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GOP Rep. Jim Banks attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar after she said she’s “stricken with PTSD” regarding the recent tension between the United States and Iran.

Omar, who was a refugee from Somalia, has been critical of President Trump’s decision to target top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani last Thursday. Iran retaliated by attacking at least two U.S. air bases with more than a dozen ballistic missiles on Tuesday night, but there were no casualties. Trump announced that he would seek additional sanctions but did not plan to retaliate for the ballistic missiles earlier on Wednesday.

The Minnesota Democrat condemned the president’s announcement of additional sanctions, labeling them “economic warfare.”

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Beltrami County in Minnesota has voted to reject refugee resettlement in their community following an executive order from President Donald Trump that allows state and local governments to determine whether or not they consent to accepting them.

Minnesota�s Democrat Governor Tim Walz has already vowed to take refugees on a state level, but that will not override the county�s decision.

The 3-2 vote on Tuesday was reportedly rowdy, as most residents strongly opposed taking refugees. The Star Tribune reports that the meeting was �filled with jeers, shouts and accusations among the more than 150 people.�

Baltrami County is now one of few counties nationwide to formally reject refugee resettlement.

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The #RedforEd teachers� movement appears to be moving towards Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as their choice for the 2020 Democrat nominee.

The Sanders campaign highlighted that connection in its recent statement announcing its $34 million 4th quarter fundraising haul, noting, ��Teacher� was the most common occupation of Sanders� fourth quarter donors, the five most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the United States Postal Service and Target.�

As Breitbart News reported in February:

A well-funded and subversive leftist movement of teachers in the United States threatens to tilt the political balance nationwide in the direction of Democrats across the country as Republicans barely hang on in key states that they need to hold for President Donald Trump to win re-election and for Republicans to have a shot at retaking the House and holding onto their Senate majority.

This teachers union effort, called #RedforEd, has its roots in the very same socialism that President Trump vowed in his 2019 State of the Union address to stop, and it began in its current form in early 2018 in a far-flung corner of the country before spreading nationally. Its stated goals�higher teacher pay and better education conditions�are overshadowed by a more malevolent political agenda: a leftist Democrat uprising designed to flip purple or red states to blue, using the might of a significant part of the education system as its lever.

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Less than 24 hours after Iran fired 15 missiles at U.S. military facilities in Iraq, President Donald Trump signaled a strong desire to deescalate by announcing new sanctions instead of a military response.

Trump also urged allies to put more pressure on Iran�s Islamist dictatorship.

�As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,� Trump said to begin his formal remarks Wednesday in the Grand Foyer of the White House.

�No Americans were harmed in last night�s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties,� Trump said. �All of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.�

�Our great American forces are prepared for anything. Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.�

No military retaliation doesn�t mean no retaliation, as the president said more U.S. sanctions are coming, without specifying.

�These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior,� Trump said.

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Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg is scheduled to take part in a voting rights summit in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, presented by the group Stacey Abrams founded after she lost the Georgia governor�s race in 2018.

The invite-only event will be hosted by Abrams� Fair Fight 2020 and will feature a speech from state Sen. Nikema Williams, who also serves as chairwoman of the state Democrat party.

Last month, Bloomberg made a $5 million donation to Abrams� group, which went towards the promotion of voting rights in 20 states.

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Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was seen laughing and joking around while her colleague discussed US casualties in Iraq, during a House Progressive Caucus press conference on Iran on 1/8/2020.

A judge has ordered Google to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a special prosecutor who is looking into why prosecutors abruptly dismissed criminal charges against the actor.

On Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported that it had obtained two search warrants submitted by special prosecutor Dan Webb and signed off by Cook County Judge Michael Toomin last month.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office filed and quickly dropped 16 counts of disorderly conduct against Smollett for allegedly staging a January 2019 attack in downtown Chicago and lying about it to police.

Toomin appointed Webb months later and the warrants offer the first public hints about what he has been investigating.

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As Maryland�s lawmakers opened their annual legislative session on Wednesday, House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones said she expects delegates will ask �tough questions� about Gov. Larry Hogan�s business dealings.

Jones, a Democrat, said a subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee would have jurisdiction to look into Hogan�s business affairs while in office. Since becoming governor in 2015, Hogan stepped aside from his Annapolis-based Hogan Cos. real estate business and turned his assets over to be managed by a trust.

�We do have a committee that would be looking at that and may have a briefing as relates to that,� Jones said at an �Annapolis Summit� event hosted by The Daily Record.

In a later statement, Jones� chief of staff, Alexandra Hughes, indicated that any questions about whether Hogan Cos. sites have benefited from state transportation projects could come as the committee reviews the administration�s transportation proposals as part of the regular budget process.

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The national debt is a ticking time bomb now topping $23.1 trillion � and that isn�t even the total debt that American taxpayers owe. Forty of the nation�s fifty states don�t have enough money to meet their obligations, with a total of $1.5 trillion in growing unfunded liabilities.

While most states are in hot water, the problem is worst in states with a Democrat governor alongside a Democrat controlled legislature. A new study from Truth in Accounting analyzed the fiscal health of the fifty states and and the trend was clear. The more Republican control, the better (and less-worse) fiscal health those states are in.

The worst run states and their unfunded liabilities per citizen, according to their �2019 Financial State of the States,� are:
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Vermont, -$19,000
New York, -$20,500
California, -$21,800
Kentucky, -$25,700
Delaware, -$27,100
Hawaii, -$31,200
Massachusetts, -$31,200
Connecticut, -$51,800
Illinois, -$52,600
New Jersey, -$65,100

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President Donald Trump launched a global round of teeth gnashing when he ordered the killing of the greatest terrorist leader in the modern Middle East, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.

Suleimani was unquestionably responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq and thousands of others throughout the Middle East�mostly Muslim. His global terror network ran from South America to Europe to Africa to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq. Suleimani was an unparalleled organizer and a pitiless murderer. His death was richly earned.

But for many in the media and on the domestic and international left, Trump�s action was precipitously �provocative.�

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Suleimani �s killing�which came directly after a Suleimani-approved terror assault on America�s embassy in Baghdad and amidst reported further plans for escalated terror against American targets��disproportionate.�

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggested that Trump, not the Iranians, had �escalated� the situation. Former Vice President Joe Biden said that Trump had �just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.�

This reaction has been magnified by the media, many of whom have been speculating about the possibility of all-out war between the United States and Iran.

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