Does this sound kind of … swampy? Only if it works. Concerns began percolating upward about the award of a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon by the Pentagon over the past week, with allegations of impropriety in the bidding process. On Thursday, Donald Trump injected himself into the controversy, declaring that he might
Month: July 2019
Jeffrey Epstein during a a bail hearing in this court sketch in New York, July 15, 2019. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) A federal judge in Manhattan denied billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s bail request on Thursday, ruling that he must remain behind bars until his sex trafficking trial begins. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman denied the $77 million
President Trump’s North Carolina rally was interrupted by a protester holding up pictures of the president with Jeffrey Epstein. Trump teased that the protester was ‘going home to mommy’ as the man was ejected by security. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag on the surface of the moon, July 20, 1969. (NASA) It was a Cold War victory at a moment when the country needed one. In an Oval Office meeting a few days after Soviet Russia launched Sputnik in October 1957, two points emerged. Eisenhower’s deputy defense
Here’s a blast from the past involving a name you might not have heard in a while. Do you remember Rod Blagojevich, the former Governor of Illinois? He’s been cooling his heels in a Colorado prison since 2012 after being convicted of trying to sell off Barack Obama’s old Senate seat to the highest bidder.
People celebrate the passage of the minimum wage for fast-food workers by the New York State Fast Food Wage Board during a rally in New York, July 22, 2015. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The Democratically-controlled House passed legislation Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The Raise the Wage Act, which passed 231-199
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the second night of the first Democratic presidential candidates debate in Miami, Fla., June 27, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Unionized campaign staffers working for Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) are engaged in a dispute with management over the candidate’s alleged failure to live up to his socialist ideals. The field organizers
Republican Rep. Doug Collins says Speaker Pelosi’s remarks on Trump’s ‘racist’ comments were ‘clearly over the line.’ #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
On June 13, during a nasty storm, a group of Chinese New Yorkers gathered in front of the gates of Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence on the Upper East Side, to protest. Inside, Mayor Bill de Blasio was meeting with two dozen or so representatives of the Asian-American community to discuss his …
Did the USS Boxer shoot down an Iranian drone yesterday near the Strait of Hormuz? The US Navy says yes — but Iran says it hasn’t lost any of its drones. Instead, its deputy foreign minister suggested that the US Navy check its own stock: We have not lost any drone in the Strait of
Pro-life marchers rally at the Supreme Court during the 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters ) While reversing the precedent would be a huge victory for the movement, it would have only a modest impact on the nationwide abortion rate. Ever since I’ve been part of the pro-life
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton welcomes former vice president Joe Biden in Scranton, Penn., August 15, 2016. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) How confident should the Joe Biden team be right now? Think about all of the factors that contributed to Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. She was a figure who had been around a long time,
Fifty years ago today, more than half a billion people watched Neil Armstrong become the first human to set foot on another celestial body. Necessary and impressive though they are, no robotic explorer could ever generate so much attention. We want to go. People yearn to explore space, if not ourselves personally, then at least vicariously through our astronaut
Congressional candidate for New York’s 14th district Scherie Murray outlines her campaign on ‘Hannity.’ #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 on FOX Broadcasting Company and
An American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) Large majorities of Democrats and Republicans agree that inflammatory political rhetoric could inspire acts of violence, according to a new poll published by the Pew Research Center. 91 percent of Democrats and voters who lean Democratic say that aggressive or
President Trump says he intends to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as his next Secretary of Labor. The presidential announcement by tweet came on the eve of the departure of the current Labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, who resigned last week over criticism of his handling of a plea deal as
Arturo Toscanini (New York Times Co. / Getty Images) Doing some reading about nationalism and how it might apply specifically to the United States, I thought of Arturo Toscanini, the great conductor (and WFB’s boyhood hero). (“I worshiped him,” WFB wrote.) Obviously, Toscanini had conducted orchestras all over Europe: Italian ones, of course; French ones,
Former Vice President Joe Biden gestures during the second night of the first Democratic presidential candidates debate in Miami, Fla., June 27, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Making the click-through worthwhile: Joe Biden receives a golden opportunity to tarnish Kamala Harris’s reputation, CNN lays out the debate lineup, our reviewers debate whether the remake of The Lion
Detail of an 18th-century engraving of the Bill of Rights being presented to William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution. (via Wikimedia) The complexity and bloodiness of liberalism’s roots don’t make it quite so condemnable as its critics imagine. My colleague Declan Leary raises some interesting points in his attempt to cast the
Joe Biden speaks at the “We Decide: 2020 Election Membership Forum” in Columbia, S.C., June 22, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden warned the audience gathered at an AARP forum in Iowa on Monday that the Medicare for All plan championed by his more-progressive rivals would fundamentally change the quality of health-care coverage
This seemed pretty obvious from yesterday’s court filings and Judge William Pauley’s decision to release all the materials from the investigation. Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow was high-fiving last night already. According to ABC, the Department of Justice has formally decided not to bring any charges at all from their probe into payoffs made to
Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen speaks at a protest at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 21, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) If performing a significant share of the country’s abortions were merely incidental to its mission, Planned Parenthood would gladly give it up. Poor Leana Wen. She took Planned Parenthood’s propaganda a little
In one sense, the Commie Quad Squad (CQS) has done us all a favor by flushing out the extremism of the Democratic Party for conspicuous public display. House Leader Nancy Pelosi is quaking in her boots, realizing that it is getting increasingly difficult to hide her party’s radicalism from American voters, many of whom still
Hillary Clinton weighs in on a report that Trump considered allowing Russia to question a United States diplomat; Kris Paronto speaks out on ‘The Story.’ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has
Senator Kamala Harris (D, Calif.) at the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) 2019 legislative conference in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a familiar promise Wednesday about Medicare for All, assuring voters that “you can keep your doctor” under her plan. “People think, ‘Well, maybe is this
Looks like the page might be turning on the booming fortunes of political books in the era of Donald Trump. As you may have noticed, there’s no shortage of Washington drama. But it seems there’s a growing abundance of fatigue over books chronicling it. Makes some sense. If you’re bombarded in the morning paper with
Flowers are left on names on the National 9/11 Memorial in N.Y., September 11, 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) FDNY firefighter Richard Driscoll died on Wednesday, becoming the 200th New York firefighter to pass away from a 9/11-related illness just as the Senate was attempting to agree on an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 30, 2016 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On Sunday, the New York Times ran an interesting op-ed by Michael Wear, who directed faith outreach for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and served as an adviser in the Obama White House. In
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz discusses U.S. attorney for Northern California declining to prosecute man behind threats. #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
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Do not speak ill of the dead. While that proposition surely must expire at some point, it strikes me as good advice to follow in the immediate aftermath of someone’s death. So with that in mind, I’d like to praise Justice John Paul Stevens’s opinion in 1978 in Regents of
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