WORLDNETDAILY — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, having adopted articles of impeachment, now wants to control the trial in the Senate, even though the Constitution gives her no authority other than to submit the House's allegations. She's put the impeachment articles, claiming abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, in her pocket until she gets her way.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University. He has written books of varying critical reception on Russia and Eastern Europe. Lately, he has taken to warning Americans of what he sees as the danger the United States will fall into totalitarianism under President Trump. In the past few days, Snyder has turned his attention , not in a scholarly work but in a series of tweets, to a Trump impeachment trial in the Senate. His tweets were notable mostly because Snyder managed to pack a large number of misconceptions about impeachment into a very small space.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The American people soon may be able to learn a lot more about the whistleblower whose hearsay information launched the Democrats' impeach-the-president agenda in Congress. Government watchdog Judicial Watch on Thursday confirmed it has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the CIA for communications to and from Ciaramella.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump struck a blow against his predecessor's healthcare law by signing government funding legislation Friday that repealed major Obamacare taxes. Trump signed the bill only two days after a major court decision on Obamacare that left the law in limbo until after the 2020 election. Democrats voted overwhelmingly in favor of the spending deal despite the fact that it repealed $373 billion in taxes meant to pay for Obamacare, a law they have defended the last three years in Congress and on the campaign trail.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform in the United Kingdom wondered what people who support abortion would think if they saw the deadly procedure take place. The organization asked people on the street who affirmed abortion rights if they would be willing to see a graphic, one-minute video.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — In recent months, California recorded its lowest level of population growth in over a century, according to data from the state's Department of Finance. The data showed a 0.35% growth rate in the state's population from July 1, 2018 through July 1, 2019. That rate is even lower than the 0.57% growth rate recorded for the same period from 2017 to 2018, the two lowest growth rates in the state since 1900. Moreover, while growth from birth rates and legal immigration continue to swell the population, citizens are leaving the state in large numbers for other parts of the U.S.... (more)

KING JAMES VERSION — 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) 5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.... (more)

PETER LEMISKA — It is, as another seasonal song tells us, a most wonderful time of the year. It's a time when most people seem a little more charitable, more giving and forgiving. It's a season that brings, for most, a measure of comfort, hope, and joy. But many today are feeling a different kind of joy, and it has nothing to do with the season.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The large number of Democratic Party presidential candidates has become a running joke. But the unexpected strength of 37-year-old South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard graduate who calls himself a "gay dude in Mike Pence's Indiana," is a significant achievement, even for a political party that depends on identity politics. More importantly, Buttigieg claims to be a gay Christian, despite the Biblical scriptures that condemn same-sex conduct. He was "married" to another man in an Episcopal Church.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton on Dec. 19, 1998. It was a Saturday. The votes, in which two articles of impeachment passed, were held around midday. By 3 p.m., the House had passed a resolution naming its impeachment managers, and those managers had physically delivered the articles to the Senate for trial.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reacted Sunday to the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not yet transmitted the articles of impeachment to the Senate saying, "I think this is a sign of weakness." Cruz made the statement on "Sunday Morning Futures" adding, "This is a sign she [Pelosi] understands just how weak these articles are. These articles of impeachment that they actually voted on were really an admission of failure."... (more)

NEWSMAX — The withholding of the House articles of impeachment from the Senate before a trial is the latest abuse of power by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the pursuit of sowing discord in President Donald Trump, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's response to a reporter's impeachment question has many wondering about her shockingly incoherent answer. While she was answering questions from the media Thursday, one reporter seemingly threw Pelosi for a loop with a simple statement.... (more)

THE BLAZE — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has thus far obstructed the impeachment process by delaying the transfer of two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, which passed in the House this week, to the Republican-controlled Senate.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel accused Democrats of conducting a three-year "smear campaign to invalidate the will of the American people." Her comments came in a Wednesday tweet as House members debated President Donald Trump's impeachment.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, who testified for the Democrats during the impeachment inquiry, said if the House "does not communicate its impeachment of President Donald Trump to the Senate, it hasn't actually impeached the president."... (more)

THE EPOCH TIMES — Former Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) possibly withholding articles of impeachment from the Senate and argued that she doesn't have the power she thinks she has. "Whether the House wants it to be in the Senate or not, the matter is now properly before the Senate," Dershowitz told the Republican National Lawyers Association, according to the Daily Caller. "The presiding officer of the Senate can set a trial date, convene the chief justice and begin the trial. So I don't think that Pelosi has the power that she thinks she has, or that my colleague Larry Tribe thinks she has."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating John Brennan's role in the 2016 election, calling for the former Obama CIA director's emails, call logs and other documents, according to the New York Times. Durham is examining how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference, according to three people briefed on the inquiry.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Several key players in the origins of the Russia investigation might want to contact their lawyers following Attorney General William Barr's appearance this week on Fox News, political analyst Gregg Jarrett suggested Thursday night on "Hannity." "I would have my criminal lawyers on speed dial," Jarrett told host Sean Hannity, "because [Barr] made it pretty much clear he is going after not just the intel agencies but private actors."... (more)

J.D. GORDON — Ever since Donald J. Trump was elected to Make America Great Again, the self-declared #Resistance has terrorized him and many innocent Americans. Yet while they liken themselves to the French Resistance of the 1940s fighting Nazi occupation, or even more fancifully to Star Wars, the part of French history they most resemble is 150 years earlier, never mind that galaxy far, far away.... (more)

YOUTUBE — In a historic speech Thursday on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described "partisan rage" – rather than rational, deliberative process – as the driving force behind House Democrats' impeachment of President Donald Trump Wednesday, which the GOP leader repeatedly characterized as "rushed," "thin," and "weak." He called the three-year-long process that began before the president took office an "impeachment in search of articles" and said the past 12 weeks have been "the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history." Citing compelling factual and historical evidence, McConnell made clear the Senate has a duty to reject House Democrats' "toxic new precedent that[, if not repudiated,] will echo well into the future."... (more)

BREITBART — The top Senate Republican is denouncing the "unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassuring Trump and his supporters that "moments like this are why the United States Senate exists." Sen. Mitch McConnell, in remarks prepared for a Thursday floor speech, accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send "their shoddy work product to the Senate" after she threw uncertainty into the impeachment process by refusing to say when she would send two impeachment articles to the Senate for a trial.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for "shoddy work" and said Democrats may be "too afraid" to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them.... (more)

ANDREW MCCARTHY — I'll confess: Last night, when I was first told that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was toying with the idea of not delivering the two articles of impeachment voted by the House against President Trump, I assumed it was a joke. For these last weeks, the Democrat-dominated chamber has been in a mad rush to impeach the president. Democrats even tacked on article two – "obstruction of Congress" – because, they told us, time could not be wasted engaging in the usual negotiation and litigation over legislative demands for executive branch information. Trump is a clear and present threat to "continue" undermining our elections, we were admonished. That's why he needs to be impeached right now. That's why the political class cannot responsibly leave his fate up to the sovereign, the People, who will vote in November.... (more)

POLITICO — Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Thursday formally became a Republican, pledging his "undying support" for Donald Trump as the ex-Democrat sat next to the president in the White House. "I believe that this is just a better fit for me," the New Jersey lawmaker said, following a meeting with Trump on Thursday afternoon. "This is who I am."... (more)