Rep. Jordan Tears Into Impeachment Witness Over Linking Aid With Biden Investigation
By DAVID KRAYDEN OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF . Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan tore into testimony Wednesday in front of the House Intelligence Committee from Acting Ambassador To Ukraine William Taylor as impeachment hearings began. Taylor said he had a “clear understanding” of link between continued U.S. aid to Ukraine and a Ukrainian investigation into […]
Fox News’ Chris Wallace: Taylor Testimony ‘Very Damaging’ To Trump
By JUSTIN CARUSO CONTRIBUTOR . Fox News host Chris Wallace said that Ambassador William Taylor’s House testimony Wednesday was “very damaging” to President Donald Trump. “I think that William Taylor was a very impressive witness and was very damaging to the president,” Wallace said. “First of all, as you pointed out, he took very copious notes at almost […]
House Resolution 660 is a joke; keeps chairs as House dictators
By Michael Hernandez House Resolution 660 that could be voted on as early as Halloween (Thursday, Oct. 31) is not only a scary pretense of due process and fairness but is an utter joke that establishes House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff and House Judicial Chair Jerry Nadler as House dictators over the Executive Branch […]
Kevin McAleenan Out As Homeland Security Chief, Trump Says
CHUCK ROSS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER . President Donald Trump announced Friday that Kevin McAleenan will be leaving as acting director of Homeland Security after a six-month stint in which he dealt with an unprecedented influx of asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked […]
Apple Boosts Production In Texas After Trump Exempts Company From Some Import Tariffs
CHRIS WHITE TECH REPORTER Apple will begin producing the new wave of Mac desktop computers in Texas after the Trump administration exempted the tech company from being subject to brutal tariffs. Most of Apple’s products are assembled in China and are facing tariff threats. The company received exceptions on Sept. 20 that enable it […]
Trump, Carson reject California’s request for federal help on homelessness
By STEPHANIE EBBS At the same time that President Donald Trump and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson are promising federal action to intervene in homelessness in California, they’re rejecting requests from local officials for help and escalating the blame game between the federal government and the state. California Gov. Newsom and local leaders. including mayors of the state’s 13 largest cities. wrote to […]
Trump Admin To Undo ‘Oppressive’ Obama-Era Water Regulation
AMBER ATHEY WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT The Trump administration is officially rolling back an Obama-era environmental rule that threatened farmers and other landowners with significant fines or jail time if they failed to comply with onerous regulations on waterways. The Clean Water Rule, more commonly referred to as the “Waters of the US” rule or […]
Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship
By Victor Davis Hanson The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump. Two, the Trump administration’s Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted Russia […]
Trump Strips California Of $930 Million In High-Speed Rail Funding
By MICHAEL BASTASCH | Energy Editor The Trump administration will terminate its agreement with California to fund the state’s struggling high-speed rail project, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) said Thursday. In a letter to state officials, Administrator Ronald Batory said FRA would deobligate the $928.6 million set aside for the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) […]
2020: The Coming Decade of Disruption and Reform
By Sheryl Hamlin The firm of Mehlman Castagnetti is a lobbying firm specializing in outcomes based strategy. This means that knowing history and given a certain mix of inputs, they devise strategies based on predictive outputs or forecasts. Their new presentation reminds us that it was a century ago that the United States proceeded through […]
