State Department email records show that environmental activists, who have denied operating as foreign agents in response to congressional inquiries, partnered with Obama administration officials to advance climate change policies that were beneficial to China and detrimental to the United States, according to energy policy analysts and attorneys who have reviewed the electronic correspondence.
Bill Would Cut Red Tape for Kid Entrepreneurs
NYC Mayor De Blasio Rips Ocasio-Cortez’s Opposition to Amazon
Warren Supporter Explains Why He Walked Out of Her Announcement Speech
Pence Warns at Auschwitz: Flames of Anti-Semitism Rising in U.S., Across Globe
Business Groups Come Together to Urge Changes to Minimum Wage Bill
Castro-Loving Congresswoman Signs On as California Co-Chair for Kamala Harris
AOC Aide Complains Dem Staffers Don’t Want to ‘Burn Down’ Political System
Sanders Called Omar to Provide ‘Personal Support’ Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism
Freshman Democrats Announce Opposition to Bipartisan Spending Bill: It Gives More Money to ‘Abusive Agencies’
Omar Fundraises Off Trump Call to Resign Over Anti-Semitic Tweets
Republicans in Congress Expect Paid Family Leave Proposals Soon
Democratic Socialists Warn New York House Dems of Primary Challenges: ‘They Should Be Afraid’
Cuomo Adviser Deletes Tweet Mocking Sen. Scott for School Shooting
As Budget Hearings Begin, IFO Says Minimum Wage Hike Would Cost 33,000 Jobs, While Dem Lawmakers Decry ‘Poverty’ Wages
Fresno DA to Review Audit of Nonprofit Tied to Rep. T.J. Cox (D.)
What to Do About the Rebirth of Socialism

“The most important political event of the twentieth century,” wrote Irving Kristol in 1976, “is not the crisis of capitalism but the death of socialism.” Plenty of self-described Marxist and socialist regimes existed throughout the world, Kristol recognized. It was rather the ideas behind such regimes that had reached a moral and intellectual endpoint. Nor was this passing away entirely to be cheered. “For with the passing of the socialist ideal,” Kristol went on, “there is removed from the political horizon the one alternative to capitalism that was rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in the Western civilization which emerged from that tradition.”
Nigerians Head for the Polls as Religious Freedom Activists Call for U.S. Special Envoy
Trump Just Declared a National Emergency. What Does That Mean?

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden Friday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he would declare a national emergency in order to construct a barrier on the southwestern border.
“We’re talking about an invasion of our country, with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs,” Trump said. “I’ll sign the final papers as soon as I get into the Oval Office, and we’ll have a national emergency.”
Iran Mocks Trump Admin as U.S. Preps New Campaign to Crush Tehran
DIA: China to Deploy ASAT Laser by 2020
Stauber, Duffy Say Union Members Essential to GOP Success
2020 Dems Silent on Data Showing Voters Oppose Their Abortion Stance
Inside the Ring: Destroyers in Disputed Waters
Amy Klobuchar’s ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Prosecutor Past Could Sting During Primaries
‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Review

Alita: Battle Angel may not be the best movie of the year. Heck, it may not even be director Robert Rodriguez’s best adaptation of a comic book. But it will almost certainly be the best big-budget comic book movie released in the first half of 2019 about a super-powered young woman who feels compelled to protect the innocent and is having trouble remembering her past.
New Jersey Says Takedown Notice Sent to Gun-Rights Website Was Fake
All About the Benjamins: Omar Advances Interests of Iranian Donors
Pence ‘Rips Europe a New One’ for Helping Iran Skirt U.S. Sanctions

WARSAW, Poland—Vice President Mike Pence, speaking before leaders from more than 50 countries, offered a stinging rebuke of leading European nations for their back-door efforts to help Iran skirt U.S. sanctions, demanding these countries follow the White House’s lead and scrap the landmark nuclear deal, which has been on life support since President Donald Trump abandoned the Obama administration’s chief foreign policy achievement.
Self-Styled Moderate Hickenlooper Hits Progressive Notes in NH
Voters Oppose Democrats’ Stance on Abortion
What to Do About the Rebirth of Socialism

“The most important political event of the twentieth century,” wrote Irving Kristol in 1976, “is not the crisis of capitalism but the death of socialism.” Plenty of self-described Marxist and socialist regimes existed throughout the world, Kristol recognized. It was rather the ideas behind such regimes that had reached a moral and intellectual endpoint. Nor was this passing away entirely to be cheered. “For with the passing of the socialist ideal,” Kristol went on, “there is removed from the political horizon the one alternative to capitalism that was rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in the Western civilization which emerged from that tradition.”
Bill Would Cut Red Tape for Kid Entrepreneurs
Maloney (D) Slams Ocasio-Cortez’s Opposition to Amazon: ‘Now We Are Protesting Jobs?’
Gillibrand on Removing Existing Parts of Border Wall: ‘I Could Support It’
Nigerians Head for the Polls as Religious Freedom Activists Call for U.S. Special Envoy
NYC Mayor De Blasio Rips Ocasio-Cortez’s Opposition to Amazon
Trump Just Declared a National Emergency. What Does That Mean?

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden Friday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he would declare a national emergency in order to construct a barrier on the southwestern border.
“We’re talking about an invasion of our country, with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs,” Trump said. “I’ll sign the final papers as soon as I get into the Oval Office, and we’ll have a national emergency.”