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While he was guest-hosting Wednesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports during the 12:00 Eastern hour, there was still a lot of information Garrett Haake didn’t have about the school shooting at an Arlington, Texas high school, but that didn’t stop him from wondering if the state’s “permissive gun laws” might have something to do with it. Later, MSNBC contributor and
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Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order temporarily blocking the enforcement of Texas’s heartbeat abortion law, which allows private citizens to sue providers that perform abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman granted the Biden administration’s request to temporarily block enforcement of
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In an attempt to lay out the Biden administration’s approach to charting the course of the U.S.-China economic relationship, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai underscored that the bilateral relationship is “complex and competitive.”   More importantly, Tai noted, “In recent years, Beijing has doubled down on its state-centered economic system.  It is increasingly clear that
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The prospects for the Democratic Party in 2022 were never great. Historically, midterm elections are terrible for the party in power, but Biden’s tanking popularity appears to be making things even worse. A recent NPR/Marist poll does suggests that despite Biden polling underwater, Democrats have an eight-point advantage over Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections. But
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Criminal charges were dropped against 11 illegal migrants who said they were transported to private property and then arrested for trespassing in Val Verde County, Texas, The Texas Tribune reported on Tuesday. The migrants told Democratic Val Verde County Attorney David Martinez that they were apprehended, restrained with zip ties, walked around 20 minutes to
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(Moon Safari/Getty Images) I wrote before about how thoroughly the critical profession has allowed itself to become corrupted; if your analysis is based on anything other than the quality of what you’re appraising, you’re allowing yourself to be swayed — to be corrupted. There are at least two pretty obvious drivers of critical corruption: politics
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Update, 10/6/2021, 12:48 p.m. ET: Jeff Boshek, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ Dallas Field Division, said that the agency will track down the weapon used by the suspect. “We’ll figure out where this individual got this gun from,” he vowed during a press conference on the incident.
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When you step off the plane at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport, the jet bridge greets you with something unusual by American standards. Instead of the usual walls of advertisements for profit-padding airline credit cards, the panels bear an illustration of a three-child family (with a mother and a father) above the title “Family-Friendly Hungary.”
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Former Governor and current Missouri Senate candidate, Eric Greitens traveled to the US southern border this week to witness the historic collapse of our country’s international border. Greitens joined Ben Bengquam from Real America’s Voice to travel the border and talk with border officials who are unable to establish order out of the chaos Joe
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Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Reuters Pool) The United States Department of Justice has no business — none — even thinking of involving itself in the give-and-take between parents and school administrators. Questions related to pedagogy and the contents of
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Facebook’s chief executive has denied claims that the company prioritises profit over the safety of its users. Mark Zuckerberg was responding to Frances Haugen’s claims that, left alone, Facebook would “continue to make choices that go against the common good – our common good”. Ms Haugen – a former product manager at the tech giant
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York during a visit to the U.S., in New York City, July 11, 2019. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has written a tour de force essay making the case for why Taiwan’s ability to defend itself from Chinese aggression matters
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Around one in three U.S. adults think that it might be better to abolish the nation’s high court if it begins making a lot of decisions which most Americans disagree with, according to a survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. While 11% strongly agreed, 23% somewhat agreed with this
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A Mexican official claimed that most Haitian migrants aren’t refugees and don’t want to be refugees, they just want to get into the United States. Andres Ramirez, head of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR), made the comments in an interview with Reuters while discussing the plight of Haitians in Mexico. “They’re not really
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Blame it all on Thomas Hobbes. Chapter XIII of Leviathan, “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery,” is one of the best known and most destructive passages in the entire history of political philosophy. In it, Hobbes speculates that a “state of nature” exists, or had existed, before men associate themselves
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President Joe Biden departs the White House in Washington, D.C., October 5, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden said Tuesday that he will sign off on Democrats’ massive social-spending package regardless of whether it includes the Hyde amendment, a stipulation that prohibits taxpayer money from funding abortions. A reporter asked the president if he is “okay”
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There is almost nothing Democrats can do to damage America or Israel that would change most American Jews’ political leanings. The latest example took place just last week. A college student speaking to Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, condemned America for supporting Israel, and charged Israel with committing “ethnic genocide” against Palestinians. Harris’ said,
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