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How the video confrontation between Catholic students and a Native American elder blew up – CNN

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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The Border Wall Isn’t The Only Reason Democrats Oppose Plan To End The Shutdown – NPR

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

An image of a boy is painted on the bars of the border wall, in front of coils of razor wire, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. President Trump’s proposal to end the partial government shutdown includes funding for more border wall, but also provisions that further restrict asylum seekers. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP An image of a boy is painted on the bars of the border wall,…

Sarah Sanders: White House not listening to Ocasio-Cortez ‘on much of anything,’ including doomsday prediction – Fox News

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Video Sarah Sanders slams Ocasio-Cortez’s prediction the world will end White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders derided New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent claim that the world will end in 12 years due to climate change, and suggested the Trump administration has little need for the progressive firebrand’s thoughts in general, in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview Tuesday night with Fox News’ “Hannity.” Sanders also slammed what she called the “disgraceful” media coverage…

Donald Trump Plans To Go Ahead With SOTU At Capitol – HuffPost

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The president can technically enter the House chamber at any time, but as McClatchy reporter Emma Dumain noted, there might not be anyone else there, let alone C-SPAN broadcasting or even lights.

A transgender Army sergeant says ban won’t stop Americans from serving their country – CNN

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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Transgender Navy SEAL calls ‘bulls—‘ on Trump admin saying transgender troops aren’t as lethal or effective – Business Insider

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

President Donald Trump’s ban on military service for some transgender individuals got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, but a transgender former US Navy SEAL has called “bulls—.” Both the Pentagon and the Department of Justice welcomed the high court’s move to lift an injunction on Trump’s transgender ban, which will allow him to enforce his policy barring certain transgender troops from joining or staying in the military….

Senate Leaders Reach Agreement That Offers Possible Path to Reopen Government – The New York Times

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

While both measures faced long odds, they could usher in a more cooperative tone; if both fail, as expected, the votes could prompt the two sides to negotiate a bipartisan compromise. With the shutdown now in its fifth week, and 800,000 federal workers facing the loss of a second paycheck on Friday, the pressure is growing on parties to reopen the government. Mr. Trump’s proposal, which he promoted in a…

Trump, Pelosi remain at odds over State of the Union – CNN

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

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Trump backs students from Lincoln memorial confrontation – CBS News

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

President Trump has weighed in on the controversy surrounding a confrontation Friday at the base of the Lincoln Memorial involving three groups. The incident was caught on video that went viral. The story behind it has evolved several times since first coming to light, and accounts still differ. The trouble involved a group of five black men shouting vulgar insults while protesting centuries of oppression, dozens of white Catholic high…

North Carolina judge declines to certify 9th District congressional race as fraud investigation continues – The Washington Post

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Amy Gardner January 22 at 5:22 PM A state judge in North Carolina has declined to certify election results in the 9th Congressional District, citing state election officials’ authority to delay certification while they continue to investigate allegations of election fraud. In a court hearing in Raleigh on Tuesday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway ruled against Republican Mark Harris, who leads Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in…

Supreme Court Revives Transgender Ban for Military Service – The New York Times

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

“It is critical,” Lt. Col. Carla M. Gleason said, that the Department of Defense “be permitted to implement personnel policies that it determines are necessary to ensure the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.” The department’s “proposed policy,” she said, “is based on professional military judgment and will ensure that the U.S. Armed Forces remain the most lethal and combat effective fighting force in the world.”…

If they care about their country, Democrats need to make a counteroffer – Washington Examiner

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Madame Speaker, we’re waiting. Over the weekend, President Trump did what he should have done four weeks ago and issued a televised announcement to offer a concession for his wall. In exchange for $5.7 billion in border security funding — mind you, the whole wall will likely cost five times that — the president is prepared to issue three years of legal protections for DACA recipients and Temporary Protected Status…

The media debacle over Covington Catholic says a lot about blind prejudice on both sides – Washington Examiner

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

When a video went viral that supposedly showed white high school students wearing pro-Trump hats getting in the face of an elderly Native American activist, many online compared the teenagers to everything from Nazis to the Ku Klux Klan. The social media mob branded these kids hateful white supremacists immediately and ferociously. When a longer video emerged later showing a fuller context that largely exonerated the students from what they…

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear A Second Amendment Case For The First Time In 9 Years – HuffPost

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up its first gun rights case in nine years, a challenge to New York City’s prohibition on carrying a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun outside the city limits.

State Department’s top diplomat for European affairs resigns – Politico

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

“I feel like I’ve done what I came in to do. My kids have a greater claim to my time right now than the public does,” Wess Mitchell, the State Department’s top diplomat for European affairs, told the Washington Post. | Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images Foreign Policy Wess Mitchell’s portfolio includes Russia, a sensitive issue given ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow in 2016. By NAHAL TOOSI…

Journalists digging through people’s pasts aren’t ‘resurfacing’ anything – Washington Examiner

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

After Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier dropped a questionably sourced article charging President Trump with directing his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project, the news cycle centered on examining the credibility of the piece. If special counsel Robert Mueller’s response is indeed accurate, then the BuzzFeed piece was yet another sham, and at least one anonymous source burned Cormier and Leopold, who…

The Left decides Kamala Harris is a cop — but she’s running anyway – Washington Examiner

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

With nearly two years to go, almost anything in the realm of the 2020 presidential election could change from now until Election Day. The one thing that won’t, however, is math. Any Democrat seeking to unseat President Trump will have to achieve at least one of the following: mobilize the base to achieve Obama-level turnout and enthuse the Left, or successfully splinter off ideological agnostics and the suburbs that defected…

George Conway Mocks Rudy Giuliani’s Backpedaling With Brutal 5-Word ‘Translation’ – HuffPost

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

“There weren’t a lot of them, but there were conversations,” said Giuliani, who is an attorney for Trump. “Can’t be sure the exact date. … Probably up to ― could be up to as far as October, November.”

Top House Democrat Likens Trump To KKK Grand Wizard In MLK Day Slugfest – HuffPost

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

“Here in this city, we’re going to lead the way. We’re going to show what can be done,” de Blasio declared. “We’re going to show that working people will get the wages they deserve, the benefits they deserve, the life they deserve.”

Bernie Sanders calls Trump "racist" at South Carolina MLK Day speech – CBS News

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Columbia, S.C. – On the steps of the South Carolina State Capitol, Senators Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders on Monday joined local leaders of the state NAACP chapter and called for an end to racial injustice. Only one of them leveled a direct, personal attack on President Trump. “We now have a president of the United States who is a racist,” Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, told the crowd,…