Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing Monday morning. Later, the president will visit the Veterans Medical Center and participate in an event celebrating International Women’s Day. President Biden’s Itinerary for 3/8/21: All Times EST 9:50 AM Receive daily briefing – Oval Office 1:00 PM Visit Veterans Medical Center – Washington, D.C. 4:20
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Eminem and Rihanna perform at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., April 13, 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) One of the odd things about cancel campaigns is the habit of treating that which is very, very public as though it had been a secret. Consider this sentence, from music journalist Will Lavin about the recent
The incoming administration is tearing down Trump’s progress piece by piece A group of migrants wearing T-shirts that read “Biden, please let us in” kneel and pray at the border crossing. The group gathered and marched up to the border post to petition the new U.S. administration for asylum. (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images) What is
Is it safe? Yes, Chris Cillizza. It is now safe for you to mock Andrew Cuomo on #MeToo issues but perhaps not so much on his handling of nursing home COVID-19 patients. Up until at least a month ago, Cillizza’s CNN Network was also concealing the coverup by New York governor Cuomo of the nursing
The secret sauce to the economy’s success and a sea change in foreign policy during the Trump administration was becoming an energy-independent nation. President Trump said during the campaign that Joe Biden’s Green New Deal policies would reduce domestic energy production and raise prices. Early indications are that he was correct. The combination of low
Wait until Michael Moore learns that Beto O’Rourke is an Irish-American guy with a Hispanic-sounding nickname. Would Moore mind if Beto got a COVID-19 vaccination? That is a question now because he doesn’t think that white Texans should be getting the vaccine. Apparently, Michael Moore is under the impression that all Texans are of one
Conservatives scored their first victory against the Biden administration when former Center for American Progress (CAP) President Neera Tanden’s nomination to direct the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was blocked. George Soros and his Open Society Institute is a primary funder of CAP. Tanden declared twitter war on Republicans and progressives over the past
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Nicholas Kristof is scandalized by the shortage of public toilets in New York City. It is, indeed a problem. (I stand by my description of Starbucks as a chain of public toilets with a sideline in coffee.) But he leaves out a big part of the story. New York used to provide public
The death of legendary conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh as a result of advanced stage lung cancer is one of the most tragic stories of the year. There’s no denying his massive impact on broadcasting history. Shortly after his death, former vice president Mike Pence honored him on Fox News Channel as the “anchor
Sources tell The Hill that Donald Trump’s attorneys have sent cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to stop using his name and image for fundraising. The three groups are the largest fundraising groups in the Republican Party. From Trump’s
This is a big deal if he means it, but it’s unclear if he means it. Watch the clip below, noting that Chuck Todd asks him specifically about using reconciliation to pass “election-only bills like H.R. 1.” That’s the “For the People Act,” Democrats’ massive voting-rights reform bill, their absolute top legislative priority before the
On Saturday, the internet was set ablaze with the discussion surrounding an article from The New York Times about a cartoon character named Pepe Le Pew. The author talks about the recent statements that Dr. Seuss books were racist and how many cartoons normalized racism and bias. For Pepe Le Pew, he said the skunk
This passage in a Washington Post article on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus jumped off the page: Dave Hopkins, a professor of political science at Boston College who studies the Democratic Party, said the Republican base is no longer “stoked” by criticisms of overspending. “Moderate vulnerable Democrats feel a lot more freedom to vote for
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele joined The 11th Hour host Brian Williams on MSNBC’s Friday night coverage of the Senate’s COVID relief bill vote-a-rama. Sounding more like a progressive activist than a former Republican chairman, Steele condemned Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema for her “childish” and “insulting” vote against raising the minimum wage. Williams introduced Sinema’s viral thumbs down
A bill approved by a Kentucky Senate committee would make it a crime to insult or taunt police officers if it would “provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.” The bill is a response to riots last summer that saw activists “getting up in officers’ faces, yelling in their
Greyhound’s President and CEO David Leach wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He told the secretary that when the Department of Homeland Security goes to put an illegal migrant on a Greyhound bus, he expects the agency to have proof of a COVID-19 negative test result. The letter was a request for assistance from
A reader sent me a link to the United Way’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge and while reading through “equity journey”, “How White Parents Can Talk to the Kids About Race”, “Racial Equity Unwrapped” and “White Privilege” I realized something. Besides the silliness of it all, the “daily effects of white privilege” could be applied to
If I commented on every interesting part of this interview that Eric Levitz conducted for New York magazine with socialist data scientist David Shor, I’d end up recapitulating the whole thing. Shor has a lot to say that strikes me as plainly correct. But he also develops one line of thought that strikes me as
Well, well, well. Talk about a coverup. Recall this story, as headlined in BizPacReview? Pelosi appoints Swalwell to Homeland Security Committee again, despite recent Chinese spy scandal The story begins thusly, with bold print supplied for emphasis: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reappointed her California Democratic colleague, Rep. Eric Swalwell, to the Homeland Security Committee despite revelations
Pope Francis went to Iraq today and met with Iraq’s principal Shi’ite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and, according to the Associated Press, “delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority during an historic meeting in the holy city of Najaf.” That’s
Last June, in the wake of the nationwide protests and riots over the death of George Floyd, Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty pushed a plan that cut $7 million from the Portland Police Budget and got rid of a group of officers called the Gun Violence Reduction Team. Hardesty, who had
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top lieutenants cited a report altered by his top aides to make it seem like they were handling the COVID-19 outbreak in nursing homes better than other states. A New York State Department of Health report published in early July disclosed 6,432 COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes, despite
Detail of the St. Catherine de Ricci window at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Conn., prior to the recent vandalism. (Photo: Kathryn Jean Lopez) One of my favorite churches in the United States is St. Mary’s in New Haven, Conn. It’s basically on the campus of Yale University, inasmuch as Yale buildings surround it.
Brian Williams appears to be one of those people who doesn’t listen to himself when he talks. How else to describe the reasons behind why the truth-challenged journalist says the things he does? Yes, it’s time for another NewsBusters FLASHBACK: It was eight years ago this week that Williams appeared on Alec Baldwin’s then radio
The Senate has passed a coronavirus relief bill that will cost $1.9 billion. The party-line vote was 50-49. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska had to rush home to attend the funeral of his father-in-law. His absence meant that Vice President Kamala Harris did not have to cast her tie-breaking vote as president pro tempore.
After what’s being described as a 26-hour “marathon” session, the Senate managed to drag the massive, nearly two trillion dollar COVID relief bill across the finish line. That fact that huge parts of it had little or nothing to do with pandemic relief didn’t appear to bother the Democrats in the upper chamber one bit.
Recently released data about jobs, retail sales, and industrial production indicate that not only is more stimulus not needed but any more stimulus will be counterproductive and will cause more severe problems in the future. That’s probably not enough to stop Congress from passing another multi-trillion-dollar package. When the steep but very short-lived recession in March
(jacoblund/Getty Images) As I have warned here before, euthanasia activists are pushing for laws that permit people to write advance directives ordering themselves starved to death if they become mentally incapacitated. That effort is apparently gaining steam. The assisted suicide supporting organization Final Exit Network published a poll that supposedly found only 15 percent of
On Friday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar and her Republican-loathing colleague, Brian Stelter, took turns bashing their competitor, Fox News Channel, for the crime of allowing the expression of conservative thought. Abandoning even the pretense of being objective journalists, the two left-wing hosts condemned Fox executives and hosts for actually pledging to practice adversarial journalism and hold the new administration
This is music to my ears: Erik Ortiz, a 41-year-old hip-hop music producer in Florida, grew up poor in the South Bronx, and spent much of his time as a young adult trying to establish himself financially. Now he considers himself rich. And he believes shaking off the politics of his youth had something to