(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) Titillation and cruelty have become a business model for publications chasing clicks. Last month, a manipulated video circulated broadly on social media that made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seem drunk. Vloggers Diamond and Silk made mention of it in a Fox and Friends segment. Rudy Giuliani mentioned it on Twitter. Shame on all
Month: June 2019
More than 2,000 documents from Jussie Smollett case made public; reaction from Chicago-based attorney Andrew Stoltmann. 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
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes reacts to Robert Mueller’s statement on the Russia probe. 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
A motley crew in the House and the Senate has resolved to prohibit former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. In the bipartisan working group — which was formed ad hoc yesterday, on Twitter — are Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Senator Brian Schatz (D., … Read More
Workers load blue agave hearts into an oven for distillation to make tequila at a factory in Amatitan, Jalisco, Mexico, in 2017. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) American consumers of tequila and tech could pay more. President Trump effectively opened a new trade war last week by imposing a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican imports — and
This week we finally learned the official answer to the question that absolutely nobody was asking outside of some bored journalists looking to fill air time or column inches. Is Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan going to rush in and primary the President to save America from the Bad Orange Man? That’s going to be
A motley crew in the House and the Senate has resolved to prohibit former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. In the bipartisan working group — which was formed ad hoc yesterday, on Twitter — are Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Senator Brian Schatz (D., … Read More
Pro-choice protesters in front of the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., May 14, 2019. (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters) It should come as no surprise that pro-life legislators are now standing behind an unlimited right to life. Advocates of laws permitting late-term abortion have pushed the boundaries too far by advocating for late-term abortion — essentially,
Former South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy weighs in on criticism Attorney General William Barr is facing. 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
Attorney General William Barr looks on during a Department of Justice roundtable with Alaska native leaders in Anchorage, May 29, 2019. (Yereth Rosen/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr said Friday that the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign “crossed” a “serious red line” and should be “carefully looked at.” “The use of foreign intelligence capabilities
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (Wikimedia) Nevada governor Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, vetoed legislation on Thursday that would have preemptively committed the state’s presidential electors to whichever candidate won the national popular vote. “After thoughtful deliberation, I have decided to veto Assembly Bill 186,” Sisolak said in a statement. “Once effective, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Sen. Elizabeth Warren makes speaks in Fairfield, Iowa, May 26, 2019. (Rachel Mummey/Reuters) The Left has endorsed a new form of corporate paternalism. ‘Corporatism” is one of the most misunderstood words in the political vocabulary. American progressives use it to indicate the domination of the state by business interests, when in fact it means something
Since she first stood alone in front of the Swedish parliament last August protesting insufficient action in fighting climate change, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg has literally become the poster child for a worldwide student movement. Holding a “school strike for climate change” sign, the then 15-year-old said she was refusing to attend classes until Swedish politicians
‘Life, Liberty and Levin’ host Mark Levin says the American people should be furious about the full scale propaganda effort to take down President Trump after the Russia probe. 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
Not me, says Donald Trump. Not me either, says Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that they have an e-mail from a Navy official who ordered the USS McCain to remain out of Trump’s sight during his recent visit to Japan. That order resulted from a White House request, the officer explained
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan prior to his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Feb. 23, 2019. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters) Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Friday condemned China’s amassing of military defenses on artificial islands in the South China Sea, calling it “excessive.” At a press conference in Singapore, Shanahan said that China’s
Special counsel Robert Mueller delivers a statement on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., May 29, 2019. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) If so, why did he do it? What did Robert Mueller know, and when did he know it? This was among the questions that
President Trump speaks during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, Calif., April 5, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Trump believes, not without good reason, that the Mexican government is not doing its utmost to stop the illegal flow of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border. And so he has responded with . . .
As tensions intensify between the U.S. and Iran, shady behavior by a rogue member of the Kuwaiti royal family is threatening to endanger America’s relationship with one of our most important allies in the Middle East. In recent weeks, a pro-Iranian militia allegedly fired a rocket that landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and U.S. National Security
Is Nancy Pelosi our new religious leader? Reaction from columnist Mark Steyn 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 FOX Broadcasting
Nancy Pelosi would like to let everyone know that she’s “done” talking about Donald Trump. Jimmy Kimmel didn’t want to talk about anything else. In a cringe-worthy 14-minute segment, in which Kimmel introduced Pelosi as a “warrior,” the late-night host repeatedly demanded that Pelosi start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. Pelosi played along with Kimmel
(Pixabay) Keeping track of the Jacksonians, Reformicons, Paleos, and Post-liberals. I like to start my classes on conservative intellectual history by distinguishing between three groups. There is the Republican party, with its millions of adherents and spectrum of opinion from very conservative, somewhat conservative, moderate, and yes, liberal. There is the conservative movement, the constellation
Joe Biden speaks at the kickoff rally of his 2020 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Pa., May 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The 2020 Democratic front-runner doesn’t carry the same baggage. Is Joe Biden Hillary Clinton — or George W. Bush? The first, most obvious and literal answer is, he’s neither. He’s Joe Biden, one of the
(Shutterstock) 1992—In Davis v. Davis, the Tennessee supreme court decides a battle between a divorcing couple over rights to their frozen embryos stored in a fertility clinic. Writing for the court, Justice Martha Craig Daughtrey undertakes a lengthy excursus that culminates in an ad hoc balancing test weighted strongly in favor of destruction of the
Steve Hilton: San Francisco is a civic catastrophe and it is entirely the responsibility of the Democrats and the self-righteous Big Tech overlords who slavishly back them. 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
Will Donald Trump’s retaliatory tariffs on Mexico snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on trade? Senate Republicans sent out warnings overnight about the president’s attempts to force Mexico to stem the tide of refugees flowing to the border with an escalating tariff regime. They’re close to replacing NAFTA with Trump’s own US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA),
(Rick Wilking/Reuters) The Illinois House of Representatives has voted to legalize the possession and sale of cannabis to residents over the age of 21, making it the eleventh state to establish a recreational-cannabis market. The legislation, which passed in a bipartisan 66–47 vote, will now go to the desk of Governor J.B. Pritzker, who campaigned
Special counsel Robert Mueller delivers a statement on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., May 29, 2019. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Mueller invented an extraconstitutional legal standard for his obstruction investigation. In the end, by-the-book Robert Mueller departed wildly from the book. He invented an
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Will declassification speed up investigations into origins of Russia probe? Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz weighs in. 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