(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) 2006—Outgoing American Bar Association president Michael Greco, a zealous liberal who stacked an ABA task force on presidential signing statements with fervent opponents of the Bush administration and who did his utmost to load the ABA’s judicial-evaluations committee with hard-core partisans, delivers a ridiculously pompous farewell address. For example: “Our fellow Americans, as
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NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Draymond Green sharply criticized American media on Saturday after Team USA won the gold medal for men’s basketball in the Tokyo Olympics. What is the background? Last month, ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins, a former NBA player himself, voiced doubt about Team USA’s ability to win the gold medal. “I’m not
The Disney-owned cable channel Freeform TV, which was formerly ABC Family, is promoting Black Lives Matter narratives on one of their television shows aimed at high school-aged children. The TV series “Grown-ish,” which is the spin-off of the ABC sitcom “Black-ish,” featured dialogue talking about “racist-a** cops” and how “white people are inherently bad.” The
Geraldo Rivera may be on Fox News today, but when it came to Andrew Cuomo, he came rushing to the allegedly feminist Democrat harasser’s defense just as fervently as he did nightly for Bill Clinton in 1998 on his CNBC show Rivera Live. First he lamented the career-ending sex harassment of Sen. Al Franken: “Al
Joe Rogan discussed COVID vaccines on a recent podcast. It is not surprising that he is not a fan of mandates or passports. But one segment of his podcast is causing the vax-at-all-costs crowd to lose their minds. The public health bureaucracy has everyone so worked up about virus mutation that they do not want
What has been clear for years is that the Obama-Biden regime never wanted peace in the Middle East. What’s Really Going On with Iran? It Doesn’t Look Like the Biden/Obama Administration is Really Interested in Peace in the Middle East Advertisement – story continues below Obama’s efforts appear to be to only blow the
A poster on a 42nd Street subway entrance amid Delta variant coronavirus cases rising in New York, N.Y., August 2, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) On the menu today: The New York Times editorial board calls for the return of mask mandates, in a spectacular demonstration of how the zero-COVID mentality wastes energy on symbolic fights instead
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks outside the U.S. Capitol with Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as they celebrate news of an eviction moratorium extension from the White House in Washington, D.C., August 3, 2021. (Gabrielle Crockett/Reuters) The Week of August 2, 2021: The CDC’s eviction moratorium, big tech, tax,
Did Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, inadvertently argue this week against controversial vaccine-verification systems, such as the one being used in New York City. That was the conclusion being circulated on social media Friday following an interview in which Walensky claimed that COVID-19 vaccines do not “prevent transmission” of
Joe Rogan railed against vaccine passports on a recent episode of his podcast, which drew the ire of the outrage mob who are once again attempting to cancel the massively successful podcast host. Rogan warned that vaccine passports take America “one step closer” to a dictatorship. During an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” released
On Thursday’s Deadline: White House, MSNBC contributor and frequent show guest Jason Johnson hurled vitriol at Republicans, accusing them of pushing for a “white nationalist ethno-state,” and of not caring who dies as they pursue that goal. His incendiary comments came during a discussion of Republican members of Congress trying to downplay the Capitol Hill
You learn lots of interesting things on Twitter. Recently, I’ve learned that there is no test for the Delta variant of COVID. The real short answer to this is “No, you aren’t understanding that correctly.” But let’s expand on this a little. The normal COVID test that you get from a doctor or a drugstore
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) The Senate advanced a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan in the first of two key procedural votes on Saturday, moving closer to a final vote on the legislation. The Senate voted 67-27 to advance the bill,
The feud between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Joe Biden escalated this week. Biden pretended not to know who DeSantis was, and the Republican governor of Florida blasted the president’s forgetfulness. The recent friction between DeSantis and the White House increased this week when White House press secretary Jen Psaki attacked DeSantis and Texas
Texas House Democrats who fled the state last month to block legislation from becoming law filed a lawsuit against top Texas Republicans late Friday, arguing they have been, among other things, “deprived of liberty.” The news comes after two Texas House Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C., were caught vacationing in Portugal. What are the
Hollywood activists put away their walking boots the moment Joe Biden took the oath of office in January. The Women’s Marches suddenly stopped, along with other mass protests aimed at the patriarchy and other progressive causes. Problems solved, or was it politically expedient to avoid headlines that might hurt the new Biden administration? After all, these stars and
Earlier this week, Wisconsin election officials reported that they had removed more than 205,000 voters from the voter rolls “as part of routine work to keep the state’s registration lists up to date,” according to a report from the Washington Times. Joe Biden’s state-certified victory in Wisconsin was by just over 20,000 votes. Naturally, Donald
Cindy McCain, the widow of former Senator John McCain, told The View that she was “proud” she helped Biden “win” the 2020 election. Despite a border crisis, rising inflation, and rising gas prices she said that she believes that Biden is a “good president” and is leading the country in the “right direction.” “I felt like
Richard Trumka speaks during the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations 2013 Convention in Los Angeles, Calif., September 10, 2013. (Kevork Djansezian/Reuters) At best, Trumka was a friend of a friend of the working man. The legacy of the late Richard Trumka, longtime leader of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, is of
Rebekah Jones during an interview with WPTV News in 2020 (Screengrab via YouTube) The Chinese Communist Party, writing through its propaganda organ, the Global Times, is now using one of the many falsehoods that have been spread by former Florida DOH dashboard designer Rebekah Jones in order to cast aspersions on the integrity of the
While U.S. employers added 943,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 percent indicating that the nation’s economy is rebounding from the pandemic-related downturn, there is growing trepidation that the delta variant could set back the improving economic situation, according to the Associated Press. The concern is that the resurgent virus could
A report on government spending in Denver, Colorado, found that the city spends far more money on services provided to each homeless person than it would cost to simply house each one in an apartment. The report was conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver in conjunction with the Common Sense Institute, a
CNN’s Chris Cillizza is worried that Congresswoman Cori Bush has given a “gift” to the Republicans for the 2022 midterms. And that “gift” is her over-the-top hypocrisy of using expensive private security for herself while at the same time seeking to deny security for other people by defunding the police. Here is Cillizza on CNN.com
Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) is calling on his fellow Republicans to consider filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for violating the Constitution and dereliction of duty. “In the six months since President Biden assumed office, he has taken several executive actions that skirt the United States Constitution,” writes Gibbs. “I believe the two most
Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi prepare to read the final certification of Electoral College votes at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 7, 2021. ( J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via Reuters) I walked yesterday through Jane Mayer’s wrongheaded effort to smear conservatives who read the electors clause of Article II
Two women have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of theft, child endangerment, and hate crimes after stealing a “Make America Great Again” hat from a 7-year-old kid and assaulting his mother outside of the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, Delaware, last year. Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy, both 21, accepted guilty pleas on Monday and
A U.S. Border Patrol agent instructs asylum-seeking migrants as they line up along the border wall after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft, in Penitas, Texas, March 17, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) Does policy matter? A recent Politico story headlined “Biden’s Vision for the Border Has Gone Bust”
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on employment numbers at the White House in Washington, D.C. August 6, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Biden administration on Friday announced that it will extend the pause on federal student-loan repayment, interest, and collections until January 31, 2022. The freeze had been set to expire at the end of September.
U.S. Women’s soccer team star Megan Rapinoe was not happy that former President Donald Trump mocked the team for falling short of the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics. America’s soccer team fell to Canada but beat Australia to win the bronze medal. Trump released a statement blaming the team’s outspokenly political members for the
The Biden administration announced on Friday that the student loan repayment moratorium will continue until January 31, 2022, noting that this represents the final extension of the payment pause. The moratorium dates back to 2020 and earlier this year Biden moved to prolong it through Sept. 30. Federal student loan repayments will now be paused