This writer can't tell you how many of us were influenced by the candidacy and presidential victory of Ronald Reagan in 1980 - influenced not just in an ideological fashion but affected by the positive image that Reagan projected and the belief that this kind of political success was achievable for unapologetic and principled conservatives. It was a wasteland in Canada at the time.

President Donald Trump has yet to nominate individuals for over 400 key government positions requiring Senate confirmation, including the surgeon general and 93 U.S. attorneys. A collaboration between The Washington Post and The Partnership for Public Service shows that, as of Monday afternoon, 442 of 559 key positions requiring Senate confirmation remain unfilled.

The man in charge of digital operations for President Trump's campaign denied Tuesday that Russian operatives played any role in the Republican's election victory this past November. Brad Parscale denied that his team made use of Russian computer programs to target potential voters with positive stories about Trump and negative stories about Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Tuesday, Bill O'Reilly announced big plans involving a new book he plans to release. This is his first major project announcement since leaving Fox News.

Republican US Rep. Lance contrasts with Trump, gets applause - Republican U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance told his constituents, at times to applause, that he opposes President Donald Trump's budget proposal, rejects the GOP-led House's health care overhaul and strongly supports NATO.

CNN's Kate Bolduan nonchalantly described the Texas Democrat politician's assault on a Republican lawmaker as being 'democracy in action'. As TGP previously reported , a Democrat lawmaker attacked a TEXAS REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER after he called ICE on Illegal alien protesters.

U.S. successfully intercepts a long-range missile for the first time - The U.S. military on Tuesday successfully intercepted an intercontinental-range missile for the first time, a key test of its missile-defense system amid heightening tensions with North Korea.

Fox News: New York Times boycotted Obama surveillance story. Fox News: Oops, maybe not. - Conservatives last week devoured a story by John Solomon and Sara Carter at Circa with this title, "Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years."

India's prime minister said in Berlin Tuesday that his country would be willing to stay wed to the Paris climate agreement even if the Trump administration pulls out of the deal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that India would not backtrack on pledges the country made last year to help reduce the world's greenhouse gas levels, a source with knowledge of the meeting told reporters.

The commonwealth of Virginia has booted 5,556 self-reported non-citizens off the voter rolls since 2011, the Public Interest Legal Foundation announced Monday. Based on information gathered from three lawsuits, multiple record requests and reviews of voter history files across 133 Virginia jurisdictions, the group says that 1,852 non-citizens cast 7,474 votes before being booted from the rolls.

I'm on record as opposing what newly elected Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte did to reporter Ben Jacobs the day before the election. I also don't think it's a good idea to turn Jacobs into a martyr over it.

Three Russian bankers lodged a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed this week over its publication of an explosive and unverified dossier on President Donald Trump compiled by former intelligence agents and his political enemies. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan, three billionaire bankers named in the dossier, claim that their personal and professional reputations have been adversely affected by BuzzFeed's Jan. 10 article , the first medium by which the salacious document reached the public.

After incoming Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte assaulted him last week at a campaign event in Montana, Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs explicitly expressed that he did not want the spotlight on him. Maybe not.

Donald Trump Jr. hit back at liberal comedian Kathy Griffin after a photo surfaced on Tuesday of her holding a bloody "beheaded" depiction of his father. Disgusting but not surprising.

Republican Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart leveraged his vote on the recent Obamacare repeal legislation in an effort to gain concessions from President Trump on Cuban policy, according to The Daily Caller's sources. Two sources involved directly in Cuban policymaking told TheDC about Diaz-Balart's "horse-trading."

"The reasons for my departure are personal, but it has been my great honor to serve President Trump and this administration," Dubke wrote. "It has also been my distinct pleasure to work side-by-side, day-by-day with the staff of the communications and press departments.

Gay son of Indian immigrant likely to be Ireland's next leader - (CNN)He was 22 when he entered Irish politics. At 27, he was elected to parliament. At 36, he publicly came out as gay. And now, at 38, Leo Varadkar, the son of an Indian immigrant father and an Irish mother

Dubke resigns as White House communications director - Mike Dubke has resigned as White House communications director in the first of what could be a series of changes to President Trump's senior staff amid the growing Russia scandal.

The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts has stepped up prosecutions of illegal immigrants who have re-entered the country after being deported, and he's making sure that the public knows about it. William Weinreb, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, concedes that his office is still building up its caseload against immigration violators, but the office's public affairs shop is drawing far more attention to those efforts than it did under Weinreb's predecessor, the Boston Herald reported.

Amazon rainforests are more resilient to deforestation than previously thought, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Bristol. The study , published Tuesday, used satellite data of tree cover in rainforests to conclude "the Amazon rainforest is not as fragile as previously thought."