Month: January 2020

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards in 2018. (File photo: Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) Voters claim they want more bipartisanship, but in our politics, reaching across the aisle involves risks too great for it to become commonplace. Indian Wells, Calif. — Late last year, Alexander Sammon of The American Prospect contended that the Koch political network had effectively
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Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience (via YouTube) Joe Rogan hosts one of the most successful podcasts in the country. On it, he talks about his passions for comedy and mixed martial arts, and about conspiracy theories. He also talks about male self-improvement and self-experimentation. Working out, doing drugs, fasting, meditation, sensory deprivation, etc.,
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Republicans think Trump’s victory in 2020 is assured. 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. A top five-cable network, FNC
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Skyline of Dubai, December 29, 2018. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters) Its importance to the U.S. and the world goes far beyond oil. It is an unpopular view in Washington now to say that the Middle East matters. But it does. War fatigue, American energy “dominance,” and a bipartisan campaign to increase burden-sharing, in which Arab state
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Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attends a campaign event at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, U.S., January 18, 2020. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) Kathleen Kingsbury, a deputy editorial page editor and member of The New York Times’s editorial board, revealed Thursday that she wrote a full 2,000-word endorsement of Joe
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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address in Manhattan, New York City, January 7, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden said at a campaign event in Iowa Thursday that most undocumented immigrants benfitting from the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are “more American
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Meh. Nadler’s a tool and ineffective in his role (which is why Schiff is guiding the Democratic case, not him) but I can’t take this argument seriously given the circumstances of the trial. Turley’s right to note that Lisa Murkowski, a rare persuadable Republican, was annoyed at Nadler after his accusation on Tuesday night. This
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I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of Rep. Adam Schiff and the Democratic horde’s portraying every charge against President Donald Trump as Trump’s effort to interfere with this or that election. In his opening statement at the Senate impeachment trial, Lead House Impeachment Manager Schiff, puffed up with false indignation, did
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As a symbol of the Democratic establishment’s failures, Clinton is the wrong surrogate to attack Sanders. To Hillary Clinton, sniping at Senator Bernie Sanders as he again contends for the Democratic presidential nomination must seem like well-earned payback. How better to explain her recent denunciation of Sanders as an unlikeable, isolated, unaccomplished, “career politician”? As
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Hillary Clinton speaks in Las Vegas, Nev., in 2016. (Steve Marcus/Reuters) This is an excerpt from episode 187 of The Editors. Rich: So, Michael, this podcast, in deference to you, cannot pass up any opportunity to discuss significant Tulsi Gabbard news. We have major news breaking as we record of Tulsi’s defamation. Is it defamation? Michael:
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President Donald Trump greets Chinese Vice Premier Liu He after signing phase one of the U.S.-China trade agreement in the East Room of the White House, January 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Trump’s obsession with the trade deficit is front and center. In confronting China, policymakers tend to prioritize one of two broad categories: economics or
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In their rush to judgment, House Democrats failed to do their job on impeachment, says Georgia Congressman Doug Collins, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. 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
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(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Will the Supreme Court strike down Montana’s anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment? Chief Justice John Roberts is a busy man. He didn’t wrap up his first day of presiding over the third Senate impeachment trial in history until shortly after 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday. By 10:00 a.m., he was attending to more-ordinary business as oral
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An Iranian holds a picture of General Qasem Soleimani who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport in Tehran, Iran, January 4, 2020. (Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency via Reuters) Tehran’s response to it shows that the current U.S. policy toward Iran is working. Two weeks ago, the United States seemed on the
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks ahead of a vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, December 18, 2019. (House TV via Reuters) House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) pushed back Wednesday on the claim that the impending election makes any effort to hold
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks before a Senate Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee hearing titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse.” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2019. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon ) Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) told reporters Wednesday that House impeachment manager’s Adam Schiff’s focus on the propriety of President Trump’s request
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Trump’s impeachment attorney Jay Sekulow hit back at Democratic Senators during the Senate trial over Lawyer lawsuits. 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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To cleanse the palate, it feels like the right moment culturally for Planters to finally phase out Mr. Peanut. This is a populist era. Not for us, a top-hat-sporting, monocle-wearing peanut aristocrat. The new Mr. Peanut should be a peanut of the people. Blindly trustful of authoritarian leaders. Skeptical of expertise and vaccines. Big —
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After the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC (2010), Barack Obama and other liberals warned that America was headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. “Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together
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