The storm is unprecedented, and it isn’t going anywhere. This image of Tropical Storm Harvey was taken on Aug. 28 at 10:30 a.m. EDT as it began moving back into the Gulf of Mexico. NASA/NOAA GOES Project Hurricane Harvey isn’t over yet. Since Friday, when the Category 4 Hurricane touched down on the Texas Gulf Coast,…
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A CNN contributor who CNN bills as a “Republican consultant” has given more than $18,000 to Democratic candidates since 1997, including thousands of dollars to a New Jersey senator currently on trial for corruption charges. Ana Navarrro gave another $2,000 to political action committees known as Democrats Win Seats and Help Elect America’s Team. It’s odd…
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The Orpheum Theatre Group in Memphis, Tennessee, announced that it will not include 1939 classic “Gone With the Wind” in its summer movie series next year. “As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves’, the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of…
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Ardent supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lashed out at the Democratic Party establishment and threatened to bail on the party after a federal judge in Florida dismissed a class-action suit Friday alleging that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) illegally favored Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Sanders. The DNC’s treatment of Sanders, who switched his…
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Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump’s former deputy assistant, said he left his White House post Friday because he decided he “can be far more effective for the president on the outside” during an interview Saturday with Breitbart editor Matt Boyle on SiriusXM Patriot. The Federalist first reported Friday that Gorka had left his post in the…
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Border Patrol agents in San Diego uncovered early Saturday a smuggling tunnel that they said was used to transit illegal immigrants into the U.S. – a rare tactic that suggests the drug cartels that control border traffic are searching for new ways to sneak people across. Agents spotted several illegal immigrants on the U.S. side of…
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One of the most enduring lessons from the Obamacare fiasco, is that to win a political battle it is best to keep the message simple. If there are too many moving parts to a plan, if Americans don’t understand what the politicians are doing, or if there are parts of a bill they don’t like, it…
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An award-winning national security correspondent for CIRCA News believes Congress needs to launch an investigation into Obama-era unmasking and warrantless surveillance of Americans, according to an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. Sara A. Carter, of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, has been an overseas war correspondent for the bulk of her professional life and…
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More than one of every three employees for the City of Chicago made at least $100,000 in 2016 according to a new analysis from the Chicago Sun-Times. The report revealed that 13,767 of the city’s 35,274 employees pulled in six figures, making up over $1.7 billion of the city’s $3.1 billion payroll. The number of employees…
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Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb? That question used to be part of an old joke. But the answer might soon be “no one” if certain New York politicians get their way. New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio has called for a review of the historic relevance of public monuments in the city. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark…
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When President Trump punched back Friday on Twitter at Senator Bob Corker’s (R-TN) relentless criticisms as “outrageous,” it electrified the conservative base among Tennessee Republican primary voters who continue to be very supportive of the president. State Senator Mark Green (R-Clarksville) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) are among those who may now be considering a challenge to Corker in the August 2018 primary. A Tennessee Star Poll conducted in June among likely Tennessee Republican primary voters showed that Corker was vulnerable. In a hypothetical one-on-one primary matchup with Blackburn, the two were in a statistical tie. The negative press Corker has received in Tennessee for his criticisms of President Trump may soon get worse. The SEC investigation of Sen. Corker and CBL, “A real-estate firm that has been a favored investment of Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker,” first reported by the Wall Street Journal in May 2016, may soon come to a conclusion. No one knows what that investigation may conclude, but when news of the investigation was made public, it caused quite a stir. In fact, Ann Weiman, executive director of the Camapign for Accountability (CfA), a non profit watchdog organization that had called for the SEC investigation…
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