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Dec. 26, 2018 – Talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel is mocking the “very dopey people” contributing to a GoFundMe campaign to support President Trump’s southern border wall. All Kimmel has got to lose by ­insulting backers of the wall is his ratings. But Democrats are risking a voter backlash by stonewalling Trump’s demand for border funding

Dec. 19, 2018 – A federal district judge in Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional Friday. The lawsuit was brought by Republican officials from 20 states, who want their residents to have more insurance choices and lower premiums. Though the suing states won in Texas v. Azar, their victory won’t help consumers

December 12, 2018 – Congressional Dems are butting heads with President Trump over his demand for ­$5 billion to continue building a wall along the southern border. Likely incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vows she won’t spend one dollar for a wall and calls the idea “immoral.” Not building the wall is what’s truly immoral.

December 5, 2018 – Auto tariffs were the big take-away from this weekend’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leaders to de-escalate their trade war. But don’t be misled. The real threat to American auto jobs isn’t Chinese tariffs on American-made cars. It’s China’s plan to flood the U.S. with cut-rate cars made with

November 28, 2018 – President Trump is putting the economic screws to Mexico to control the flow of Central American migrants at the southern border. Unlike his predecessors, Trump is driving a hard bargain. Exports are Mexico’s economic lifeblood, and a staggering 81 percent of them end up in the US. That’s why Trump’s threat

November 21, 2018 – President Trump’s critics are belittling him for not buying the lefty narrative that global warming is to blame for the California wildfires. Instead, Trump points to decades of mistakes by government agencies that caused the woodlands to become overly dense and blanketed with highly flammable dead wood and underbrush. He’s exactly

November 15, 2018 – If Americans are losing confidence in elections, don’t blame Russian hackers. The damage is self-inflicted. A week after polls closed, Americans still don’t know who won major races: gubernatorial races in Florida and Georgia, a Florida Senate seat and several House contests. Candidates who conceded on election night are backtracking and

November 6, 2018 – Former President Barack Obama is ridiculing President Trump and Republicans for vowing to stop the caravan of 4,000 Central American migrants heading toward our border. Republicans are “trying to convince everybody to be afraid of a bunch of impoverished, malnourished refugees,” says Obama. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blasts Republicans for

November 1, 2018 – Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski is running to slash Connecticut taxes and bring Trumponomics to his state. Amazingly, Stefanowski has pulled even with his tax-and-spend Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, even though the state generally votes left. Here’s the reason: Connecticut is a tax hell, with one of the country’s highest state

October 24, 2018 – The Justice Department announced charges against Russian social-media manipulator Elena Khusyaynova on Friday. She is accused of conspiring to set up fake Facebook and Twitter accounts under names like “Bertha Malone,” “Rachell Edison” and “wokeluisa” that posted “tens of thousands of messages” about gun rights, immigration, the midterm elections and other