Month: March 2020

United States Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Jim Young/Reuters) Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) has implied that 80 recent Supreme Court decisions are illegitimate due to the “partisan” nature of the decisions and the influence of Republican donors on the court’s composition. “As the architect of an 80-case barrage of partisan, 5-4 decisions for big
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Michael Bloomberg speaks at his Super Tuesday night rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., March 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) He found a path to the nomination, but it was already too late Almost lost in the intense coverage and analysis of the Super Tuesday results, and the remarkable relaunch of Joe Biden as an ark
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Sen. Mike Lee on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Repealing vital national-security powers is not the right way to hold government officials responsible for abuse of power. National security has become an afterthought in the latest national-security debate. The debate centers, instead, on what is called “FISA reform,” the imperative of which appears to
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It’s understandable that a weak and anxious man like Chuck Schumer would find himself swept up in the hawkish fever for casual termination of the small and inconvenient. #FoxNews #TheFive 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,
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(Flickr/Wikimedia ) The University of Washington in Seattle said Friday that it will move all classes online after a university staff member was diagnosed with the coronavirus this week. Campus services such as dining halls, hospitals and clinics, resident halls, and recreation facilities will remain open but classes for the school’s 50,000 students will be taught
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Unless there’s a revolution in the status of the race, it’s hard to see Bernie’s opening to do it. Apparently he’s been saying that he might catch Biden when all the California delegates are allocated, but that’s not plausible. From NBC’s First Read: On Wednesday night, Bernie Sanders told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that the outstanding
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Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during May Day celebrations at the Revolution Plaza of Havana in 2002. (Rafael Perez/Reuters) Cuba’s supposed educational triumph is better understood as a product of propaganda and statistical chicanery. Last month, on 60 Minutes, in a moment that starkly illustrated his worldview, Bernie Sanders repeated his longstanding admiration for Communist
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President Trump discusses his new Middle East peace plan and border security in a Fox News Town Hall. Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/VVcbmisaTUo Watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/sM56D2yu-9s 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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Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters in Monterey Park, Calif., March 2, 2020. (Kyle Grillot/Reuters) Voters didn’t reject the Massachusetts senator because of her policy positions; they rejected her because of her penchant for lying about herself. The unsurprising news that Senator Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race invites a lot
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A voter drops ballots for the March 3 Super Tuesday primary into a mobile voting mail box in Laguna Woods, Calif., February 24, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) It encourages people to vote based on limited information. Any juror who tried to render a verdict after hearing two-thirds of the trial evidence soon would become an ex-juror.
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AT&T outsourcing American jobs, forcing employees to train their eventual replacements. #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.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, March 4, 2020. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) The prime minister hangs on — as the result of political genius, or of a deep unwillingness to admit that voters have decided his time is up? Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu almost — but did
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The Harvard Crimson distributed a survey to more than 1,000 faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, seeking to gauge the political and electoral commitments of faculty members at Harvard. The anonymous survey received just short of 500 responses. Of the responding faculty, 38.4 percent identified themselves as “very liberal,” 41.3 percent identified
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President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence and members of his coronavirus task force for a news conference at the White House, February 26, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump on Friday signed an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to combat the coronavirus as the number of cases of infected people in the U.S. passed 200
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One more reason that billionaires should not run for president without a serious self-examination about their weaknesses as a candidate: Money can buy you a presidential campaign staff, but it can’t necessarily buy you a good, motivated, disciplined one. The Nation gets the inside scoop on Mike Bloomberg’s apathetic, mercenary, and in some cases, grifting
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People wear protective face masks in London, England, March 2, 2020. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) Holman Jenkins makes the case that everyone is overreacting. Meanwhile, this piece in the New York Times sheds some light on the debate over the death rate. First, it notes the similarities with the flu: For most people, the disease is probably
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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign falls flat on Super Tuesday. #FoxNews #TheFive 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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Fifteen in all so far, including lead author Josh Hawley. Hawley is sponsoring a measure to censure Schumer for his remarks at SCOTUS yesterday. Cosponsors: Mike Braun, Kevin Cramer, Ted Cruz, Steve Daines, Joni Ernst, Jim Inhofe, Mike Lee, Kelly Loeffler, Martha McSally, David Perdue, Ben Sasse, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, and Thom Tillis. —
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Gretchen Whitmer during her 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign in Lansing, MI, August 20, 2018 (Jeff Kowalsky/Reuters) Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, on Thursday endorsed Joe Biden ahead the of the state’s March 10 primary. “I’ve been watching this campaign play out, and there’s been sources of inspiration in a variety of candidates,” Whitmer said
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