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In another bold to move to put pressure on the regime in Communist Cuba, Florida Senator Rick Scott penned an open letter to European and Canadian citizens, asking them to reconsider traveling to Cuba and to “understand the full implications” of their respective trips to the island nation. Sen. Scott spelled it out for the […]
With the Senate impeachment trial about to begin, President Donald Trump has hired to heavyweight defense attorneys, Ken Starr and liberal Democratic and Clinton-supporting Alan Dershowitz.
By Mona Salama After a 28-day delay, the House voted Wednesday to send the two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for a trial that is expected to begin next week. The resolution passed 228-193 largely along party lines. Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution. Rep. […]
Freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D), a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, has been a political firebrand since being elected. Now, she’s been on the campaign trail with other members of “the Squad,” working to get fellow Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (D) elected as the Democratic nominee to take on President Trump in the 2020 election.
Days, before authorities arrested an Iranian national close by President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate carrying $22,000 in cash and an assortment of weapons, including a machete, pickax, and two knives, Republican congressional candidate and activist Laura Loomer all-but, predicted that an Islamic threat was imminent.
With Speaker Nancy Pelosi expected to send the two articles of impeachment over to the Senate sometime this week, a move that would nudge the Republican-led Senate to begin the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, the president is once again sharing his opinion on how he thinks the trial should go, and who should be called as a witness.
Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R), who sits on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, openly denounced Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) for complaining that she was “stricken with PTSD” as a result of the recent military engagements and events, including the targeted killing of Iran’s top terrorist leader, Qassim Soleimani.
Republicans are mocking Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats for their apparent hypocrisy over presidential authority to use U.S. military force against a foreign power or terrorist group, or threat to the U.S. In a 2011 press conference, then-leader Nancy Pelosi (D) was asked to confirm her statement that President Barack Obama did not need […]
 The non-biding House Iran War Powers resolution to limit President Donald Trump’s future military action against the Islamic State of Iran, passed by a vote count of 224-194 along party lines, but saw three Republicans cross the aisle to vote with Democrats.
“The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has lifted an illegitimate nationwide injunction."
Rep. Brian Mast (R) has taken exception with fellow Floridian Rep. Val Demings’ claim that President Barack Obama handed $1.7 billion in cash to Iran that went to fund terrorists and made the U.S. “less safe in the situation today.”
While President Trump and congressional Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz blame former President Barack Obama for the recent Iranian terror attacks against the U.S., Florida Rep. Val Demings (D) says that the nation is no “less safe” after Obama returned billions of dollars in frozen Iranian cash.
After President Donald Trump killed Iran’s Quds Force terrorist leader Qassim Soleimani, House Democrats quickly expressed their concerns over how Iran would respond to the targeting assassination.
President Donald Trump delivered his much-anticipated response to the Iranian missile attack against U.S. and ally forces in Iraq. Speaking from the White House, Trump announced that “no lives were lost” because of how the military had prepared for possible attacks, and because of an early warning system that was in place.
Iran has retaliated against the U.S. for killing it’s Quds Force terrorist leader Qassim Soleimani by launching dozens of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq.
The 6.4 magnitude earthquake that just struck Puerto Rico, that resulted in one death and widespread power outages across the island, has fueled that already hyper-partisan political debate that first ignited when Hurricane Maria struck the U.S. territory.
Just as Iran’s new leader of their it Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, declared that his regime has plans for 13 attacks against U.S. interests in retaliation for Soleimani’s targeted killing last week, the U.S. Air Force held a massive show of force during a planned exercise in Utah.
While congressional Democrats continue to press the narrative that President Donald Trump all-but started a war with Iran when he killed Iranian Quds Force terrorist Qassim Soleimani and that he must first obtain congressional approval before any military operation is undertaken as it pertains to Iran, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) decided to clarify exactly what the current U.S. military...
