Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden (left) speaks in South Carolina, U.S. October 26, 2019. (Sam Wolfe/Reuters) Presidential candidate Joe Biden took a shot at the Medicare for All white paper released Friday by rival 2020 contender Senator Elizabeth Warren, saying her plan would require a nearly $9 trillion middle-class tax hike.
Month: November 2019
Lawrence VanDyke testifies before Congress, October 30, 2019. (via YouTube) He’s humble and hardworking to a fault, as well as patient and kind. I met Lawrence 17 years ago. It was the first week of his first year at Harvard Law School. He came to a social event sponsored by a journal I edited. You
Warren claims her tax hikes aren’t going to cost the middle-class anything, but some of her fellow Democrats worry it could cost the party seats in Congress. Politico reports that moderate Dems are dreading having to explain $20 trillion in new taxes to voters: The most-vulnerable Democrat in Colorado’s state House, Bri Buentello, is dreading
Tulsi Gabbard, the marginally sane candidate in the Democratic presidential field, said Thursday that Saudi Arabia is “undermining our national security interests” and that “it is our government — our own government — that is hiding the truth” about Saudi involvement in the 9/11 jihad attacks. Gabbard noted that “for so long, leaders in our
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon fighting Democrat efforts to try and ‘nullify the 2016 election.’ #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
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg listens during the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Westerville, Ohio, October 15, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) In an op-ed last week for USA Today, Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg doubled down on his position that, as president, he would support no regulations on abortion. Despite portraying himself as a moderate option in
Two follow-ups to my post yesterday: 1. In his “Best of the Web” column, the Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman highlights my post but argues that Bill Clinton’s broader credibility problems mean that “Justice Ginsburg deserves every benefit of the doubt in responding to the new Clinton claim.” I disagree. To be sure, Clinton shouldn’t
There seem to be another one of these stories cropping up every week. The state of California has been waging a war on the gig economy for quite a while now and they may wind up winning, assuming they can drive the companies involved (along with most of their workers) out of the state. Uber,
One of the best ways to understand a person’s state of mind about politics, is to ask them whether they think that a politician they generally disagree with, has ever done anything good. Is there one decision or policy they favor? Just one? If the answer is “no,” you know you’re dealing with someone who’s
There’s a reason why AOC is so famous – and she’s impressive in a lot of ways. #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
A tourist holds a “Make America Great Again” hat outside the White House, August 2, 2018. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Two recurring themes of mine over the last few years have been a) that the removal of a president by Congress practically requires an extraordinary degree of public consensus and b) that a lot of arguments about
(Pixabay) 1979—President Carter appoints Harry Pregerson to the Ninth Circuit, where Pregerson will remain in active service for the next 36 years. The newly created seat to which Carter appoints Pregerson is one of ten additional seats on the Ninth Circuit created by a 1978 judicial-expansion act. That act increased the seats on the Ninth
Blizzard’s annual gaming convention, Blizzcon, kicked off today at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. As expected, there were protests over the company’s mistreatment of a Hong Kong gamer who made a comment supporting freedom in Hong Kong during a live-stream. The protesters gathered outside of the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday afternoon, the first
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden exclusively reveals findings from his investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy on ‘Fox & Friends.’ #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
Lawrence VanDyke testifies on Capitol Hill, Oct. 30, 2019. (Sen. Josh Hawley/YouTube) What kind of nominee suggests in his ABA interview that he would not be a ‘fair’ judge? Lawrence VanDyke, a judicial nominee for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, choked up during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday when he was asked if he
Beto O’Rourke speaks at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, June 1, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) Former Texas congressmen Beto O’Rourke suspended his presidential campaign Friday afternoon, citing a lack of funding. “Our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively,” O’Rourke wrote on Twitter. “In that spirit:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (via YouTube) The majority of House Democrats may believe that the outcome of the impeachment inquiry has been clear for a while: Trump will be impeached on a largely party-line vote in the House, and acquitted on a largely party-line vote in the Senate,
Have you seen this term floating around? Latinx is supposed to be a gender-neutral version of Latino/Latina. It’s supposedly more inclusive because it doesn’t separate people into the now forbidden binary categories of men or women, so it has been championed by the woke left. But it turns out Latinos/Hispanics don’t really like it very
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan says a House vote on a resolution to formalize the Trump impeachment inquiry can’t undo what’s already been done on the lack of due process. #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,
President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama on inauguration day, January 20, 2017. (Scott Applewhite/Pool/Reuters) As things stand now, Obama’s race-related policies are much closer to Trump’s than to those of most major Democratic presidential contenders. Last week, at the opening of a justice-reform conference held at Benedict College, President Trump received a Bipartisan Justice
Sen. Michael Bennet speaks on the second night of the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Mich., July 31, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Democratic senator and long shot presidential candidate Michael Bennet panned the new details of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All plan on Friday, arguing that the cost estimates she provided simply won’t cover
Rainbow flags at a Gay Pride parade in New York City, 2007. (Chip East/Reuters) Kentucky’s Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against a print shop owner who refused to make an LGBT Pride T-shirt because doing so would violate his conscience. The high court ruled that the plaintiff, Lexington’s Gay and Lesbian Services
The myth of Joe Biden’s ascendancy has begun to unravel, especially in Iowa. For most of the year, the former VP has dominated in national and state polling for the Democratic presidential nomination, but his polling has sputtered recently. Today’s New York Times/Siena poll knocks Biden all the way down to the fourth position —
In our previous visit, gentle readers, I discussed Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s decision to skip President Trump’s Monday speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police. President Trump, Johnson said, did not reflect the values of the people of Chicago. From this we of course are intended to conclude that it is the
A federal judge partially reopens Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann’s $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post. Sandmann’s co-counsel Todd McMurtry reacts on ‘Fox & Friends.’ #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,
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio attends the dedication of the new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island, May 16, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) What Bill de Blasio is doing to the residents of New York is hardly funny. What happens when the Democratic party gets to realize all its deepest fantasies, with gushers
Twelve Democratic U.S. presidential candidates debate during the fourth U.S. Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate in Ohio, October. 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Let the 2020 cycle be a warning to political correspondents who write glowing profile pieces on the next great Democratic party hope. For some of us, the best part of this cycle so
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg enters the office of Senator Josh Hawley while meeting with lawmakers to discuss “future internet regulation” on Capitol Hill, September 19, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of the critical Mark Zuckerberg biography “The Social Network,” took aim at the Facebook CEO over free speech in a New York Times
A few days old but still newsworthy, as it may be the first new tax in modern American history to be proposed by Senate Republicans. Well, one Senate Republican. Who represents a state that dominates college basketball, weirdly enough. If college athletes are going to make money off their likenesses while in school, their scholarships
People seem shocked that recent polls show millennials are enamored of socialism — an economic system that reasonable and educated Americans have long known is disastrous. They shouldn’t be; this has been a long time coming. The latest survey by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation shows that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist.