Profiles in Courage, 2019. On one hand this is understandable, as all of the incentives in politics these days on both sides of the aisle run towards shamelessness. That strategy led Nancy Pelosi to protect Ilhan Omar in that cowardly resolution about anti-Semitism and bigotry, although fat lot of good it did the Speaker, since
Month: July 2019
(Carlos Barria/Reuters) 38 percent of Democrats say they do not believe they will achieve the American dream in their lifetimes, compared to just 11 percent of Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll. Two-thirds of independents said they see the dream as attainable, compared to 31 percent who said they do not. Overall, about 70
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House, June 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Trouncing outlier GOP candidates would help, not hurt, his reelection chances. On Tuesday, former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford told Charleston’s Post and Courier that he’s seriously considering a primary run against Trump. While no one in his
In May, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Extremely unpopular in his own state and polling at zero, de Blasio had the distinction of being told not to run, by his own constituents. Last week, hedge fund billionaire and climate change activist Tom Steyer announced his
People at the March for Reproductive Freedom protest against the state’s new abortion law in Montgomery, Ala., May 19, 2019. (Michael Spooneybarger/Reuters) Abortion for anyone, anytime, anywhere — and you’ll pay for it. In 114 pages, over 70 groups recently laid out a legislative agenda in their “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and
One way or another, the House of Representatives will finally have to act in some manner on impeaching Donald Trump. After threatening to do so ever since Trump took office, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) filed articles of impeachment last night, citing Trump’s tweets about four frosh Democrats as a “high misdemeanor.” This opens up the
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on America’s environmental leadership at the White House, July 8, 2019. (Tia Dufour/White House) Whether the movement can survive the ideological schisms in its ranks is an open question, but a potential path to success is there. Discerning the existence of an “intellectual Trumpism” has been a preoccupation of the
Beto O’Rourke speaks with supporters and staff in Independence, Iowa, July 4, 2019. (Brenna Norman/Reuters) Robert Francis O’Rourke is white. He’s very sorry. Robert Francis O’Rourke is white. If it’s any consolation, he’s very sorry about that. “Beto” has been running from his Irish ancestry for some time now. Long before the Left fell headlong
Poor Donald Trump Jr. He retweeted a post by a black man named Ali Alexander questioning whether Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whose father is from Jamaica and mother is from India, is an “American black.” Alexander’s tweet reads: “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick
A medic escorts a 39-year-old woman to an ambulance after she was revived from an opioid overdose in Salem, Mass., August 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Given government’s pattern of hurting when it tries to help, skepticism of even its well-intentioned efforts is in order. Earlier this week, J. D. Vance — a person I admire greatly,
Don’t pop the champagne corks just yet, as this may not be entirely good news for Donald Trump. A court filing on Monday from prosecutors informed the federal judge dealing with the Michael Cohen case that they had concluded their investigation into hush-money payments to Trump’s alleged mistresses and their nexus to the Trump Organization.
Emergency crews search for survivors after the attack against U. S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, October 23, 1983. (USMC) The House on Wednesday passed a bipartisan measure freeing up access to over a billion dollars in Iranian funds for the families of over 200 U.S. Marines killed during an Iran-backed terror attack in 1983. The
Political correctness kills art, rendering it bland. Which is why it was encouraging when Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson said that — as an actress — she should be able to play “any person, or any tree, or any animal.” No doubt Johansson would make a very sexy tree, and a very bold badger … Read More
Did you know that it’s possible to reduce the cost of welfare and other anti-poverty programs without kicking a single person off of those programs? And did you know that efforts at government efficiency started under the Obama administration? You may find this shocking. But Hell hasn’t frozen over. You’ve merely fallen prey to following
Former ICE Acting Director Tom Homan reacts on ‘Fox & Friends’ to fighting back against attacks by House Democrats on Capitol Hill. #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
Needles used for shooting heroin and other opioids and other drug paraphernalia in a park in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pa., in 2017. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) Fatal drug overdoses declined last year for the first time in decades, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Overdoses resulting in death dropped 5.1 percent from 2017 to 2018, according
And … so? NBC News thinks it has uncovered video evidence that proves a relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, but it might only add to the evidence of their own desperation. They found an old clip of Trump welcoming Epstein to Mar-a-Lago in 1992 from an episode of the tabloid show A Closer Look, featuring
Rep Ilhan Omar speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will introduce a resolution this week declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to elevate the Palestinian negotiating position vis-a-vis Israel through an international pressure campaign. “We are introducing
Representative Mark Sanford (R, S.C.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 2, 2014. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman who lost his seat to a Trump-backed primary challenger last year, is strongly considering a primary challenge of his own against the president. Sanford told the Post and Courier that he will take
Live: House expected to vote on a criminal contempt citation for Attorney General William Barr and Secretary Wilbur Ross. 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
Bill O’Reilly sent Factor Producer Jesse Watters to San Francisco to explore the city’s refusal to obey the federal immigration law, the massive homeless problem plaguing the city, and efforts to legalize marijuana.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, June 20, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) They mostly stick to what’s plausible, and that’s vital in polarized times Until Donald Trump’s Sunday tweets demanding that certain “progressive congresswomen” — almost certainly including Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley – go back
If perception is indeed the harbinger of reality, there might be a smidgen of good news out there for Donald Trump this week. One of the latest surveys out from Scott Rasmussen asked voters if they thought Donald Trump was poised to win a second term. You can read whatever you like into the numbers,
(Mike Segar/Reuters) For too many, particularly on the left, patriotism has become contingent on the country’s ability to produce specific political outcomes. Oikophilia, Sir Roger Scruton writes, “is the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting
New Jersey senator Cory Booker speaks at Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Los Angeles, Calif., April 22, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The second-quarter fundraising reports for the Democratic presidential candidates are in, and if your name isn’t Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris, you’re in trouble. The writing is on the
Recording events from public land shouldn’t be a crime. Yet when a woman in Utah, standing by a public road, filmed farmworkers pushing a cow with a bulldozer, the farmer drove up to her and said, “You cannot videotape my property.” Soon the police came and local prosecutors charged her with “agricultural operation interference.” They dropped the
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Ben Shapiro had some strong criticism for Sen. Kamala Harris after the California Democrat blamed President Trump’s “anti-immigrant agenda” for a decrease in illegal immigrants seeking college financial aid in her state.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters at the White House, June 26, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The remaining emoluments-clause case against Trump is as spurious as the first two. President Trump has won the second of three lawsuits alleging he violated the Constitution because foreigners and state officials patronize his businesses, such as the Trump Hotel
A month ago, the city council for St. Louis Park decided to end the practice of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at its meetings to be more “inclusive.” After getting an earful from locals as well as national figures, the council reversed itself last night. In a unanimous vote on an unscheduled motion, city councilors
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