Month: February 2020

Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders onstage before the start the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A new poll conducted by MassINC Polling Group shows Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) trailing Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) by eight points in her home state, and falling 15
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Former Vice President Joe Biden at the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday admitted his claims of being arrested during a visit to Nelson Mandela in prison were false, saying he was only “stopped,” not arrested. Pressed on his repeated claim that he
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At least 35 countries have confirmed cases of coronavirus. #FoxNews #TuckerCarlson 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
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Sen. Bernie Sanders with supporters in Columbia, S.C., February 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Coronavirus looks pretty serious. The government of Hokkaido, Japan, the second-largest island of Japan, just declared a state of emergency and told all 5 million residents to stay indoors. Health researchers think Iran is drastically underestimating the number of cases in the
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Republican congressional candidate Eric Early slams Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff as a ‘national disgrace’ for leading the impeachment ‘sham’ and abandoning his California district. #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
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Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne (Bradlyons/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia) The Wyoming state legislature last week passed a measure banning the University of Wyoming from covering elective abortions under its student health insurance plans. Republican state representative Chuck Gray led the push to ban taxpayer-funded coverage of elective abortions at the university in the form of a budget amendment
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Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) David Brooks’s account of Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign cuts deep, because it is true, and obviously true. Populists like Sanders speak as if the whole system is irredeemably corrupt. Sanders was a useless House member and has
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Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) questions Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, during a House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, November 20, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Pool via Reuters) President Trump on Friday announced via Twitter his nomination of Representative John Ratcliffe for Director of National Intelligence. I am pleased
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Breaking down the Democratic candidates’ strategies ahead of major primaries. #FoxNews #Tucker 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
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I haven’t quite written 16 other posts about this topic but I have written quite a few in the past several weeks and I’m not the only one writing them.  If I were curating an anthology of such pieces I would title it ‘Scenes from an Electoral Train Wreck.’ Personally, I’ll never get tired of
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One overarching truth emerged from the cacophonous Democratic debate this week: The Democrats haven’t got game. They’re floundering. They’re lost. And they’re coming up short. Everyone on that stage except maybe the clueless Michael Bloomberg recognized that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the dominant front-runner, so they trained their sights on him, which is hardly a
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Mick Mulvaney addresses reporters during a news briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Friday downplayed the threat of the Wuhan coronavirus, implying the illness would not be as destructive as other epidemics seen in the past few decades. Mulvaney,
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at her New Hampshire primary-night rally in Manchester, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Elizabeth Warren now has the biggest Super PAC advertising presence in the Super Tuesday states, after publicly condemning PAC support for months on the campaign trail. Persist PAC, which formed ahead of the Nevada caucuses, announced
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) On the menu today: The end is in sight for Elizabeth Warren’s campaign, David Brooks desperately tries to wave Democrats away from a critical error, and the mainstream media finally finds the coronavirus scary in
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Democratic debate descends into chaos. #FoxNews #GregGutfeld 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 has
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The Virginia State Capitol building in Richmond (Jay Paul/Reuters) Virginia lawmakers on Thursday sent a bill to the governor’s desk that would roll back several abortion restrictions, including the requirement that an abortion be provided by a physician. In a 53-to-45 vote, the Democrat-controlled House passed the Reproductive Health Protection Act, which scraps the 24-hour mandatory
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Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Only nine of 93 Democratic superdelegates interviewed by The New York Times said that Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) should be the nominee if he does not arrive at the Democratic national convention with a majority. Superdelegates have historically
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Sen. Dick Durbin speaks to the media after Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s classified briefing on President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey in Washington, D.C., May 18, 2017. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Media inaccuracy and bias provide cover for lawmakers to oppose commonsense pro-life legislation. Earlier this week, 41 Democratic senators successfully
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