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This morning Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. For such a non-controversial figure, Gorsuch experienced the full might of the Democratic Party’s attack machine. Still sour at Senate Republicans blocking Merrick Garland, Obama’s first pick to fill the vacancy left by the late Antonin Scalia, through the Biden rule—the Left was determined to stop Gorsuch at all costs. Despite having broad support from across the spectrum in the legal scholar realm—Obama’s former solicitor general supported his nomination—and the highest rating from the American Bar Association, Democrats formed a united front to stop him. They had the...

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The nation’s leading homosexual-bisexual-transgender legal organization assailed Neil Gorsuch in a brief that will make social conservatives delighted over President Trump’s choice to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Lambda Legal published an article titled “Neil Gorsuch has an unacceptable, hostile record toward LGBT people,” accompanied by a graphic of Gorsuch’s face with the word “Dangerous” covering his eyes. The article says Gorsuch’s decision in the 2013 10th Circuit Hobby Lobby case is “disqualifying.” “The Hobby Lobby decision set a terrible and destructive standard for bosses being allowed to...

President Donald Trump said he would support the peace agreement Israel and Palestinians "like the best" in a joint press conference during which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against Palestinian efforts to reach a deal. "I'm looking at two state and one state. And I like the one that both parties like," Trump said when asked about a peace agreement. Trump's meeting with Netanyahu on Wednesday was an initial test of Trump's campaign pledge to go further than President Obama in strengthening the relationship with Israel. By the end of Obama's tenure in office, his relationship with Netanyahu was...

This picture is interactive, you can move it to see the entire crowd.Link Chris Wallace (and Bret Bair too IIRC) showed the pic taken some time before the actual inauguration to make it look like Trump had a small crowd.

(CNN)The video was shocking: A special-needs teen bound and beaten, taunted and tortured live on Facebook. The response, however, is heartwarming. Thousands -- from all 50 states, and from countries as far away as Australia -- have donated to a GoFundMe account set up for the teen. A 10-year-old North Carolina girl sent in all $7 of her tooth fairy money. A Star Trek club challenged other fleets to donate. Another person wrote, "We heard your cry. You didn't ask for us, but your burdens are ours, so we are here to forever walk with you." The fund, started a...

After eight years of magnanimous humility, servility and deferential governance toward his political opposition, ‘President selfless‘ awards himself the Medal of Distinguished Public Service. Thus, President Obama officially declares himself the greatest public servant during his own tenure. No. Really, not kidding. He did.

A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, DC, restaurant on Sunday, injuring no one, police and news reports said. Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police received a call Sunday afternoon about a male with a weapon on Connecticut Avenue, in an affluent neighborhood of the nation’s capital. Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, North Carolina, walked in the front door of Comet Ping Pong and pointed a firearm in the direction of a restaurant employee,...

The federal courts trample us again.