Month: October 2019

(Mike Blake/Reuters) Steven Wilson said all students should find ‘intellectual joy’ at school. An online mob slammed his ‘white supremacist rhetoric,’ and he lost his job. Earlier this month, Ascend, the high-performing Brooklyn charter-school network, fired its accomplished founder and CEO, Steven Wilson. What had Wilson done to deserve this? Not much. Wilson, a school
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Federal government health-coverage forms (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) The ‘center lane’ 2020 Democrats want a problematic policy that we barely avoided ten years ago. A  lot of the Democratic presidential candidates are rushing as far to the left on health care as they can. But some in the “center lane” are advocating what they claim is a more
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John Durham’s probe into possible FBI misconduct shifts course; chief national correspondent Ed Henry reports. #IngrahamAngle #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
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Hillary Clinton appears on stage at the Women in the World Summit in New York City, April 12, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) She could triumph over a weak and divided field, but many Democrats are terrified to see her as the face of their party again. The Ghost of Hillary Past is threatening to become the
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Hillary Clinton mulling over a 2020 presidential run. 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 Edge. A top five-cable network, FNC
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The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) As loyalty to parties’ organizations and doctrines is supplanted by parties as hostility-based tribes, polarization supplies solidarity in an era of empty politics. Washington — There are political moments, and this might be one, in which worse is better. Moments, that is, when a society’s per capita
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Ellen DeGeneres, October 2019 (Tim Heitman/USA Today Sports/ Reuters) The practitioners of the politics of cooties seem not to realize that we’re all in this together. When the Founders designed the basic architecture of the American system, they bore in mind among other antecedents the Roman republic. Their heirs are fascinated by a rather different
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President Trump and the RNC have raised over $300 million for his reelection campaign in 2019, reportedly leaving Democrats worried that they are at a disadvantage in swing states. #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,
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks at the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Fla., June 26, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Representative Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday morning that she will not seek reelection to her Hawaii congressional seat in 2020, saying she is “fully committed” to her presidential bid. “I’m so grateful to the people of Hawai’i for
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Republicans and Democrats, partisans of Donald Trump and those looking to impeach him, should speak with one voice about at least one thing: It is time for Nancy Pelosi to bring the impeachment process out of the shadows, out from behind closed doors, and into the light and air, such as it is, of the
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Left resurrects Kavanaugh smear campaign as 2020 Democrats demand his impeachment. #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 Edge.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson in an undated photo (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum/Reuters ) Lyndon Johnson’s 1960s spending initiatives have not paid off with any improvement in education. In 1964, most people would have been excited to receive a signed picture from the president. But a woman known to history as “Mrs. Marlow” did
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Democrats cry ‘national emergency’ over impeachment inquiry. #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 Edge. A top five-cable network,
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporter on the South Lawn of the White House, October 25, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The President’s best Ukraine defense has always been that any quid pro quo demand of Ukraine was not close to an impeachable offense. Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-column series this weekend, dealing
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren visits a picket line of striking teachers in Chicago, October 22, 2019. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) The political contradictions of progressivism ‘The fact is there is no more money. Period,” says Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. She’s talking about the teachers’ strike that has paralyzed her city’s public schools — enrollment 360,000
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Several Democrats had to hit reverse yesterday from their criticism of Donald Trump’s use of the word “lynching” to describe the impeachment push against him. Within hours, research showed that some of the same Democrats stampeding toward microphones to excoriate Trump used the term to describe criticism against other Democrats in the past. That includes,
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U.A.W. members strike in Hamtramck, Mich., September 22, 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) The United Auto Workers union on Friday approved a new contract with General Motors, ending a nearly six-week-long strike that had seen 49,000 workers walk off the job and forced GM factories to sit idle while thousands of other employees were prevented from coming
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, June 24, 2019 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Ben Shapiro thinks there are two possible explanations for President Trump’s conduct — and one of them, if true, nullifies the case for impeachment. One explanation he calls “the Get Biden Theory.” The one he considers more plausible he calls the “Miasma of
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., October 23, 2019 (Erin Scott/Reuters) Those attempting to cajole Facebook to censor political speech do not want these same standards applied to them. Misinformation, spin, and false claims have been part of politics since America’s founding. To secure the 1800 presidential
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