At the blog Legal Insurrection, Stacey Matthews (aka Sister Toldjah) picked on PolitiFact for its incredibly lame Twitter criticism of Sen. Charles Grassley at a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 4, which Democrats call the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” In his usual Jimmy Stewart way, Grassley told leftist Assistant Attorney General Kristen
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The House Intelligence Committee chair became a liberal icon and villain to conservatives during the first impeachment probe of then-President Donald Trump, although Schiff claims in the book that, early in his presidency, Trump praised the man who later became his nemesis. “You know, you do a good job,” Trump reportedly told Schiff in the Oval
A Wednesday Pew Research Center poll found that nearly half of Republicans would like to see former President Donald Trump launch another presidential bid in 2024. At least 44% of Republicans stated they would like to see Trump start a second presidential campaign in 2024. Furthermore, 67% of Republicans would like to see Trump remain
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Thursday’s deal to put off the debt-ceiling fight for a couple of months was a fittingly equivocal and inconclusive turn in the continuing battle over the Biden agenda. Its enactment involved a familiar sort
The New York Times issued a lengthy correction after numerous mistakes in an article about coronvirus vaccinations for children, including the egregious exaggeration of coronavirus hospitalizations among U.S. children. The article by Apoorva Mandavilli documented how the U.S. is forging ahead on full vaccination for children while other countries are experimenting with just one shot
Twitter says that it is testing out prompts on Android and iOS to warn people if a conversation they are about to join on the social media platform could become “heated or intense.” “Ever want to know the vibe of a conversation before you join in? We’re testing prompts on Android and iOS that give
Nearly two months ago, the world watched with shock and horror as the most botched military withdrawal in U.S. history took place. Much of network television has since ignored it, including CBS news. But CBS’s unique sitcom United States of Al tackled the Afghanistan debacle head-on this week. United States of Al is about Riley
In the Senate battle over infrastructure, Biden ditched the Biden Democrats and cast his lot with the party’s progressive wing. “We’ve got the president of the United States on our side,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday on ABC’s This Week. “Got 96% of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side.
Trust in media has absolutely cratered. How has this happened? It’s pretty easy to see why. When was the last time a journalist asked Joe Biden about the Americans still trapped in Afghanistan? When was the last time they asked him about the drone strike that killed innocent people including children? They don’t because they’re
Traffic passes The New York Times Building in New York, June 29, 2021. (Brent Buterbaugh) 2006—New York Times public editor Byron Calame criticizes Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse for violating the paper’s ethical guidelines by asserting, in a speech at Radcliffe, that the government “had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule
President Joe Biden is using what one court opinion called “the most dramatic weapon in OSHA’s enforcement arsenal” to back up his COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more workers. But relying on this bureaucratic weapon could be a risky strategy in the face of litigation threats, since courts have struck down all
In this article TSLA Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla, waves while arriving to a discussion at the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 9, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again endorsed the idea of a federal carbon tax
A team of cold case investigators believe they have identified the Zodiac killer, who has been at the centre of one of America’s most notorious unsolved criminal cases for more than half a century. The Case Breakers, who say they are a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, journalists and military intelligence
La misma telecadena que depende de un flujo continuo e incontrolado de migrantes ahora celebra como una estrella a la hostigadora que se filmó a sí misma confrontando a la senadora Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) en un vuelo a D.C., mientras la recriminaba por su renuencia a apoyar la Ley para reconstruir mejor (Build Back Better)
If you’ve been paying attention to Joe Biden’s recent public broadcasts, you’ve most certainly noticed that they are not actually happening at the White House, but rather on a set designed to look like the White House. It’s a curious thing, for sure. Naturally, it has us asking various questions, especially: Why? What purpose is
A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over $600 to the IRS is under fire. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended the proposal on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” calling the collection of financial information “routine” after some in the banking community criticized it
American singer Billie Eilish performs during the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, June 30, 2019. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) At a concert in Austin, Texas, earlier this week, the immensely popular singer Billie Eilish voiced her rather inarticulate support for legal abortion and denounced the state’s recently enacted heartbeat bill. “I am so f***ing sick and tired
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently tweeted that he believes parents should determine what their kids are taught at school, but Nikole Hannah-Jones pushed back, noting that parents are not the only people who fund public schools. She also claimed that Pompeo loathes having “an informed citizenry in a multiracial democracy.” “Believe it or
Celebrity entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran apologized for what some called a “fat-shaming” joke against Whoopi Goldberg during a live broadcast of “The View.” Corcoran and the other hosts of “The Shark Tank” were on the show talking about pants when she fired off a jab noting the relative sizes of her pants with those of Goldberg.
On Wednesday, Quinnipiac put out a brand new survey that revealed that President Biden had grown even more unpopular as issues that used to hold him up crumbled beneath his feet. But instead of telling their viewers of Biden’s unpopularity, as they would with former President Trump, the broadcast networks’ largely ignored them. Two of
Last month, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, was busy trying to persuade other European states to take a stand against the USA. The immediate cause of the contretemps was AUKUS, a U.S.-U.K.-Australia military agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, Australia will receive technological support
Tesla is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, Elon Musk announced on Thursday. Elon Musk moved from Los Angeles to Austin last year while calling Governor Newsom’s Covid mandates “Fascist” in a Tesla earnings call. “I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.
(rarrarorro/Getty Images) The Senate approved an extension of the federal debt ceiling through December on Thursday in a 50-48 vote, averting a looming default sometime this month. Senators approved the extension after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) proposed the short-term fix. According to the proposal, Republicans did not filibuster the debt-limit extension while Democrats
Democrats continue to push for passage of a bill giving the federal government veto power over state election laws, including those requiring voter ID and regular updates of voter registration rolls. “Photo ID laws are not on their face invalid,” an assistant attorney general testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It really depends on
A California doctor has been arrested following a hit-and-run collision that killed a nurse who had stopped to help a crash victim. James Leonard Comazzi was detained after a months-long investigation aided by an anonymous tip-off. Juliana Ramos, a 26-year-old nurse and mother of three, had pulled over to help someone hurt in a collision
Lael Brainard, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) annual meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. Federal Reserve should advance efforts to assess big banks’ exposure to financial risks related to climate change, Fed Governor
The ladies of The View on Wednesday spent their first segment discussing President Biden’s lavish, multi-trillion dollar spending bill flush with socialist programs. After discussing the two Democrat holdouts whose votes are needed to pass the bill, Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, co-host Sara Haines suggested a possible compromise to bring the price tag
“God willing, I think we’re just about to turn the corner again on the pandemic,” Joe Biden said on Wednesday. It would be nice to believe that, but this is not the first time we’ve heard the same line. “We’ve been through a lot this past year, and with more and more people getting vaccinated
The first trial in the college admissions scandal will begin jury deliberation Thursday, the Associated Press reported. Parents Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson each spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to falsify that their children were athletic recruits in order to gain admission to the University of Southern California, Stanford and Harvard with the help
(National Review) At only age 34, I would be hard-pressed to recall much of the year 1996. I was nine years old, and my memories of that time are nebulous at best. I am certain, however, that news and politics were hardly on my mind, as I was more concerned about whether I’d be getting