#329726
As the Republican Party prepared to again reclaim power of Washington D.C., it became increasingly clear that the legacy of former President Barack Obama was in danger. In the final days of the Obama presidency, Obama sought to salvage his legacy by pushing through a series of regulations. The House of Representatives pointed to the Congressional Review Act, which gives them the power to take down regulations before they take effect. The process has already begun, but the gun control battle has been ignited when a background check rule was rescinded. A last minute rule passed in December gave permission to the Social Security Administration to share information with the national background check database regarding those receiving disability payments. The logic behind this move was that by identifying those with mental impairments, the government could potentially prevent gun crime by monitoring potential threats. The problem with this rule is it is more than just about guns. This is about the Bill of Rights as a whole and the?
#329727
I remember almost four years ago, I sat in a panel discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute about the gender pay gap. The panel was almost unanimous in saying that when factors, such as education level, specific degree obtained, hours worked per year, consecutive years worked and so on, are taken into account, the pay disparity (of somewhere around 80 cents on the dollar) | Read More »
#329728
In his pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, President Donald Trump didn’t just go off the rails: he hit a bus, ran off the rails, and then proceeded to chase Harrison Ford into a ravine.
Here’s the exchange that matters:
O’REILLY: Putin’s a killer.
#329729
Every liberal, Progressive agenda — homosexual marriage, abortion, anti-bullying edicts, the marginalization of Judeo-Christian beliefs, etc. — has a societal price: We count the costs and ask whether the changes are worth the price.
#329730
U.S. District Judge James Robart offered little explanation for his decision to stop President Trump's executive order. So the government answered with a point-by-point demolition of his claims.
#329731
On Wednesday, the automaker Audi attempted to curry favor with the PC crowd by parroting PC rhetoric about the gender pay gap. But one commenter caught the company off guard with a piercing question.
Audi started the exchange with this tweet:
#329732
When will our political and legal establishment recognize this historical fact?
#329733
Bill O’Reilly hurt Vladimir Putin’s feelings.
#329734
The only good thing would be for Chelsea to lose, teaching Democrats a lesson they’ve continuously failed to learn.
#329735
Frederick Douglass was an ardent defender of free speech, a principle dismissed by Berkeley protesters and rioters and their apologists.
#329736
Chuckles when student says aiming fireworks at campus buildings seems to work.
#329737
Escalating tensions between China and the Trump White House all but ensures that Okinawa’s years-long effort to oust American forces from the island will likely fall on deaf ears inside the new administration.
#329738
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report used to be a big progressive. He even had a show with The Young Turks! But now he's not a progressive. He has left the left. W...
#329739
Correctiv, the allegedly non-partisan "fake news" censor working with Facebook in Germany is funded by groups linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros and establishment media.
#329740
Protesters decrying President Donald Trump’s two-week-old administration prevented an ambulance carrying a “critically ill” patient from getting to Yale-New Haven hospital during a protest Saturday in New Haven, Connecticut. Roughly 200 demonstrators marched to Route 34 around 5 p.m. carrying a banner emblazoned with the words “No Ban No Wall New Haven,” they blocked traffic on the highway the ambulance was taking. “Due to this delay ambulance personnel were required to perform an emergency medical procedure in the ambulance instead of at the hospital.” The protesters “obstructed an ambulance carrying a critically ill patient,” the state police report read, according to the New Haven Independent. “Due to this delay, ambulance personnel were required to perform an emergency medical procedure in the ambulance instead of at the hospital.” One protester in particular who stood in the ambulance’s path refused to move when asked by police to do so. “The officers tried to guide him out of the way. He pushed an officer trying
#329741
Trump called it an "amazing comeback" by the Patriots.
#329742
Despite a rising citywide graduation rate, the number of students with the skills to succeed in college is alarmingly low — even at some schools that hand out the most diplomas, a Post analysis fou…
#329743
CLEVELAND-- The Cleveland Division of Police is looking for two suspects in a drive-by shooting.
The 13-year-old victim was walking a friend across West 105th Street near Madison Avenue on Dec. 8 when it happened, the police report said.
The teen told police a dark-colored car pulled up, then a man pointed a gun out the window and fired three to five shots. According to the police report, the suspect also threatened to kill the boy's family.
#329744
President Trump, during an interview with Fox News, suggested that enacting a plan to take the place of the Affordable Care Act will take longer than originally promised.
#329745
The idea that gender determines the pay gap is disproven by serious research, but that doesn’t kill the old lie that prejudice and sexism are responsible.
#329746
An early Baptist dissenter who died in London’s Newgate Prison was Thomas Helwys, who wrote in 1612: “The King is a mortal man, and not God, therefore he hath no power over the mortal soul of his subjects to make laws and ordinances for them and to set spiritual Lords over them.” Thomas Helwys founded […]
#329747
The hanky-clutching, cluck-clucking, tsk-tsking faction of the Conservative movement is in for a rough and bumpy ride over the next four to eight years. They’re the ones who wanted a Republican president who looked like the male manikin on top of the wedding cake. You know, like Mitt Romney. And w?
#329748
“Tell him you are a Muslim, tell him you are a Muslim,” Nancy Pelosi instructed Congressman Andre Carson at an anti-Trump rally on Monday, moments after she had just introduced him as a “Muslim member of Congress.” She apparently felt that the crowd hadn’t sufficiently gotten the point. Pe?
#329749
Washington Last weekend, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick informed his employees that he would stay on President Trump’s economic advisory council, even though he, like much of his staff, vehemently opposed many Trump platforms. By Thursday, Kalanick resigned from the panel. The ride-sharing czar’s swif?
#329750
Legislators could be going back to school for a special class on federalism — the constitutional relationship between states and the federal government — every two years. And it would cost taxpayers $350,000 to develop ...
