Month: December 2019

Harris Faulkner and Tom Dupree discuss Speaker Pelosi delaying transmission of impeachment articles to the Senate. 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
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U.S. Senate Chamber c.1873 (Library of Congress’ Brady-Handy collection/Wikimedia Commons) As President Trump’s impeachment leaves the House, the upper chamber needs to be what the Founders expected it to be. We have spent the last several weeks intensely debating the Founders’ view of impeachment. Now that the House has actually impeached the president, it’s time
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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during the Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Two of the more interesting assessments of Pete Buttigieg I’ve read lately focused upon why young online progressives — a demographic that at first glance would be a natural base of
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) walks out of a news conference along with her Democratic House committee chairs after the House of Representatives approved two counts of impeachment against President Donald Trump in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill, December 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) This excerpt is from episode 182 of The Editors. Rich: All right,
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It looks like Harvey Weinstein has more trouble coming his way. (You remember Harvey, right? The guy who has done so much for women?) Even as female accusers are lining up around the block, another one has broken her silence and joined the other women going after the disgraced producer and alleged rapist and pedophile.
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One hears a lot of talk about cancel culture these days, but little discussion of how a cultural movement goes about canceling itself. This is especially the case with feminism. The entire program is ruptured by flagrant violations of common sense and manifold contradictions it cannot resolve. One scarcely knows where to start in disentangling
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Ah, parenting in the Internet age: It’s an experience full of mystery and wonder! Whether you’re at the local school, a youth sporting event, or a kid’s birthday party, it’s common to see groups of young children, sometimes as young as third or fourth grade, huddled blank-eyed over their collective … Read More
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The U.S. Capitol dome prior to a vote in the House of Representatives on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., December 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Revisiting Faithless Execution and Congress’s “indispensable” power. On impeachment, am I part of the problem? I don’t think so . . . but it’s a
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker releases this weekend, and it will feature an LGBT moment like the one from Beauty and the Beast (2017): this time a lesbian kiss in the background. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have supported a compromise bill outlawing discrimination against LGBT people called “Fairness for All,” and the Church of Jesus
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Rep. Doug Collins, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivers an opening statement in the debate on articles of impeachment against President Trump. 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
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Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) A spokeswoman for Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax confirmed Thursday that Fairfax plans to run for governor in 2021 despite two outstanding sexual assault allegations. Fairfax apparently did not intend to make an announcement, but ended up revealing his plan this week while addressing the Petersburg TRIAD, a
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Then-NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers participates in a session at the third annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, D.C., in 2016. (Gary Cameron/Reuters) Former National Security Agency director and retired Adm. Michael Rogers has met multiple times with U.S. attorney John Durham as part of an ongoing probe into the origins of the
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Nothing has done more to unite Republicans — from GOP congressmen in Washington, D.C., to malodorous Walmart patrons in rural America — than the Democrats’ quixotic, vendetta-fueled crusade against President Donald Trump. Trump’s election was a seismic blow to the left, which has paralyzed it with hatred and reduced it to a gigantic mob of
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Texas Republican Louie Gohmert returns to the podium to address House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler’s ‘Russian propaganda’ claim. #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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U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017 (New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Reuters) A day after claiming that surveillance footage from Jeffery Epstein’s July 23 suicide attempt was missing, prosecutors confirmed that the video had
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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall meeting in Fort Dodge, Iowa, U.S., April 16, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) During last night’s Democratic debate, South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg foiled an attempted attack from Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who started a spat about accepting the support of wealthy donors. Warren criticized
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(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Before skipping town on Thursday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed a bill to lift the $10,000 cap on state and local income taxes (SALT) that may be deducted from income for federal tax purposes. The cap, which was imposed with the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, would be
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(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The House passed the USMCA, President Trump’s landmark North American trade deal, on Thursday afternoon by a 385–41 margin, less than 24 hours after voting to impeach the president. The Republican-held Senate is expected to pass the agreement early next year, following an impeachment trial that has yet to be scheduled. The deal
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South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) This December debate should have felt momentous, marking the evening that the Democratic presidential primary got serious. We’re finished with the crowded ten-candidate stages; only seven candidates qualified
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Two of my AEI colleagues, Greg Weiner and Adam White, have written pieces here at NRO this week that ought to be read, and read together, to get a sense of the responsibilities of the Senate in the coming impeachment trial. I really recommend them (Weiner’s here, and White’s here). Weiner reminds us that the
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“To be one of only three impeached presidents in American history, even if you are not convicted by the Senate, is to know an asterisk will be forever attached to your presidency, your offenses prominently recorded,” wrote Ezra Klein at Vox back in September. “It’s a humiliation for you and a warning to your successors.” Considering
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