If you think it’s still too early for presidential primaries, then Donald Trump and Joe Biden have some bad news for you. The two have begun aiming at each other as though the general election had already begun, trading barbs and generally ignoring the other 347 (estimated) Democrats vying for the nomination. The AP’s Steve
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards on Thursday signed legislation prohibiting abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy. The heartbeat bill, which does not include an exception for rape or incest, will be implemented only if similar legislation recently passed
Pete Buttigieg shakes hands as he campaigns with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (at right) in Los Angeles, Calif., May 9, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Everyone who’s anyone has heard of Mayor Pete, right? He had his breakout performance during a CNN townhall in March and drew strong ratings during his Fox News townhall in May.
(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) No political ‘emergency’ justifies abandoning classical liberalism, and no temporal emergency could ever justify rejecting the eternal truth. Yesterday, New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari published a lengthy essay with the rather eye-catching title, “Against David French-ism.” While the essay takes rather direct aim at me personally, it also uses me as
In a brace of scathing articles for the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS), former Native Studies professor at Brandon University in Manitoba, Jeff Muehlbauer, recounts the doctrinal travesty and ideological perversity that has overtaken the modern academy. Muehlbauer is a Canadian linguist fluent in German, Icelandic, Latin and Greek, with a specialty in
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Maybe they’re just the fools to try it, though. Despite Robert Mueller’s poking and Donald Trump’s goading, Nancy Pelosi hasn’t changed her mind on impeachment. A “top ally” of the House Speaker told Axios that Pelosi considers it a “fool’s errand,” and that she won’t change her mind based on Mueller’s slightly extended remarks yesterday:
(Bryan Sikora/Dreamstime) Health-care topped the list of biggest financial concerns for respondents in a new Gallup poll released Thursday. Close to 17 percent of respondents in the poll said health-care expenses are their biggest financial issue, topping the 11 percent who cited lack of money or low wages, the 9 percent who cited rent or owning a
At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was … Read More
At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was … Read More
Did Robert Mueller tell Congress to impeach Donald Trump? A number of observers heard that message from the special counsel’s public statement this morning, including ABC’s Terry Moran. If you read between the lines, Moran tells George Stephanopoulos, you can make out this coded message — I-M-P-E-A-C-H: .@TerryMoran on special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement: “This
Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Viva Tech start-up and technology summit in Paris, France, May 24, 2018. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) It could, however, ruin the things users like about the platform. Toward the end of his new book, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America, CNN national-security
Beto O’Rourke in Running with Beto (Charlie Gross/Courtesy of HBO) Duuuuuude. Why did we try to pitch Texas on Reality Bites Bobby Kennedy? Picture you and a couple of buddies spending a long night with a couple of cases of Schlitz and some moderately strong weed, then being told the next day that it was
Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) The Louisiana state house voted this evening to pass a heartbeat bill, prohibiting abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which usually occurs at about six weeks’ gestation. The bill passed the house by a bipartisan 79-23 vote, and it passed the state senate earlier this month
Describing the Democratic Party as one built on “identity politics” used to be a pejorative. But Georgia’s failed 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, recently defended this description of her party. “I would argue that identity politics is exactly who we are,” said Abrams, “and it’s exactly how we won. … When we refuse to
Mick Mulvaney might wind up as the greatest multitasker since Leonardo da Vinci, if somewhat less artistic. Mulvaney left Congress to become Office of Management and Budget Director, then took over the Consumer Financial Protection Board in a political fight over its direction. Donald Trump then tapped Mulvaney to serve as his chief of staff,
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) speaks in Newark, N.J., February 1, 2019. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A host of Democratic presidential candidates have strengthened their calls for impeachment in response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s reiteration of his investigative findings in a Wednesday press conference. In his first public comments since his appointment, Mueller emphasized the role
At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was … Read More
I’m not a fan of Mueller’s performance in the obstruction probe, but you have to give him his due: He somehow managed to completely escape the special-counsel regulations that were supposed to make him hew to long-established Justice Department practice and instead acted as an old-school independent counsel who made up his own rules and
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Robert Mueller finally took the opportunity to speak for himself — and almost entirely used it to recap his own report. “Any testimony from this office,” Mueller warned Congress and the media, “would not go beyond our report.” No one has directed Mueller about working with Congress, Mueller said, and went out of his way
Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes a statement on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., May 29, 2019. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) In his first public appearance since his appointment as special counsel more than two years ago, Robert Mueller said Wednesday that he would not
Difficulties with Iran will recur regularly, like the oscillations of a sine wave, and the recent crisis — if such it was, or is — illustrates persistent U.S. intellectual and institutional failures, starting with this: The Trump administration’s assumption, and that of many in Congress, is that if the … Read More
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with reporters following the weekly policy luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Democrats blasted Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday for promising that the GOP would confirm President Trump’s third nominee to the Supreme Court should a vacancy arise in 2020. “Oh, we’d
The television series “The Enemy Within” begins by informing the viewer that there are 100,000 foreign spies in the United States working to undermine and destabilize America. China has sent hundreds of thousands of students to America to gain maximum access to the West’s advanced knowledge and technology, some through education alone, some through espionage.
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See what we miss on a national holiday? While the rest of us relaxed, Donald Trump escalated a feud with Joe Biden ahead of a potential general-election face-off — or maybe in part to prevent it. Trump slammed Biden for his role in passing the 1994 crime bill, which progressives have rejected a generation later
The U.S. Supreme Court stands in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2018. (Erin Schaff/Reuters) The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided in favor of a provision in a 2016 Indiana law that mandates the remains of an aborted fetus must be cremated or buried, overturning a lower court’s decision objecting to the provision. “We reiterate that, in challenging
Senator Kamala Harris walks on stage as she speaks during her first organizing event in Los Angeles, Calif., May 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters ) Forcing employers to police gender pay could hurt working women. California senator Kamala Harris has unveiled a new plan to close the gender-pay gap. Under Harris’s proposal, companies with 100 or more
(Pixabay) Last week I lamented that the College Board’s new practice of assigning applicants an “adversity score” will perpetuate a widespread myth — that the SAT is biased against students from poor or minority backgrounds. SAT scores predict college performance for underprivileged students about as well as they do for everyone else. To the extent there is