Month: April 2019

Protesters demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s plans to end Obamacare in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS) Having weathered the Russian frame-up, the Republicans must now produce a health-care plan. The Democrats and most of their media hallelujah chorus are still sanctimoniously congratulating themselves for showing such vigilance over Russia’s impact on the election.
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Jacob Aasland Ravndal has an interesting piece in the Washington Post laying out some serious obstacles to measuring trends: Media reporting often resorts to two of the most well-known terrorism databases — the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and Europol’s annual Terrorism Situation & Trend Report (TE-SAT) — both of which are poorly equipped to capture right-wing terrorism and violence.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the annual Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 16, 2019. (Andreas Gebert/Reuters) Congressional Democrats returning to the Capitol on Monday evening were peppered with questions from reporters about Nevada Democrat Lucy Flores’s allegations that Joe Biden put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and kissed
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A Customs and Border Protection officer near an enclosure holding Central American migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, March 27, 2019. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) Of course we have a border crisis — just not the one Trump keeps ranting about. When President Trump shut down the government in an attempt
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“He’s an affectionate person,” Nancy Pelosi says of Joe Biden, but then invites him to “join the straight-arm club.” In a Politico interview this morning, Pelosi says that the allegations against Biden aren’t “disqualifying,” because she doesn’t think that’s the intent of those accusing Biden of sexual harassment. But, Pelosi warns, Biden better figure out
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) New York’s Democratic governor has given his blessing to a package laden with billions in new taxes and spending. The leaders of the state of New York just voted themselves a huge pay raise. Andrew Cuomo is about to become the highest-paid governor in the country, with a
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Senator Kamala Harris launches her campaign for President of the United States at a rally in her hometown of Oakland, Calif., January 27, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/REUTERS) Democratic presidential campaigns are starting to release their fundraising totals for the first quarter. The early numbers show some surprisingly good news for Pete Buttigieg ($7 million) and good
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Police officers guard the Tree of Life synagogue following shooting in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 27, 2018. (John Altdorfer/Reuters) The Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday passed a series of gun-control bills that were introduced in response to the mass shooting that claimed eleven lives at the city’s Tree of Life Synagogue last year. The legislative package,
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in New York, March 2, 2019. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders raised a whopping $18.2 million for his presidential campaign in the first quarter of this year, his campaign announced Tuesday. The Vermont independent announced his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in February, and raised nearly
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Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) speaks at a Capitol Hill press conference in January. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Representative Steve Scalise (R., La.), minority whip in the House of Representatives, has filed a discharge petition today to override Democratic leadership and bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the House floor. The bill, sponsored by Representative
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Tonight on The O’Reilly Factor, Jon Stewart attacked Bill O’Reilly about his objections towards rapper Common’s visit to the White House, being that he wrote a song about a woman who killed a NJ state trooper. Stewart tells O’Reilly that even Bono wrote a song about Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents. Now,
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Representative Maxine Waters speaks during a national day of action called “Keep Families Together” to protest the Trump administration’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy in Los Angeles, California, June 30, 2018. (Monica Almeida/Reuters) Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) claimed over the weekend that Cook County prosecutors did the “correct thing” by dropping the charges pending against Empire actor Jussie
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It seems to me that Biden’s shoulder rubs and hair-smelling, won’t sink him. It’s weird and inappropriate behavior, but not sexual or malicious. (There’s some doubt out there about the specific Lucy Flores story by the way, even if it seems plausible enough): Flores: Biden touched me inappropriately while I was on line with other
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks at the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 13, 2019. (Michael Gross/State Department) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the Paris Climate Agreement signed by the Obama administration “didn’t change a thing” regarding the carbon emissions of the more than 170 other countries that chose to sign
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