This is another classic example of projection from the left. MSNBC and people like Nicolle Wallace have been running a smear campaign against President Trump for four years. But now that a former staffer for Joe Biden has accused him of sexual assault, Wallace calls this a smear campaign against Biden from the right. Who
Month: May 2020
(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Trump administration said this week that Planned Parenthood will not receive any of the coronavirus-relief funding earmarked for small businesses that are struggling amid the pandemic. The administration will not grant the mammoth abortion provider any funding from the $670 billion Paycheck Protection Program, according to reports. “Through the Paycheck Protection Program, President
On Friday afternoon’s edition of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino, former DNC boss and Fox News contributor Donna Brazile labored aerobically to avoid saying she believed (or didn believe) Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault by Joe Biden in 1993. Perino picked up the line of questioning from (fellow) former Bush press secretary Ari
Just when we thought the tsk-tsking toward Vice-President Mike Pence was dying down after he took a pass on wearing a face mask during a visit to the Mayo Clinic Tuesday, a new front has opened up. Mrs. Pence did an interview on Fox & Friends Thursday and when asked about the criticism her husband
A sign informing visitors that Mulholland Scenic Overlook is closed during the coronavirus outbreak, Los Angeles, Calif., April 5, 2020. (Lisa Girion/Reuters) Continue more modest restrictions, keep watching the data, and focus on hospitals and protecting the most vulnerable. One of the main questions on the minds of Americans is when government restrictions aimed at controlling
Joe Biden speaks at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention in Altoona, Iowa, August 21, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Friday that he wishes to make public the sexual harassment complaint filed by Tara Reade, the woman who says he sexually assaulted her decades ago when she worked for him
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A man wears a mask to prevent exposure to the coronavirus while walking past the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, March 17, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Fed’s unprecedented response to the COVID-19 crisis was merited by the bleak economic outlook, but it could amount to a Faustian bargain. In severe cases, the
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker amended his stay-at-home orders to now include the “exercise of religion” as an essential activity. The governor’s action comes a day after a Rockford-area church filed a federal lawsuit saying that the governor’s order violated the free exercise of religion and that his extension of the stay-at-home order was unconstitutional. Other
Attendees walk past a Facebook logo at the company’s developers conference in San Jose, Calif., April 30, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Coronavirus shows that they can no longer have it both ways. Big Tech companies should make up their minds. Are they public fora, open to one and all, that faithfully carry an infinite spectrum of
Anthem kneeler and Trump-basher Megan Rapinoe says she wants to be Joe Biden’s running mate. What a perfect match.She hates Trump and is embarrassed by her country! She’ll have to fight it out with crazy Stacey Abrams first, though. The National Post reported: TRENDING: Kellyanne Conway Drops a BOMB — Implicates Obama in Oval Office
A darned good question, as I wrote earlier, and not just in the context of Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden. Washington Post reporter and columnist Karen Tumulty wrote within minutes of Biden’s Morning Joe interview that his explanation for keeping his archives off-limits didn’t “adequately address the “why”” of his refusal, specifically to
I’ll get into this at more length later, but there’s a problem with Joe Biden’s naming Chris Dodd to run his vice-presidential search beyond the obvious waitress-sandwich stuff. The Democrats talk a pretty good “diversity” game, but think about what that really looks like in a party where the bosses are rich and white and
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A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) This is not a recipe for government by the people. One of the big asymmetries in today’s Washington is that our system’s rules and procedures make it much easier to increase spending than to cut it. There
It finally happened. A liberal outlet got around to saying this was President Donald Trump’s economy, but only because it’s being wrecked by the Wuhan coronavirus. In an April 29, Politico Playbook PM newsletter, which aggregates top headlines, Politico had this disgusting headline take the #2 spot in its list written in all caps: “PRESIDENT
President Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 13, 2020 (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) President Trump’s approval rating hit an all-time high in a Gallup survey released on Friday, with 49 percent of respondents approving of his performance versus 47 percent disapproving. The results continue a wide swing in polling for
President Donald Trump addresses a coronavirus news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A federal appeals court ruled against a Trump administration policy to withhold millions in federal grants for law enforcement from “sanctuary” cities on Thursday, contradicting a prior ruling from a different
Treat this as a follow-up to last night’s post noting that we’re not yet on our way down the proverbial curve in terms of daily deaths. When does that happen, exactly? The increasingly implausible IHME model with which we’re all familiar imagines deaths in the U.S. dropping below 1,000 per day just three days from
President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 23, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The president already had hurt himself politically by flirting with opponents of social distancing. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he narrative is too simple to resist. In rambling remarks, Trump seemed to suggest using light and disinfectants
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Update below. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing as the legislature considered a measure to extend Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s state of emergency declaration. The House of Representatives voted down an extension of the order, but Whitmer claimed she has broad authority to continue the lockdown regardless. This response only adds
Joe Biden’s team is mulling letting him out of his Delaware basement where he’s been holed up for 6 weeks. Biden crawled into his Delaware basement in mid-March amid the Coronavirus pandemic to practice ‘social distancing.’ 77-year-old Joe Biden has used the Coronavirus panic to try to hide his cognitive decline from the public by
Founder and president of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk speaks at CPAC at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., February 28, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Turning Point USA, a young conservative political organization run by Charlie Kirk, applied for a $1.2 million small business coronavirus loan through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), only to publicize an
Jessi Armentrout colors Tara Parks’ hair at Three-13 Salon, Spa and Boutique, during the phased reopening of businesses and restaurants following the relaxing of coronavirus restrictions in Marietta, Ga., April 24, 2020. (Bita Honarvar/Reuters) On the homepage, Yuval Levin capably surveys the lay of the land on a potential Phase IV congressional response to the
Finally, the evening newscasts of ABC and CBS broke their silence on the rape accusation against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While their respective morning newscasts had already covered the topic, Thursday night was the first time NBC News had dared to give it airtime. The contrast was stark in how they covered the accusations
Actress and activist Alyssa Milano was afforded the opportunity to write a guest column at Deadline.com. The topic is the allegations by Tara Reade against Joe Biden. The title is Living in the Gray as a Woman. As the title implies, her opinion is that supporting Biden falls within a gray area for women like
Why is the first inclination of Donald Trump’s supporters to lash out at the press when he says something ridiculous? Part of it is political expediency, of course. Most of it, though, is completely understandable. Even when Trump badly mangles science, journalists, who spend vast amounts of their time … Read More
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, December 11, 2019. (Jose Luis Magana/Pool via Reuters) Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Wednesday that the sexual-assault allegation against Joe Biden must be “investigated seriously” and that Biden will likely
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Due process for me, and the benefit of every doubt — plus a media that provides cover and apology. If presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden were forced to live by the standards he wants to set