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The Iranian military figure responsible for targeting and killing thousands of people, including hundreds of U.S. troops, was killed in a drone strike in Iraq early Friday morning, along with several other key figures connected with Iranian-sponsored terrorism in the Middle East. But the killing of Qassem Soleimani is sparking fierce debate.  President Trump says he acted to stop a war while his c...

Virginia Democrats will take control of the General Assembly next week.  And while their gun control agenda is receiving the vast majority of the media coverage, the Democrats are also planning to ratify the decades-old Equal Rights Amendment and claim that vote will officially add the amendment to the Constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment, known as ERA, was approved by two-thirds majorities in...

Many Democrats are demanding a new system for electing our presidents.  The effort stems from Democrats losing two presidential elections within 16 years despite winning the popular vote. But the Constitution says the president is selected through the Electoral College, a system that focuses on which candidates win each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. What did the founding father...

Immigration reform remains very elusive in Washington as Republicans and Democrats seemingly find less and less common ground as the debate continues.  Florida Rep. Ted Yoho believes comprehensive legislation is highly unlikely and a bad idea anyway, so he's taking aim at improving the guest worker program for agricultural workers. Yoho represents an agriculture-heavy district.  He says it's simpl...

Earlier this year, California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted legislation they promised would protect independent workers.  Passed by the Democratic-dominated legislature, the law requires businesses to treat freelance workers like formal employees. The goal was to prevent independent contractors from being exploited.  In reality, it's putting them out of work.  Instead of complying with t...

Over the past 12 months, we've bid farewell to some of our favorite entertainers.  From music to television to film, these performers created songs or characters that will remain with us long after they've departed. In this podcast, we look back legends from the world of entertainment.  We remember one of the iconic singers and actresses from Hollywood's golden age, groundbreaking music acts from...

As we prepare to close the books on 2019, we take time to remember those famous names and faces who left us from all walks of life.  In this segment, we will look back at prominent figures in media and sports who died this year. This list includes a trailblazing female journalist, a legendary sports broadcaster, winners of the first two Superbowls, baseball hall of famers, and one of the winninges...

2019 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 and business. Our list includes a Supreme Court justice, the billionaire businessman who shook up politics in the 1990's, many long-serving lawmakers, an auto industry titan and many more. Listen to the full podcast to hear our tributes to prominent...

The effort to strike down the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is another step closer to reality after a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the individual mandate is unconstitutional. It's the latest ruling in a case brought by the attorneys general of many states and individual plaintiffs claiming the mandate has caused great harm. The court is now try...

As Congress prepares to pass another $1.4 trillion in government spending and President Trump prepares to sign it, why are both parties abdicating responsibility for fiscal stewardship? The House votes on Tuesday enjoyed support from dozens of GOP members. Openthebooks.com CEO Adam Andrzejewski says Democrats are open about wanting to spend more and more money and many Republicans often end up bei...

Sen. Rand Paul is not holding back his disgust for the bloated spending contained in the bills to fund the federal government through September 2020. "The nicest thing I can say about them would be they're an abomination," laughed Paul. "They're terrible. People who vote for this are not fiscally conservative. There's nothing conservative about this." In the podcast, Paul also explains why a major...

The Conservative Party far surpassed expectations in Thursday's parliamentary elections, winning 364 seats and crushing the Labor Party's hopes of scoring an upset. Prime Minister Boris Johnson now has plenty of breathing room to pursue his brand of Brexit while Labor tries to figure out what went wrong. So why did the Conservative Party far exceed all expectations? Was it simply a desire to resol...

On Tuesday, House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The Judiciary Committee will soon approve charges that Trump committed abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in connection to the Ukraine controversy. Why did Democrats decide on these articles? How strong is their case? And why did they not accuse Trump of bribery after weeks of suggesting he engaged in...

On Monday, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his long-awaited report on the FBI's handling of FISA warrant requests and renewals concerning one-time Trump campaign figure Carter Page. Horowitz concluded that there was no provable political bias that went into some 17 major errors in filing for the warrants, including the admission of obviously false information about P...

Since mid-November, Iranian citizens have filled the streets in scores of cities in all 31 of the nation's provinces to denounce the mullahs and the Rouhani government. The Iranian regime is lashing out against the demonstrators with far more ferocity than in previous protests, but the repression seems to be making more people mad and the protests just keep growing. "There's nothing that can stop...

After one hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is directing committee chairman Jerry Nadler to begin drafting articles of impeachment. What's behind the timing of that decision and what articles could be coming? California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock is member of the House Judiciary Committee. He tells Greg Corombos why he sees nothing in President Trump's conduc...

On Nov. 5, Democrats won majorities in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly. Democrats officially take control in January but party leaders are already rolling out an aggressive gun control agenda. In addition to the usual legislative goals of universal background checks, red flag laws, and bans on semi-automatic"assault style" rifles, legislation put forth by the incoming Senate majorit...

Socialism is getting increasingly popular.  A recent Gallup poll shows 49 percent of Millennials and Gen Z have a favorable view of socialism.  Other surveys show as many as 57 percent embrace it.  And while the numbers are far different among Gen X and Boomers, roughly a third of them give socialism a thumbs up too. But why is socialism popular, particularly among young adults?  While many have d...

On Tuesday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released their impeachment report, arguing that President Trump deliberately and repeatedly abused the power of his office for his personal political benefit through his demands towards Ukraine. But while Chairman Adam Schiff and his allies believe the evidence of impeachable offenses is overwhelming, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McC...

Fresh off re-election to his state legislative office Republican Virginia Del. Nick Freitas is launching a congressional campaign in the commonwealth's seventh district. Freitas is a U.S. Army veteran, a Green Beret who served two tours in Iraq.  He was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2015 and about to begin his third term there after winning re-election as a write-in candidate...

Carmen Pate has been very active in ministry and in pro-life activism for many years. As you can hear in the podcast, she is a woman of passion and energy. But in 2014, Carmen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and, even after a bone marrow transplant, the cancer has relapsed multiple times. But even as she battles for her life yet again, Carmen's faith is an inspiration to many as sh...

House Republicans are hammering Speaker Nancy Pelosi for putting legislative business on hold while the impeachment process plays out. At the top of their grievance list is the inaction on the USMCA, the trade agreement among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico designed to replace NAFTA. Florida Rep. Ted Yoho tells Greg Corombos how impeachment is gumming up the legislative works but he also details why...

While the impeachment hearings attracted most of the news coverage on Capitol Hill this week, both the House and Senate agreed to a continuing resolution to keep the government funded until December 20. But while shutdown theater was avoided for another month, Congress is yet again failing to go through an orderly appropriations process, by which congressional committees go line by line through sp...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already in the midst of a political drama and now he's facing a legal one too. On Thursday, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Netanyahu is charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.  Bribery carries a maximum sentence of ten years while the other charges could bring an additional three years.  The allegations stem from allegat...

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland says there was a quid pro quo pushed by the Trump administration, an assertion that damages the defense put foerward by President Trump and his Republican allies, but former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says the facts simply don't warrant impeachment. McCarthy, who served as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ne...