American and Israeli flags outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Amir Cohen/Reuters) A bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking to bolster U.S. support for Israel against mounting criticism by introducing an amendment emphasizing America’s continued commitment to providing military aid to its longtime ally. Two amendments to a resolution backing a two-state solution
Month: December 2019
Joe Biden speaks during a stop on his “No Malarkey!” campaign bus tour in Storm Lake, Iowa, U.S., December 1, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) “You keep worrying he’s going to hit a wall, but he’s moving forward,” an astonished David Axelrod said of Joe Biden after the most recent Democratic debate. One reason for Biden’s durable
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine November 19, 2019. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters) A senior Ukrainian official who resigned last week from her post claims the government knew the U.S. froze military aid to the country by the end of July, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Olena Zerkal, who until her
Lotta chatter online today about the problematic problematic-ness of this one. I confess, I find it weird too. Watch — twice if necessary, to really get the feel — then we’ll discuss. [embedded content] The first reaction everyone has is “Why is this guy buying his gorgeous, rail-thin wife an exercise bike for Christmas? Does
We all know some individuals who are so obviously good and kind that we are certain if anyone were to dislike them, that’s all we would need to know about the person. We would immediately assume he or she is a bad person. To hate the manifestly good is a sure sign of being bad.
Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy on Rep. Swalwell switching his position on seeking impeachment for President Trump. #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 on
President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Sunrise, Fla., November 26, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Atlantic writer Adam Serwer’s attack on social-conservative Trump supporters doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. One the most misleading accusations thrown at conservatives these days is that they have embraced uniquely “anti-democratic” attitudes during the Trump era. Take, for example, the
Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at City Hall in New York, September 18, 2013. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The Trump campaign released a statement Monday announcing that it will no longer honor credential requests from Bloomberg News reporters, after the outlet revealed last week that it would not conduct investigations of Michael Bloomberg and other
Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, takes his seat at a House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Nov. 13, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Public opinion seems to be shifting against the Trump haters. Having demanded Donald J. Trump’s impeachment ever since Election Night 2016, Democrats
As with all Evergreen news, this comes from Benjamin Boyce who has been following this for several weeks. Instead of having the Day of Absence this year, the school instead held an “Equity Symposium.” The keynote speaker at this symposium was a woman named Nikkita Oliver. Boyce describes her presentation as “a church service” for
The holidays are upon us and, whichever way you celebrate them, you are bound to run into someone who is easily offended by the way someone else celebrates. This is a brief discussion of not letting Christmas become just another victim of new media outrage culture. I’m also getting commitments from upcoming guests, the first
Left obsessed with attacking Trump over his ‘lies.’
Lawyer David Boies arrives with his client Virginia Giuffre for hearing in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein, at Federal Court in New York, U.S., August 27, 2019 (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Virginia Roberts Giuffre continued her public campaign against her alleged abuser Prince Andrew in an interview with BBC Panorama set to air on Monday. Roberts
Then-Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in 2010. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Montana governor Steve Bullock and former congressman and retired admiral Joe Sestak ended their bids for the Democratic presidential nomination in the past two days. In other surprising news, Steve Bullock and Joe Sestak were running for president. This is where
Congressman Duncan Hunter (R., Ca.) arrives for a motions hearing in his upcoming campaign financing trial at federal court in San Diego, Calif., July 8, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) After maintaining his innocence for more than a year, California Republican Duncan Hunter will plead guilty on Tuesday to allocating campaign funds for personal use, nearly six
“My goal is to get elected and then abolish the unfair corrupt system that elected me,” says Stephen “redsteeze” Miller, paraphrasing her here. My goal is to get elected—but I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College. I want my second term to be elected by direct vote.
There’s a hilarious parody video making the rounds that shows Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as Wile E. Coyote trying and failing to catch his roadrunner. I’m sure it violates all kinds of intellectual property laws and CNN will mercilessly hunt down its creators. In the video, Schiff concocts scheme after impeachment scheme and they all
A welder at work in Port Fourchon, La., in 2010. (Patrick Kelley/Reuters) College is not a guaranteed path to the American dream. Neither are the skilled trades. ‘Did you need to go to college to become a welder?” I asked. Jeff Jenkins answered with a chuckle. “No, no I didn’t.” Jenkins, owner of an HVAC
President Donald Trump delivers remarks in Lexington, Ky., November 4, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is expected to appoint financial services executive Katie Loeffler to fill the state’s vacant Senate seat, according to Politico. Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson announced earlier this year that he would be leaving the Senate at the end of
President Donald Trump will take a trip to Great Britain for a NATO summit this week and pretty much everyone expects him to comment on the upcoming election. This despite a request from Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday to demure. “What we don’t do traditionally as loving allies and friends, what we don’t do
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It’s not going to happen this election cycle, however, there is speculation California Congressman Adam Schiff is looking towards higher office. The only question is how high. A new report from The Hill suggests Schiff has his eyes on either the Senate or a future residency in the White House. Some Democrats see him as
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The National Debt Clock in Manhattan, November 30, 2017. (Two years later, the figure is $3 trillion more.) (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters) Kevin’s post below has stimulated some thoughts in me, and so have his other recent writings on economics and government. I know I am not alone in this. I’d like to jot some
President Trump hosted a college champions event at the White House recently. It was a multi-team celebration that didn’t get much fanfare, probably due to the non-stop cable news coverage of Impeachmentpalooza. Invitations were extended to 22 championship teams or athletes. One college baseball team declined the invitation. That team’s absence was quickly rectified by
Interest in impeachment plummets among key voters.
Visitors at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Jason Reed/Reuters) And there’s a reason we fight over it. There is no marriage as stable and enduring as that of ignorance and certitude. Years ago, I knew some crunchy progressives of the particularly nasty kind they cultivate in the few remaining blueblood enclaves of the old
The NY Times’ 1619 Project was a sprawling effort earlier this year to convince Americans that slavery was part of the DNA of America. Made up of various pieces by different authors, the 1619 Project seemed to promote an idea that matched current far left sentiment about the importance of identity with an underlying anti-capitalism.
Democrats acting like cartoon characters, not U.S. representatives.
Come out from among them, and be ye separate. — II Corinthians 6:17 The story does not begin in 1776. It does not begin with Concord, the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution. It does not really even begin in the Dutch city of Leiden, where a