The ACLU stands up for liberal rights

The American Civil Liberties Union is little more than a fundraising arm and mouthpiece for the DNC. The national nonprofit organization is supposed to champion civil liberties for all -- but a series of high-profile events that have played out over the past week have highlighted how that's hardly the case.

Trump's 'so-called judge' is a Bush appointed political activist highly regarded in liberal Seattle

The federal judge who ordered a halt to the Trump administration's controversial travel ban -- derided as a "so-called judge" by a bitter President Trump -- is a Republican appointee whose vast legal credentials and volunteer work for poor children and refugees prompted unanimous Senate confirmation more than a decade ago.

Super Bowl ads 2017: What works, what doesn't and what gets political

Weeks ago, many advertisers started posting online teasers, previews and actual commercials airing in Sunday's game.

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Texas sheriff releases 37 illegal aliens
More than three dozen people suspected of being unauthorized immigrants posted bail and were released from Travis County Jail.

Shakespeare to Anti-Trumpsters: 'Thou Dost Protest Too Much'
President Donald J. Trump has a strategy so brilliant that it's tied his many naysayers up in knots.

Minnesota: Gateway to Canada for rejected African migrants
The men pay hundreds of dollars for middle-of-the-night cab rides north to the Canadian border.

FCC stops 9 companies from providing federally subsidized Internet to low income people
The FCC removed nine recently added companies from a federally subsidized program called Lifeline, established to provide Internet service to the poor.

Education at a Crossroads
In just a matter of days -- perhaps next Monday -- a decision will be made in Washington affecting the futures of millions of children in low-income communities, and in the very troubled area of race relations in America.

Obama poured $9.2B into U.N. in final yea
Former President Barack Obama poured at least $9.2 billion of American taxpayers' money into the United Nations and its agencies during his last year in office.