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If you thought President Trump hit the ground running, you should see Jeff Sessions. The new attorney general was probably still unpacking his office when he got to work turning the page at the Justice Department after eight years of scandal. First up? The Obama bathroom mandate for public schools.
Donald Trump's election may have been the most important win of Nov. 7 — but it wasn't the only one. The White House was only part of the success story written by voters three months ago — and weeks after the states have gaveled in new sessions, Americans are starting to see why. While all eyes have been on Washington, 50 other capital cities are already off the starting blocks and lapping the liberal agenda. What most people have probably forgotten in the long media shadow of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is that last fall, voters also handed the keys to Republicans in a whopping 32 states. That means that the legislatures are completely controlled by Republicans, many of them conservatives — 25 of which also have a GOP governor. If that isn't the stuff of change, I don't know what is.
Most people don't put "politics" on their shopping list — but it's what a growing number of companies are selling. These days, what's lining store shelves is only part of the story in corporate America, where CEOs seem more preoccupied with pushing their brand of morals than merchandise. Fans got a taste of the shift last Sunday, when the second biggest story from the Super Bowl was the liberal slant to many ads. With commercials that cost a 100 thousand dollars a second, brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Airbnb and others surprised everyone by spending the single biggest marketing moment of the year on their politics — not products.
There are plenty of differences between Barack Obama and Donald Trump — but believe it or not, their immigration caps aren't one of them. While the Left hits the panic button on the president's executive order halting entry to the U.S. for some visas and refugees, the reality is that the Republican's immigration thresholds aren't that much different than his predecessor's.
Apparently, the political ads didn't end when the election did! The 113 million fans who tuned into Sunday's Super Bowl thriller found that out the hard way, getting an earful of a lot more than Tom Brady's comeback.
Houston is doing just fine after repealing the city's controversial bathroom bill, thank you very much!
It seems the hits just keep on coming for America's abortion titan, Planned Parenthood. In the past few days, more devastating facts have surfaced about the organization that profits from the more than 300,000 abortions it performs every year: Planned "Parenthood" is not really for parents.
On the first Thursday of February each year, lawmakers and religious leaders from around the world gather for an event here in Washington that has been going on for 65 years. It is the National Prayer Breakfast, which celebrates both the privilege of living in a nation where we can openly pray and of how God yet remains the foundation of every freedom we enjoy in America.
[Tuesday] night, America received the answer to a long-awaited question: Who will President Trump appoint to fill Antonin Scalia's vacant seat at the U.S. Supreme Court? An FRC commission survey last year revealed that the empty seat was a major factor for almost 80 percent of voters. At 8:00 p.m., Trump took the podium in the White House East Room and announced that he'd selected Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals for the High Court post.
What would Open Society Foundation (OSF) president and fund manager George Soros want with the small, landlocked nation of Macedonia? As it turns out, plenty. The Daddy Warbucks of progressive causes is working overtime to weaken European borders and facilitate the flow of refugees from the Middle East by sending money to disrupt nations holding both democratic elections and cracking down on illegal immigration.
At the start of the weekend, President Trump was busy doing what President Trump does — making things happen.
Washington, DC, is only one of the battlefields in the struggle for the dignity of human life. In fact, one of the most powerful places you can stand up for the unborn isn't even a real place. The virtual fronts of the internet and social media are places where advances for life are made every day. Your Facebook page, your Twitter feed and your Instagram photos can all change the way human life is valued in this country.
While the part of President Trump's agenda that he controls is off to a flying start, the portion of the agenda dependent upon congressional action is still trying to get off the ground. The timing of President Trump's biggest priority — repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood — is now uncertain. The hold-up is over the replace portion of the repeal-and-replace effort. A handful of moderate Republicans are reportedly saying they won't vote for a repeal unless the replace is included in the same measure. That could prove problematic.
Who needs 100 days? Donald Trump is accomplishing amazing things in three! It's been a big week in Washington for the unborn. First, we watched the new president move quickly to deliver on his promise to wipe out the funding for overseas abortion groups and redirect that money to real health care providers.
Abortion isn't health care. But try telling that to the Left. After President Trump pulled the plug on the millions of dollars our government sends to abortion groups overseas, liberals pitched a predictable fit.
With a hand on the Bible and an eye toward the future, Barack Obama's successor didn't wait until Monday to start building voters' trust. His new title was barely hours old when President Donald Trump got to work writing a new chapter for America. By lunch, he'd already signed an executive order targeting Obamacare — with promises of more to come. "The time for empty talk is over," he vowed to the masses on the National Mall. "Now arrives the hour of action."
It may have been a wet and dreary day in Washington, but even the weather couldn't dampen the excitement of hundreds of thousands of Americans who made the trip to see Donald Trump make history. Two months after completing the most stunning upset in a half-century, a Republican with one of the most unlikely stories in politics started writing a new chapter for America. It was a long journey for the New Yorker, who was counted out from the start. Few believed that a man who had never held political office could one day hold the highest one in the world.
The commitments President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Pence made at Family Research Council's 2016 Values Voters Summit are still making waves. [Wednesday], Gov. Pence was asked about his VVS promise to be the champion on pro-life priorities and to defund Planned Parenthood. Pence said, "The president will be their champion. The president has taken a strong stand on the sanctity of life," and that he shares that conviction. Pence went on to discuss the role he will play in advancing the new administration's pro-life agenda forward by working with Congress and the American people.
As one of his final acts, President Obama has chosen to cap off eight years of national security failures by pardoning one of the worst traitors in modern American history: Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. The Army private, who was charged with 22 different crimes related to espionage, pled or was convicted on almost every charge except aiding the enemy. As a result, Manning was sentenced to 35-years in prison for leaking more than 750,000 classified documents. [Tuesday], he got word he would soon be free after President Obama cut his sentence 28 years short — putting an exclamation point on two terms of President Obama's anti-American policies.
President Obama has less than 72 hours left as the leader of the free world — and he's using every single one of them to remind Americans why they made the right decision in November. And if anyone's as happy as conservatives about this Friday's festivities, it's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Like the rest of the world, he watched the one-day summit in Paris on Sunday, where Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry decided to take one last swipe at Israel on the way out the door.
