Joe Biden speaks at the “We Decide: 2020 Election Membership Forum” in Columbia, S.C., June 22, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden warned the audience gathered at an AARP forum in Iowa on Monday that the Medicare for All plan championed by his more-progressive rivals would fundamentally change the quality of health-care coverage
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This seemed pretty obvious from yesterday’s court filings and Judge William Pauley’s decision to release all the materials from the investigation. Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow was high-fiving last night already. According to ABC, the Department of Justice has formally decided not to bring any charges at all from their probe into payoffs made to
Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen speaks at a protest at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 21, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) If performing a significant share of the country’s abortions were merely incidental to its mission, Planned Parenthood would gladly give it up. Poor Leana Wen. She took Planned Parenthood’s propaganda a little
In one sense, the Commie Quad Squad (CQS) has done us all a favor by flushing out the extremism of the Democratic Party for conspicuous public display. House Leader Nancy Pelosi is quaking in her boots, realizing that it is getting increasingly difficult to hide her party’s radicalism from American voters, many of whom still
Hillary Clinton weighs in on a report that Trump considered allowing Russia to question a United States diplomat; Kris Paronto speaks out on ‘The Story.’ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has
Senator Kamala Harris (D, Calif.) at the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) 2019 legislative conference in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a familiar promise Wednesday about Medicare for All, assuring voters that “you can keep your doctor” under her plan. “People think, ‘Well, maybe is this
Looks like the page might be turning on the booming fortunes of political books in the era of Donald Trump. As you may have noticed, there’s no shortage of Washington drama. But it seems there’s a growing abundance of fatigue over books chronicling it. Makes some sense. If you’re bombarded in the morning paper with
Flowers are left on names on the National 9/11 Memorial in N.Y., September 11, 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) FDNY firefighter Richard Driscoll died on Wednesday, becoming the 200th New York firefighter to pass away from a 9/11-related illness just as the Senate was attempting to agree on an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 30, 2016 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On Sunday, the New York Times ran an interesting op-ed by Michael Wear, who directed faith outreach for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and served as an adviser in the Obama White House. In
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz discusses U.S. attorney for Northern California declining to prosecute man behind threats. #Tucker #FoxNews 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
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Do not speak ill of the dead. While that proposition surely must expire at some point, it strikes me as good advice to follow in the immediate aftermath of someone’s death. So with that in mind, I’d like to praise Justice John Paul Stevens’s opinion in 1978 in Regents of
Profiles in Courage, 2019. On one hand this is understandable, as all of the incentives in politics these days on both sides of the aisle run towards shamelessness. That strategy led Nancy Pelosi to protect Ilhan Omar in that cowardly resolution about anti-Semitism and bigotry, although fat lot of good it did the Speaker, since
(Carlos Barria/Reuters) 38 percent of Democrats say they do not believe they will achieve the American dream in their lifetimes, compared to just 11 percent of Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll. Two-thirds of independents said they see the dream as attainable, compared to 31 percent who said they do not. Overall, about 70
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House, June 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Trouncing outlier GOP candidates would help, not hurt, his reelection chances. On Tuesday, former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford told Charleston’s Post and Courier that he’s seriously considering a primary run against Trump. While no one in his
In May, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Extremely unpopular in his own state and polling at zero, de Blasio had the distinction of being told not to run, by his own constituents. Last week, hedge fund billionaire and climate change activist Tom Steyer announced his
People at the March for Reproductive Freedom protest against the state’s new abortion law in Montgomery, Ala., May 19, 2019. (Michael Spooneybarger/Reuters) Abortion for anyone, anytime, anywhere — and you’ll pay for it. In 114 pages, over 70 groups recently laid out a legislative agenda in their “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and
One way or another, the House of Representatives will finally have to act in some manner on impeaching Donald Trump. After threatening to do so ever since Trump took office, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) filed articles of impeachment last night, citing Trump’s tweets about four frosh Democrats as a “high misdemeanor.” This opens up the
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on America’s environmental leadership at the White House, July 8, 2019. (Tia Dufour/White House) Whether the movement can survive the ideological schisms in its ranks is an open question, but a potential path to success is there. Discerning the existence of an “intellectual Trumpism” has been a preoccupation of the
Beto O’Rourke speaks with supporters and staff in Independence, Iowa, July 4, 2019. (Brenna Norman/Reuters) Robert Francis O’Rourke is white. He’s very sorry. Robert Francis O’Rourke is white. If it’s any consolation, he’s very sorry about that. “Beto” has been running from his Irish ancestry for some time now. Long before the Left fell headlong
Poor Donald Trump Jr. He retweeted a post by a black man named Ali Alexander questioning whether Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whose father is from Jamaica and mother is from India, is an “American black.” Alexander’s tweet reads: “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick
A medic escorts a 39-year-old woman to an ambulance after she was revived from an opioid overdose in Salem, Mass., August 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Given government’s pattern of hurting when it tries to help, skepticism of even its well-intentioned efforts is in order. Earlier this week, J. D. Vance — a person I admire greatly,
Don’t pop the champagne corks just yet, as this may not be entirely good news for Donald Trump. A court filing on Monday from prosecutors informed the federal judge dealing with the Michael Cohen case that they had concluded their investigation into hush-money payments to Trump’s alleged mistresses and their nexus to the Trump Organization.
Emergency crews search for survivors after the attack against U. S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, October 23, 1983. (USMC) The House on Wednesday passed a bipartisan measure freeing up access to over a billion dollars in Iranian funds for the families of over 200 U.S. Marines killed during an Iran-backed terror attack in 1983. The
Political correctness kills art, rendering it bland. Which is why it was encouraging when Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson said that — as an actress — she should be able to play “any person, or any tree, or any animal.” No doubt Johansson would make a very sexy tree, and a very bold badger … Read More
Did you know that it’s possible to reduce the cost of welfare and other anti-poverty programs without kicking a single person off of those programs? And did you know that efforts at government efficiency started under the Obama administration? You may find this shocking. But Hell hasn’t frozen over. You’ve merely fallen prey to following
Former ICE Acting Director Tom Homan reacts on ‘Fox & Friends’ to fighting back against attacks by House Democrats on Capitol Hill. #FoxNews 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
Needles used for shooting heroin and other opioids and other drug paraphernalia in a park in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pa., in 2017. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) Fatal drug overdoses declined last year for the first time in decades, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Overdoses resulting in death dropped 5.1 percent from 2017 to 2018, according
And … so? NBC News thinks it has uncovered video evidence that proves a relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, but it might only add to the evidence of their own desperation. They found an old clip of Trump welcoming Epstein to Mar-a-Lago in 1992 from an episode of the tabloid show A Closer Look, featuring
Rep Ilhan Omar speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will introduce a resolution this week declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to elevate the Palestinian negotiating position vis-a-vis Israel through an international pressure campaign. “We are introducing
Representative Mark Sanford (R, S.C.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 2, 2014. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman who lost his seat to a Trump-backed primary challenger last year, is strongly considering a primary challenge of his own against the president. Sanford told the Post and Courier that he will take