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 DC Daily Journal: ... And an attempted assassination of a Supreme Court justice has this Republican on the attack. Radical left judges are twisting the law to push their woke agenda, letting dangerous criminals off easy just because of their “gender identity.” But Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) isn’t sitting idly by. On Wednesday, he dropped a legislative bombshell aimed at restoring fairness and protecting Americans from this insanity. His new “Fair Sentencing Act” is a direct shot at judges who think gender confusion should mean shorter prison time. This move comes hot on the heels of a disgraceful ruling by a Biden-appointed judge who gave Nicholas Roske—a man who plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—a measly eight-year sentence. That’s 22 years less than the 30-year minimum federal guidelines recommend. Why? Because the court spent over seven hours obsessing over Roske’s transgender identity, arguing it justified leniency, according to The Daily Wire . “Crim...

 DC Daily Journal: ... As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump had won the Presidential election, the mainstream media, the radical Left, and the Washington, D.C. bureaucrat elites all started figuring out how they could cut out the legs from under Donald Trump during his next four years in office. Unlike any President in recent memory, Donald Trump faces rabid opponents who will do anything to keep him from accomplishing anything at all. That happened when he won in 2016 and it’s only going to get worse and worse until Donald Trump is officially out of the public eye for good and his opponents don’t foam at the mouth over having to see him on TV. In fact, one U.S. Senator is warning Donald Trump about one of the outrageous ways the Deep State is trying to cut his legs out from under him. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has sharply criticized elements within the Department of Defense (DOD) who seem more focused on obstructing the incoming Trump administration than fulfilling their...

 Rusty Weiss: Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), in a scathing letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slammed "partisans and obstructionists" at the Department of Defense who are already plotting ways to thwart the incoming president's agenda. Cotton was responding to reports that officials within the United States government are conspiring against President-elect Donald Trump to undermine decisions he finds warranted in furthering the interests of this nation. Like mass deportations or firing underperforming officials. "It appears that partisans and obstructionists inside the Department of Defense are laying groundwork to defy or circumvent President Trump’s plans for both military and civil-service reform," Cotton wrote . "These actions undermine civilian control of the military and our constitutional structure of government." As RedState previously reported, the crux of these rogue officials' concerns involves stated intentions by Trump to make ...

I like all of these guys, and hopefully, their Senate seats could be retained by other Republicans.  They are seen as strong on defense and border security.  One of Biden's obvious weaknesses is his open borders policy.  It is a policy that makes no sense and has led to an influx of millions of illegals.

  Fox News: Washington Post continues poor fact-checking record against Tom Cotton, forced to make second correction   The Post previously issued a correction to a report that claimed Cotton was peddling a 'debunked' 'conspiracy theory' about the coronavirus' origins Cotton accurately suggested the Covid lab leak theory and also predicted that a convicted terrorist would be getting a stimulus check. 

This is an unusually harsh cross-examination of the Attorney General over his statements about alleged threats of violence against school boards.  To Cotton shows the dismay about the perceived threats to parents petitioning school boards for the redress of grievances.

 Washington Examiner: Republican Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Dan Crenshaw are launching a new initiative to locate and eliminate “woke” training programs in the U.S. military. “Enough is enough,” Crenshaw, a retired lieutenant commander with the United States Navy and a Navy SEAL, said in a tweet. “We won’t let our military fall to woke ideology.” The duo added a feature to their own congressional websites that allows military service members to submit anonymous reports of instances or pieces of training that are perceived as “woke.” “We have just launched a whistleblower webpage where you can submit your story. Your complaint will be legally protected, and go to my office and @SenTomCotton,” the Texas Republican tweeted. ... Crenshaw said his goal is simple: Allow military members “to tell the country what’s happening” inside the U.S. military and to “expose” those in leadership who are pushing “progressive” agendas. “With written permission, we will anonymously publish egregious com...

She appears to be a Critical Race Theory wacko.

 Red States: ... One by one, Cotton debunked each claim the anchors made, but it seemed that he took particular delight in knocking down every attempted “gotcha” argument made by co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin, who Cotton has gone toe to toe with ( and won ) before. We’ve got several clips to share, including this first one where Sorkin tried to pin Cotton on how the number of absentee ballot drop boxes decreased in certain locations in comparison to how many were in existence last year. Cotton’s answer was to explain that the drop boxes last year were not some “longstanding practice of American election law.” Instead, he noted they were put where they were last year at the height of the pandemic when many were afraid to vote in person. He also pointed out that the Georgia law mandated the use of the drop boxes in all Georgia counties now, no fewer than one box per 100,000 voters. He informed Sorkin that voters still had the option to go into the clerk’s office to drop off a ballot o...

 Breitbart: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Friday that migrants he spoke with at the southern border acknowledged they did not have legitimate asylum claims but were seeking economic benefits in America relative to their countries of origin. Cotton said migrants he talked to admitted their reasons for seeking entry to America were not rooted in legitimate fears of persecution, Cotton shared. “I talked to so many of these migrants,” Cotton said on SiriusXM’s  Breitbart News Daily  in an interview with Alex Marlow, author of  Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption . “On the side, [these migrants] did the dog and pony show with a bunch of other senators. I grabbed a Border Patrol officer who spoke Spanish. We went [and] talked to some of [the migrants] sitting on the benches waiting to be processed.” Cotton continued, “I said, ‘Where are you from? How long did it take you to get here? Why did you come?’, a...

 Breitbart: Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) criticized climate envoy John Kerry Wednesday for suggesting that laid-off workers in the fossil fuels industry can get jobs in clean energy. ... “John Kerry – worth hundreds of millions — telling blue-collar workers to just ‘go to work to make the solar panels.’ By the way, solar will pay on average $20K less than oil and gas jobs,” Crenshaw tweeted on Wednesday. “John Kerry thinks you should just shutup and accept it. No.” ... Crenshaw was not the only congressman to push back on Kerry’s remarks. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) criticized Kerry and the Biden administration for its anti-fossil fuel production policies as part of Biden’s plan to fight climate change. ... “John Kerry’s message to the tens of thousands of Americans who lost their jobs thanks to the Biden administration: go make solar panels. Where is the empathy that Joe Biden promised in his inauguration?” Cotton tweeted on Wednesday. If the Democrats like Biden and Kerry really cared a...

PJ Media: On Thursday night, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) eviscerated the terrifying “cancel culture” that seeks to silence anyone who dares disagree with leftist dogma. Cancel culture animates the vandalism against statues — including those of  black volunteer troops  for the Union fighting against slavery — along with the abortion of television shows and the firing of people. Cotton briefly listed many of the recent victims of cancel culture in the wake of the George Floyd riots: a  UCLA professor  facing police investigation because he declined to postpone final exams to let students protest, a professor under investigation for  reading from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s  Letter from a Birmingham Jail, a professional soccer player who was fired for  his wife’s tweet , and “business executives and editors at newspapers and magazines.” Tom Cotton did not need to mention former  New York Times   op-ed editor James Bennet , who resigned am...

David Roberts: Cotton Affair Shows Why Media Must Defend America's Values Do liberals now believe that law and order is not an American value?  The overwrought criticism of Cotton's op-ed appears to be a reflection of the hysteria of the left at anything that might stop the illegal tantrums of the left.  They seem to blow right past the history of using sufficient force to stop riots that damage people and property. The ridiculous reaction to a reasoned argument by the left is a good reason not to trust liberals with power of any kind.

Fox News: Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton blasted what he called a “false and offensive” New York Times tweet shortly after the editorial page editor of the liberal newspaper of record resigned amid reports of anger inside the company over the publication of Cotton’s recent op-ed about the George Floyd unrest last week. He tweeted: “This is false and offensive. I called for using military force as a backup—only if police are overwhelmed—to stop riots, not to be used against protesters. If @nytimes has any decency left, they should retract this smear.” Cotton added: “The @nytimes is lying again.” ... The NY Times has handled this matter poorly and its Tweet likely demonstrated the incompetence of its staff in reading Cotton's Op-ed.

Right Scoop: Tom Cotton says this is the RIGHT question we should be asking about Democrats and mail-in voter fraud I love the way Tom Cotton thinks. Today he tweeted that there’s no question that expanding voting by mail opens up opportunities for fraud. Rather, he says this is question we should be asking about Democrats and mail-in voter fraud: Cotton took it right from their 3 trillion dollar bill. Boom. Cotton also noted some cases of mail-in ballot voter fraud that the ‘smug liberals’ at Twitter tells us aren’t happening.... ... There is more, including some obvious examples of the vote fraud that the left is denying.  They are just not credible on this issue.  Cheating is just too important too them.

Power Line: THE MEDIA SLANDERED TOM COTTON FOR ASKING A LEGITIMATE QUESTION. WHY? ... Sen. Cotton summarized this evidence and more in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published last week. He still isn’t saying for certain that the virus originated in a Chinese lab. He admits that the evidence is “circumstantial,” but says it “all points to the Wuhan labs.” Certainly, some evidence does. The labs in question were ordered to destroy their samples, and the lab that first published the virus’ genome reportedly was shut down. These actions by the Chinese government may preclude ever finding direct evidence that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab. However, they add to the circumstantial evidence that it did. Regardless of how one evaluates the evidence, it cannot plausibly be argued that Sen. Cotton is pushing a fringe conspiracy theory. There’s too much circumstantial evidence to support the notion that the virus came from a Chinese lab. Indeed, Cotton isn’t even presenting a conspi...

A.G. Hamilton: One of the biggest issues people have with the mainstream press these days is that some of its members are so insulated that they end up buying into and promoting false narratives without actually checking these narratives’ veracity. That seems to be exactly what happened in mid February, when major outlets overwhelmingly smeared Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) as a conspiracy theorist for asking legitimate questions about the origins of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Cotton was one of the first politicians to raise the alarm about the seriousness of COVID-19 and the dishonesty of the Chinese government, as NRO’s John McCormack has pointed out . Cotton emphasized at the time that China was not being transparent about the virus and its origins. Cotton further noted that Wuhan, which was the main location for the first outbreak, had a biosafety Level 4 laboratory that specializes in researching coronaviruses. Cotton specifically said that “we don’t have evidence that ...

This looks like a direct challenge to Biden that will probably play well with those whose jobs have been negatively impacted by China.

Washington Free Beacon: The Democratic Party of Arkansas announced Monday that it was ending its push to get a candidate for U.S. Senate on the ballot in 2020 for Republican senator Tom Cotton's first reelection bid. Party leaders spent the past two weeks scrambling to find a way to replace Joshua Mahony, who announced that he was ending his campaign just two hours after the official filing deadline to run for office. Mahony cited a "family health concern" in his surprise announcement, leaving party officials flatfooted. In a Monday press conference, party chairman Michael John Gray said Mahony was a no-show for a meeting he had scheduled with the party to explain his situation, and that a legal representative for Mahony refused to elaborate beyond his initial statement on quitting the race. Without cooperation from Mahony, Gray said the party had no way to get a candidate on the ballot, according to video of the press conference posted by a local news website . ... ...

Why do Democrats even bother denying that their position is open borders?