiots at the United Nations — his critique of globalism would be inarguable. But it isn’t. When Trump decries “globalism,” he goes beyond mere allegiance to the notion of American sovereignty: He means rage at international relations generally, including trade relations. Those who celebrate Brexit could still be “globalists” in Trump’s world if they support free-trade agreements. In April, Trump continued to thus define “globalism”: I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down, and will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs. NAFTA, as an example, has been a total disaster for the U.S. and has emptied our states of our manufacturing and our jobs. But NAFTA isn’t an example of giving up control over our republic. It’s a free-trade agreement. This is the problem with Trump’s redefined “globalist” slur: It lumps together free-marketeers — small-government advocates who don’t wish to see international institutions dominate free-market exchanges between individuals and nations — with people who want global bureaucrats controlling internal and external national affairs. Robert Merry did just that in a recent column for The National Interest: “Globalists were too focused on global trade and commerce to notice the horrendous plight of America’s internal refugees from the industrial nation of old.” No, actually. Those of us who champion free trade do so not out of an altruistic desire to enrich people abroad, but because free trade has made America the most powerful economic force in human history. The history of free trade demonstrates that when unshackled from government bureaucracy, private parties trading with one another both see benefit. The history of protectionism in the United States is long and inglorious. The so-called Tariff of Abominations, initiated under John Quincy Adams in 1828, helped drive distrust and conflict between the North, which wanted it, and the South, which didn’t. The McKinley Tariff of 1890 was so unpopular that it resulted in the Republicans’ being booted from control of Congress and the presidency. One of the worst political deals of all time — the passage of the 16th Amendment, allowing the federal government to collect an income tax — occurred only because Republicans were so addicted to protectionism that they agreed to accept the income tax in return for Democratic support for tariffs. The disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff, which helped deepen and lengthen the Great Depression, was the last gasp of a failed ideology; the revival of protectionist ideology in Latin America has doomed the people of Venezuela, among others, to breaking each other’s heads in disputes over loaves of bread. The history of free trade on the other hand demonstrates that, when unshackled from government bureaucracy, private parties trading with one another both see benefit. The American Revolution was fought largely in an attempt to break free of protectionist measures from the mother country. The early republic placed low tariffs on foreign goods to raise government revenue, but not out of a widespread desire to “protect” domestic industry. America’s economic growth during the Tariff of Abominations period came largely from territorial expansion to the West, not from locking out competitors from domestic markets. In the aftermath of World War II, free trade helped America outcompete the Soviet Union and raise the standard of living more dramatically both in the United States and across the world than ever before. America’s global power was built not on the back of protectionism, but on the back of free trade. Yet Trump and company have the gall to suggest that Americans who support free trade are actually “globalists” in thrall to some Bilderberg-style conspiracy in favor of foreigners. The truth is that those in favor of tariffs are the ones who oppose local rule — the ability of individuals to make their own decisions about buying and selling, about control over their own labor without a government intermediary. If truly nasty globalism includes rule by a distant elite, Trump’s economic policy fits that description far better than the free trade his opponents espouse. In fact, Trump himself knows better. Here’s what he wrote on globalism back in 2013: “We will have to leave borders behind and go for global unity when it comes to financial stability. . . . The future of Europe, as well as the United States, depends on a cohesive global economy.” Presumably, Trump didn’t mean that the EU should continue to dominate the U.K. with bureaucracy — he meant economic interrelationships should continue to grow. That’s a lot different from his advocacy of tariffs today. But in reality, Trump’s “globalism” cry isn’t policy-driven. It’s just another insult to toss at anyone who opposes Trump — even if the insult itself makes no sense. — Ben Shapiro is the editor-in-chief of the DailyWire.com.

In 2017, taxpayers forked over $3.32 trillion dollars to the federal government -- more than twice what they paid just 20 years before. If you're wondering what that number looks, it's this: $3,320,000,000,000.

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President-elect Joe Biden suggested this week that he supports returning individual and corporate tax rates to Bush-era highs even though his economic agenda likely hinges on the outcome of two Georgia runoff elections in January.