Month: February 2020

As a spectator sport, politics has rarely been more entertaining. Put aside for the moment the stakes involved, with partisans on both sides claiming that the upcoming election is “the most important in history,” (as was the last one, and the one before that, but this time they really mean it), and take the time
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Patrick Bradley, 34, of Windham (Windham Police Department) A New Hampshire man pleaded not guilty to assault charges on Friday after being arrested for slapping a 15-year-old Trump supporter outside of a polling station for the state’s primary earlier this week. Windham Police Department said in a statement Thursday that 34-year-old Patrick Bradley walked by
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Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) arrives for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., November 6, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) On the Senate floor yesterday afternoon, Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) delivered brief remarks on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, addressing some of the common misconceptions about the legislation. The bill is sponsored by
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Media, Democrats minimize economic surge under Trump. 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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Shooting survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., at the “March for Our Lives” event demanding gun control in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The 2018 shooting at Stoneman Douglas came from a depressing cascade of poor decisions from local actors. Two years ago, 17 people died in a mass
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In January 2021, someone will take the presidential oath of office, and religious conservatives will undoubtedly play a crucial role in whom it will be. Their influence will be the focus of an untold number of postmortems, of the type they’ve been accustomed to hearing since 2016, when the notorious “81 … Read More
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AfD leader Alexander Gauland attends a TV interview with ARD in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2019. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters) The new breed of populist-nationalists revel in tales of national ‘greatness’ and wallow in narratives of vulnerability. Germany is this week marking the 75th anniversary of the Allied firebombing of Dresden.
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Trump campaign senior adviser Corey Lewandowski shares his New Hampshire primary predictions. 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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Sen. Bernie Sanders is accompanied by his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders as he arrives to speak at his New Hampshire primary-night rally in Manchester, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Left-wing pundits have already started selling moderates on a vision of the radical Democratic presidential front-runner that doesn’t comport with reality. Just you watch: By
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Sanders scores victory, Buttigieg in close second. 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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Detail of portrait of President Abraham Lincoln by George Healey, 1869 (White House Historical Association/via Wikimedia) No American ever modeled the virtue more nobly — or expressed it more eloquently than he did in the Gettysburg Address. His stovepipe hat and thick beard make him instantly recognizable. He was a gifted politician and was unusually
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Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives to speak at his New Hampshire primary-night rally in Manchester, February 11, 2020. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) A new national poll out today from Morning Consult shows Vermont senator Bernie Sanders with a commanding lead on former vice president Joe Biden, ahead 29 percent to 19 percent among Democratic-primary voters. The survey was conducted
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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) Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has announced that the Senate will consider two pieces of pro-life legislation later this month. One is the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which received a hearing
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Warren suffering from ‘woke brain virus.’ 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 been
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Michael Bloomberg’s campaign announced a notable endorsement in Texas on Thursday – that of Houston’s Mayor Sylvester Turner. The battle for African-American voters in Texas is on. Mayor Turner, an African-American Democrat and thirty-year political career politician will provide a boost to the Bloomberg campaign in the all-important black vote in the Democrat primary. Early
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The Justice Department building stands in Washington, D.C., February 1, 2018. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) In a memo, Ankush Khardori, who recently left the DOJ, alleges the misuse of another obscure bureaucratic mechanism to skirt statutes of limitations. Department of Justice prosecutors’ penchant for exploiting their information advantage over judges at the expense of defendants’ civil liberties
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