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Many Democrats, including several presidential hopefuls, are advocating an end to the Electoral College, so why do we have it in the first place and what would happen if we ditched it for the national popular vote? Pete Buttigieg is the latest Democrat urging the abolition of the Electoral College, telling a crowd at his campaign launch that the Electoral College has overturned the will of the peo...

For 30 years, Omar al-Bashir ruled Sudan with a corrupt and vicious iron fist.  During his time in power, Bashir was ruthlessly brutal to the nation's Christian minority.  His heartlessness attracted worldwide headlines during the humanitarian crisis in Darfur last decade. Last week, al-Bashir was finally ousted in a military coup.  But what toll did he exact on Christians in his country?  How did...

President Trump has suggested sending many of the people illegally pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border to so-called sanctuary cities, since those locales publicly state they will not cooperate with federal immigration authorities. But as Trump and his advisers determine whether this is feasible, should the administration pursue this idea? Is there any legal precedent for it? And can the federal,...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and while child abuse sadly takes on many forms, one of the areas of greatest concern is sexual abuse, including child sex trafficking. Beulah's Place founder Andi Buerger literally suffered from sex trafficking her entire childhood - from when she was six months old until she was seventeen years old.  Her immediate family were often the perpetrators...

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy is urging partisans on both sides to calm down and lower expectations of what Attorney General Bill Barr is likely to find about how the 2016 probe of the Trump campaign got started and says Americans might be shocked at how tough it is to hold Julian Assange accountable for his alleged crimes against the U.S. This week, Attorney General Barr told House...

On Tuesday, Israeli voters once again decided to keep Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, rewarding him and his coalition partners for a decade of strong economic growth and national security, but also suggesting a new party will be a major player in Israeli politics over the coming years. Netanyahu's Likud party actually tied the upstart Blue and White party, by winning 35 seats apiece in the 1...

House Democrats passed the Save the Internet Act Wednesday. The bill seeks to restore the Obama-era Open Internet Order that was revoked by the FCC in 2017. Radio America's Christian Whittle reports.

Just a few weeks ago, a fierce debate raged over President Trump's call for a national emergency to direct billions of taxpayer dollars to build a wall along strategic points of the U.S. Mexico border, and while the controversy over Trump's action persists, all sides now agree there is a humanitarian urgency as the number of people attempting to enter the U.S. continues to swell. According to gove...

The U.S. designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization Monday, and a leading Iranian resistance group says this action will starve the Iranian regime of funds and lead to a more peaceful region. "From the moment it was founded, the IRGC's mandate was to defend and export the regime's mission by whatever means possible.  The IRGC institutionalized terro...

The Trump administration wants to find common ground with Democrats to get moving on badly needed transportation projects and suggests that higher gas taxes are on the table.  Fiscal conservatives recoil at such an idea but these projects need to get done, so how should they be paid for? National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp says there are many ways for government to address the costs of ro...

The Trump administration says higher gas taxes are on the table when figuring out how to pay for infrastructure projects and Republicans in one battleground state just hiked gas taxes there, arguing that it had to be done.  But one of the nation's fiercest opponents of tax increases says Americans should not fall for the argument that higher taxes means better roads and bridges. "Year after year,...

President Trump is backing away from threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border but a former federal immigration official says Trump certainly has that authority but other steps might make more sense. Trump made the threat in response to the tide of illegal immigration and illicit drugs pouring into the U.S.  But after pleas from both Texas senators and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep...

President Trump now says he will wait until after the 2020 election to pursue repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act again, but Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner says Trump is champing at the bit to get health reform done and he wants to do it with the plan she and other policy experts are championing. Turner and her health policy consensus group have been urging lawmakers to t...

House Republicans are now trying to force a vote on legislation requiring medical care for babies who are born following attempted abortions, after Democrats rejected numerous GOP efforts to get a vote on the infanticide ban. On Tuesday, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise brought a discharge petition to the House floor so members could sign it.  If a majority of House members sign on, House Speaker...

Senate Democrats blocked a resolution Tuesday that aimed at reducing the debate time allowed for certain sub-cabinet and judicial nominations. Republicans had hoped to drastically speed up the confirmation process for Trump’s nominees in order to fill hundreds of empty positions. They are expected to make another attempt using a simple majority.

President Trump is preparing for a bruising re-election fight in 2020, but a new poll suggests he may have a lot of allies who will shake up the conventional wisdom in this campaign. In a new McLaughlin & Associates survey, Trump stands with a 49 percent approval rating while 50 percent disapprove.  But factored into that mix is 50 percent of Hispanics approving of the job Trump is doing and 48 pe...

President Trump is very clear about what he thinks should happen in Venezuela, but what is he prepared to do if it doesn't? For weeks, Trump has declared Juan Guaido to be the legitimate interim president in Venezuela.  But Nicholas Maduro is still in power and now the Russians are sending military personnel to shore up Maduro. American Foreign Policy Senior Vice President Ilan Berman says Trump h...

During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian election interference, Chairman Adam Schiff rejected calls from House Republicans to step down after the Mueller investigation found no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia. Radio America's Christian Whittle reports.

The effort to strike down the Affordable Care Act just got a powerful new ally, as the Justice Department now says the courts should find the 2010 law unconstitutional, and one of the lawyers spearheading the case is thrilled with the news. "The Trump Justice Department is doing its job to uphold the Constitution," said Rob Henneke of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. "I commend the Trump admini...

Prosecutors in Chicago stunned the nation Tuesday by dropping all charges against actor Jussie Smollett while still asserting that Smollett faked a hate crime against himself and cost the Chicago Police Department hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate the case. "We did not exonerate Mr. Smollett. The charges were dropped in return for Mr. Smollett's agreement to do...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of the Trump campaign conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 campaign but is apparently more ambiguous about whether the president obstructed justice during the investigation. According to the letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress, Mueller ultimately made no recommendation on whether to there was a prosecutable case on obstruct...

When Donald Trump joined the 2016 presidential race, many Americans did not take him seriously.  Even after he won primaries and secured the nomination, millions assumed he had no chance of actually becoming president.   But he did. And almost four years after Trump launched his White House bid, most of his critics are still dumbfounded as to how he ever gained any traction, much less won a major...

One of the most powerful forces in public education is actively promoting transgenderism to children as young as kindergartners. Earlier this month, National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia joined Sarah McBride of the Human Right Campaign in reading "I Am Jazz" to a kindergarten class at Ashlawn Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia.  The  NEA is the largest teachers' union...

In November, Ron DeSantis was in the midst of a national political drama, as Florida officials conducted a recount to determine whether his slim victory would hold up.  Now, just two months into the job, DeSantis is piling up a flurry of accomplishments and winning praise from across the political spectrum. "He eventually won by 32,000 votes or 0.4 percent of the vote.  He kind of went off the rad...

Republican struggled and failed to overhaul Obamacare.  Many Democrats want the government to run health care entirely.  But former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says health care costs would plummet and choices would flourish if we simply bring transparency to the system. A longtime doctor before entering the political arena, Coburn says patients would benefit enormously from price transparency and kno...