Month: June 2019

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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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)
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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
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(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
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