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Thousands Pledge to Get Arrested in D.C. Protests Next Month

The leaders of Democracy Spring, a coalition of far-left groups plotting a mass civil disobedience movement to begin next month, told Breitbart News they have already confirmed 2,912 protesters who pledged specifically to risk arrest. Those protesters signed an option

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Smoke, Fire, and the Gülen Movement

As the United States looks to bolster ties among anti-ISIS allies, it should heed the call of the Turkish government to extradite Fethullah Gulen, the leader of what some describe as an Islamist cult run out of a million-dollar estate in the Poconos.

Fethullah Gulen, an ally-turned-enemy of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been charged in Turkey

Standing Tall Against Iran with Apology in Hand

More than a month after Iran captured two U.S. Navy patrol boats with ten sailors onboard January 12, there is still very little information on what transpired. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator John McCain (Ariz-R), has given President Barack Obama an ultimatum: either provide details of an investigation by March 1 or he will subpoena the sailors to testify before Congress.

US Sailors Arrested Iranian State News

Trumpism and Reaganism

Nearly fifty years ago, former Vice President Spiro Agnew said, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan

Texas Governor Calls for Article V Constitutional Convention

Governor Greg Abbott calls on Texas to join other states in calling for an Article V Convention of the States to write new amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He says his 100-page “Texas Plan” “fixes this government run amok” and “returns lawmaking to the process enshrined in the Constitution.”

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The ‘Read the Bill Act’

The 2,000 page, $1.1 trillion Omnibus signed into law before Christmas fully funds Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, illegal executive amnesty, EPA overreach and the Syrian refugee program among other horrible organizations and programs. In response, I have introduced legislation to hit the brakes on runaway legislation: the Read the Bill Act.

House Rules Committee members Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., center, and Rep. Alcee Hastings,

GOP Energy Report Card, 2015

Last year, when Republicans gained a decisive edge in both houses of Congress, I made predictions as to the six energy-policy changes we could expect—as the two parties have very different views on energy issues.

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