[ad_1] Supporters of President Donald Trump outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., October 3, 2020 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I have a list of beefs with the president a mile long, but I’m praying to see him well and happily striding out of Walter Reed, fully recovered from his coronavirus infection. I can’t

[ad_1] Demonstrators march to the U.S. Capitol as part of the Youth Climate Strike in Washington, D.C., September 20, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) While young social-justice warriors play act at making a difference, those concerned for the welfare of animals do the unglamorous work of making real change. Forbearing readers of National Review might recall

[ad_1] A man walks dogs across a nearly empty 5th Avenue during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Manhattan, May 11, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Data suggest mandatory lockdowns exacted a great cost, with a questionable effect on transmission. In 1932, Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis famously called the states “laboratories of democracy.” Different states can test

[ad_1] On the campus of Syracuse University in early 2020 (Maranie Staab/Reuters) If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19 other than improving people’s hygiene, it is the way the pandemic is deflating the college bubble. There’s plenty of evidence and, in this Oct. 1 Wall Street Journal piece, Steve Moore provides a bit more. He

[ad_1] Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wisc.) during a Senate committee hearing in Washington D.C., August 6, 2020 (Toni Sandys/Reuters) Senator Ron Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office announced on Saturday. The Wisconsin Republican “feels healthy and is not experiencing symptoms,” the senator’s office said. Johnson was exposed to an individual who tested positive

[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters) 1979—Give Harry Pregerson credit for candor. At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to a Ninth Circuit seat, Pregerson is asked what he would do “if a decision in a particular case was required by case law or statute … yet that [decision]

[ad_1] President Trump tours prototypes for a new U.S.-Mexico border wall near San Diego, Calif., on March 13, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters) Historically, there has never been any consensus among Latinos on the issue of illegal immigration. For Latino voters across the country, the issue of lax border policy versus Trump’s hawkish stance on

[ad_1] Washington State Capitol in Olympia. (Siegfried Schnepf/Getty Images) Why the skirmish in the Pacific Northwest should serve as a model for better, more substantive, and more local political debate over education in the U.S. On election day this November, a referendum will be held in Washington State to either sanction or repeal a portion

[ad_1] Sen. Mike Lee on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Hours after President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19, Utah senator Mike Lee announced that he too had tested positive and was experiencing mild symptoms.  Lee is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Democrats immediately tried to use the Republican senator’s diagnosis

[ad_1] File photo: President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, October 10, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump is being admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center “out of an abundance of caution” after testing positive for the coronavirus, the White House said Friday. “President Trump remains in good spirits,

[ad_1] Former CIA director John Brennan speaks during a forum on election security in Washington, D.C., October 30, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Former CIA director John Brennan reveals in his new memoir that during the making of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, he overruled two agency officials who were skeptical that Vladimir Putin had interfered

[ad_1] Krystall Ball and Saagar Enjeti host Rising with Krystal & Saagar for The Hill. (Saagar Enjeti/Twitter) Enjeti is a young pundit on the rise, with a book, a TV show, and a podcast to his name. But to what end? Saagar Enjeti is on the rise. Once at The Daily Caller, he now fronts

[ad_1] Mayor Lovely A. Warren speaks to media in Rochester, N.Y., September 3, 2020. (Lindsay DeDario/Reuters) Rochester, N.Y. mayor Lovely Warren has been indicted on charges she broke campaign finance rules and committed fraud during her 2017 reelection campaign, the Monroe County District Attorney announced Friday. One charge is for a scheme to defraud in

[ad_1] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) participates in a news conferencel in Washington, October 1, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said Friday that the upcoming confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett must be postponed to allow Barrett

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden waves goodbye as he concludes his remarks during a campaign event in Warren, Mich., September 9, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden have tested negative for the coronavirus, just hours after President Trump announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump both tested positive.

[ad_1] Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah) Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah) announced on Friday that he has tested positive for coronavirus. The news came after President Trump revealed that he and First Lady Melania Trump have contracted the virus, along with White House aide Hope Hicks and RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. Lee has made multiple

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) adjusts her face mask as she arrives inside the U.S. Capitol. April 21, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) House speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday she had been tested for the coronavirus out of an “abundance of caution” and claimed that tests being administered at the White House are “not as

[ad_1] Planned Parenthood’s employees look on as anti-abortion rights advocates hold a rally in St. Louis, Mo., June 4, 2019. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) President Trump can direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use its discretionary authority to exclude the Planned Parenthood network from all federal health-care spending. President Trump has made important

[ad_1] (Bryan Sikora/Dreamstime) An executive order adds to problems stemming from existing policies, instead of freeing up competition by deregulating the U.S. market. In an effort to lower U.S. drug prices, President Trump has signed an executive order tying Medicare’s payments for drugs to the prices paid in other nations. Under this “most favored nation”

[ad_1] In 2006, Amy Barrett was one of hundreds of individuals who authorized their names to be appended to an open statement to the public that read: “We, the following citizens of Michiana, oppose abortion on demand and defend the right to life from fertilization to natural death.” The statement with signatures occupied one page

[ad_1] Yesterday, I reported that in 2006, more than a decade before she became a judge, Amy Barrett signed a statement declaring herself among those citizens of Michiana, Ind., who “oppose abortion on demand and support the right to life from fertilization to natural death.” Follow-up reporting today has led multiple news outlets to report,

[ad_1] (Jon Nazca/Reuters) The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify on liability protections that guard the tech companies from being sued over content posted by users. The subpoena requests testimony from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai, all of

[ad_1] Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller arrives to testify before a House Intelligence Committee hearing, July 24, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to release certain previously redacted sections of the Mueller report by Election Day, ruling that portions of the report were improperly deemed classified. U.S. District Court

[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 30, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Democratic nominee for president has refused to state whether he would support an effort to pack the Supreme Court. To add new justices for the first

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to supporters in Johnstown, Penn., September 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) At 10:06 a.m., the pool reporter on the Biden campaign for the day, Brittany Shephard of Yahoo! news, sent word from Wilmington that “the Biden campaign has called a lid on in person events for the day. Biden’s

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks in Pittsburgh, Penn., September 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Joe Biden’s transition team named a high-ranking former Facebook official as its general counsel on Wednesday, drawing criticism from the progressive wing of the Democratic party. The Biden team charged Jessica Hertz, who spent two years as a Facebook executive

[ad_1] People sit in a Mediterranean seafood restaurant at Hudson Yards as restaurants resume indoor dining in Manhattan, New York, September 30, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Half of New York City’s bars and restaurants are in danger of permanently closing in the next six months as a result of financial fallout from the coronavirus, according to

[ad_1] FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Bureau’s proposed 2020 budget, May 7, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) One of the hallmarks of this era is how our political fights revolve around off-the-cuff statements from political leaders that are often inaccurate or not-quite-accurate,

[ad_1] In a curious Washington Post op-ed, distinguished conservative law professor Michael McConnell argues that confirming and appointing Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court “would not end abortion rights.” He is certainly correct in the sense that the long overdue overturning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey would simply restore

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Vatican’s top diplomat Pietro Parolin, at the Vatican, October 1, 2020. ( Vatican Media/­Handout via Reuters) The Vatican on Wednesday denied U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an opportunity to meet with Pope Francis, amid an ongoing clash between Pompeo and the Holy See over policy regarding China.