Month: January 2020

The president, yesterday: “Trump tells Fox News’ Laura Ingraham ‘four embassies’ were targeted in imminent threat from Iran.”@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/JkPvztRb0x — Sean ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@SeanCordicon) January 10, 2020 Hard to believe, and not just because he’s prone to exaggerating numbers. (Case in point, he repeated his standard claim on Twitter this morning that he’s at 53 percent
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PELOSI BLINKS! This episode praises Mitch McConnell, which is something you wouldn’t have found me doing three or four years ago. Here is the blurb from Esquire that I mentioned: Give me your book recommendations!!!! Enjoy. ___ Kruiser Twitter Kruiser Facebook PJ Media Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and
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Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen speaks at a protest against anti-abortion legislation at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 21, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Abortion-rights supporters reacted with predictably dishonest outrage to a pro-life Supreme Court brief signed by more than 200 members of Congress. More than 200 members of Congress signed
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Former Chief Justice Earl Warren 1954—President Eisenhower nominates former California governor Earl Warren to serve as Chief Justice. Warren is already serving as Chief Justice pursuant to a recess appointment by Eisenhower in October 1953. Years later, Eisenhower will call his appointment of Warren “the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made.” Those familiar with the
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American Dystopia, Part 2: Under San Francisco’s radical prosecutors, law and order has been suspended. 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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A “fairly small group,” she called it. I bet we’d all have some pretty good guesses at this point about who’s in that “fairly small group.” Some righties were high-fiving earlier this week when McConnell announced that he had the votes to proceed with a Clinton-style rules package, in which the Senate would postpone any
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A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington December 3, 2013. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) As Robert VerBruggen noted on NRO the other day, a lot of conservative and libertarian legal thinkers are excited about the possibility that the Supreme Court will start reining in the congressional practice of granting chunks of its legislative authority
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There are more important things to write about but it’s been a long week and the collective palate needs cleansing. So enjoy one of the dumber game-show flubs in modern history, punctuated by the contestant breaking into a swaggering celebratory dance because she’s convinced she just won the game for her family. Strong Kelly Bundy
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Washington, D.C., October 24, 2019. (Matt McClain/Reuters Pool) The Republican leader unified his caucus by relying on precedent. Mitch McConnell was clear when he addressed the Senate on December 18: Any impeachment trial of President Trump would follow the precedent established
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, October 17, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) This was the week when even Democrats began to publicly question Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to not transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate.  “The longer it goes on the less urgent it becomes,” Democratic senator Dianne
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President Trump answers questions about impeachment and Iran during an event at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 9, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) This is an excerpt from episode 185 of The Editors. Rich: MBD, the slow holiday news cycle ended emphatically about a week ago when news came in, on I think Friday evening
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Between this and last month’s weak-ass cop-out on the big impeachment vote, she’s repaying her righty fans richly for their inexplicable political interest in her. There was suspense surrounding her vote on impeachment, though. There was no suspense as to whether she’d agree with Pete Buttigieg that moral culpability for the Ukrainian jet shootdown is
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy lays flowers to commemorate victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crash, at a memorial in Boryspil International airport outside Kiev, Ukraine January 9, 2020. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters) On the menu today: how the claim that the United States is ultimately responsible for the Iranian military
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A sheet of United States one dollar bills is seen on a light table during production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington November 14, 2014. (Gary Cameron/Reuters) A bipartisan plan to erase barriers to equity ownership would be productive and beautiful. It’s an article of liberal faith: Thanks to President Donald Trump’s
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Gervais trashed after calling out Hollywood hypocrisy; reaction on ‘The Five.’ #TheFive #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 and FOX News Edge.
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Michigan senator Gary Peters poses with wife Colleen at Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Mich., December 1, 2018. (Raj Mehta/USA Today Sports) A new poll out of Michigan shows first-term Democratic senator Gary Peters facing a real challenge in 2020. Peters leads his Republican challenger John James just 44 percent to 40 percent, according to the
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Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Van Drew on switching parties over disagreeing on Trump impeachment. #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 Broadcasting Company and FOX News
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