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Conservatives Push to Separate Obamacare’s Repeal From Replacement

Melissa Quinn | The Daily Signal Senior News Reporter A trio of conservatives said they want to see Congress move faster with their efforts to repeal Obamacare and are worried that adding the law’s replacement to the repeal bill could drag down their dismantling of the health care law. During a breakfast with reporters held […]

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A.N.S.W.E.R. Sued Over Free Speech Space On Inauguration

By: Denise Simon | FoundersCode.com The biggest protest site at the Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20 will be Navy Memorial! The Navy Memorial stage will feature leaders from every grassroots movement — immigrant rights, labor, environmental justice, women’s rights, Movement for Black Lives, LGBTQ equality, anti-war and others — as well as progressive leaders from […]

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Prediction: Goodbye Democracy, Hello Technocracy

Yes, America was founded as a Constitutional Republic, but progressives and elitists do not recognize this form of government. Therefore, they will never refer to America as anything other than a Democracy. Patrick Wood | Technocracy News and Trends A tectonic-level battle could soon take place over the fundamental structure of America, and hardly anyone sees it […]

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Sen. Lee Pledges To Fight Obama’s San Juan County Land Grab

SALT LAKE CITY – [mc_name name=”Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)” chamber=”senate” mcid=”L000577″ ] issued the following statement Wednesday after learning of President Obama’s decision to designate 1.35 million acres in southeast Utah as a national monument: “This arrogant act by a lame duck president will not stand. I will work tirelessly with Congress and the incoming […]

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Violence in the Halls, Disorder in the Malls

The holiday hooliganism traces back to the Obama administration’s destructive efforts to undermine school discipline. Heather MacDonald | City Journal Judging by video evidence, the participants in the violent mall brawls over the Christmas weekend were overwhelmingly black teens, though white teens were also involved. The media have assiduously ignored this fact, of course, as […]

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Judicial Watch: New Obama Travel Costs Bring Eight-Year Total over $96 Million

‘Earth Day’ Travel Bill Over $1 Million, Hillary Clinton’s Ride on Air Force One Cost $360,000 (Washington DC)—Judicial Watch announced today that it has received new documents from both the Secret Service and the Air Force relating to Obama travel expenses, bringing the known total over the past eight years to $96,938,882.51. The reports contain […]

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Cotton Statement on President Obama’s Response to Russian Attempts to Influence United States Political Process

Washington, D.C.- [mc_name name=”Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR)” chamber=”house” mcid=”C001095″ ] today released the following statement on the sanctioning of Russian entities and the expulsion of Russian personnel from the United States: “The actions taken today by the Obama administration are just more of the same failed foreign policy of the last eight years: a series […]

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Trump-Tsai Phone Call a Good Start to Reforming US-Taiwan Relations

Walter Lohman | Daily Signal The transition team has announced that President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen Friday. Not only is there nothing wrong with this, it could be a sign of good things to come in America’s Taiwan policy. U.S.-Taiwan relations operate under a number of restrictions derived from […]

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Trump: Swamp Draining Begins

Joe Guzzardi Even before he’s taken office, President-elect Donald J. Trump is off to a fast start to make good on campaign promises. Among his recently announced ambitious proposals are the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, strict limits on former administration officials becoming lobbyists, and a mandate for the incoming Labor Secretary to vigorously […]

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Readout of Calls with World Leaders Held by President-Elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence

(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence today continued calls with world leaders to thank them for their congratulatory wishes. Readout of phone call with the President-elect Trump and the Prime Minister of Norway: President-elect Trump thanked the Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg for her well wishes and […]

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Meet Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary

Kelsey Harkness | Daily Signals @kelseyjharkness President-elect Donald Trump has selected billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, a relatively unknown figure on the national scene, to head the U.S. Department of Education. “Betsy DeVos is a brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said in a press release. “Under her leadership we will reform the U.S. education system […]

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Judicial Watch: New Documents Show Clinton Conflicts of Interest

Unsigned Memo Contains ‘Private Sector Opportunities’ for Bill Clinton in Haiti  Memo from Clinton Foundation to State Department Lists nearly 200 Then-Current and Former Heads of State to be Invited to 2009 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting  (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that it has received 508 pages of documents in response to a Freedom of […]