Vice President Mike Pence has officially laid out the plan to begin creating a military command dedicated to space, establishing the “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the U.S. military.

If everything goes according to this plan, the

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump will sanction Turkish minister of justice and minister of interior over the imprisonment of American pastor Andrew Brunson. From CNBC:

“We’ve seen no evidence that pastor Brunson has done anything wrong and we believe he is a victim of...

The last time we visited the Environmental Protection Agency, its regulation-slaying head Scott Pruitt had resigned over “the unrelenting attacks” on him and his family, which “are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of” them.

As I suspected, the left’s victory over Pruitt was hollow. Acting EPA Chief Andrew...

The Trump administration recently revoked Obama’s Affirmative Action guidelines but Yale refuses to comply.

The Yale Daily News reports:

Yale to continue using race in admissions, defying Trump guidelines

Despite the Trump administration’s reversal of Obama-era policies encouraging schools to use affirmative action to diversify their student bodies, Yale will continue to use race...

Not only is the Nazi comparison inaccurate and lame, it’s an insult to the memory of Holocaust victims and survivors. No one on the left seems to get this.

The Daily Caller reports:

Poli Sci Professor Compares Sarah Sanders to Nazi Propaganda Minister

A Canadian political science professor compared White House Press Secretary Sarah...

It looks like you got your wish, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). She told MSNBC that #TheResistance will “harass them [members of the administration] until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.'”

Professor Jacobson documented the times that members of President Donald Trump’s administration has...

Confronting Trump administration officials and supporters in public places and even at their homes is becoming the go-to tactic for #TheResistance.

Just in the last few days we have covered several such incidents:

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When I taught high school English, I realized that education is best handled as locally as possible and developed a hatred for the Department of Education. I’ve often said I would abolish that department immediately if I ever became president.

This may be the first step in the right direction. The White...

President Trump must be doing something right, or the #Resistance is doing something very wrong.  Or both.  No recent president has enjoyed a higher approval rating among his base than Trump since President Bush following the 9/11 terror attacks.

Democrats have been looking for a message for the 2018 midterms and they finally found one they like. Here’s the funny part. It’s one of Trump’s core talking points.

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Last week, I attended an event at the American Enterprise Institute. It was a podcast summit which was a joint venture between AEI and Ricochet.

I watched several podcasts taped live, and while they were all informative and entertaining, the crown jewel was an interview with Defense Secretary James Mattis.

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As we’ve been covering here at LI, Gina Haspel is President Trump’s pick to head the CIA.  She has been blasted for her role in overseeing then-legal and -authorized enhanced interrogation techniques against Islamist terrorists.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has issued a statement in which he urges the Senate not to confirm...

A familiar pattern plays out when anyone comes to President Trump’s defense. They get targeted for destruction.

Now that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has joined Trump’s legal team to reportedly negotiate an end to the Mueller investigation, he will have a target on his back.

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This year’s midterms are huge for both parties. A newly-released Fox News poll shows the GOP making gains in their voter preference poll.  If true, this is exceptionally good news not just for the GOP but for the president.

Fox News reports:

The latest Fox News poll finds a tightening race when voters...

President Trump needs to keep both the House and the Senate in order to fulfill even more of his campaign promises and to get more of his agenda passed.  However, things have not been going well for the GOP in special elections since Trump’s own election.

Recognizing how important Congressional majorities are...

President Donald Trump’s longtime personal assistant John McEntee has left the White House and will join the president’s 2020 re-election campaign.

The Wall Street Journal reported the White House fired him over security issues. Other reports indicate the firing happened because he is under investigation for serious financial crimes.

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The New York Times reported that White House Economic Advisor Gary Cohn plans to resign:

The officials insisted there was no single factor behind the departure of Mr. Cohn, who heads the National Economic Council. But his decision to leave came after he seemed poised to lose an internal struggle amid a...