We have good news and bad news on The Washington Post Fact Checker. The good news? They caught up with Vice President Kamala Harris telling Axios there was “no national strategy or plan” for vaccinations when they took office, and they were “starting from scratch.” The bad news? Chief fact-checker Glenn Kessler only rated this whopper as
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The United States is headed back to the United Nations Human Rights Council, as announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In his statement, Blinken addresses the body’s failings, but notes that, “the best way to improve the Council is to engage with it and its members in a principled fashion.” While American human rights
Getty Images Some Texans were shocked to find their electric bills skyrocketed as high as $17,000 following the cold snap. Texas got hit with rare winter storms and subfreezing temperatures earlier this week that spanned to the southern part of the state and the power grids gave out after nearly half of the wind turbines
A trader outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, February 16, 2021 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The week of February 15: good long-term gloom, the mess in Texas, a trillion here, a trillion there, and much, much more, including the latest in our new podcast series, the Capital Record. Well, the S&P may not
Governor Andrew Cuomo holds daily press briefing at the foot of Mario Cuomo Bridge in Tarrytown, New York, June 15, 2020. Lev Radin | Pacific Press | LightRocket via Getty Images What a difference a few months have made for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and not in a good way. Cuomo last year
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised more than $3m (£2.1m) for Texans struggling with recent extreme weather in the state. The Democrat Congresswoman from New York announced the landmark on Twitter on Saturday after she travelled to Houston to help the recovery effort. Hundreds of thousands of Texans have been struggling with the fallout of a winter
It’s amazing how nuanced obituaries can be for figures that liberal media types appreciate. The portrait is always complicated. But less so when it’s a conservative. Conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh passed away this week and The New York Times slammed him with an obit about “hate,” “mistrust” and grievances.” The online version featured a
The once-in-a-century storm and cold snap that hit the South this past week has given the climate hysterics a “told ya so” moment, which is made even more annoying by Joe Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Accords on Friday. “The extreme weather events that we’re experiencing this week across the central, southern, and now the
The temperatures in Texas are on the rise and that’s an excellent thing. It’s been a very tough week in the Lone Star State, harrowing, really, and the fall-out from the winter storm isn’t over. It’s really only just beginning. There is plenty of blame to go around and lots of finger-pointing, as always happens
Over 75,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended for crossing the border into the U.S. last month, breaking record numbers for the highest number of January apprehensions in over a decade, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The majority of illegal immigrants who were apprehended in January 2021 were single adults, though Border Patrol agents detained 7,260
Recently, Professor William Jacobson wrote for the Martin Center about a new project of his Legal Insurrection Foundation, a site to explain and track the spread of a noxious bit of leftist mind control called Critical Race Theory. In this post on his site, he goes into the case of Jodi Shaw, who found the
More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection to a large-scale human trafficking operation in Arizona. “Operation Broken Hearts” was a multi-agency mission to catch sexual predators in the Phoenix-area. The undercover sting operation arrested 37 people, all of which were between the ages of 21 to 66. Law enforcement said the suspects
House Democrats unveiled Friday the $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package they hope to pass by late next week. Included in the bill are $1,400 stimulus checks and numerous other pandemic-related relief measures, like additional funding for state and local governments and more federal unemployment benefits. The bill — which was “stitched together” by the Democratic-controlled
After brutalizing him in its front-page obituary on Thursday, the New York Times took a Trumpian angle on talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh’s passing with reporter Jeremy Peters’ “Political Memo”: “Rush Limbaugh’s Legacy of Venom: As Trump Rose, ‘It All Sounded Familiar’ — Weaponizing conspiracy theories and bigotry long before Donald Trump’s ascent, the radio giant
When will Black History Month be … history? Apart from the bizarre notion that educators should set aside one month to salute the historical achievements of one race apart from and above the historical achievements of other races, Black History Month appears to omit a lot of black history. About slavery, do our mostly left-wing
Here comes Trump. According to a new report from Politico, Trump is going to begin vetting candidates at Mar-a-Lago. Politico reported: According to three people familiar with the planning, Trump will soon begin vetting candidates at Mar-a-Lago who are eager to fulfill his promise to exact vengeance upon incumbent Republicans who’ve scorned him, and to
President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address as Vice President Kamala Harris listens during a visit to the State Department in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Biden issued a major disaster declaration for the state of Texas on Saturday, after a winter storm knocked out power and heat across the state
The biggest source of growth for Coca-Cola over the next few years will likely be the zero-sugar version of the company’s namesake soda. “Actually, the best growth driver in ’21 and probably for the few years is probably going to be Coke Zero Sugar,” Coke CEO James Quincey said in an interview that aired Friday
Millions of people in parts of the southern US are having to boil water before drinking it after ruptured pipes caused by record low temperatures may have contaminated the water supply. In Texas, seven million people – a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state – were under orders to boil tap water
On today’s episode of Hollywood hypocrites: singer Kasey Musgraves donated proceeds of a T-shirt sale to charities in Texas … the theme? Her hatred for Senator Ted Cruz. (R-TX). Earlier this week, ice storms hit the southern part of the U.S. and Texas in particular has been suffering. Texas voted red as per usual and
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) can’t blame the Trump administration for his COVID-19 nursing home scandal anymore. Not only has the outrage become bipartisan, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the face of the ascendant “Democratic” Socialist wing of the Democratic Party herself, has called for an investigation into the scandal. “I support our state’s return to
Neither CNN nor Politico are incorrect in that approach, but the timing of their epiphanies is certainly … curious. For instance, after a full year of assigning personal responsibility for every COVID-19 development to Donald Trump, Politico suddenly discovered that presidents don’t have total control of pandemic management three weeks into Joe Biden’s term: President
When Joey puts on his big-boy pants and feels foxy following a good, long, afternoon nap, he sometimes actually speaks his mind and goes a little too far with the truth about his, and his party’s, attitude about America. The New York Times has just reported that Joey made a policy speech today (Feb. 19,
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) talks to a private security guard at the airport security check point at the Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to the U.S., in Cancun, Mexico, February 18, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters) Ted Cruz went to Cancun during a crisis in his home state and initially gave a lame excuse for
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters Friday that he is asking for the facts that led to a Marine posting a video online sobbing about how her “perpetrator” would be allowed to remain in the military despite an admission of guilt in an alleged misconduct claim. What are the details? An advocacy group called
A Florida woman was arrested after taunting the FBI on a TikTok video and threatening to shoot them if they tried to question her about her presence at the protest preceding the U.S. Capitol riot. The Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday that Suzanne Kaye of Boca Raton had been arrested over
Shortly before a commercial break near the end of Thursday’s ReidOut, MSNBC host Joy Reid teased an “exclusive” scoop about Democrats potentially acquiring another Senate seat in 2022. After the break, Reid conducted a softball interview with Pennsylvania State Representative Malcom Kenyatta , who announced on her show he was running to take Republican Pat Toomey’s seat in the United States Senate.
Estimates are all over the place, but it’s now beyond dispute that Soviet policies in the 1930s led to the deaths of somewhere between 7 and 12 million Ukrainians (about the equivalent to killing every person in Michigan today). It’s one of the greatest horrors in world history. The world knew little about the Ukrainian
Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing new measures in election security, including the banning of mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. If the Republican party has any sense, they will launch a similar campaign nationwide. DeSantis is a man to watch for the 2024 election and this is just one reason why. The Blaze reports:
Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) speaks on Capitol Hill, December 1, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) said Friday he will not support Neera Tanden’s nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget, citing her “overtly partisan statements.” The moderate Democrat’s opposition imperils Tanden’s confirmation with the Senate evenly divided