Donald Trump wants to get the Iranian-sanctions band back together, this time targeting Tehran’s most reliable source of funding. The US will no longer waive sanctions on countries that import Iranian oil, the White House announced today, in an attempt to “bring Iran’s oil exports to zero.” The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin reported the decision
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the length of new U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry will depend “solely on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s senior leaders.” “The goal remains simple: to
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally to launch her campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in Lawrence, Mass., February 9, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) rolled out a policy proposal Monday that calls for the use of public funds to pay off hundreds of billions of dollars in outstanding
Central American migrants walk during their journey towards the United States in Villa Comaltitlan, Mexico, April 18, 2019. (Jose Cabezas/Reuters) Mexican authorities on Monday detained hundreds of Central American migrants in groups straggling at the end of a caravan of thousands moving towards the U.S. border. As many as 500 migrants traveling with the caravan of
Those of us of a certain age will remember a cartoon called Beavis and Butthead that ran on MTV. What made Beavis and Butthead funny — and embarrassing — was how perfect a caricature of 13-year-old boys it was, at the age when exploiting syntactic ambiguities was comedy and tricking your friends into purported admissions
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host debates Anti-Trump student protester over illegal immigration, college campuses as sanctuaries
Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway reacts on ‘FOX & Friends’ to the release of the Mueller report and the fallout from Democrats’ attempts to delegitimize the president. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation.
“Offensive operations,” George Washington once wrote, “often times is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defence.” Count this among the few times that Donald Trump can claim similarity with the first president. In hoping to forestall Democratic fishing expeditions into his private finances, Trump sued Congress today to block executions
Senator Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.) speaks at a news conference to introduce the “Medicare for All Act of 2019” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Over at Fox News Channel’s MediaBuzz, Howard Kurtz notices that Bernie Sanders got big ratings from his town hall on FNC, and now other
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, Mass.) speaks at an Organizing Event in Claremont, N.H., January 18, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Her latest batty idea is up on her Medium page today: It’s time for bold action to actually fix the debt crisis. Here’s what my new plan would do: • It cancels $50,000 in student loan debt for every
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President Trump speaks during a meeting of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, April 4, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Many, many people have observed that the Mueller report offers example after example of Trump’s aides saving him from bad decisions by ignoring them. It’s an accurate generalization, and I’ve made it myself. But it seems
One might be tempted to say that Rep. Eric Swalwell went nuclear on Attorney General William Barr today, but he usually reserves that for gun owners. Appearing on MSNBC after the release of the Robert Mueller report, the Democratic presidential hopeful told Nicolle Wallace that Mueller proved that Donald Trump was a “double digit obstructor.”
Radio host and author Mark Steyn sounds off on Hillary Clinton’s ‘Back up, you creep’ reference to Trump in audio excerpts from her forthcoming memoir about her presidential campaign, saying they prove how self-unaware she really is
Jon Stewart joined Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to discuss media bias, what he thinks of Fox News Channel, and if he’s been disappointed in Obama’s presidency thus far.
I was watching CNN this morning after the Barr press conference and there was a clear interest and focus on the issue of obstruction. Two different reporters were brought on to read excerpts from the obstruction section of the report. Less was said about collusion which seemed odd given that it has been the focus
I’ve finished reading the entire Mueller report, and I must confess that even as a longtime, quite open critic of Donald Trump, I was surprised at the sheer scope, scale, and brazenness of the lies, falsehoods, and misdirections detailed by the Special Counsel’s Office. We’ve become accustomed to Trump making up … Read More
Ami on the Street: Are voter ID laws racist and suppress the black vote? Satirist Ami Horowtiz goes to UC Berkeley and Harlem to find out
It was the best of times in Volume I, it was the worst of times in Volume II. Now that the focus of Robert Mueller’s report has shifted from the no-joy on Russia collusion to the antics on obstruction, Donald Trump seems much less satisfied with the conclusions of the special counsel. Trump took to
Attorney General William Barr, flanked by Edward O’Callaghan (left) and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, at a news conference to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Making the click-through worthwhile: Bill Barr delivers a press conference this morning in anticipation of the release of Robert Mueller’s report
That has been a policy dispute for many years, going back at least to 1980 as Indiana University professor Fabio Rojas reminds us in this Martin Center piece. In it, Rojas argues in favor of an open-doors policy, treating children of undocumented immigrants no differently than anyone else. Rojas writes: People should be judged on
Journalists get defensive after botching the Russia collusion story. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top five-cable network,
One can kinda-sorta understand why opponents of Donald Trump resist (so to speak) acknowledging the end of Russiagate. Less clear is the impulse for Trump’s team to continue litigating the W. Rudy Giuliani went on the attack late yesterday, claiming that the extensive testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn couldn’t be trusted. Giuliani
Watching the extreme reactions of reporters and journalists to Attorney General Bill Barr’s conference, including accusations of cover-up and citing his press conference as evidence of our nation’s descent into an authoritarian junta, my mind leapt back to an argument between Rich Lowry and David French on the proper forum for the kind of investigation
Attorney General William Barr takes part in the “2019 Prison Reform Summit” at the White House, April 1, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The current progressive effort to demonize attorney general William Barr is creepy, but then again not so strange. He came into the office with singular experience and an excellent reputation from past service. As
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Which Conway? Come on, man. The Kellyanne-George public war over Donald Trump reached its zenith — so far, anyway — with the latter’s call to remove his wife’s boss from office. Writing in the Washington Post today, George Conway urges Congress to impeach Trump even though Robert Mueller found no collusion with Russia and declined to
Attorney General William Barr departs after speaking at a news conference to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Updated 11:55 a.m. The Justice Department on Thursday morning delivered a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report to Congress. Attorney General William Barr presented the House
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in New York, March 2, 2019. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) This time, the Democrats might not win Hollywood is filled with remakes and reboots. Washington is about to get one of its own. The re-launched property: the 2016 campaign. You know the plot. An outsider with grassroots support leads
(Tyrone Siu/REUTERS) 2006—In Harper v. Poway Unified School District, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit rules that the First Amendment permits schools to impose viewpoint-discriminatory restrictions on student speech. The case arose when Tyler Harper wore an anti-homosexuality T-shirt to his high school in response to the school’s sponsorship of a gay-rights event. The