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Ryan Zinke is officially out as Secretary of the Interior, and while President Trump looks for a successor, a conservative policy expert says Zinke's tenure was marked by some excellent policies and a major missed opportunity. "Overall, I'd give him about a C+.  It being a new year, let's be generous, a B-," said National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen. Cohen says he'...

While reporters and pundit made countless Pink Floyd references after China's Change'e 4 probe landed on the far side of the moon Thursday, a leading expert on China says this achievement is part of a very ambitious military buildup that represents the greatest threat to U.S. national security. "China is the number one threat, the number two threat, the number three threat," said China expert Gord...

Democrats now control the House of Representatives, but former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Republicans appear more committed than ever to funding the border wall demanded by President Trump. A partial government shutdown has been in effect since Dec. 22 over a stalemate between Republicans and Democrats over funding the border wall.  Prior to Thursday, the stagnation was due to t...

On Thursday, a new Congress will begins with Democrats controlling the House and Republicans enjoying a bigger majority in the Senate. So how did the GOP do in the outgoing Congress? What did they get right on tax and other fiscal policy? What did they leave undone? And what issues could be grounds for bipartisan action in a divided Congress? National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp explains w...

Earlier this month a federal judge ruled the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional, and even with the the U.S. headed toward a divided Congress next month, a conservative policy expert says this could be a great opportunity for market-based solutions to make progress. Judge Reed O'Connor struck down the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, using the logic Chief Justice John Roberts use...

The tax reform legislation has our economy booming and the boom will keep rolling unless the Federal Reserve kneecaps it by continuing to raise interest rates, according to informal Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore. Moore is a Heritage Foundation and FreedomWorks scholar and is also co-author of "Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy." He says the 2017 tax reform bi...

Almost everyone who will vote in 2020 has already made up their minds.  The 2018 midterms showed a divided America and political scientist Larry Sabato says we'll see the same thing in the next cycle as America gears up for a presidential race. Sabato, who directs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says Americans are locked into their political views and are not budging.  He sa...

Over the past 12 months, many legends from the entertainment world have passed away. From Aretha Franklin to Burt Reynolds to Penny Marshall, we lost many of our favorites in music, television, and film. And we also remember those whose contributions were truly out of this world. Listen to the full podcast to join us in remembering the famous names and faces who kept us entertained for so many yea...

2018 brought us many headlines, including the sad news of the deaths of many famous people. In this section, we will remember key figures in politics, media, sports and beyond. Our list includes a renowned evangelist, a president and first lady, and a famous senator. We also look back at the lives of those we came to know on cable news and in newspapers and who thrilled us on the field and on the...

President Trump is taking heat from all points on the political spectrum for announcing an immediate withdrawal of some 2,000 U.S. forces in Syria, but retired U.S. Navy Captain Chuck Nash believes Trump is doing the right thing while acknowledging the decision leaves several uncertainties in the Middle East. On Wednesday, Trump declared that ISIS was defeated in Syria, a claim roundly rejected by...

President Trump is insisting on $5 billion to fund significant construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock says Trump should use the recently passed Farm Bill as leverage to get what he wants from Congress. Known formally as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, the bill has already passed the House and Senate but is awaiting Trump's signature.  M...

Rob Henneke, the attorney who argued in federal court for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act is celebrating the verdict and predicting the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately uphold the verdict. On Friday, Federal Judge Reed O'Connor struck down the Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA or Obamacare, agreeing with Henneke and officials from 20 states that the ACA is unconstitutional now tha...

This week, the Republican House of Representatives and the Republican Senate easily approved a new, five-year Farm Bill, but conservative critics are enraged at the cost and structure of the legislation. Club for Growth Vice President of Government Affairs Andy Roth says Republicans in Congress barely made any efforts to rein in spending or beef up work requirements for food assistance programs co...

On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence among her fellow Conservative Party members of Parliament. While May survived, the margin was far from convincing. Over a third of her own party expressed no confidence over her rocky handling of the Brexit effort. But without an election hanging over her head, what can May do to build confidence and where will the UK head o...

In 2015, United Nations officials and leaders from around the world congratulated themselves on the Paris Climate Accords, which committed nations to significant reductions in carbon emissions and compelled the wealthiest nations to help fund similar efforts in developing nations. Now, just three years later, the UN says those commitments are not even close to sufficient to confront human-caused c...

On Friday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller released memos which shed more light on guilty pleas from President Trump's private attorney, Michael Cohen. Among other confessions, Cohen is pleading guilty to campaign finance violations. Those violations are assumed to be hush money payments to adult film performer Stephanie Clifford (known professionally as Stormy Daniels) and former Pla...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Kansas and Louisiana, which are trying to stop Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. Four justices must endorse hearing a case for it to come before the high court.  In this case, only Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, and Neil Gorsuch voted to hear the appeal.  Chief Justice John Roberts and Jus...

Allegations of rampant election fraud has the results of a North Carolina congressional race up in the air. In the Tar Heel State's 9th district, Republican Mark Harris defeated Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, but the Harris campaign and a group he contracted with are accused of vote harvesting. The Republicans are accused of swiping absentee ballots in predominantly minority neighborhoods and...

Congressional leaders are punting tough spending decisions for two weeks, leaving President Trump and Republican majorities in the lame duck Congress very little time to act on funding a border wall and other security measures. The funding debate is being postponed so lawmakers don't descend into a partisan brawl just hours after honoring the late President George Bush, but with Democrats poised t...

Only two men in American history have followed in their fathers' footsteps to become President of the United States.  On Wednesday, George W. Bush became the first president in history to eulogize a father who had also been president. The younger Bush spoke of his dad's penchant for "living young" even into old age and that led to skydiving even at 90 years old.  "The horizons he saw were bright a...

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was among those eulogizing former President George Bush Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. Mulroney discussed Bush's leadership on the world stage with a special emphasis on how Bush deftly managed the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. "An ominous situation that could have become extremely menacing to world security...

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson offered a tribute Wednesday at the Washington funeral of former President George Bush. Simpson recounted how Bush - riding immense popularity following the Gulf War - reached out and publicly supported Simpson at one of his lowest points. "At this time, his popularity rating was 93 percent.  Mine was 0.93 percent," said Simpson, in recounting Bush's invitation to s...

Barbara H. Franklin is mourning the loss of a close friend, but George Bush was not only her friend.  He was President of the United States and Franklin's boss when she served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce. "I feel a sense of personal loss as well as the loss of a great president and a good man," said Franklin, who first met Bush in the early 1970's when he was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation...

Ronald Reagan and George Bush waged a fierce battle for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, but that summer they forged a personal and political alliance that greatly assisted Reagan and eventually led to Bush winning the White House eight years later. "No president ever had a better vice president, a more loyal vice president, a more hand-working vice president than George Bush," said fo...

A former top speechwriter of President George H.W. Bush is remembering his former boss as a leader of tremendous honor and achievement over Bush's four years in the White House, and he's also shedding light on some of the most memorable moments associated with Mr. Bush. Curt Smith is author of "George H.W. Bush: Character at the Core."  He says Bush embodied many of the qualities that have been ch...