Buses believed to carry the U.S. passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess, where dozens of passengers were tested positive for coronavirus, leave at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2020. (Issei Kato/Reuters) One of my regular themes is that Americans are disorderly and disobedient people — gloriously so
Month: March 2020
The Democratic establishment picks its answer to Bernie Sanders. #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 top
Update: Okay, one more update. Dave Wasserman of Cook Political Report is studying the Texas map and estimating how many votes are still out — and he’s detecting a distinct tinge of Joementum: I’ve seen enough. Projection: Joe Biden wins the Texas primary. — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 4, 2020 It’ll probably be hours before
She’s Toast but She’ll Probably Burn a Little Longer Super Tuesday was a super bust for the super unlikable Elizabeth Warren, the truth-challenged former Native American from Massachusetts. In her bid for the “Worst Candidate of This Cycle” title, Warren wasn’t even the favorite socialist in her home state, where she finished third. As the
If it isn’t coronavirus, it is going to be something else. Are we going to be ready for it? When Governor George W. Bush of Texas decided to run for president, he had some big ideas about education and entitlement reform, about encouraging Americans to invest and build an “ownership society” in which not …
Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at his Super Tuesday night rally in Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg are issuing insane statements about fighting on like a Japanese soldier lost in the Philippine jungle in the 1950s. Bernie Sanders has to salvage his campaign in the Lone
Ambulances to transport coronavirus infected patients parked in Daegu, South Korea, March 1, 2020. (Yonhap via Reuters) The World Health Organization on Tuesday announced that 3.4 percent of COVID-19 patients worldwide have died from the illness. The mortality rate of the coronavirus was previously thought to be around two percent. The illness has a much
The Trump administration is like the Oakland Raiders of the 1970s: ‘Just win, baby.’ 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
UPDATE: (Jazz) As anticipated, Joe Biden has taken a commanding win in Virginia while Bernie Sanders took his home state of Vermont. (Original post continues below) In this thread, we’ll cover four races from the eastern time zone because… I’m old and I go to bed early. (There. I said it.) If you’d asked me
We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once. The latest, of course, is COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. In addition to China, where the virus originated, major cities in Italy and Japan are in lockdown mode, and Japan has closed all its schools.
Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Conway, S.C., February 27, 2020. R (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Claims that Joe Biden’s improbable resurgence was orchestrated from above by party bigwigs are greatly exaggerated. There has been a dramatic flurry of activity among influential actors in the establishment of the Democratic Party over the
In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to describe the political scene: A few years ago, there was a revolution against the intelligentsia. People said, “You know, those people, particularly on the coasts, are trying to tell us what to do.” They wanted a change. … Read More
Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference at his campaign office in Little Havana, Miami, Fla., March 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) His security detail packs plenty of firepower to protect him, but he doesn’t want you to have any guns at all. ‘How do you justify pushing for more gun control when you have an
Outbreak has spread from Wuhan, China throughout Europe. #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 five-cable
As the homelessness crisis in California has been unfolding for the past several years, I’ve been saying repeatedly that somebody needs to start thinking outside the box to come up with some solutions. This might be a little bit further outside the box than I was thinking, but a local artist has come up with
After today, only two Democratic candidates for president will remain standing. Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, and Pete Buttigieg already dropped out before Super Tuesday. Klobuchar and Buttigieg went on to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden. They did so with only 24 hours to go until Super Tuesday. It was clearly an attempt to give
Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson in Washington, U.S., November 8, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Republican chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee plans to issue the first subpoena related to the committee’s probe of Hunter Biden and Ukrainian energy Burisma Holdings. Senator Ron Johnson said that it is his “intention to
Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks to supporters at her New Hampshire primary-night rally in Concord, N.H. February 11, 2020. (Gretchen Ertl/Reuters) Senator Amy Klobuchar, who dropped out of the presidential race on Monday, is pushing back on the criticism elicited by her and fellow former 2020 candidates’ endorsement of Joe Biden, saying they are “fresh faces”
Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it would cut interest rates to mitigate the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus, the first emergency cut since the 2008 financial crisis and a move clamored for by President Trump.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ 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
Normally this is where we run through some polls and do a little chin-pulling about how the numbers might move if this group swings to Joe or that group breaks for Bernie. But the polls are all but completely worthless at the moment, possibly more so than they have been at any moment in any
PROTECT THIS LUNATIC AT ALL COSTS! The prevailing wisdom of the past few months is that this hot mess of a Democratic primary would finally start to clear up a lot after Super Tuesday. With Bernie Sanders stealing almost all of the thunder for weeks as votes finally began to be cast, it looks like
A medic prepares to transfer a patient on a stretcher to an ambulance at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, the long-term care facility linked to the two of three confirmed coronavirus cases in the state, in Kirkland, Wash. March 1, 2020. (David Ryder/Reuters) Officials in Washington State have confirmed four new deaths from Wuhan
If it isn’t coronavirus, it is going to be something else. Are we going to be ready for it? When Governor George W. Bush of Texas decided to run for president, he had some big ideas about education and entitlement reform, about encouraging Americans to invest and build an “ownership society” in which not …
(Pixabay) O tempora, o mores! And while you’re at it, get off my lawn Most of us, by the time we turn 30, have seen the world change. One of the hardest things to accept about middle age is not change — it’s that change itself doesn’t stop changing. There’s been a good deal of
Pollster Frank Luntz, Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer, and former Schumer aide Chris Hahn weigh in on the democratic debate. #FoxNews #IngrahamAngle 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
Just three days after a renewed allegation of sexist behavior was published by GQ magazine, Chris Matthews announced his resignation from the network on air today. Matthews reference the allegations saying, “Compliments on a women’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay were never okay.” He continued, “Not then
I was prepared to monitor the news about the coronavirus, but not stress over it. I’d seen too many supposed doomsday viral and bacterial threats come and go before. Not that there wasn’t death and suffering attached to those outbreaks—specifically Ebola, SARS, etc., but they never quite materialized into the type of global pandemics the
Dan Driscoll (Campaign ad image via YouTube) A young veteran makes his case in an eleven-way primary. With all eyes on the Democratic presidential race, it’s difficult for candidates running in down-ballot primaries on Super Tuesday to get much attention. It’s even more challenging when there are eleven candidates running for their party’s nomination in
Pete Buttigieg attends a church service at First Baptist Church of James Island in Charleston, S.C., February 23, 2020. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) At the start of the Pete Buttigieg moment — which recently came to a merciful end — The Atlantic‘s Peter Wehner wrote that the former mayor’s Episcopalian bona fides “should help make some members