Month: May 2019

Headquarters of Al Jazeera Network, in Doha, Qatar, in 2017. (Naseem Zeitoon/Reuters) An anti-Semitic video posted by the Qatari outlet last weekend is just the latest example of its radical, bigoted agenda. While Al Jazeera’s English-language channel is known in the U.S. for its progressive bent and seemingly fitting slogan “Experience. Empower. Engage,” the outlet’s
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Lawyer Michael Avenatti charged with defrauding Stormy Daniels; ‘Outnumbered’ co-host Melissa Francis weighs in on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #Tucker #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
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Trey Gowdy promised earlier this week that declassifying evidence related to the start of Operation Crossfire Hurricane would be a “game-changer.” Looks like we’ll shortly find out how accurate Gowdy’s prediction would be. Late this evening, the White House announced that Donald Trump authorized Attorney General William Barr to declassify any documents related to his
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he was arrested by British police, in London, Britain, April 11, 2019. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 18 charges, including conspiracy to obtain national-security secrets and leaking classified information. The Justice Department charged the embattled self-described journalist with conspiring with former Army intelligence
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(Marcos Brindicci/Reuters) Ed Conard, former business partner of Mitt Romney and author of Unintended Consequences and The Upside of Inequality, appears on the most recent episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol. The interview is worth your time. It arrives at a moment when conservatives are debating what economic policies are best for the middle class.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces 2020 presidential bid. #Tucker #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 News Edge.
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Jonathan Chait (BookTV/YouTube) New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait has continued his turn toward conspiracy theory with a new essay. Inspired by our “Against Socialism” issue, it’s titled “The New Socialism Panic Is the Right’s Trick to Justify Supporting Trump.” The central thesis of Chait’s submission is that National Review — a magazine that was founded to fight
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Chart: Consumer price inflation in the United Kingdom since the year 1210. Note the wild swings between inflation and deflation until a century ago. pic.twitter.com/34cp8DH5hN — Michael R. Strain (@MichaelRStrain) May 23, 2019 The chart above shows the rate of consumer price inflation in the United Kingdom since the year 1210. These data were put
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The ranking Republican on the House Judiciary committee accused his Democratic colleagues of ‘tearing at the fabric of Congressional oversight.’ Collins specifically called out Chairman Nadler for wanting a ‘fight’ over the truth. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and
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Beto O’Rourke speaks at a rally in Los Angeles, Calif., April 27, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Markets are information-generating mechanisms, and the political market is working. Washington — “We’re cutting out some of this ear hair that you get when you get older,” said the 46-year-old man-child who is auditioning to be Skateboarder-in-Chief. Live-streaming his visit
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Marchers rally outside the Supreme Court during the 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) And we have Alexandra DeSanctis to prove it. When I want to know the truth about some abortion-related controversy in America, I read National Review. I know what you’re thinking: “Rich, you’re the editor
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Former Arkansas governor and Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee reacts to accusations of Jim Comey misrepresenting the Clinton probe and President Trump targeting 2020 challenger Joe Biden in Pennsylvania. #AmericasNewsroom #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
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President Donald Trump speaks about the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump stormed out of infrastructure talks with Democratic congressional leaders Wednesday, railing against House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that he is “engaged in a cover-up.” “I don’t
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Presidential hopeful Joe Biden takes the stage at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pa., May 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Twenty or so are going to end this presidential-election cycle deeply disappointed. Every presidential primary ends with one winner and a lot of losers. Some might argue that one or two once-little-known candidates who overperform low
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Game of Thrones ends where it began: The mad monarch has been assassinated; the king-slayer, who had vowed to defend that mad monarch with his life, takes on the sins of the polity as a holy, royal scapegoat, simultaneously prince and pariah; a pair of siblings, whose main claim to power is that they already
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In his book Discrimination and Disparities, economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling competition for parental attention. This, says Sowell, illustrates the absurdities of expecting equal results when equal results do not even
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Attorney General Bill Barr assigns Trump-appointed Connecticut attorney John Durham to review the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe. Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano reacts. #FoxandFriends #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
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Former House Oversight Chair Trey Gowdy claims the FBI withheld potential game-changing evidence from the FISA court during the Russia probe; insight from North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, Republican member of the House Oversight Committee. #FoxandFriends #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines
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Score one win for Donald Trump early in the 2020 election cycle. After getting Trump’s endorsement and a significant amount of campaign support, Fred Keller easily defeated Democratic opponent Marc Friedenberg in a special election to fill the House seat in Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district. Is this a harbinger for next year, or simply a
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Amazon Echo (Pixabay) A.I.-based virtual assistants with female voices reinforce sexist gender stereotypes, according to a new United Nations report. Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and other A.I. assistants with default female names and voices send the message that women are “docile and eager-to-please helpers, available at the touch of a button or with
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Democratic presidential candidate Representative Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) speaks in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Tim Ryan, the Ohio congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, said Wednesday on MSNBC that he supports scrapping the so-called Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother’s
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