Congressman Daniel Lipinski walks in Chicago Ridge, Ill., January 25, 2018. (Kamil Krzacznski/Reuters) Several contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination have thrown their support behind the progressive candidate mounting a primary challenge to pro-life House Democrat Dan Lipinski of Illinois as the party debates whether it can still make room for pro-life politicians. Senators Bernie
Month: June 2019
North Carolina governor Roy Cooper (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) The North Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday failed to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s “born alive” abortion bill that would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors who refuse to give the same level of care to an infant born alive during an
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., an advocate for a $15 minimum wage, returned to work as a bartender for one day. Ocasio-Cortez said: “All labor has dignity, and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and the value that they are worth at minimum. We have to make one fair
New email reveals FBI failed to document four Clinton probe witness interviews; reaction from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. #Hannity #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
President Donald Trump speaks in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The Trump administration on Wednesday announced major cuts to funding for research using fetal material procured from abortions and said government scientists at the National Institutes of Health will now be prohibited from performing such research, which cost the government $13 million last year.
A man inspects a handgun during the National Rifle Association annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 28, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Pennsylvania supreme court rules that legal gun owners aren’t second-class constitutional citizens. SCOTUS, take note. Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a message that the United States Supreme Court desperately needs to
Color me surprised that it took this long for this option to emerge. The Hill reports that House Democrats have begun considering a step short of impeachment to “put a permanent mark” on Donald Trump’s record without taking the risk of infuriating voters: House Democrats are eyeing a move to censure President Trump as a
People wait in line at the Fred Jordan Mission in Los Angeles, Calif., during an annual back-to-school giveaway in 2015. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) A new poll shows that even those whom the War on Poverty aims to help believe it has failed. It’s long past time for a new agenda. It probably won’t come as much
President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May hold a joint news conference in London, England, June 4, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The run-up to Brexit is no time for political pettiness. As the U.K. moves toward breaking from the EU, the special relationship becomes increasingly critical. But Trumpian diplomacy, especially in the age of Twitter,
Both Republican and Democratic politicians want government to “do more” to give parents paid time off. “This is not a women’s issue. It’s a family issue,” says Ivanka Trump. “(E)very worker in America should be guaranteed at least 12 weeks,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. “That’s a very arbitrary number! Why not 14 weeks? Why not
Alan Dershowitz discusses Mueller’s recent comments on his 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 Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top five-cable network,
Does Donald Trump want Jeremy Corbyn as his next partner in the US-UK relationship? Because this is precisely how you get more Jeremy Corbyn. In touting the potential for a post-Brexit trade agreement with the Brits, Trump told reporters that their National Health Service would have to be “on the table,” comments immediately seized upon
Joe Biden gives a pep talk to Dallas County high school students during a campaign event at the SPARK! educational center in Dallas, Texas, May 29, 2019. (Brandon Wade/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden, who currently enjoys a hefty lead over his opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, released his plan to combat climate change
The columnist uses various analogies to try to justify exposing unborn children to lethal violence. All of them are inapposite. We would not legally require a father to give up his liver to save his child, or force people to donate kidneys to others who need them, because we typically value bodily integrity and autonomy.
President Ronald Reagan in 1982 (National Archives) We face a challenge, not a crisis, and there is no need to turn our back on our nation’s founding principles to overcome it. One of the strange realities of the current fight over the direction of the conservative movement — double down on classical liberalism or reject
(Pixabay) Euthanasia advocates claim it is “compassion.” But it is really abandonment most foul. A teenager, who was raped by two men when she was 14, will never live to adulthood or overcome the severe depression the attack caused. Instead, she was euthanized as a “treatment” for her anorexia, and severe PTSD. From the News.com.AU
This past weekend, Americans learned of another mass shooting, this time by an employee who decided to murder as many of the people he had worked with for years as possible. As of this writing, the murder toll is 12 people. Every American asks why. What was the killer’s motive? When we read there is
Congressman Adam Schiff has emerged as one of the most vocal, virulent critics of President Trump in Congress over the past couple of years. He’s become such a regular visitor to CNN that one wonders if he’s on the payroll there yet. And for quite some time now he’s been calling for impeachment. But during
(Pixabay) All of this was completely gratuitous. Breaking news: Some guy posted a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi. But fear not. The website the Daily Beast sprang into action. It tracked down the random, Trump-supporting man who allegedly posted the offending clip, hounded him until he talked, then published his name and other details about
The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pa. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) Conservatives have long debated the conflict between liberty and tradition. Editor’s Note: The following piece first appeared in the May 11, 1979 issue of National Review. If you asked the average conservative, any time during the last few decades, to sketch a group portrait of his intellectual
NORTH VERSAILLES, Penn. — Starr DeJesus admits she learned a lot about both the generosity of the American people and her own potential from an immigrant who spoke to her civics class. “I didn’t know it was just an America thing to tip servers,” the high school senior and part-time Denny’s server said. “We rarely
And maybe we should have kept AT&T broken up in the first place, but … I digress. As Donald Trump prepared to meet Queen Elizabeth II and the rest of the royal family of the United Kingdom, the president had other things on his mind. Taking to Twitter, Trump suggested a boycott of AT&T to
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Manufacturing in the U.S. dropped last month to its lowest point since before the 2016 presidential election as trade tensions continue to heat up between the U.S. and several major trading partners. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM)
After eleven rounds of negotiations lasting almost one year, China and the U.S. were supposed to be reaching the finish line this month. Instead, the talks collapsed amid American charges of Chinese retrogression, tweets from President Trump, and an emergency trip to D.C. by Chinese negotiators. Having spent much of my professional life in Chinese
This could either be smart move by Patrick Shanahan to ensure his confirmation … or a misstep that might scotch his formal nomination. After getting blindsided by the White House over a request to hide the USS John McCain during a review by Donald Trump, the acting Defense Secretary has made his displeasure known to
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addresses the Center for American Progress (CAP) 2019 Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) This punishment does not fit the crime. Over the weekend, the Daily Beast — apparently with Facebook’s help — exposed the identity of the man who allegedly uploaded the now-famous “drunk
(Pixabay) The natural follow-up to today’s Morning Jolt is, “What can be done about dishonest political-action committees?” First, some of these scam PACs violate the law in the course of soliciting donations and moving money around — setting up dummy pass-through corporations, shell entities that exist only on paper, using fake identities in business correspondence
John Dean, White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 to April 1973, poses in an undated photo. (Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/Handout via Reuters) Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday that they will call John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, as their first witness in
Ami on the Street: Are voter ID laws racist and suppress the black vote? Satirist Ami Horowtiz goes to UC Berkeley and Harlem to find out
(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Supreme Court must reverse the ruling of a lower court in Love Terminal Partners v. United States. While public attention is riveted on Democrats with extravagant proposals for government expansion — a Green New Deal, single-payer health care, tuition-free college — few observers have noticed a recent federal court ruling that will,