(Pixabay) New York has raised the legal age to 21 for purchases of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, the latest step in the state’s efforts to curb youth smoking. Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed the bill, which raises the minimum age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21 in an attempt to combat “irresponsible corporate
Month: July 2019
Joe Biden greets audience members during a campaign stop in Londonderry, N.H., July 13, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The evidence continues to mount that the first Democratic debate was a wake-up call for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. Brian Schwartz of CNBC reports that Team Biden hired Democratic fixer Michael Sheehan for “strategic consulting” on the day
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reacts to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accusing Nancy Pelosi of “singling out” the new women of color in Congress. #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
President George W. Bush leads a conversation on Social Security in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2005. (Jason Reed / Reuters) If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If the federal deficit and federal debt are problems, but no one talks about them, do
Everyone is still upset over the feud between the President and the four Democratic freshmen who I believe we are now referring to as “the squad” for some reason. There seems to be an almost universal agreement among the media talking heads that the provocative tweets were deliberately racist. (In fact the phrase “racist tweets”
Demonstrators protest at 1 Police Plaza in New York City, June 6, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidates condemned the Justice Department’s decision Tuesday not to bring federal charges against the NYPD officer who caused the death of Eric Garner by putting him in a chokehold. Five years after cell-phone video appeared to show white NYPD Officer Daniel
Mark Sanford (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Any GOP presidential primary challenge against Donald Trump is going to be the longest of long shots. From 2015 to today, Republicans who didn’t like Trump largely stopped thinking of themselves as Republicans, and the Republicans who remain are largely supportive, with the percentage expressing approval usually in the eighties. There
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Peter Meijer’s decision to run for Congress in Western Michigan was a surprise to no one who knows the 31-year-old Grand Rapids native. He is the great-grandson of Hendrik Meijer, who opened a tiny thrift store attached to his barbershop during the Great Depression, which has since grown into a chain
From left: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Since fighting Trump hasn’t gotten them very far, they’re now fighting one another. Among Democrats these days, it’s a Hobbesian war of all against all. No, that’s not quite
Fox News contributor and former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy weighs in 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 FOX
United States women’s soccer team players Megan Rapinoe (left), Alex Morgan, and Carli Lloyd stand during the national anthem at a ceremony at City Hall in New York City, July 10, 2019. (Vincent Carchietta/USA TODAY Sports) But the team, led by foul-mouthed Megan Rapinoe, disgraced itself. For the first time in my life, I did
Beto O’Rourke speaks at the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Fla., June 26, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Beto O’Rourke’s announcement that he was “recently given documents showing that both Amy and I are descended from people who owned slaves” illuminates a great deal about presidential campaigning in 2019. O’Rourke feels the country must know about
For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever the sport, I have always rooted American. But if those who called into my radio show were representative of my audience, many millions of Americans made the same sad choice. It takes a lot for people like me not
American flag and Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony in Washington, D.C., in 2013. (Larry Downing/Reuters) I appreciate Charlie’s response to my argument that immigrant citizens don’t owe a special debt of gratitude of to this nation — a debt over and above the gratitude that native-born citizens should feel for their home country.
One of the most important rules in partisan politics is this: when your opponents are fighting amongst themselves, stay out of it. House Democrats spent the last few days in a civil war over whether Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Black Caucus are racists or whether the “Freshman Squad” are idiots. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime apotheosis of
First responders stand by a car that was struck when another car drove through a group of counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., August 12, 2017. (Justin Ide/Reuters) The man who killed one woman and injured dozens of others when he rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a 2017
Joe Biden speaks with supporters in Marshalltown, Iowa, July 4, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) Jack Crowe reported earlier this morning on former vice president Joe Biden’s health-care plan, which would expand the Affordable Care Act by adding a public option. This distinguishes Biden from the field of politicians vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, as most primary
Brandon Straka spent years as a liberal, but now he says he’s fed up with what the Left has become. He explains why he recently released a viral video encouraging other progressives to ‘walk away.’ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and
1. An email in response (I think) to this post: “Before you condemn the death penalty, you should remember that one of the first Catholic saints, St. Dismas, was promised a spot in Heaven specifically for accepting the justice of his execution.” My response: I think you can oppose the death penalty on moral grounds
Donald Trump managed to score a big win against illegal immigration without Congress’ help. Can he win another on his own? Rather than flexing economic power with Mexico to gain tougher enforcement against illegal immigration, this time Trump will act on his own to remove the incentives for it. A new rule entered in the
(Carlos Barria/Reuters) In 2016 Speaker Paul Ryan called Donald Trump’s attacks on Judge Alonzo Curiel — Trump had called the American-born judge “Mexican” and claimed he was therefore too biased to preside over the Trump University litigation — the “textbook definition of a racist comment.” That critique also applies to Trump’s tweet thread yesterday, a
I’ve been a libertarian — note small “L” — since I got over childhood socialism in my teens, and I’ve never been a really devoted member of any party because I understood even in my 20s that big organizations always act like idiots. After a short flirtation with big-“L” Libertarian Party libertarianism, I’ve been a
Best-selling author’s new book ‘Secret Empires’ details how politicians under the Obama Administration used their power to enrich their family and friends. 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 been the most
(Pixabay) They risked everything for it, not for some idea or abstraction but for the piece of fabric itself. The American flag’s place in our culture is beginning to look less unassailable. The symbol itself is under attack, as we’ve seen with Nike dumping a shoe design featuring an early American flag, Megan Rapinoe defending
Democrats concerned about lack of time to grill Mueller; former House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy weighs in. #TheStory #MarthaMacCallum #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
Amazon Echo Dot (Pixabay) Smart speakers and cameras are storing video footage and recordings of nearly every aspect of our private lives. The electronic “smart home” promises endless convenience and security. People will control the temperature of their home from their office. This fall, Walmart will launch a service that will let a delivery worker
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham weighs in on the feud between Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez and the deep divide among Democrats 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
1983—In a separate concurring opinion (in State v. Hunt), Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals offers her view that the Tennessee constitution is best read as protecting obscenity. Daughtrey recognizes, alas, that the state supreme court has rejected her reading and foreclosed the path she would pursue if the question
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) speaks in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The Colorado senator checks a requisite number of progressive boxes but avoids the extremes. Washington — With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40 percent of his ten Senate years
When I was in grade school, back before the turn of the century, it was somehow A Thing that my classmates would say “Ommmmmm” when presented with a scandal. “Ommmmmm, he kissed Cindy!” “Ommmmmm, he said a naughty word!” This was often followed by the proclamation that someone in authority would be told. I have
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