Month: December 2019

Judge Stephen Reinhardt 1965—In Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, a Second Circuit panel abandons the traditional requirement that a plaintiff, in order to establish standing, must allege a concrete and particularized injury that is actual or imminent. In a ruling authored by Judge Paul R. Hays, the court declares that “those who
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We’ve addressed the homelessness crisis on the west coast, particularly in California, more times than I can count. California has the highest number of homeless people in the country. (Washington, D.C. actually has the highest per capita homelessness rate.) Despite massive amounts of money being thrown at the problem, it’s continuing to grow rather than
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Iconic American singer-songwriter Don McLean talks to Tucker Carlson about the political messages within his classic ‘American Pie.’ #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
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Steve Hilton showcases former vice president Joe Biden’s most infamous moments from the campaign trail. 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
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I’ve finally worked my way through the long New Yorker profile of the former Ukraine prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, who fed Rudy Giuliani supposedly bombshell information about corruption in Ukraine. The picture is about what you would expect: of Rudy on a wild-goose chase in a country he knew much less about than he thought, led
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Wait… I thought the Robert Kraft prostitution trial story was over and done, wasn’t it? Apparently not. Back in May, a Florida judge agreed with Kraft’s lawyers that virtually all of the evidence against him had been collected improperly and tossed it. This left the prosecution with a case consisting almost entirely of hearsay and
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Reaction from special adviser to the president Pam Bondi and House Judiciary Committee member Matt Gaetz. #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
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President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) But Democrats can’t capitalize on the president’s broken promises. Nancy Pelosi’s fecklessness has ensured that Americans understand impeachment to be a purely political matter, and as a purely political matter impeachment is as dead as your leftover Christmas turkey.
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A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) In response to Buttigieg’s Mandate Makes Sense I’m afraid I have to disagree with Kevin’s argument that “Republicans were wrong to repeal the [individual] mandate while leaving much of the rest of the ACA regime in place.”
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A week ago the NY Times reported that the ongoing Durham investigation was looking at former CIA Director John Brennan’s possible role in pushing the Steele dossier. Today Politico published a piece which reads like push back against the Durham investigation from the CIA: Intelligence community veterans say the Durham probe could force Haspel to
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Over the coming weeks, one question will be paramount in the wake of the Democrats’ disastrous impeachment fail. Should President Trump wage a pitched and protracted battle in the upcoming Senate trial? Or will cooler heads–like Senator Lindsey Graham’s–prevail upon him to accept a perfunctory hearing or outright dismissal? Fox News host Laura Ingraham posited
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House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins delivers his opening statement to the committee’s second hearing in the Trump impeachment inquiry. #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
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South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg during the Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The grievously misnamed Affordable Care Act was in part an effort to replicate the widely admired Swiss health-care system in the American context. The basic problem with that always has been that
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U.S. soldiers from D Troop of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment walk on a hill after finishing with a training exercise near forward operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan December 30, 2014. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Families of 143 American troops and contractors killed or wounded in Afghanistan have sued U.S. and international contractors involved
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Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (11:30 am ET), we have a special event — a preview of the final battle between Jazz Shaw and me for the 2019 NFL season! We’re tied up on predictions heading into the last week of the regular season, and we’ll preview our preliminary choices for Sunday’s open thread. We’ll
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Delivering Glorious Amounts of Capitalism and Probably a Trump Victory While watching the Democrats run to the leftmost reaches of political insanity on their way to 2020, one of the more perplexing repetitive themes from progressives Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders has been portraying Amazon as Satan incarnate. They complain about Jeff Bezos being wealthy.
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Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan gives a briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. October 8, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Trump administration’s chief border enforcement official cast doubt on the administration’s goal of completing construction of the southern border wall by 2021, throwing cold water on one of the
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Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, reacts to House impeachment vote on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ #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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Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone, Commander of United States Cyber Command, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2018. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) U.S. Cyber Command is readying options to wage information warfare against Russian officials if the country tries to interfere in the 2020 U.S. elections, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The officials would include
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