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Month: April 2019
(Wikimedia Commons) A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a Kentucky law requiring a woman seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound of her unborn child before the procedure is performed. In a 2–1 decision, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling that the law placed an undue burden
Former Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., April 5, 2019 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden on Friday addressed the recent accusations of women who say he invaded their personal space, first joking about the allegations onstage during an address to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers before apologizing and admitting that he will
Former Vice President Joe Biden talks to the media after speaking at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers conference in Washington, D.C., April 5, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Progressives attack Joe Biden for having followed customs and mores of that foreign country that is the past. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the
The stories they are so-called owning are insane and have nothing to do with the country. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most watched television news channel for more
Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson drew lots of laughs with his eulogy of his longtime friend, George H.W. Bush, telling stories of the 41st president’s trademark sense of humor. MORE: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/12/05/alan-simpson-remembers-george-hw-bush-41-sense-humor
(Pixabay) Most Americans would agree, I think, that America is exceptional, but nailing down exactly why can be a matter of contention. With his typical pellucid prose, George Will provides an exceptionally elegant explanation in his forthcoming book The Conservative Sensibility. Americans were born exceptionally free from a feudal past, and hence free from an established
Beto is, I believe, the first Democratic presidential candidate to use a Hitler analogy: In Iowa, @BetoORourke says the president’s rhetoric on migrants and calls to ban Muslims sound more like the Third Reich than the USA. Asked about the comparison after the rally, he emphatically stood by it. Watch the exchange here 👇 pic.twitter.com/aAmE3AgWGd
A video of Trump supposedly calling asylum-seekers animals has been lighting up Twitter, but the clip is dishonestly edited to leave out the comment he was responding to, which was about MS-13 not asylum-seekers. Here is a good example of the misleading version: .@realDonaldTrump on people asking for asylum “These aren’t people. These are animals.”
The Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro weighs in on the fallout from the ‘Empire’ actor’s scandal. #TheStory #MarthaMacCallum #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX
Judge Alex Ferrer said it’s “outrageous” that charges have been dropped against Jussie Smollett in the “Empire” actor’s alleged hate crime hoax case. MORE: https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/03/27/judge-alex-ferrer-outrageous-charges-against-jussie-smollett-were-dropped
Line workers smooth out the metal along the door frames on the flex line at Nissan Motor Co’s automobile manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn., August 23, 2018. (William DeShazer/Reuters) The job market rebounded in March, adding 196,000 new jobs and allaying fears that the ten-year expansion of the U.S. economy was nearing its end. According
Beto O’Rourke speaks during a campaign stop in Plymouth, N.H., March 20, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The 2020 field continues to un-impress. Time to check on the 20 Smurfs. Joe Biden recorded a message on a friend’s iPhone in which he admitted that he’s made women and “some men” uncomfortable by, among other things, touching them,
Justice Harry Blackmun. 1994—Justice Harry Blackmun announces his impending retirement after 24 years on the Court. His majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (1973) is rivaled only by Dred Scott as the worst opinion in Supreme Court history. As one of Blackmun’s former clerks, Edward Lazarus (who described himself as “someone utterly committed to the
Tucker Carlson tries to get professor to explain her approach to students hysterical over Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump in the election, define ‘safe spaces’ and the lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses
Actress Alyssa Milano is leading the charge against the new pro-life “heartbeat bill” that the Georgia Senate passed earlier this month, and “Unplanned” star Ashley Bratcher is firing back. MORE: https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/04/01/unplanned-actress-ashley-bratcher-fires-back-alyssa-milanos-call-boycott-georgia-over
The fishing expeditions planned by House Democrats won’t be confined to Lake IRS. The Washington Post reported last night that Democrats have attempted to bypass the White House’s legal defense against subpoenas on Donald Trump’s financial records by going after the records at the financial institutions instead. Capital One told House Democrats last month that
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke speaks during a campaign stop at Consuelo’s Taqueria in Manchester, N.H., March 21, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke compared President Trump’s rhetoric to that of Nazi Germany Thursday, citing in particular Trump’s controversial comments about illegal immigrants. At a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa, the former
Joe Biden in 2015 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) In the #MeTooMaybe hoopla over the former vice president’s hair-sniffing and hand-slipping and personal space-invading, much cataloguing of Joe Biden’s peccadillos has emerged — for example, in Jonah Goldberg’s new column. It’s a handy summary. But missed in these lists is a deeply troubling — I guess the right
President Trump with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, November 10, 2018. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters) It was only a few weeks ago that France seemed to be on the verge of total breakdown. The flammable environment of French politics was created by the political disconnect between provincial France and the Parisian elite.
Mueller submits report to AG Barr; reaction from Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro. #TheStory #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX
As seen on “Fox & Friends” A Harvard graduate student who was asked to move out of her apartment after her legally owned firearms made her roommates “uncomfortable” said Sunday on “Fox & Friends” that she has been lied to while seeking reasons for the request. MORE: https://bit.ly/2RzKwTa
Joe Manchin has spent enough time in Washington to know that, on second thought (with apologies to W.C. Fields), he’d rather be in Charleston. The former governor might choose to become the former senator from West Virginia and try to get his old job back next year, Manchin tells Politico. If Manchin bails out of
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at the National Action Network National Convention in New York City, April 5, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) called on fellow Democrats to pursue an “agenda of reparations” through a dramatic expansion of the welfare state during her remarks at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Conference in New
(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The winner of a national office should have nationwide support The latest enthusiasm from progressive pundits and activists for replacing the American system of self-government is to abolish the Electoral College and choose presidents by national popular vote. As with all such enthusiasms — expanding the Supreme Court, abolishing the filibuster and the
Attorney General William Barr (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Democrats will complain, but the attorney general can’t be faulted for following the law. In disclosing the Mueller report, Attorney General William P. Barr will have to redact grand-jury information. That is the upshot of the ruling today by a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
Former Republican South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy says that he has full confidence that Attorney General Bill Barr was able to read and write an accurate summary of the Mueller report in a weekend. #DailyBriefing #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7,
Charlie Kirk challenged socialist political activist Brian Moore to point to one country where his proposed policies have worked. MORE: https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/02/11/fox-nation-charlie-kirk-defends-capitalism-over-socialism-deep-dive
So much for the winter doldrums. After an unexpected pothole in job creation in February, the US economy rebounded in March to add 196,000 jobs. Unemployment remained steady, although that came in part from a slight drop in the labor force. The news was especially good in the health-care industry: Total nonfarm payroll employment increased
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa, in 2016. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) When the desired aims are decisively achieved, it breaks, and a new form of politics emerges. Last week our fearless editor Rich Lowry and departing colleague Jonah Goldberg tried to settle the question of nationalism for the