Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a 69-year-old freshman congresswoman from Houston, has cemented her place on Team Biden. She endorsed the former vice-president Wednesday. Up until the circus came to town by way of the Senate impeachment trial, Garcia was just another freshman back-bencher. She was plucked from obscurity by Speaker Pelosi when she was named a

If it’s not “the economy, stupid,” as James Carville famously exhorted, then it’s the judiciary, smarty-pants. Those two issues turn out Republicans and conservatives more than any others in presidential elections, and it’s a sure bet the latter is why reluctant conservatives rallied to Donald Trump in 2016 — well, most of them, anyway. And

Last week, the Trump administration announced that 100 agents from Border Patrol’s highly trained BORTAC teams will embed with ICE agents across the country targeting sanctuary cities. The tactical agents will assist ICE with routine operations and help alleviate resource shortages where needed. As first reported in the New York Times, this is an effort

The jury in the Harvey Weinstein trial has been deliberating since Tuesday. Today they announced they were deadlocked on two counts of predatory sexual assault which are the most serious charges Weinstein is facing. They have apparently reached an agreement on three other charges: In a note sent to the judge during their lunch break,

To understand this Jake Tapper thread you need to have read the WaPo and NYT stories I wrote about yesterday. WaPo claimed Trump decided to oust Joseph Maguire as acting DNI because he believed — mistakenly — that Maguire’s deputy gave Adam Schiff a secret briefing about something having to do with election security that

I’m reliably informed that they are by the Free Beacon, which has links plus a three-minute segment from CNN that was devoted to dissecting … this. Watch, then read on. Anyone? pic.twitter.com/xqhq5qFYVk — Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) February 20, 2020 In case you were misled, let me assure you that there wasn’t actually a 20-second stretch

He won 306 electoral votes four years ago (officially 304 since two faithless electors broke ranks). Twenty of those came from Pennsylvania, 16 came from Michigan. If you flip those two states and only those two states from red to blue this fall, you end up with… 270-268. A Trump victory by the thinnest possible

Everytown for Gun Safety, a Mike Bloomberg-backed gun-grabbing group, is going all-in in Texas in time for the upcoming Super Tuesday primary. The group is modeling its efforts after the one they made in Virginia. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, an affiliate activist group, is joining in and calls Texas “the big

Hollywood’s movers and shakers are taking a hard look at Michael Bloomberg and they are liking what they see. The billionaire candidate buying his way onto the debate stage and into the top tier of polls is capturing the imagination of those who dwell in the land of make-believe. Bloomberg is having a moment and

Canadian rail companies have announced temporary layoffs because of the ongoing protests against a natural gas pipeline which has shut down much of the country’s rail system for nearly two weeks. Today, VIA Rail announced it would lay off 1,000 workers: “Until CN Rail opens the remaining tracks for service, VIA Rail has no choice

An event was scheduled for Tuesday by the Dartmouth College Republicans featuring Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bryant “Corky” Messner. The topic of discussion, a policy talk, was to be on border security and the opioid crisis. The event was canceled due to threats of violence from left-wing activists on campus. Stop me if you’ve heard

Cher has delivered her all-important aging boomer pop singer and actress endorsement to Joe Biden. Her show of support for the old guy was shown in a tweet, as happens in 2020. Her lack of proper punctuation can give her tweets an unfortunate meaning. So, it is on-brand for Cher to tweet support for Biden

At first I was convinced this was something published by the Onion or maybe the Babylon Bee but multiple outlets are reporting it, so apparently this really happened. Robert Lee Noye was arrested after (allegedly) kidnapping a woman and forcing her to watch the 9-hour long mini-series “Roots.” His goal was to make her more

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has a bone to pick with pretty much the entire field of Democratic presidential hopefuls this year. Why, oh why, he wonders, must everyone be so meanspirited toward each other? In a rather questionable effort to convince his party that a house divided against itself cannot stand, Robinson calls for

The best thing about the left’s Abrams fascination is that it’s destined to collide with their AOC fascination in the 2024 or 2028 primary. Can’t wait. As for VP this year, it’s hard to see how she’d be a good fit for any of the remaining Democratic candidates but it’s smart of her to push

Sunday, Bernie Sanders held a rally in Carson City Nevada. The rally was briefly interrupted by a group of female anti-dairy protesters, one of whom seized a microphone while others came on stage topless and poured what looked like strawberry milk over themselves: “Bernie, I’m your biggest supporter and I’m here to ask you to

An epic faceplant by Virginia Democrats and Ralph Northam, who assumed that a narrow majority meant a mandate for progressive politics. After the state House passed an assault-weapons ban last week, the centerpiece of Northam’s agenda for this legislative year, the state Senate was expected to follow suit. Instead, four Democrats defected and killed the

A phone hearing is scheduled this week for convicted felon and seersucker suit enthusiast Roger Stone. POLITICO reports the meeting will happen Tuesday between the Justice Department and Stone’s attorneys just two days before he’s scheduled to be sentenced. It’s unclear whether the judge will decide to proceed with the sentencing as scheduled, given the

If you happened to catch last Wednesday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News, you may have seen the profile they did of 9-year-old Jacob Lemay. So what is it about a child of that tender age that would merit a chunk of NBC’s prime news space? Jacob wasn’t always Jacob, you see. And “he” was

Things are getting testy out in Nevada as we crash headlong toward caucus day. And with Joe Biden seeing his previous lead in the polls slipping away to Bernie Sanders, he has to find a way to draw a distinction and deflate some of the Democratic Socialist’s momentum. That means breaking out the oppo folder

The illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle in 2015 has been found mentally incompetent and therefore not able to stand trial on gun charges related to the case. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said in a court order that a psychiatric evaluator had concluded Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate was not competent to stand trial “because

It looks like Rep. Rashida Tlaib is following the Jane Fonda playbook on civil disobedience – encourage others to protest and watch them get hauled off to jail while she is briefly detained and released. She’s letting the little people – the ones she’s fighting for, allegedly – take the heat while she enjoys the

If Democrats hope to narrow the field in their presidential primary, they’ll have to look past Nevada’s caucuses. With a week to go — and with early voting set to start today — six candidates now poll in double digits in the latest Review-Journal/AARP survey. Bernie Sanders leads with 25%, but Joe Biden and Elizabeth

Via Mediaite, I missed this bit from his interview with ABC last night. It’s circumstantial evidence that I and others are wrong to doubt his good faith in how he’s handled the matter of Stone’s resentencing. Certainly he didn’t need to antagonize Trump and MAGA fans like Tucker Carlson who regard Stone’s freedom as a

New guidance has been issued to accommodate airmen and airwomen wearing religious apparel in uniform. Specifically, this is an accommodation for Muslims and Sikhs serving in the U.S. Air Force. Going forward uniform guidance for permission to wear hijabs, turbans, and beards will be made in a timely fashion. As long as they are “neat

Just how much can we actually glean about an investigation from a limited subset of questions being asked, leaked by those who are annoyed at answering them? That question hangs over a New York Times report about the ongoing probe helmed by John Durham over the potential politicization of intelligence during the 2016 Russian interference

Michael Bloomberg’s campaign announced a notable endorsement in Texas on Thursday – that of Houston’s Mayor Sylvester Turner. The battle for African-American voters in Texas is on. Mayor Turner, an African-American Democrat and thirty-year political career politician will provide a boost to the Bloomberg campaign in the all-important black vote in the Democrat primary. Early

Jordan Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila posted a video online last week offering an update on her father’s health. The video outlines his growing addiction to benzodiazepine, a tranquilizer which is sold under dozens of different names including Xanax and Valium. Mikhaila said Peterson was initially prescribed the medication for anxiety several years ago but when his

The annual César Awards, more commonly known as the “French Oscars,” are coming up in a couple of weeks and, as usual, it appears that the panel of judges still haven’t caught on to the whole #MeToo thing that’s been going on. When the big show takes place, the majority of the nominations have been

A leftover from last night’s New Hampshire coverage via Newsbusters. The “socialist” in the headline is Bernie, of course, of whom Matthews is not a fan. The “Republican” is Mike Bloomberg, although I’m not sure that’s a fair description of him. Yes, I know he switched to the GOP to run for mayor of New