Month: January 2020

Here was the inspiration (yes, I’m my own muse) for today’s episode: All Democratic policy is bad medicine. That’s why Dem pols have to hide everything behind the “giving you something for free” ruse. https://t.co/4mBjy3OVwo — SFK (@stephenkruiser) January 29, 2020 The modern American Democrats are bereft of any good ideas, we all know that.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 15, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Late Tuesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein made a comment to reporters that certainly sounded like she was, at minimum, considering acquitting Trump in the impeachment trial: “Nine months left to go, the people should judge. We are a republic,
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Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) On Wednesday, after the Virginia Senate deadlocked 20-20 on a bill repealing several modest abortion restrictions in the state, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax cast a tie-breaking vote to pass the legislation. Senate Bill 733 would remove Virginia’s requirement that only doctors may perform abortion in order to
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Looks like Pam Bondi made one convert. As the question of witnesses continues to percolate in the Senate Republican caucus, centrist Democrat Joe Manchin continues to believe that the trial should include testimony from all “relevant” witnesses. And when Manchin says “all,” he really means “all,” to the apparent surprise of Morning Joe’s Willie Geist
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Claudia (R) and her dauther Katharina cook lunch at their home. June 20, 2012. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters) Why it costs so much to have a stay-at-home mother The fact that it is so economically difficult for most families to have one stay-at-home parent sometimes is presented as evidence that the economy isn’t working the way it
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar during the Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Top campaign aides for former vice president Joe Biden reportedly suggested allying with Senator Amy Klobuchar for the Iowa caucuses next week and pitched the idea to the rival presidential campaign. The alliance would involve
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Voters cast their ballots to vote in state and local elections at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, U.S. November 5, 2019. (Ryan M. Kelly/Reuters) On the menu today: an eye-opening poll on political animosity; a powerful argument that America’s elites have forgotten what their positions require of them; and a
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Rep. Mark Meadows and Trey Gowdy weigh in on the Trump impeachment trial on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ 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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The Iowa Caucus, the real start of the 2020 presidential primaries, is next week. Who’s favored to win? Sadly, as I write this, the smart money says it’s the candidate who’s promised Americans the most “free” stuff. Six months ago, my staff and I tallied the candidates’ promises. All wanted to give away trillions —
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Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Democratic primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, January 14, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) After underestimating Bernie Sanders’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination for much of the cycle, one wonders how long until the pendulum swings back to overestimating Sanders’s chances of winning the nomination. It’s become common
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Hillary Clinton speaks at a panel for the Hulu documentary Hillary during the Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., January 17, 2020. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) A four-hour documentary shows Hillary Clinton is still blaming America for her failures. Imagine a socially maladept but extremely wealthy friend of yours was told, “People like tap dancing. You
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To judiciously quote the well-known philosopher Jules Winnfield, “ain’t the same [expletive] ballpark, it ain’t the same league, it ain’t even the same [expletive] sport.” Well, it’s the same sport, but that’s always been true when comparing Fox News to MSNBC, and more recently to CNN, too. Same sport, wildly different teams and leagues, which is one
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(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The University of Virginia is hosting a “talk” between UVA president James Ryan and the New York Times‘s Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the “1619 Project,” in the university’s famed rotunda. The two hope to start “an honest dialogue” about the “history of slavery and how it has touched nearly every aspect of contemporary
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Michael Bloomberg hosts a kick off for “United for Mike” in Miami, Fla., January 26, 2020. (Maria Alejandra Cardona/Reuters) His achievements are clear, but his appeal to primary voters is fuzzy at best. Michael Bloomberg is gaining some ground in the Democratic presidential field, but in so doing he is complicating his life as the
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters after the weekly policy lunch in Washington, D.C., May 14, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Tuesday said he doesn’t have the votes to block a resolution to allow witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial, according to multiple reports. McConnell made the admission in
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U.S. Army paratroopers of an immediate reaction force from Second Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, First Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, board a C-17 transport aircraft as they leave Fort Bragg, N.C., January 1, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) None of them seems to stay that way in office. Elizabeth Warren has revealed a bit more
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