The chatterati on political Twitter have determined that this is the news of the day thus far far from the impeachment hearings (at least as of noon ET) although I’m not clear on what the bombshell is supposed to be. It feels like a bombshell since Taylor notes that he found out about this only

For Boris Johnson, this is a classic good news/bad news scenario. The good news: Nigel Farage will indeed prevent any Brexit Party challenge in the 317 constituencies that Johnson’s Tories now hold in Parliament. The bad news: Farage intends to fight in all other constituencies, which means the Brexit vote may well be split in seats Johnson

French President Emmanuel Macron is voicing concern that the United States is not a reliable NATO partner. Macron wants France to have a bigger role in the Middle East, for example. President Trump’s decision to pull American troops out of Syria last month brought a frustrated reaction from Macron as Trump acted alone without consultation

After a night out in Hollywood with friends, Heidi Van Tassel returned to her car with the intention of heading home. Instead, a homeless man pulled her out of the car, dragged her into the street and dumped a bucket of diarrhea over her head: “It was diarrhea. Hot liquid. I was soaked, and it

The LA Times published a story Sunday about the anti-California sentiment that has been brewing in Boise, Idaho. One mayoral candidate has even jokingly suggested building a wall around the state to keep Californians out: Just consider last week’s mayoral election. It was the most competitive race in recent memory, a referendum on growth in

Former CNN host Soledad O’Brien went on the attack against Brian Stelter yesterday after Stelter compared public impeachment hearings to a television show or a hit podcast. “I also think, episode one so to speak, matters a lot, and I hate to say that because we’re talking about basic democracy at risk here. But from

Monday morning an officer trying to clear an intersection put one protester in a headlock and then pulled his gun and put it to the man’s chest. When a second protester approached, the officer aimed at him from a few feet away and fired. This AP clip shows the moment right up to the shot:

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We’ve covered plenty of disturbing news coming out of the City by the Bay over the past couple of years, but I’ll confess I didn’t see this one coming. Then again, perhaps it’s the most natural fit in the world. The event in question is the soon to be completed project of painting a gigantic

This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 20:27–38: Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now

The outcome of next month’s parliamentary elections in the constituency of Batley and Spen, northeast of Manchester, England, probably aren’t of all that much interest to you unless you happen to live in the region. But that particular race has been drawing plenty of attention in the past few days for a rather unusual reason.

Last month I wrote about the police’s relatively new use of genetic genealogy to solve serious criminal cases like rape and murder. The idea is simple. In cases where investigators have DNA samples but no exact match, they submit the samples to a public site where people have already uploaded their own DNA test results. Investigators

[embedded content] In November 1942, Winston Churchill told Parliament that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s brilliant victory at El Alamein was “not the end — it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Five months earlier, the US fought and won one of the most stunning

Yesterday, Bill Gates diplomatically suggested that he thought Elizabeth Warren’s six percent wealth tax might be taking things too far at a conference hosted by the NY Times. Today the NY Times editorial board scolded him for saying so. Here’s their misleading opener: When Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, the top marginal tax rate

I was only marginally excited about this candidacy when it involved me losing my health insurance and eventually my doctor and the country being put on the hook for $20 trillion in new spending at a moment when it’s already running trillion-dollar deficits. But now that’s she’s sweetened the pot by threatening to abuse the

Is this despite the Democrats’ push to impeach Donald Trump — or because of it? Voter enthusiasm has already begun to spike upward for the 2020 election, Gallup’s latest survey reports, but in an unusual way. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats report being more excited about the next election, which is normal for the opposition party.

President Trump is quite pleased with his new best friend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as he should be. McConnell has made it his mission during the Trump administration to push through a number of judicial nominations that rival Trump’s predecessors. It was time to stop and smell the roses. During days that are filled

Joe Biden’s hearing Elizabeth Warren’s footsteps, and his team has decided to stomp her in return. CNN reports from “a campaign source close to Biden” that they plan to start attacking Warren on character, not just highlighting policy differences. The new message coming from Team Biden in the weeks approaching the Iowa caucuses will be

I realize we get tired of hearing this warning every four years, but in the end, the 2020 presidential race may once again come down to who carries Florida. The state has one of the larger chunks of electoral college votes and the balance of power there between Republicans and Democrats always seem to teeter

Rumors have swirled for months that he wanted to come back to Washington by retaking his old Senate seat. Those rumors got louder a few weeks ago, but I didn’t buy them. Then they got even louder a few days ago, and still I doubted. Why would this guy, who spent week after week as

Are we still having this argument over the relative wokeness of … “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”? Yes we are, and thank goodness, because both sides are finally bringing out the big guns. On the Left, we have John Legend and Ruby Turner, who think it’s “perfectly all right” to change the lyrics to reflect the #MeToo

Remember that woman in Virginia who flipped off President Trump’s motorcade in 2017 and then was fired from her job? She ran for office and won her election on Tuesday night. Juli Brinkman became infamous overnight when she was caught by a photographer’s camera as she gave President Trump a one-finger salute. He was traveling

Earlier today Project Veritas published a video of ABC anchor Amy Robach complaining that she had the Jeffrey Epstein story several years ago but the network refused to run with it. Specifically, Robach had interviewed Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has claimed she became Epstein’s sex slave. “We had everything,” Robach said. She later walked back her

A good line is a good line, whatever your politics may be. Question: “Who is your favorite Democrat??” @DonaldJTrumpJr: *laughs* … @MittRomney is my favorite Democrat, how about that?” pic.twitter.com/Z0dlauIBa2 — Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 5, 2019 It’s funny and it’s sort of true by the logic of the GOP’s transformation into a Trump cult.

My headline sounds poll truther-y but that’s not how it’s intended. National polls — of likely voters, at least — are interesting as a bird’s-eye view of the national popular vote. A few of them, especially ABC/WaPo, were darned accurate in predicting the final popular margin between Clinton and Trump in 2016. But yesterday’s NYT

It’s a numbers game, right? No one expects total impenetrability (except Trump, I guess, once he gets rolling on one of his hypefest monologues). Surely the wall is reducing illegal border traffic to some degree. If the logistics of sawing through or climbing over it have slowed the influx of illegals significantly then the structure

Stanford professor David Rosenhan wanted to prove that psychiatric hospitals of his day would instantly label and mistreat even the mildest of symptoms, so he convinced a group of students to go undercover at various hospitals and then wrote an influential study about the results. Rosenhan’s paper “On Being Sane in Insane Places” was published

There’s little dispute over the fact that too many of our public schools, particularly in low-income urban areas, are performing far below expectations despite endless amounts of taxpayer money being flushed into them. While some improvements have been seen nationally, some schools continue to fail. But what are the responsibilities of the schools to their

I’ll just start by saying that I realize this is an old story. In fact, it’s more than a decade old. (Another one that we’ll get to shortly is twice as ancient.) But I hadn’t heard about it, so I’m guessing some of you might not have either. What we’re dealing with is a McDonald’s

It will be this time next year when voters head to the polls to decide the next president of the United States. The rhetoric from the last few elections has yet to change with pretty much every Republican or Democrat pundit and politician howling this will be “the most important election of our time.” Whether