POLITICS & POLICY

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Senate on Tuesday rejected two Republican abortion bills, one that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks and another that would attempt to raise the standard of care for newborns born alive after botched abortions. Senators voted 53 to 44 against a motion to proceed to debate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump defended the critical tweets he directed at Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor during a press conference in India Tuesday, calling her dissent in the Court’s public-charge ruling “so inappropriate.” Sotomayor accused the Supreme
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A few weeks ago, I devoted my column to an article about me published in Newsweek under the headline “Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank.” As the full context of my comments in the video made clear, it was a lie. To its credit, after its editor was notified of this fact, Newsweek changed the
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks with reporters after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, February 4, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Republican Senator Susan Collins, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday rejected President Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, saying Richard Grenell does not have the experience to serve as director
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More than a year after Empire star Jussie Smollett perpetrated the hoax heard ’round the world, Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot finally accepted the obvious: he did the crime, he needs to do the time. This represented a key reversal for the Democrat, who had long said she wanted to put the Smollett episode behind her.
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Dance for My Amusement, Little Commies The Democrats’ descent into leftist madness continued unabated over the weekend, with Bernie Sanders scoring a depressingly resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday. While it is truly disturbing that one of the two major political parties in America has just hit the gas while driving off of
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Senator Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters after opening arguments concluded in the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Sunday told Fox News the Senate’s investigation into FBI abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will focus
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The latest entry in the exit sweepstakes is oil-rich but hard-done-by Alberta, a province which suffered under the National Energy Program introduced in 1980 by the current PM’s father Pierre Trudeau, and is currently struggling under a concerted left-wing campaign, sponsored by Green-progressivist foundations (American consortiums masking via proxies as Canadian coalitions), clueless Nobel laureates
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Michael Milken speaks on health care at the Milken Institute 21st Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., April 30, 2018. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Political opportunists exploit the incomprehensible complexity of modern business life. With Donald Trump’s pardon of former financier Michael Milken, the term “junk bond” has been back in the news — Milken invariably is
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There has been a lot of pearl clutching about Richard Grenell’s appointment as acting director of national intelligence (DNI). Evidently the appointment will be temporary; Grenell is staying as ambassador to Germany, and the White House is not going send his name to the Senate for confirmation as DNI. It’s reasonable to criticize that arrangement.
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As for America’s annual Black History Month, actor Morgan Freeman spoke for many during this 2005 exchange with CBS’s Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes”: Wallace: “Black History Month, you find …” Freeman: “Ridiculous.” Wallace: “Why?” Freeman: “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” Wallace: “Come on.” Freeman: “What do you do with yours?
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(Pixabay) A look under the hood at the five data series involved. There’s a new right-wing think tank on the block, and its leader is enjoying a moment in the sun. Oren Cass is the head of American Compass, and last week he put out a lengthy report accompanied by a viral Twitter thread arguing
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Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen speaks at a protest against anti-abortion legislation at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 21, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed a bill last March proscribing abortion after doctors could detect an unborn child’s heartbeat. The usual canticle of pro-choice outrage ensued and led
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A customer passes by an L Brands Inc., Victoria’s Secret retail store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 13, 2016. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Leslie Wexner, a close friend of late billionaire and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, stepped down Thursday as CEO of Victoria’s Secret parent company L Brands, effectively ending his control over the retail empire he founded
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Many have noted the dilemma the socialists — er, I mean the Democrats — are in over the prospect of Sen. Bernie Sanders winning their nomination. If nominated, they’re running a socialist. If not, their base will be out of sorts. It’s time for a reckoning. The Democratic Party is going to have to be
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Here is what Democratic candidate for president Michael Bloomberg said in 2016 at Oxford, in what he apparently offered up as an ad hoc history of labor, agriculture, and industry, leading up to his own sophisticated era, as reported in the New York Post: “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no …
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Political campaigns reasonably direct their attentions to segments of the population that are likely to support them. That is why the radical-leftist Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren campaigns spend a lot of time at colleges and universities. Undergraduate students in America are teenagers with little experience of the world, most having come to “higher education”
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President Donald Trump departs the White House, January 28, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) President Trump told reporters at a Thursday press conference that he hopes Roger Stone will eventually be exonerated, but implied that he would refrain from immediately pardoning the political operative. “I’m not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed
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