Editor’s Note: The following is part of a series of excerpts adapted from Rich Lowry’s new book The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free. Read the previous excerpt here. On October 20, 1842, Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, commander of the U.S. Pacific Squadron, ordered 150 … Read More
Month: November 2019
(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) Federal prosecutors charged two former Twitter employees on Wednesday with using the company’s internal platform to spy on prominent Saudi Arabian dissidents for the Saudi government. “The criminal complaint unsealed today alleges that Saudi agents mined Twitter’s internal systems for personal information about known Saudi critics and thousands of other Twitter users,” U.S.
Are we still having this argument over the relative wokeness of … “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”? Yes we are, and thank goodness, because both sides are finally bringing out the big guns. On the Left, we have John Legend and Ruby Turner, who think it’s “perfectly all right” to change the lyrics to reflect the #MeToo
Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has the details on Trump adviser Tim Morrison’s conflicting testimony. #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
A doctor speaks to patients at his office in Peoria, Ill., in 2013. (Jim Young/Reuters) The American health-care system needs to be maintained and strengthened, not replaced. When Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan to finance her hugely expensive Medicare-for-all proposal last Friday, doctors and patients everywhere knew that no matter how the numbers were
Editor’s Note: The following is part of a series of excerpts adapted from Rich Lowry’s new book The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free. Read the previous excerpt here. On October 20, 1842, Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones, commander of the U.S. Pacific Squadron, ordered 150 … Read More
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C., October 2, 2018. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Senate Judiciary Committee Leader Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) slammed House Democrats and the mainstream media on Wednesday for heightening suspicions of a quid pro quo between the White House and Ukraine, as House Democrats continue to release the testimonies
Remember that woman in Virginia who flipped off President Trump’s motorcade in 2017 and then was fired from her job? She ran for office and won her election on Tuesday night. Juli Brinkman became infamous overnight when she was caught by a photographer’s camera as she gave President Trump a one-finger salute. He was traveling
Ingraham: Toxic masculinity mindset is infecting our lives. #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 and FOX News Edge. A top five-cable
Outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The agency and the tax-collection system it oversees are on the brink of catastrophic collapse. Anyone who deals with the IRS on a regular basis knows that the agency is in trouble: IRS employees are less able than ever to effectively and efficiently handle
The Virginia State Capitol building in Richmond (Jay Paul/Reuters) Democrats reclaimed both chambers of the Virginia state house on Tuesday night, wresting complete control from Republicans for the first time since 1994. By Wednesday morning, Democrats had won 21 of the state’s 40 Senate seats and at least 53 of the 100 seats in the
President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives at Ocala International Airport in Ocala, Fla., October 3, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) A majority of registered voters believe that President Trump will win the 2020 presidential election, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll released on Wednesday. The survey shows that 56 percent of voters believe the president will
Earlier today Project Veritas published a video of ABC anchor Amy Robach complaining that she had the Jeffrey Epstein story several years ago but the network refused to run with it. Specifically, Robach had interviewed Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has claimed she became Epstein’s sex slave. “We had everything,” Robach said. She later walked back her
House members summoned Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Washington, D.C., and grilled him — harshly — about his plan to create a new currency, Libra. “Why should we trust you?!” asked Congressman Mike Doyle. I liked it when Zuckerberg said, “I actually don’t know if Libra’s going to work, but I believe that it’s important to
Democrats officially move to impeach based on whistleblower complaint. #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
U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland poses in Brussels, Belgium, June 4, 2019. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters) U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland implied in revised testimony to House Democrats that a potential meeting between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the release of military aid to the country,
Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People in Las Vegas, Nev., April 27, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) Politico‘s Christopher Cadalago has a long look at the collapse of the Kamala Harris campaign. Just how bad are things? “Aides sometimes talk about the campaign in the past tense before catching
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) listens as acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2019. (REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan) Big Tech hawk Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) leveled heavy criticism at two mainstream technology firms during a Senate subcommittee hearing that the Senator
A good line is a good line, whatever your politics may be. Question: “Who is your favorite Democrat??” @DonaldJTrumpJr: *laughs* … @MittRomney is my favorite Democrat, how about that?” pic.twitter.com/Z0dlauIBa2 — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 5, 2019 It’s funny and it’s sort of true by the logic of the GOP’s transformation into a Trump cult.
MT. LEBANON, Pennsylvania — Army combat veteran Sean Parnell kicked off his race as a Republican running for the U.S. House here at Pamela’s Diner. It’s within a stone’s throw of the district office of Rep. Conor Lamb, the Democrat he’s challenging for the 17th Congressional District seat in 2020. “My plan for today is
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reacts to botched New York Times story on Justice Brett Kavanaugh. #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
(Carlo Allegri/Reuters) America wouldn’t be the same without it. Editor’s Note: The following is part of a series of excerpts adapted from Rich Lowry’s new book The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free. Read previous excerpts here and here. We rightly revere the Declaration and the Constitution, and study their influence
Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) gestures in a televised townhall on CNN in Los Angeles, Calif., October 10, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Some unpleasant news for progressives consumed by the ever-evolving demands of properly administering their identity-politics agenda: A new study conducted by the progressive firm ThinkNow Research has found that
(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Remember Florida’s referendum last year that restored the right to vote to more than 1.4 million felons? A bit more than 64 percent of Floridians voted in support of it, and on January 8, an estimated 1.4 million people with felony convictions became eligible to register to vote. But in July, the Republican-controlled
My headline sounds poll truther-y but that’s not how it’s intended. National polls — of likely voters, at least — are interesting as a bird’s-eye view of the national popular vote. A few of them, especially ABC/WaPo, were darned accurate in predicting the final popular margin between Clinton and Trump in 2016. But yesterday’s NYT
Across the media and political spheres, impeachment is the watchword of the month. What will the House do? How will President Donald Trump react? Will Republicans stand with Trump or with Democrats? If you live in Virginia, Fairfax School Board Member Elizabeth Schultz wants you to forget all of that for a few minutes today.
Tucker’s Thoughts: Maxine Waters thinks this show is racist for asking how she was able to afford her $4.3 million mansion. Some critics think some of the congresswoman’s finances look a little unseemly, if not criminal and corrupt. We reserve judgment
Dr. Jordan Peterson reacts.
A marcher holds a Mexican flag near an effigy of presidential candidate Donald Trump during an immigrant-rights rally in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2016. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Conservative residents of California are leaving the state, or considering doing so, at an unprecedented rate, according to the Los Angeles Times. Just over half of California’s registered voters
Julian Castro speaks to members of the media in Miami, Fla., June 27, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Former Obama cabinet member Julian Castro will dismiss campaign staff in New Hampshire and South Carolina effective next week, Politico reported Tuesday. The campaign is aiming to focus its resources on Iowa and Nevada, with $50,000 in television ads