The former director of security for the Senate intelligence committee, James Wolfe, pleaded guilty Monday to lying to the FBI about his contact with a reporter. Wolfe pleaded guilty to one of the three charges he faced. Under the deal, prosecutors will seek to dismiss the other two at his December sentencing, where he could get from zero to six […]

Good Thing It Takes Votes to Win Elections Democrats in hotly contested Senate and House races benefited from a surge in campaign donations ahead of the November midterm elections. At least 60 House Democratic candidates raised more than $1 million in the third quarter, from July to Sept. 30, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said as FEC filings for the […]

1 of 1000th Native American…. Does that mean fraud when claiming heritage to attend college…. food stamps…  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday released the results of a DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry. Critics, most notably President Trump, have accused Warren of falsely claiming to have Native American ancestors to gain professional and other “advantages.” Trump has […]

The federal government ended the 2018 fiscal year with a $779 billion budget deficit, a 17 percent increase over the same period a year earlier and the biggest since 2012, according to Treasury Department data released on Monday. Economists had warned that last year’s Republican tax cuts and rising government spending would widen the spending gap. The rising cost of […]

A federal judge on Monday dismissed porn star Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Trump and ordered her to pay Trump’s legal fees. Daniels, who said she had sex with Trump in 2006, claimed that in 2011, after she agreed to discuss the affair in an interview, she was threatened by a man in a Las Vegas parking lot. Trump […]

IMPORTANT: Some time ago, I was in St. Louis at a meeting and was privileged to see the ‘rough cut’ of this important movie.  I understand that it will be in theaters through Thursday. It is obviously about abortion but it is rated PG-13 so it is pretty mild (no graphic abortion footage) and a teenager could definitely go. Very […]

by Mike Brest   |   The Daily Caller  Project Veritas released another bombshell video on Monday night, this time showing Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her staff saying that she supports strict gun control measures, but that she couldn’t express that outwardly or she wouldn’t get reelected. “But if we have the kind of year I think we might have I […]

By Chuck Ross  |   The Daily Caller Former Trump campaign associate Carter Page filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the Democratic National Committee and its law firm, which commissioned the infamous Steele dossier. Page filed the suit in federal court in Oklahoma against the DNC, the law firm, Perkins Coie, and two of its partners, Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann. Perkins […]

by Erick Erickson Stacey Abrams wants to be Georgia’s Governor, but can’t seem to get the counties straight. There is no Glasgow County in Georgia. What makes this really rich is that Stacey Abrams was touring the national news networks to attack Brian Kemp for purported voter suppression while Brian Kemp was actually in South Georgia working with local elections […]

It’s official: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, the mouthpiece for the liberal establishment, has written that, if the Democrat Party takes the House in the midterms just three weeks away, it will move to impeach the president in the next Congress: “While Democrats are largely ducking the topic on the campaign trail, few in Washington […]

by  R. Cort Kirkwood The mayor of Portland, Oregon, thinks it’s just fine if leftist goons swarm the streets, immobilize traffic, and threaten motorists, federal employees, and anyone the totalitarian brownshirts have a mind to declare their enemy. But Portland isn’t the only city where the thugs have attacked. As they swarmed the streets in Portland last week, their comrades in […]

Sears Holdings filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, aiming to cut its debts and keep the struggling department store chain operating at least through the holiday shopping season. The announcement came on a day when Sears had a $134 million loan payment. Eddie Lampert will remain chairman but step down as CEO, with a three-person committee taking over to lead […]

By SUZANNE HAMNER   |   Freedom Outpost It’s a travesty in this republic when less than one percent of the population can influence government to trample upon basic God-given individual unalienable rights.  It’s the worst travesty when the people elect officials beholden to ideology instead of the Constitution or elect officials who appoint individuals beholden to ideology instead of the Constitution. No […]

by David Codrea (Ammoland.com)- “Fatal police shootings 40% more likely in states with higher gun ownership,” a Saturday ABC News headline with a scarcely-disguised narrative declares. The opinion they’re hoping to establish and reinforce is that lawful gun ownership results in unlawful gun use requiring lethal intervention by the state. “The U.S. Constitution’s second amendment gives us the ‘right to bear arms,’ but what […]

By Jonathan Easley and Alexis Simendinger President Trump will touch down in Florida and Georgia today to be briefed on the damage wrought by Hurricane Michael, the Category 4 storm that leveled parts of the Florida Panhandle last week. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), who is in a tight Senate battle against Sen. Bill Nelson (D), called the damage “indescribable and […]

One of the nation’s largest doctors’ lobbies has retracted its opposition to assisted suicide. According to the Washington Free Beacon: Delegates from the American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents more than 130,000 doctors nationwide, voted to change the group’s stance to “engaged neutrality” on the question of whether physicians should be able to prescribe lethal medications to patients. The resolution […]

By David Rutz  |   Washington Free Beacon New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer suggested in a new interview that she and Ronan Farrow reported on Deborah Ramirez’s uncorroborated accusation of misconduct by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh out of eagerness to show a “pattern” of such behavior. The veteran journalist told Elle her recollections of the Clarence Thomas hearings, the treatment of Anita Hill by the Senate, and […]

by Warner Todd Huston  |   Eagle Rising Hillary Clinton is now the only former secretary of state to lose her security clearance after she relinquished her clearances yesterday likely in an effort to avoid further scrutiny of her past violations of America’s national security laws. The story comes from Breitbart News: Cheryl Mills, a former top Clinton aide, along with four additional […]

by Stacey Lennox  |   The Resurgent Group More In Common Releases a study about the political climate in the U.S. Big headlines today about 80% of Americans being concerned about political correctness. That is just one metric in a very broad study about the political climate in the U.S. And frankly, one of the least interesting things about it. An initiative […]

BY LISA HAGEN  |  The Hill Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is facing a pivotal moment in his upstart fight to defeat GOP Sen. Ted Cruz. O’Rourke shattered fundraising records with a stunning $38.1 million haul between July and September — the largest quarterly haul in U.S. Senate history and more than tripling Cruz’s $12 million. It was a sensational fundraising number that has exceeded […]