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House Democrats are moving forward on an impeachment inquiry against President Trump.  The latest fuel for this effort are allegations that Trump asked the president of Ukraine to re-open an investigation into Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. Trump says he will release the unredacted transcript of his call with President Volodymyr Zelensky.  Trump says he never...

On Monday, the morning commute in Washington, D.C., was snarled by climate demonstrators taking over high profile streets and intersections to demand residents focus on the allegedly urgent need need to confront and reverse climate change.  But what the activists actually revealed is an anti-capitalist agenda. Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner reacts to the Shut...

On Tuesday, voters in Israel voted in another round of parliamentary elections.  As expected, the results show a virtual dead heat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party and the Blue and White Party led by retired Israeli Gen. Benny Gantz. Blue and White shows a very slight lead in the election returns, but neither party is anywhere close to having a majority of seats in the Israe...

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was repealing a controversial federal rule known as Waters of the United States. or WOTUS. Implemented during the Obama administration, WOTUS gave the federal government the power to regulate much more land in the U.S. be redefining a "navigable" waterway. The rule also forced farmers, ranchers, fruit growers, and other rural lan...

Over the weekend, the New York Times mentioned a previously unreported allegation about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's conduct while a student at Yale University. But there were some big problems with the accusation. First, the person alleging a different lewd incident involving Kavanaugh did not speak to the New York Times. The reporters in the story, who are also set to release a book o...

On Wednesday, President Trump announced the Food and Drug Administration will be finalizing the details to ban all non-tobacco flavored vaping products.  The action comes after a number of recent deaths and hospitalizations were blamed on vaping. But Consumer Choice Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier says Trump and the media are missing huge chunks of the real story.  As a result, he says the governm...

The criminal case against two pro-life activists who exposed Planned Parenthood's sale of aborted baby body parts is unfolding in California, but the biggest revelations to date concern how babies are treated in the desire to turn a profit. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress went undercover to interview Planned Parenthood officials and executives from various labs...

On September 11, 2001, U.S. Navy Captain Tom Joyce was at his post in the Pentagon. After learning of the attacks in New York City, he knew America was under attack and that the Pentagon could be a target. At 9:37 a.m., those fears were proven true. In this interview from the one-year anniversary of 9/11, Joyce walks us through what happened that morning, and how he and his colleagues responded af...

President Trump is looking for his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years following the departure of John Bolton on Tuesday, just 18 months after taking the job. The debate continues as to whether Bolton resigned (as he claims) or whether he was fired, as Trump insists.  More importantly, what impact did Bolton have on the Trump administration?  Why was the proposed meeting with...

For many years, Dr. Tim Ball has joined us to explain climate science, how the climate is changing, and how those changes differ drastically from with the United Nations, politicians and the media insist are the facts about climate change. In addition to interviews, Dr. Ball also makes presentations confronting the conventional wisdom among scientists.  But instead of responding with a robust deba...

This week, many Democrats running for president appeared in a marathon CNN town hall to demand sweeping, urgent action on climate change, but a leading climate scientist says it's little more than hot air. Over the course of several hours, former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed shutting down all coal-fired power plants.  Sen. Kamala Harris said she would ban fracking.  Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed...

Luke Coffey, direction of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, explains what happened in the UK this week and why. Why did Prime Minister Boris Johnson ask Queen Elizabeth II to suspend parliament? Why did this common tactic cause such a stir that Johnson lost his working majority in parliament? Why does Johnson want new elections? Why does parliament oppose them? List...

On Wednesday, the China-backed leader of Hong Kong announced she is withdrawing the legislation that sparked massive ongoing protests, but a leading Asia expert says that will do nothing to quell other demands of the millions of people taking to the streets. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced she is officially withdrawing legislation that would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be ex...

As America pauses for Labor Day, the battle between organized labor and the right to work movement remains intense. Right now, 27 states have right to work laws, which do not compel union membership or dues payments as a prerequisite for holding any job. Last year, right to work advocates also scored a major win at the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices struck down a precedent dating back to the 1970's...

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz blasted former FBI Director James Comey Thursday, accusing him of violating FBI policies and his own employment agreement in an effort to launch a special counsel investigation of President Trump. The report blasts Comey for keeping personal memos after meeting with President Trump in his capacity as FBI director and then leaking memos to the m...

In the final part of our conversation, "Ball of Collusion" author Andrew C. McCarthy pivots from how the Trump-Russia unfolded to where we go from here. What answers can we realistically expect from the Justice Department's inspector general and from Attorney General Bill Barr's investigation? Beyond that, how badly damaged is the credibility of the Justice Department and the FBI as a result of al...

In the first two portions of our interview with "Ball of Collusion" author and former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy, he and Greg Corombos discuss the origins of the probe and why Special Counsel Robert Mueller waited two years to issue a report despite there being no evidence of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. In our new podcast, McCarthy detail...

Andrew C. McCarthy served as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the successful prosecution of the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, and his accomplices in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other plots to attack New York City landmarks. Now a contributing editor and columnist with National Review, McCarthy has tracked every step of of...

Former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy joins Greg Corombos for an indepth conversation about McCarthy's new book, "Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency." In this first installment, they discuss whether the initial investigation into allegations of a Trump-Russian conspiracy were based on concrete evidence or the desire to find something. They als...

This past week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected annual deficits in this and the next fiscal year will near $1 trillion and that the U.S. will rack up more than $12 trillion in debt over the next decade. There was virtually no reaction from the White House, Congress, or political figures of any stripe.  The media also largely ignored the news. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford...

The Trump administration is planning to implement a new rule that keeps migrant families together but keeps them in custody until their immigration status is decided.   Critics plan to challenge the new policy, with Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley calling it "large-scale imprisonment" and likening the approach to the internment camps for Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Since 1997, the...

Environmental activists and political opponents are furious with President Trump for revising the Endangered Species Act (ESA), accusing him of being "purposefully" and "willfully negligent" with our natural resources. But a leading conservative environmental policy analyst says the changes amount to nothing more than common sense, and in some instances return the law to its 1973 origins. So what...

On Monday, Planned Parenthood withdrew its application to be a recipient of Title X federal health care funding, following a Trump administration rule change barring recipients from encouraging patients to pursue abortions. Susan B. Anthony List Vice President of Communications Mallory Quigley says this is a big win for the pro-life cause. "Planned Parenthood is choosing to not comply with the rul...

Tensions in Hong Kong remain very high as huge numbers of residents there continue pro-democracy protests aimed at keeping the communist Chinese regime at arm's length and forces loyal to the Chinese government take stronger action to put down the protests. A leading expert on China policy says the showdown is critically important and that President Trump must do much more to support those demandi...

Over the first ten months of Fiscal Year 2019, the United States is running it's largest deficit in history. Fiscal restraint was laughed out of Washington by both parties a long time ago, but what exactly is happening with your tax dollars? OpentheBooks.com recently studied where nearly $170 billion from the Small Business Administration went over a five-year span. In this podcast, OpentheBooks C...