Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Detroit, Mich., March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The former top prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe is headlining a virtual fundraiser for former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign in June. Weissmann, who was dubbed Mueller’s “pitbull” by the New York Times during the

The crest for the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, D.C. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Justice Department announced Thursday that a former Pennsylvania election official was convicted of accepting $2,500 in bribes to stuff ballots for three Democratic candidates for Common Pleas Court judge in Philadelphia.

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Newton, Iowa, January 30, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) This election year has been rendered inert, frozen by COVID-19 and the presumed nomination of a mid 20th century white ethnic stereotype by the Democrats. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I ’ve started to wonder if my local election

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) A new Quinnipiac poll shows former vice president Joe Biden with rising support and favorability ratings against President Trump as the U.S. moves closer to the general elections. If the elections were held today, Biden would

Police officers stand on Tiananmen Square amid the coronavirus outbreak in Beijing, China, May 20, 2020. (Thomas Suen/Reuters) More U.S. voters see China as an “enemy” than as a friend or ally amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. The data shows that the percentage of U.S. voters who see China

Rep. Justin Amash speaks at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Chantilly, Va., September 19, 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The protest votes he would have received wouldn’t have been about him or his issues, anyway. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ustin Amash, having left the Republican Party and suspended his House re-election campaign in late April

(The MK Interview/ Screenshot via Youtube) A deep dive into Reade’s allegations. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T ara Reade accuses Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when she was a 29-year-old staff assistant in his Senate office. Democrats, Biden included, are flagrant hypocrites about the standard used to judge these sorts of allegations; under

Hillary Clinton delivers her concession speech in New York, November 9, 2016. (Reuters photo: Carlos Barria) Their party has spent the last four years relitigating a loss in 2016. In a recent Washington Post column warning Americans to “prepare for the possibility of Trump rejecting election results” — one of media’s favorite projections — Brian

Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) speaks about the coronavirus in Burlington, Vt., March 12, 2020. (Caleb Kenna/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) promised that the “vast majority” of his primary supporters “will be voting for Joe Biden” in the general election, contradicting a former top aide, who warned last week that Biden was facing an

Sen. Ben Sasse speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters) The freshman senator from Nebraska cruised to victory despite his sometimes-uneasy relationships with both President Trump’s supporters and opponents. Incumbent freshman Ben Sasse coasted to victory in Tuesday’s Nebraska GOP Senate primary with 75 percent of the vote.

Former Vice President Joe Biden at the Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas, Nev., February 19, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden appears on a declassified list of Obama administration officials who requested the unmasking of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn. The list, obtained by CBS News, shows that Biden’s

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley. (Noah Berger/Reuters) California’s progressives are determined to legalize racial discrimination in college admissions by passing ACA-5, which overturns Prop 209 forbidding such discrimination. Their purported reason for doing so is to increase “underrepresented group enrollment.” The “underrepresented” groups are black and Hispanic students. The campaign

Former Vice President Joe Biden listens to a speaker in Las Vegas, Nev., February 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Joe Biden on Thursday again addressed allegations of sexual assault from former staffer Tara Reade, saying that voters should not choose him in the November elections if they believe Reade’s claims. Voters “should vote their heart and

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.) and Senator Ed Markey (D, Mass.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2019 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) In an effort to repair the frayed relationship among Democratic Party factions, Joe Biden has created something of a Menshevik–Bolshevik “campaign unity task force” to explore policy initiatives on issues like climate

Left: President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colo., February 20, 2020. Right: Former vice president Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2020 (Kevin Lamarque, Mike Blake/Reuters) A new survey from GOP polling firm Public Opinion Strategies found that President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee

A pair of law professors, Elizabeth Bartholet of Harvard and James Dwyer of William & Mary, recently sparked a furor over homeschooling, which they regard as dangerous for children and suggest banning. We’ve become used to irresponsible blather from academics on a wide range of topics, but until now they’ve … Read More

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs on travel to Phoenix, Ariz., from the South Lawn of the White House, May 5, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) His approval ratings have never been higher, including on Election Day 2016. Plus, he’s ahead of Biden in battleground states. Well, that’s interesting, I thought, as I noted

Right now, just about every school in America is closed for the rest of the school year. Across the country, “thousands of day-care facilities have shut down, either by decree or because demand has cratered . . . As of early April, nearly half of child-care facilities nationwide had closed completely, and 17 … Read

Voting booths at a voting center at the Placerville Town Hall in Placerville, Calif., March 3, 2020. (Gabriela Bhaskar/Reuters) Republican candidate Mike Garcia is leading Democratic challenger Christy Smith in the special election for California’s 25th congressional district, which was held by former representative Katie Hill until her resignation over an inappropriate relationship with a

Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters in Atlanta, Ga., November 7, 2018. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Tuesday formally endorsed Joe Biden for president, in the latest endorsement to come despite sexual assault allegations against Biden by former Senate staffer Tara Reade. “Vice President Biden is the leader America needs – a

(Pixabay) Chief executives since Reagan have uniformly lacked leadership. As the unprecedented effort of the elders of the Democratic Party to use the Justice Department and intelligence services to manipulate and then undo a presidential election collapses, their response is a study in the corruption of unchallenged incumbency. The reason the country is in its

Mail-in ballots wait to be verified at the San Diego County Elections Office in San Diego, Calif., November 7, 2016. (Mike Blake/Reuters) So, naturally, Democrats are pushing to have them sent to every voter — or ‘voter.’ Enormous pressure is being mounted to use our current crisis as an excuse to transform how we vote

Former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a CNN townhall in Los Angeles, Calif., October 10, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Sufficient evidence that Joe Biden somehow mistreated Tara Reade has emerged for the double standard to become obvious. There aren’t a ton of synonyms for the word “hypocrisy.” I’ve become aware of this problem ever since

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, June 1, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he had signed an executive order to mail ballots to the state’s 20.6 million registered voters, citing potential health risks due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “There’s a

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks in Columbia, S.C., February 28, 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Newly discovered court documents show that in 1996, Tara Reade told her ex-husband that she was sexually harassed “in U.S. Senator Joe Biden’s office.” Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen filed the declaration, which was obtained by the San

Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., October 4, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) on Thursday attacked former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade, who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Biden in the spring of 1993. Feinstein said the allegations were “totally different” than those against Supreme Court

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Los Angeles, Calif., March 4, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Tara Reade, former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, called on Biden to drop out of the presidential race in an interview with Megyn Kelly on Thursday. “I want to say, you were there, Joe Biden. Please,

A polling station in Brooklyn, New York, November 4, 2014 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the New York Board of Elections’ decision to cancel the state’s Democratic primary election and ordered the state to hold the election next month as planned. The preliminary injunction from Manhattan Federal Court Judge Analisa Torres requires

Election volunteer Nancy Gavney verifies voter and witness signatures on absentee ballots at City Hall during the presidential primary election in Beloit, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Despite real disagreements over how to safely expand voting options in November, there could be more common ground than there seems. With Congress back in session, one

Former President Barack Obama delivers the 16th Nelson Mandela annual lecture, marking the centenary of the anti-apartheid leader’s birth, in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 17, 2018. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters) Former president Barack Obama accused Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) of giving “credence to a Russian disinformation campaign” by probing a possible