Month: June 2019

Bernie Sanders speaks during the SC Democratic Convention in Columbia, S.C., June 22, 2019. (Randall Hill/Reuters) Sanders’s socialism turns out to be a tweaked New Deal. Washington — That the Democrats’ two evenings of dueling oratory snippets this week are called “debates” validates Finley Peter Dunne’s prediction that “when we Americans are through with the
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During the presidency of George W. Bush, conservatism as a political ideology became equated with military adventurism. This was mostly due to the Iraq War – a largely unnecessary war, that was started by neoconservatives and establishment types who thought they could ‘export’ democracy and human rights. The war in Iraq was so unpopular, that
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President Trump cancels strike against Iran in retaliation for shooting down Navy drone. #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
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via Reuters) Growing public disaffection and deepening rifts in the Turkish president’s coalition present an existential threat to his 16-year rule. Tomorrow, for the second time this year, residents of Istanbul will go to the polls to determine who will be the city’s mayor. Some observers see the
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Koch brothers have immigration agenda, want Republicans to be soft on crime. #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
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Joe Biden speaks at an event at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, June 11, 2019. (Jordan Gale/Reuters) What Biden’s latest gaffe, and the reaction to it, can tell us. Joe Biden has stepped in it, good and deep. Biden, if he has any hope of ever being elected president, will be dependent on
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‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz says it is ‘just plain dumb’ that South Carolina Democrats have turned their state party convention into an invitation-only event. #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 service, FOX Nation. FOX News
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(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Thanks to their social-justice warrior mindset, the leaders of Oberlin College have caused an Ohio jury to hit it with $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages in a case where the school couldn’t resist the urge to side with its “woke” students against a local business. College leaders should learn from this
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The withdrawal by Patrick Shanahan from consideration for the top Defense job has brought a rare moment of bipartisanship from the Senate — and likely a brief one, the Washington Post reports. Members of both parties publicly criticized the White House for not discovering issues of domestic violence in the now-former deputy secretary’s public record
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Coleman Hughes on Capitol Hill (C-SPAN) Picture the scene: A young man walks into a congressional hearing to offer witness testimony. His grandfather was barbarically brutalized by people who are now long dead. The nation in which he resides built its wealth of his grandfather’s brutalization. The question: Should his fellow citizens pay the young
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As the president formally kicks off his reelection campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich breaks down the campaign challenges facing both parties. #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 service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces
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A United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER takes off from Los Angeles International airport, March 28, 2018. (File photo: Mike Blake/Reuters) The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered U.S. airlines not to fly in Iranian airspace as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. Escalating Iranian military activities in the region “present an inadvertent risk to U.S.
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Flag at a protest against Trump administration transgender policies in New York City in 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Vermont is expanding its Medicaid coverage to cover gender affirmation surgery for transgender patients under 21 who wish to undergo the procedures. Vermont’s Medicaid insurance will now cover surgeries linked to gender dysphoria for minors who have obtained
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The somewhat disturbing news from last night involved Iran once again. Yesterday I was pondering what our response would be to Iran shooting down one of our drones. Surely some sort of meaningful action was called for, but what form would it take? Now we may (or may not) have found out what was on
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Actor Jussie Smollett makes a court appearance at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 2019. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Pool via Reuters) A Chicago judge appointed a special prosecutor on Friday to investigate Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the investigation into Jussie Smollett’s alleged hoax hate crime. Judge Michael
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Manchester Democratic City Committee Flag Day Dinner in Manchester, N.H., June 14, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) From taxing the wealthy tax to fining hospitals for black maternal deaths, her ideas don’t make sense. Elizabeth Warren is being lauded as the serious candidate in the race. Her motto, “I have a
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says it’s ‘virtually impossible’ that the Obama administration didn’t know about the Trump-Russia investigation. 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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Establishment-clause jurisprudence is famously a mess. One path for cleaning it up is suggested by Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion today in American Legion vs. American Humanist Association, the Bladensburg Cross case, which notes the strong originalist case that the clause should never have been incorporated against the states. Another course was suggested by Michael McConnell
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