(Robert Galbraith/Reuters) Deaths resulting from overdoses of Heroin, Fentanyl or combination of the two drugs more than doubled in 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday. According to preliminary statistics compiled by city authorities, deaths from overdoses of Fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 100 times more powerful than morphine, alone reached 234 in 2019, up from
Month: January 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary campaign debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, January 14, 2020. The watchdog group Common Cause, a left-leaning government watchdog group, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee relating to a non-profit founded by Bernie Sanders. Sanders established the non-profit Our Revolution after his 2016
Rep. Adam Schiff (left) and Rep. Jerry Nadler hold a news conference on the rules for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) If they have to testify, they have the Democrats’ chief impeachment manager to thank. You opened the door. Trial lawyers live in fear
Count Mark Penn among those unimpressed by the House Democrats’ impeachment of Donald Trump. Penn, who worked as Bill Clinton’s pollster during the 1998-9 impeachment and later on Hillary Clinton’s Senate and 2008 presidential campaigns, blasts Adam Schiff as a political hitman for Democrats angry over Donald Trump’s win in 2016. Americans may not like
What to do when confronted with bad news? Kill the messenger, of course. The report broke last Friday that in Britain, Muslim rape gangs were “ignored by police for fear of stoking racial tensions.” One police inspector explained: “With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to come out.” “Asian” is British media code
Glenn Greenwald attends a meeting of the human rights committee of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, Brazil, June 25, 2019. (Adriano Machado/Reuters) People who write about controversial things should, I think, make peace with the fact that they are in the controversy business, and in a world full of half-literate rage-monkeys, that brings along
South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg during the Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Imagine you heard that someone got a “direct diploma” from Harvard but didn’t actually have to do four years of papers and tests. The term “veteran” wields a strange talismanic power in
For a liberal Democrat, Larry David sometimes comes off as America’s reactionary id. Last night, on a superb tenth-season opener of Curb Your Enthusiasm, David made an extended joke about the (in)famous Make America Great Again cap. To a certain extent, I think the joke here is on Larry David. David’s … Read More
President Trump’s defense team prepares for opening statements when the Senate impeachment trial begins. Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy weighs in. #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
Call this the Witnesses? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Witnesses gambit from Donald Trump’s legal team. Jay Sekulow argued yesterday in the opening presentment of the articles of impeachment that the entire process has been tainted by the House’s unconstitutional approach to impeachment. Nominally, Sekulow was arguing for the adoption of Mitch McConnell’s rules for the
Mini-Stalins Do Not Impress James O’Keefe is currently in the midst of rolling out what I now think is my favorite sting project of his, and I’ve known him since the ACORN days. O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action is doing a characteristic slow-play release of some hidden-camera footage obtained from inside the Bernie Sanders campaign. Megan
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Texas, May 4, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, claimed on Tuesday that Americans were “fleeing” to his state to take advantage of its business-friendly climate. “700,000 people fled California. When you consider the beautiful climate out there, it’s
Voters leave a polling station on election day in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, in 2016. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters) The rising authoritarianism of our time is not an aberration. ‘Living in a democracy is no longer protection from authoritarianism,” Joshua Keating argues in Slate. One quibble: Living in a democracy never offered protection from authoritarianism — democracy has
National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks in Moscow, Russia on October 23, 2018. (Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS) Several Senate Democrats are reportedly mulling a potential deal to exchange testimony from Hunter Biden for the testimony of former national security adviser John Bolton in the impeachment trial of President Trump. While most Democrats want to prevent Biden from
Dalia al-Aqidi tells ‘Fox & Friends’ that she’s running for Congress because Rep. Ilhan Omar is doing ‘irreparable harm’ to the country with her ‘hatred and racism.’ #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.
When I say “hacked by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia,” I don’t mean by Saudi state intelligence services in the prince’s employ. I mean by the prince himself. If you believe the Guardian’s sources, Mohammed bin Salman was the operative who delivered the virus that infiltrated Bezos’s phone. Someone on Twitter a few days
Reporters complain about business. We overlook the constant improvements in our lives made possible by greedy businesses competing for your money. Think about how our access to entertainment has improved. “When I was a kid,” says Sean Malone in a new video for the Foundation for Economic Education, “my TV broadcast options were PBS, Fox,
Medical staff carry a box as they walk at the Jinyintan hospital, where the patients with pneumonia caused by the new strain of coronavirus are being treated, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 10, 2020. (Stringer/Reuters via China Out) The Center for Disease Control reported on Tuesday the first confirmed case of a new coronavirus
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (L) poses with former first lady Hillary Clinton (C) and producer Harvey Weinstein in New York, December 3, 1998. (PM/ELD/Reuters) Hillary Clinton defended her past association with disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in an interview released Tuesday, suggesting she would not have taken the thousands in donations to her 2016 campaign if
An employee walks with shopping carts at a Costco store in Fairfax, Va., in 2010. Costco (Larry Downing/Reuters) In Lakewood, Wash., some of the city’s homeless and other residents have made a habit of stealing shopping carts from various grocery and retail outlets and dumping the carts on road verges and other public-facing locales. The
History is irrelevant if the process is abused and one-sided. #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. A top
Sure, but … in which year? I kid, I kid. Thanks to Mitch McConnell’s new rules and schedule — and perhaps sheer exhaustion — Donald Trump might address Congress on February 4th as an acquitted president. That depends on whether McConnell can keep the Senate on track, and whether any Republicans cross over to subpoena witnesses,
As we, um, celebrate the final phase of the impeachment shenanigans I offer my wholehearted praise of keeping the electorate starkly divided. I can’t find political common ground with commies. Also, I suggested watching the first season of What We Do in the Shadows instead of watching the impeachment trial. Here’s the trailer for that: [embedded
Gun-rights advocates and militia members attend a rally in Richmond, Va., January 20, 2020. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters) Gun control is just the start. Now that the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates are controlled by Democrats for the first time in a generation, the legislature has the votes to move the state to the left, and
Senator Gary Peters (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Senator Gary Peters (D., Mich.), already facing a tough reelection campaign against Republican John James, came under further fire Tuesday after publicly condemning the malign influence of “dark money” in politics despite benefiting from a $1.4 million ad campaign by VoteVets Action Fund. “Today marks a decade of Citizens
Ever since she began explaining how her Medicare for all plan would be funded, and how she would pass it, Elizabeth Warren has been sinking. Ahead of last week’s debate, her camp leaked a story that her friend Bernie Sanders met with her in 2018 to discuss plans for 2020, and that at this meeting,
House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise says swing district Democrats are in trouble in 2020 amid impeachment.
Once Berned, twice shy? Not if you’re Hillary Clinton. Four years after Bernie Sanders’ improbable trajectory from socialist crank to heavyweight Democratic presidential contender, the previous nominee still sounds bitter about Sanders’ attempt to block her coronation. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter promoting a new four-hour documentary on Hillary’s favorite subject, she blasts
One of the great values of modern Western culture is equality. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” and “all men are created equal” are historically important statements of the basic importance of equality. For 500 years in the West, especially in England, activists such as the Levelers strove to have special legal provisions for aristocrats nullified, and to
(Unsplash) In a recent edition of his “French Press” newsletter, published by The Dispatch, our friend and former co-worker David French criticizes National Review news writer Zachary Evans for his report on the backlash against ultra-Orthodox Jews who have settled in Rockland and Orange counties in upstate New York. My respect for David is great, but
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