Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic presidential debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In a new article at Mother Jones — titled “Sexual Assault Advocates Are Grappling With the Allegations Against Joe Biden” (don’t let the phrasing trouble you; the individuals in question are not, in fact, advocates of sexual assault)
Month: April 2020
A report by the Christian Science Monitor takes a fascinating—though biased—look at the big contribution Israeli Arabs are making to Israel’s fight against the COVID-19 virus. “Over the past two decades,” CSM notes, “as rising numbers of Arab youth have pursued higher education and sought to integrate among Israel’s middle class, many have chosen to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes a statement about the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) House speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday defended encouraging visitors to tour San Francisco’s Chinatown in February even as fears grew about the spread of the coronavirus. Pelosi walked around San Francisco’s Chinatown during
It’s starting to happen slowly but surely – Texas is re-opening for business. Governor Abbott issued a series of executive orders Friday meant to provide guidance in cautiously re-opening businesses in the state. Life isn’t getting back to the pre-coronavirus days but it’s a start. Governor Abbott announced the establishment of a strike force to
It is something of a cliché on the right to observe that the character of the environmental movement is generally religious rather than political or ecological — it has a deity, festivals, dietary laws (if you really cared about Gaia, you’d be a vegan!), an apocalypse narrative, etc. And it also has its sacraments of
During Sunday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump clashed with two usual suspects in CBS’s Weijia Jiang and CNN’s Jeremy Diamond after loaded, snarky questions on behalf of their fellow liberal media firefighters, acting with supposed bravery and perseverance. Things ended poorly for both with the former being told to be “relax” and
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference following a Senate vote on the coronavirus relief bill on Capitol Hill, March 26, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) They should be forced to tell Americans why racial and gender quotas are more important than saving employees from joblessness. Let’s not hear one more consonant from
President Trump on Sunday held a Coronavirus presser from the White House. Trump blasted the globalists for putting our supply chains in danger. “This pandemic has underscored the vital importance of reassuring our supply chains and bringing them back into the United States where they should have never left… Who are the people that thought
Probable Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden may reveal a bit more on his running mate. The Hill reported today Biden planned some announcement about a vice-presidential vetting committee in the middle of April but it appears coronavirus put a dent in the plan. Biden unveiled a few details by promising he’ll pick a woman
President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 18, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) The administration handled the potential shortage deftly. At a coronavirus-task-force briefing at the beginning of April, White House adviser Jared Kushner explained the approach that would — as events proved — get the country through
It’s ironic at a time when 56 million children in the U.S. are being homeschooled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that Harvard Magazine would publish an article calling for a ban on homeschooling. The article by Erin O’Donnell, headlined “The Risks of Homeschooling,” sets up one straw man after another to make the
Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for President Donald Trump walks back to his apartment in New York City, May 4, 2019. (Yana Paskova/Reuters) Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, will be released from prison due to fears about a coronavirus outbreak among inmates and prison staff members. Cohen is currently serving a three-year sentence
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian attends a news conference in Beijing, China April 8, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Among other missteps, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster is now parroting Chinese propaganda. President Trump startled Washington last week by launching an attack on Voice of America, which for 80 years has been charged with presenting and explaining
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The last time we checked in on Steve Donziger, the former lawyer behind the failed Chevron Shakedown, things weren’t going too well for him. After he failed to obey a judge’s order to not continue profiting from his fraudulent attempt to pick Chevron’s pockets for billions of dollars, he was eventually sentenced to house arrest
After completely ignoring previous polls that showed President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis getting majority support, NBC political director Chuck Todd used a portion of Sunday’s Meet the Press to whine that a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had found the President’s approval rating was unmoved from a year ago, despite his impeachment
My piece yesterday went through some of the evidence, but new information keeps flooding in: First, researchers at Stanford gave antibody tests — which detect whether someone had COVID in the past, not just whether they’re currently infected — to more than 3,000 people in Santa Clara County, Calif. (also … Read More
The United States passed 40,000 deaths due to or presumed to be linked to the coronavirus on Sunday.The US has a presumed population of 333,000,000 in 2020. The US shut down its economy in March thanks to the expertise of Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.The two leading health officians warned President Trump in
There has been an overwhelming amount of finger-point here in the coronavirus plague era. Democrats blame President Trump for not taking the threat seriously. President Trump blames China for being coy and lying about the outbreak. The media blames whomever the Democrats blame, of course, because they’re mindless chimps. And on it goes. I felt
Workers organize food to be donated by City Harvest Mobile Market Food Distribution Center during the coronavirus outbreak in Brooklyn N.Y., April 15, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) It will take all of us pitching in to weather this global health emergency. People are sharing creative ways to support those most vulnerable to COVID-19 and its repercussions.
Senator Tom Cotton, R-AR, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, discusses implications of allowing manufacturing from China. #FoxNews #Hannity 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
Back in 2014, Twitter filed a lawsuit seeking the ability to release a “transparency report” containing figures concerning how many times the government requested surveillance data on its users. They had previously submitted a draft of the report to the Justice Department for approval. The DoJ refused and decided to fight them in court over
Joe Biden speaks at a rally in Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 2020. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Joe Biden speaks at a rally in Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 2020. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid) The United States of America cannot be governed by platitude. Edna Ferber, author of Giant, had a great ear for one of the subtlest American dialects: High
Supreme Court Justice William Douglas 1972—Dissenting from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sierra Club v. Morton that the Sierra Club lacks standing to challenge federal actions regarding a ski development, Justice William O. Douglas proposes “the conferral of standing upon environmental objects to sue for their own preservation.” The question of standing “would be simplified
There’s a reason why Donald Trump hasn’t granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason — it’s Democrat territory — came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It’s nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. Or Joe
Many people have had it with the strict shutdown policies in certain states. They are exercising their Constitutional right to make their voices heard. People in liberal media are acting exactly like they did during the Tea Party protests. On a recent episode of her MSNBC program, Joy Reid made accusations of racism, and even
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano tells ‘Fox & Friends’ that he’s surprised Michiganders did not protest sooner against the state’s stay-at-home order. Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news
Yesterday CNN published a story headlined “Democrats grapple with questions about Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden.” The story notes that high profile Democrats are being asked about the allegations: Some of Biden’s highest-profile surrogates — including Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, as well as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders,
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters during a midterm election night party in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 7, 2018. (REUTERS/Leah Millis) American politics has its norms and polite fictions. Presidential candidates are not supposed to admit that they are running for president until they are ready to formally launch, a tradition that
More on the continuing saga (see here, here, here and here) of the COVID-19 mortality rate — specifically, on why it is so hard to get accurate statistics, notwithstanding that these statistics are essential to decisions about reopening the economy. Those of us who have been watching the daily numbers closely … Read More
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