Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, makes a closing statement during an impeachment inquiry hearing in Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2019. (Andrew Harrer/Reuters Pool) Democrats are in 2020 campaign mode, not engaged in a serious effort to remove the president. The most striking thing about the impeachment
Month: December 2019
Then-Republican candidate for Governor Ron DeSantis holds a rally in Orlando, Fla., November 5, 2018. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) A new St. Leo’s poll in Florida shows Governor Ron DeSantis sporting an approval rating of 68 percent (with a disapproval of 20 percent). What’s most impressive about these numbers is that in every demographic that matters, DeSantis
A Monarch butterfly at the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge (Tom Koerner/USFWS/Handout via Reuters) A Texas state judge ordered a temporary halt to the construction of a privately-funded section of border wall on Wednesday, saying the construction would infringe on land owned by a butterfly sanctuary. State District Judge Keno Vasquez of Hidalgo County granted
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. That seems to be what Peloton has decided as well. Rather than admit they misjudged this rather badly, the company had decided to pretend its creepy Christmas ad is actually sweet and charming, at least some people see it that way. CNBC reported earlier today that
Why are we still talking about impeachment? Have we learned anything new—gasp-worthy information that could generate bipartisan agreement that a quid pro quo occurred? No, we haven’t. Last month, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, confirmed that there was no linkage between the military aid from the United States and any investigations or White House meetings.
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President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Sunrise, Fla., November 26, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Another way to think about the daft little pageant playing out in Washington today — and I think it is the right way to think about it — is this: Impeachments are not binary. If we can dispense with the
(Gary Cameron/Reuters) The big theme of today’s Morning Jolt is that Democrats have good reasons to be grinding their teeth over the fact that Kamala Harris is out of the race — and Cory Booker and Julian Castro are on a path to follow her — while billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, two guys
(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Does it really make sense to smear people as “racist” for their intent to perform a work that acknowledges and criticizes racism? Washington College in Maryland has decided to cancel an upcoming performance of Larry Shue’s The Foreigner — because the play’s villains are members of the Ku Klux Klan, and that might
“Grab your popcorn,” Rep. Doug Collins declared, “because today we have a rerun of the same hearing we already had in this committee in July.” The House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican ripped Jerrold Nadler for wasting time on a useless exercise and acting as a “rubber stamp” for Adam Schiff with today’s con-law debate over
The Party of Youth and Diversity Keeps Getting Older and Whiter After getting so many things wrong in the 2016 election, it’s nice to be getting some right this time around: Kamala Harris’s announcement of the inevitable on Tuesday left the 2020 Democratic presidential field a little whiter for the wear, especially at the top.
Americans are more focused on the holidays than impeachment.
President Donald Trump speaks about trade at the Granite City Works steel coil warehouse in Granite City, Ill., July 26, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) President Trump proposes to mitigate the effects of his incompetently executed trade war by expanding that trade war. The problem with winning a race to the bottom is that you end up
Hillary Clinton addresses staff and supporters about the results of the presidential election in New York City, November 9, 2016. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. The individuals conspired to “make
Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Google logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic) Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced Wednesday that they will step down from their executive roles at parent company Alphabet. Page, Alphabet’s chief executive officer and Brin, the company’s
This guy’s awfully thirsty to ingratiate himself to her voters, isn’t he? But then, after struggling for the entire race, picking up her supporters might be his only play left to build some eye-catching momentum before he too is forced to quit. (He’s technically still running even though he’s no longer qualifying for the debates.)
Hollywood is now obsessing about increasing ethnic and gender diversity. Good. There’s been nasty racial and gender discrimination in the movie business. Unfortunately, Hollywood has no interest in one type of diversity: diversity of thought. In most every movie, capitalism is evil. Greedy miners want to kill nature-loving aliens in “Avatar.” Director James Cameron says:
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U.S. President Donald Trump visits a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Otay Mesa, California, U.S. September 18, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) A North Dakota company repeatedly touted by President Trump won a contract to build sections of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Defense Department announced on Monday. Fisher Sand and Gravel won
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis talks to the media during a news conference as Hurricane Dorian approaches at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., August 29, 2019. (Marco Bello/Reuters) A new statewide poll of Florida conducted by Saint Leo University shows across-the-board support for Republican governor Ron DeSantis, including consistently high approval ratings among minority
Nunes questions FBI director James Comey during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee in March 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Ranking House intelligence Committee Republican Devin Nunes filed a $435 million lawsuit on Tuesday against “the mother of fake news” CNN over a November 22 report, which alleged that disgraced Giuliani associate Lev Parnas is willing
The Daily Mail published an exclusive story today which is based on an interview with someone who was invited to Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch as a security consultant/contractor. The caveat here is that security expert Jared Kellogg never met Epstein only the ranch manager. Also, he never saw the Clintons at his ranch. In
Even for California government, where failing-up is a 72-font, doily-festooned entry dead-center on the office vision board, this epic fail was way over the line. Los Angeles County’s homeless czar is out of a job at the end of December – Merry Christmas! – for basically being an utter failure at his job. The leader
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters) Governor Brian Kemp’s defiance of President Trump and pro-life groups could make a big difference in the tight race for control of the Senate next year. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, an intra-Republican fight broke out over who will sit in the Senate seat set to open up
Now that Kamala Harris has suspended her campaign, lots of folks who predicted she would win the Democratic party’s nomination are being mocked on Twitter. This happens all the time. The only people worse than pundits at making predictions are economists and sports writers. I’ve never really understood why pundits feel the need to be
A man inspects a handgun at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 28, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) We gun nuts have long had our eyes on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York City, a challenge to one of the Big Apple’s myriad limits on firearm ownership. The Supreme Court heard
The chatterati on Twitter were shocked by this answer but I don’t know why. How often does he cheerlead popular uprisings against illiberal authoritarian regimes? Asked if the U.S. supports Iranian protesters, Pres. Trump says, “I don’t want to comment on that, but the answer’s no. But I don’t want to comment on that.” https://t.co/JsAo4rBy2e
If the headline I submitted with this post has gotten past editor Paula Bolyard, you might be expecting something like this: “Twas the night before impeachment, and all through the dome, Not a creature was stirring, they’d all gone home. The gavel was placed in its drawer for safekeeping, And only the mice heard the
Rep. John Ratcliffe, notes that Democrats have called Trump’s conduct “bribery” and then pulls out a mountain of papers of deposition transcripts. He says at no point have witnesses described his conduct as “bribery” in the last six weeks. He says the word appears only once — and that’s in relation to former Vice President