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Republicans Wake Up to an Electoral Bloodbath

'Lawyer Up': Democrats Declare War on Trump Administration

2026 Midterms Results: Democrats Win the House and Senate

J.K. Rowling Accused of “Transphobia” for Stating a Basic Truth About Womanhood

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 19, 2019 59 Comments

Author J.K. Rowling is facing backlash this week from transgender rights activists and their supporters. On Twitter, she supported a British woman who lost her job earlier this year after old tweets surfaced where she stated biological men could not be women.

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1194660405907464194

Trump Campaign Raised Over $5 Million on Impeachment Day

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 19, 2019 16 Comments

President Donald Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted that they raised over $5 million on Wednesday. You know, the day the House voted to impeach Trump.

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1207491703449497600

VIDEO: Rep. Rashida ‘Impeach the M-fer’ Tlaib Posts Giddy Video on Her Way to Impeach Trump

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 19, 2019 20 Comments

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declared Wednesday a solemn day and even wore black as the House voted to impeach President Donald Trump. She told the Democrats to behave and not celebrate the impeachment. Many Democratic representatives refused to toe the line. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and others had a celebratory dinner the night before. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who screamed "impeach the mother f*cker" after her swearing-in, posted a happy and gleeful video on her way to vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5vhF77f_I

McConnell: Dems Appear ‘Too Afraid’ to Hand Senate Their ‘Shoddy Work’ on Articles of Impeachment

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 19, 2019 84 Comments

After the House voted to impeach President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said the Democrats may wait to send the Senate the Articles of Impeachment to try to exert pressure on the Senate at to impeachment trial rules. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Pelosi and the Democrats on the floor this morning.

https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1207527709322166272

WaPo reporters celebrate ‘Merry Impeachmas’ – then tweet deleted

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 19, 2019 18 Comments

The Washington Post's Congressional reporter Rachael Bade deleted a tweet of her and other reporters at the paper, wishing everyone a Merry Impeachmas. The reporters look happy and joyful as Congress debated and voted to impeach President Donald Trump.

Iranian Refugee Warns America That Universities are Becoming Radicalized

Africana Studies Department at Oberlin College Offers Courses on Marxism

Northwestern Food Fest Cancels Event After Pro-Israel Group Registers

Member of Largest Teachers Union Says They Abandoned Education in Pursuit of Political Power

Columbia to Host Discussion of American Genocide, Colonialism, and Racial Oppression

LGBT Student Group at Florida State U. Requests $58K for Drag Shows

Hundreds of Obama Alumni Throw Biden Under the Bus and Endorse Warren for 2020

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2019 12 Comments

Obama's non-endorsement of Joe Biden has been the subject of much speculation, but now things are getting even stranger. Hundreds of people who worked for the Obama campaign and administration are now backing Elizabeth Warren.

Branco – Cartoon – Burn, Baby! Burn!

Posted by A.F. Branco on December 19, 2019 10 Comments

We didn't light the fire...

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1207467960971005952

Democrats will rue the day they forced this impeachment through the House

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2019 119 Comments

Despite the Democrat-Media-NeverTrump vapors of how historic tonight's vote to impeach Trump is, it's being met mostly with a shrug of the shoulders by a nation that has heard Democrats demand impeachment since before Trump took office, and every day since then. Tonight is the real start of the 2020 campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJw54lq8Jcs

Democrat-Controlled House Votes to Impeach Trump With a Few Dems Crossing the Aisle

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2019 39 Comments

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump.

While everyone was focused on impeachment, 5th Circuit cut the legs out from under Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2019 28 Comments

A year ago almost to the day, we reported that a Texas federal judge (1) held that the Obamacare individual mandate was unconstitutional after Congress repealed the mandate tax (which was the justification for the Supreme Court upholding the mandate in 2012), and (2) the mandate was not severable from the rest of the law, so the entire law fell. It was a full defeat of Obamacare, Federal Judge kills Obamacare:

WaPo Called Out for Publishing Column Attacking Martha Roby for Bringing Son to Impeachment Articles Vote

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 18, 2019 15 Comments

Several House Republicans are calling out The Washington Post after the paper published a nasty column Monday attacking Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) for bringing her young son George to last Friday's House Judiciary Committee vote on articles of impeachment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjlHoabxsn0

NY Judge Tosses Paul Manafort State Fraud Case, Citing Double Jeopardy, Setting Up Potential Federal Pardon

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 18, 2019 14 Comments

Here at LI, we have covered extensively President Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort. Manafort, who is serving time in federal prison after being indicted by Robert Mueller, was also charged by New York state in an apparent effort to block a possible Trump pardon. The effort has, so far, failed as a NY judge has tossed out the case, citing double jeopardy.

Large Minimum Wage Hike Strikes Again, Killing Restaurant Jobs in California and Washington State

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 18, 2019 21 Comments

While America is enjoying record low unemployment, some areas are actually experiencing the loss of jobs. In certain cities where progressive activists and politicians have forced increases in the minimum wage, restaurants who can't keep up are closing and taking jobs with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixGaRFyYwBY

Gallup: Trump Approval Up to 45%, Support for Impeachment Down Six Points

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2019 15 Comments

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will vote on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump this afternoon. While it will surely pass, the American people have made it known that they still support Trump and not the impeachment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQqj9IEsRM

Trump Fumes Over Impending Impeachment Vote: ‘I DID NOTHING WRONG!’

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 18, 2019 30 Comments

President Donald Trump exploded on Twitter over the impending impeachment vote in the House later today. He retweeted a bunch of tweets praising him and quotes from people on TV shows demeaning the vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4tmS_PjxA&t=10s

Indian Muslims Outraged Over Law Granting Citizenship to Refugees Fleeing Islamist Persecution

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 18, 2019 27 Comments

Muslims across India staged angry protests over new legislation that grants citizenship rights for refugees fleeing Islamist persecution in the neighboring countries.

Elizabeth Warren hid her lucrative legal practice because it was “contrary to her political narrative”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2019 17 Comments

I appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on December 17, 2019, to talk about Elizabeth Warren's legal practice, while also a professor at Harvard Law School, in which she made almost $2 million. It's a topic I have discussed on Tucker's show before (here and here).