[ad_1] Jaime Harrison speaks during a Democratic National Committee forum in Baltimore, Md., in 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison on Wednesday questioned whether Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett would “roll back the civil rights of folks” saying, “I don’t look good in chains, so I’m not going back to that.”

[ad_1] Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during a Senate Committee Hearing in Washington, D.C., September 23, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday called the White House’s ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a “super-spreader event” for the coronavirus after the president and a number of attendees tested positive for the virus in its

[ad_1] Soldiers march with a Chinese Communist Party flag during a rehearsal for a military parade in Beijing, China, October 1, 2019. (Jason Lee/Reuters) Professor Anne-Marie Brady’s work on CCP political interference in her native New Zealand is under review by university administrators. Nearly 150 China-focused experts and academics signed on to a letter this

[ad_1] Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) asks questions of James Comey before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) Senator Mike Lee tweeted, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and [prosperity] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.” Oren Cass responded, “Likewise, free markets

[ad_1] (nirat/Getty Images) Cameron Hilditch, inspired by the Times Higher Education‘s World University Rankings for 2021, writes that conservatives should show more gratitude and less scorn for America’s elite higher education institutions. Having just graduated from No. 19 on the list, I agree with his larger point, but dissent from parts of his argument. “There

[ad_1] Judge Amy Coney Barrett attends a meeting with Senator Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 1, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Many modest pro-life laws are more popular than Senate Democrats themselves. President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has pro-abortion Senate Democrats in a real quandary.

[ad_1] President Trump departs Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., October 5, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The White House is set to offer House speaker Nancy Pelosi a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief package on Friday, two days after President Trump had halted negotiations on a second round of aid money, according to reports.

[ad_1] People fill out their ballots at an early-voting site in Arlington, Va., September 18, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) It’s easy to spend a lot of time on 270ToWin.com, flipping states from red to blue and back and contemplating scenarios for the presidential election – including ones where the Electoral College margin is extremely narrow, or

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a briefing to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 10, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday introduced a bill to establish a commission that would rule on the president’s fitness for office. The bill, which Pelosi introduced along with Congressman Jamie

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden depart after a pre-inauguration church service in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Hunter Biden’s former business parter will face sentencing in a fraud case after a federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated his conviction. Devon Archer, a longtime business associate of Joe Biden’s son,

[ad_1] Students walk past Wadham College, Oxford University, ahead of the new academic year, amid the coronavirus pandemic in Oxford, Britain, September 17, 2020. (Toby Melville/Reuters) The Times Higher Education released their World University Rankings for 2021 last month, revealing a few interesting global trends in tertiary schooling. The University of Oxford has taken the

[ad_1] Jaime Harrison speaks during a Democratic National Committee forum in Baltimore, Md., in 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Washington Post ignores the role that Harrison’s lobbying career has played in aiding his political rise. Jaime Harrison is closing in on Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and is being helped along by the mainstream political media’s

[ad_1] In an incompetent essay in Commonweal, philosophy professor Gregory Bassham tries to bash Judge Amy Coney Barrett by contending that she and Justice Scalia “have very different views on the issues of judicial restraint and respect for legal precedent.” Barrett, Bassham contends, holds a “judicial philosophy outside the mainstream, … a fringe view that

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday that voters would learn his position on packing the Supreme Court after the election. Senate Republicans are currently attempting to confirm the appointment of

[ad_1] Sen. Mike Lee (R, Utah) (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Few incidents more starkly illustrate the dearth of civic education in American life than a mob attacking Senator Mike Lee for his completely factual tweet pointing out that the “objective” of the Constitution is to protect liberty and to allow individual flourishing, not to acquiesce to the

[ad_1] Like Joe Biden last week, Kamala Harris in last night’s vice-presidential debate undermined both the Left’s opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett and its hope to pack the Court. Harris failed to say anything negative about Barrett. Indeed, she never even mentioned Barrett’s name. From the Left’s perspective, I suppose

[ad_1] Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer gestures as she welcomes Joe Biden during his campaign stop at Cherry Health clinic in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The FBI has revealed that it exposed a plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the state government, in part because of the governor’s lockdown

[ad_1] President Trump makes an announcement about his treatment for COVID-19 in Washington, D.C., October 7, 2020. (The White House via Reuters) The American people needed to know the truth about efforts by the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration to sabotage the president’s campaign sooner. President Trump made a stunning announcement this week when

[ad_1] (@nvanderklippe/Twitter) China appears to have censored the CNN feed of Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate on televisions within China’s borders when Mike Pence began to criticize the Chinese Communist Party for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic and promised consequences. The CNN feeds in China abruptly cut out and were replaced by a message reading, “no signal –

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE —W hat I found most striking about last night’s vice-presidential debate was the contrast between how objectively outrageous it is that the Biden-Harris ticket will not answer the court-packing question and how unabashedly, even glibly, they go about insulting our intelligence while demurring. It is inconceivable that Republican candidates could get

[ad_1] In this post, I briefly outlined Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s impressive dissent in Kanter v. Barr, in which she determined that categorical bans on a felon’s possession of firearms could not be applied to Rickey Kanter, who had pleaded guilty to one count of federal mail fraud for falsely representing that his company’s therapeutic shoe

[ad_1] Jamie Dimon, chairman & CEO of JP Morgan Chase Co., speaks during the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, N.Y., September 25, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) JPMorgan Chase on Thursday announced it will commit $30 billion to fighting economic racial inequality in the country over the next five years. “Systemic racism is a tragic part

[ad_1] Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the vice presidential debate with Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) At some point during last night’s vice presidential debate, perhaps about 20 minutes in, it became clear that Susan Page wasn’t moderating the debate. Mike Pence

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he left’s favorite idea for reforming Obamacare is a government-sponsored plan — a “public option” — that would compete against private insurers. Lawmakers introduced several public option bills earlier this year, and presidential candidate Joe Biden has embraced the concept. Proponents claim that government-sponsored plans will charge lower premiums than

[ad_1] On numerous occasions during the vice-presidential debate, Kamala Harris said that Democrats would listen and follow the “science.” Her cynically dangerous answer on vaccines says otherwise. Given an opportunity to walk back her previous attacks on massive private-public efforts to come up with a COVID vaccine, Harris doubled down, saying, “If Donald Trump tells

[ad_1] Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2020 vice presidential campaign debate in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Wednesday night refused to say whether she and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would pack the Supreme Court in the event that

[ad_1] For several decades, the idea of legislation to remove some issues from the jurisdiction of the federal courts has circulated mostly on the right. During the George W. Bush administration, for example, the House twice voted to block federal courts from reviewing the constitutionality of state and local policies requiring the recitation of the

[ad_1] Students arrive for the the first day of classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., August 15, 2018. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) The Broward County School Board has demanded that parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting turn over psychiatric records to prove that they suffered trauma, the South

[ad_1] (AVNphotolab/Getty Images) I wrote a bit ago here about the Canadian woman legally trying to prevent her husband from being killed in a euthanasia homicide. The courts rejected her appeal and now the man is dead. The case highlights the cultural tensions and incompatible value systems that are tearing the West apart, about which

[ad_1] President Donald Trump pulls off his mask after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center, October 5, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) President Trump is now free of coronavirus symptoms and appears to have developed antibodies to the virus, Trump’s physician Sean Conley said on Wednesday. The president revealed early Friday morning that he