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President Obama has used his bully pulpit in the past few weeks to tell North Carolina and the rest of the nation that men who say they are women must be allowed to share bathrooms and showers with women and girls. And he’s ordered essentially the same thing for public schools, under the threat of […]

A 64-year-old Baltimore man under surveillance for suspected illegal firearms dealing was allegedly recorded on Monday telling an undercover federal informant that he planned to “shoot some cops” after the acquittal of Officer Edward Nero in the Freddie Gray case, according to an affidavit filed in federal court by a special agent with the Bureau […]

House Conservatives Begin Trek To Impeach IRS Commissioner Koskinen Posted By Kathryn Watson On 1:32 PM 05/24/2016 In | No Comments House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform leaders made their case Tuesday to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Subcommittee on National Security Chairman Ron DeSantis rolled out their case for […]

Four years after the IRS hobbled conservative groups by targeting them for extra scrutiny, the agency’s still playing politics. No wonder Congress is looking to impeach its boss, John Koskinen. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Republican lawmakers gave specific reasons for their move: his lies under oath, his flouting of a congressional subpoena […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday sought to clarify VA Secretary Robert McDonald’s controversial comparison between the VA’s wait times and wait times at Disneyland, by saying veterans themselves have said wait times are not the only important factor when it comes to healthcare at the VA. But the VA declined to apologize for […]

About 1,650 ballots cast in Baltimore’s primary election were handled improperly, a state review has found — prompting some to question the validity of the election results. The State Board of Elections concluded that 1,188 provisional ballots were inappropriately scanned into the vote tally on Election Day — without judges verifying that the voters were […]

The Portland Public Schools board voted last week to ban any materials that cast doubt on climate change, the Portland Tribune reported. According to the resolution passed May 17, the school district must remove any textbooks and other materials that suggest climate change is not occurring or that says human beings are not responsible for […]

By Jenna Portnoy May 20 RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s order last month restoring the voting rights of 206,000 felons had an unintended consequence: It’s now easier for those ex-offenders to regain the right to own guns. Before the order, felons who wanted to legally possess firearms first had to go through the process of […]

TOP 7 HILLARY AND OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY FAILURES America needs leaders who will help keep our country secure. President Obama and Hillary Clinton have proven time and again that their misguided foreign policy efforts do far more harm than good. We have compiled seven of the top ways that Clinton and Obama’s policies have failed […]

In an unprecedented effort to attach criminal liability to everyday policing tactics, prosecutors zeroed in Thursday on a two-minute interaction to argue that OfficerEdward Nero assaulted Freddie Gray. They said Nero did so not by injuring Gray in any way, but by detaining him without asking why the stop was justified. Under intense questioning from […]