[ad_1] Today, during a hearing of the House COVID-19 subcommittee, Rep. Maxine Waters pointed a finger at the Trump Tulsa rally and unequivocally said that it the reason that Herman Cain died of the coronavirus. That is a timely bit of partisan criticism given the fact that just this morning I read comments from Dan
Month: July 2020
[ad_1] People walk in Tripoli, Lebanon, July 29, 2020. Picture taken July 29, 2020. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) Economic and political corruption and mismanagement have left the Lebanese people coping with shortages, exorbitant prices, loss of wealth and security, and a generally uncertain future. This week, while reading a slew of WhatsApp messages from family in Lebanon,
[ad_1] The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence, Reuters reported Friday. Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in 2015 for his part in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which took the lives of at least three people and seriously injured hundreds more. A new trial is set to
[ad_1] Illinois State Representative Michael Madigan holds up a photo of Donald Trump after he was re-elected as Speaker of the House, Springfield, Ill., January 11, 2017. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) Democrats have always been a party of special-interest factions without a lot in common, who work together by trading favors that each wants. This morning’s Politico Illinois Playbook
[ad_1] How would you expect a decent, patriotic, TV host to respond to a guest who claims other countries see our country as a “god—— s— show?” Outrage? Challenge him? Sorry: forgot to mention that this was MSNBC. On Nicolle Wallace’s show this afternoon, former Time editor turned Obama aide Rick Stengel told Nicolle Wallace
[ad_1] (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) You might think music theory is an academic area that’s safe from the illiberal mob, but a University of North Texas professor has learned otherwise. Chances are you have never heard of the music theorist Heinrich Schenker or the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, a publication at the University of North Texas (UNT)
[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 25, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Charles “Chas” Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomat who served in East Asia and as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, slammed a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a “psychotic rant” in an interview Wednesday with a
[ad_1] America’s founding creed is “e pluribus unum.” “Out of many, one.” That is the motto that appears on the seal of the House of Representatives. The greatness of America comes from the melting of many cultures and ethnic backgrounds into one American family. Neither Congress, nor this nation, can function when it is divided
[ad_1] We can only guess what the next batch of advertising from TrumpWorld will look like but I know what my money’s on. Three words: Hydroxy, hydroxy, hydroxy. Whatever problem you have — coronavirus, unemployment, riots, you name it — just take the hydroxy and hope for the best. The interesting thing about this ad
[ad_1] Rep. Karen Bass (D., Calif.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2020. (Kevin Dietsch/Reuters) I have a gut feeling that most Americans will not react enthusiastically to a vice-presidential selection that they’ve never heard of before. This is a separate question from whether someone with low name recognition would make a
[ad_1] A trader wears a mask on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the building prepares to close due to the coronavirus, March 20, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Welcome to the inaugural Capital Letter. At National Review Capital Matters we publish a daily Capital Note between Monday and Thursday. On Friday, we will review
[ad_1] Having just written about two separate examples of the woke in Seattle getting rough with people they dislike, I wanted to highlight something about the underlying mindset driving some of this behavior. Yesterday, James Lindsay, one of the people involved in the grievance studies academic hoax, published an essay titled “No, the Woke Won’t
[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 14, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) As John McCormack noted earlier this morning, several House Democrats are pushing a bill creatively titled the “Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2020,” which they describe as the first legislative effort to repeal the
[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.” Father Damien, born Jozef de Veuster in Belgium, arrived in Hawaii in
[ad_1] It’s pretty clear what this is about and it’s not about nominating Karen Bass for vice president. If her “comandante in jefe” nonsense about Castro hadn’t already finished her off, the Venceremos Brigade dirt that Ed wrote about this morning did. (I’m going to make the easy assumption that that was fed to the
[ad_1] Burned ISIS banner in the recaptured city of Palmyra, March 27, 2016. (Maher el Mounes/AFP/Getty) In the case of Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, the United States needs to hurry up and intervene. Imagine you had a beloved child, born in a free and prosperous country. Imagine that he or she grew into
[ad_1] I am old enough to remember when the media was trashing Georgia Gov. Kemp for being a first to reopen the economy. Massive death and suffering were sure to follow. That didn’t happen and Kemp never got an apology or an opportunity to tout the success of the reopening.
[ad_1] First Minneapolis, now Seattle. Seattle City Council on Friday moved to abolish the entire police department and replace it with a Marxist “civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention.” In the proposed legislation, the city council asserted that the Seattle Police Department perpetuates “racism and violence” and upholds “white supremacy culture.” “The
[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about his plans to combat racial inequality at a campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., July 28, 2020. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Barack Obama is, of course, free to compare Donald Trump to Bull Connor or George Wallace for sending federal police to protect a courthouse
[ad_1] As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of counties within states. Even though the U.S. has seen a rapid rise in cases during the past month, the overall levels of
[ad_1] Former President Bill Clinton said through a spokesman Friday that he “never” went to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s island in the Caribbean, Little St. James. Documents unsealed late Thursday night contain the statements of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who told an attorney that the former president visited Epstein’s private island. Giuffre did not describe Clinton
[ad_1] A group of foreign women rounded up by police from karaoke bars in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat are taken to city hall during a campaign against prostitution and human trafficking involving women and minors on November 9, 2018. – About 50 Laotian women were rounded up by authorities for investigation. (Photo by Madaree
[ad_1] On Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) argued against a law allowing Americans to sue China for its malfeasance in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. While she made an important point — allowing Americans to sue China might lead other countries to let their citizens sue the U.S. — she also praised China as “growing into
[ad_1] Facebook is censoring speculation over hydroxychloroquine being used as a cure for COVID-19, even when other nations are reportedly using it as a treatment. Reclaim The Net addressed what could be called “a case of digital imperialism” July 30, pointing out that “Facebook went with imposing the rules of the Centers for Disease Control
[ad_1] Facebook is censoring speculation over hydroxychloroquine being used as a cure for COVID-19, even when other nations are reportedly using it as a treatment. Reclaim The Net addressed what could be called “a case of digital imperialism” July 30, pointing out that “Facebook went with imposing the rules of the Centers for Disease Control
[ad_1] A group of 80-100 protesters were walking through a residential neighborhood early Thursday morning. They had come to protest at the home of Seattle City Council member Teresa Mosqueda. But according to neighbors, Mosqueda doesn’t live in the neighborhood anymore. The protest group was noisy and one resident who was unable to sleep went
[ad_1] OMG! The documents released last night by the DOJ were presented in a format that can be unredacted by copying to Notes. It’s being reported that you can uncover the content behind the redactions, in at least one file released yesterday, related to the Epstein case: I’d like to think it wasn’t a screw
[ad_1] Bipartisanship might be rare in the halls of Congress, but the U.S.-Colombia relationship defies that stereotype. For decades, policymakers on both sides of the aisle have understood the importance of sustained U.S. commitment to Colombia’s peace, stability, and security. While legislators often lose sight of the long view required in foreign policy, congressional oversight
[ad_1] Last week, the head of the local NAACP, E.D. Mondainé, warned that the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland had started becoming a “white spectacle.” Yesterday, the BLM-affiliated group Don’t Shoot Portland accused the white leadership of Wall of Moms of “anti-Blackness.” ABC News reports today that problem has gone all the way down
[ad_1] Over on the home page, I take a look at 20 things you probably didn’t know about Susan Rice — and Benghazi isn’t one of them, because you almost certainly already know about that. In about a week, that list is going to look prescient and important . . . or quickly forgotten. And
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