Month: April 2019

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg campaigns at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord, N.H., April 6, 2019. (Mary Schwalm/Reuters) South Bend, Ind. mayor and Democratic 2020 presidential contender Pete Buttigieg expressed support Wednesday for a federal ban on what he called “weapons of war.” “As somebody who is very familiar from my
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NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., July 27, 2016. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Earlier this week, Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL — one of the most powerful abortion-rights lobbying groups in the country — suggested on Twitter that asking presidential candidates to explain their stance on abortion
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The Bloedel Conservatory, a triodetic biodome located in Queen Elizabeth Park at the highest point in Vancouver, Canada, houses more than 120 free-flying birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers in a temperature-controlled environment. It was financed by a lavish gift from timber industrialist Prentice Bloedel in the mid-20th century and built by the ten
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That’s one way to end catch-and-release — in theory. In practice, William Barr’s decision to end bail for asylum seekers might turn the crisis at the border into a catastrophe. Or at least into a powerful disincentive: Migrants who come to the United States seeking asylum may instead wind up jailed indefinitely while they wait
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The FBI’s headquarters building stands in Washington, D.C., December 7, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) A Florida woman said to be obsessed with the 1999 massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School has reportedly died after a massive FBI manhunt. Authorities said Sol Pais, 18, made disturbing remarks about Columbine as Saturday’s 20th anniversary of the shooting approached and
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I can’t be the only person who sighed upon learning this morning that Representative Seth Moulton (D., Mass.) was spotted recording a presidential announcement video. Another day, and another Democrat is preparing to run for president. What makes Moulton, a Marine elected to Congress in 2014, believe he can defeat Biden, Bernie, Beto, and Buttigieg?
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President Donald Trump listens as he meets with Danny Burch, a former hostage in Yemen, Washington, D.C., March 6, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The president’s veto of a bipartisan resolution demanding the end of American involvement in the conflict further degrades our constitutional architecture. Yesterday, Donald Trump vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution demanding an end to
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Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens speaks out on ‘Watters’ World’ after her exchange with Rep. Ted Lieu that broke an online viewing record. 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
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Following Amazon’s decision not to build a new headquarters in New York City, Dana Loesch said the Democratic lawmakers who are celebrating — like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are showing “egregious financial illiteracy.” MORE: https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/02/21/dana-loesch-slams-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-after-aoc-celebrates-amazon-nyc-pullout
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The long wait for (redacted) clarity is almost ♦♦♦♦♦♦ over. After almost two years of special-counsel investigation, the Department of Justice will publish the report from Robert Mueller into Russia-collusion, or lack thereof, on Thursday morning. Start your hot-take engines — and get out your color-code charts: Lawyers from the Justice Department and the special counsel’s
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Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a news conference to introduce the “Medicare for All Act of 2019” on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Bernie Sanders may currently be riding a wave of political momentum, but his new health-care plan remains untested. Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has officially unveiled
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Sen. Bernie Sanders at the “We the People Summit” in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Clever Democrats worry that the gentleman from Vermont won’t be able to defeat Trump in 2020. ‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?” T. S. Eliot asked. “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
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(Pixabay) In the long run, Republicans will need to develop a health-care vision. In the meantime, baby-step efforts to fix flaws in the existing system are what’s needed. When congressional Republicans rebuffed President Trump’s renewed push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on April 2, Trump suggested a plan to pursue another
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Reaction from Democratic strategist Mustafa Tameez and Republican strategist Kimberly Klacik. 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 News Edge. A top
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Democratic 2020 presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg campaigns at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord, N.H., April 6, 2019. (Mary Schwalm/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg offered an explanation Tuesday for why socialism has caught on lately among some lawmakers and voters. “I think the reason we’re having this argument over socialism and capitalism is that
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign events in Chicago, Ill., March 3, 2019. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) No, really, you read that right. Again, Bernie Sanders is distinguishing himself from his Democratic colleagues on matters of character, confidence, and imagination. The Democratic party has rejected offers from Fox News to host its primary debates. But on
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Democrats attack Attorney General Bill Barr’s credibility as he refuses to release an unredacted version of the Mueller report. 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
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Donald Trump apologies are a rare commodity, and he has no inclination to dispense one to Ilhan Omar. The president visited Minnesota yesterday and sat down with local ABC affiliate KSTP to promote the effects of his tax bill. When Tom Hauser told him that the representative from MN-05 blamed him for death threats she’d
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addresses the audience at the metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington on June 24, 2015. (Carlos Barria/REUTERS) Nation of Islam founder and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan defended Representative Ilhan Omar’s glib description of the September 11 attacks Monday by dismissing the attacks as nothing more than a false-flag
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