[ad_1] One argument for getting politicians inoculated early (made, for example, here) is that it will allay people’s doubts about the vaccines and encourage them to follow suit. That’s also an argument for other high-profile people to be early in line. But it’s not an argument that seems very pressing. There’s no shortage of demand
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[ad_1] Tuesday night, NewsBusters asked if the broadcast networks would care to cover the newly revealed police body camera video featuring Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock (D) as they responded to a domestic dispute. Despite the alleged incident being contemporaneous and including video from the police response, ABC, CBS, and NBC omitted the story from
[ad_1] All of the proposals that Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith make in this op-ed deserve consideration, but this one is especially attractive: One sharp conflict between the executive and legislative branches needs an urgent fix and is ripe for a deal: the regulation of executive branch vacancies. Many presidential administrations — the Trump administration
[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden delivers a pre-Thanksgiving address at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., November 25, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Surprise! Top advisers to president-elect Joe Biden said Monday they will not immediately roll back asylum restrictions at the Mexico border and other restrictive Trump administration policies, walking back some of Biden’s campaign promises for
[ad_1] It’s beginning to look a lot like … Pardon-mas. For the second evening in a row, Donald Trump has issued clemency actions to more than two dozen people, but three in particular will grab headlines. In another rebuke to Robert Mueller, Trump has given full pardons to Paul Manafort and to Roger Stone, the
[ad_1] I know Kyle Smith recommended it earlier this month, but I’d like to second his endorsement of the documentary hosted on HBO Max, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? I flipped it on last night and was impressed by the storytelling of the film itself, including a bravura section cutting
[ad_1] Mecklenburg County (NC) Manager Dena Diorio unwittingly made a point in favor of personal responsibility instead of government mandates during a virtual press conference. She told county residents to stay home for the holidays and only associate with those in their own households. And, just like that, she admitted that she would not be
[ad_1] I think it’s safe to say that April Christina Curley is the dictionary definition of a disgruntled former employee. Curley announced on Twitter this week that she’d been fired in September after six years with Google where she worked as a diversity recruiter. Her particular project was to help Google hire students straight out
[ad_1] Momentum is building in Congress to give taxpayers a $2000 stimulus check recommended by Donald Trump and Democrats are embracing it. And in Georgia, the two Democratic candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, are hammering their GOP opponents with the issue. The pandemic relief bill has become a big deal in the campaign to
[ad_1] Let me suggest to you that it’s an open question at the moment whether the president really wants Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to win their Senate races next month. Yes, I know he went down there to campaign for them not long ago. And yes, I know he said he’ll be back on
[ad_1] Make up our minds for us already, would ya, doc? Some physicists out at Caltech have jumped into the game of trying to determine if there’s other intelligent life in the galaxy or we’re stuck here by ourselves. It’s a question humanity has been grappling with for ages, but if we’re being honest, everyone
[ad_1] The United Kingdom has topped its own record for new COVID cases two days in row. Today there were 39,237 new cases with nearly a quarter million new cases in just the past week. The worst hit areas are east of London where a newly identified strain of the virus is spreading rapidly. A
[ad_1] Gavin Newsom had to know this was coming, right? For most governors, an opportunity to appoint a replacement to the US Senate is a political boon. As Rod Blagojevich once declared, it’s “a f*****g valuable thing.” In California, however, it has become an albatross to Newsom, who had to decide which identity groups he
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[ad_1] The president’s powers of clemency are wholly discretionary: He can use them as much or as little as he likes. President Trump’s pardons have been frequently controversial, but they have not been frequent overall. As of now, he has issued fewer pardons than any president in 100 years. (He may end up issuing more
[ad_1] I keep reading stories about Dominion or Smartmatic sending demand letters to their accusers and thinking, “This can’t possibly work.” Not because the companies haven’t been smeared but because it’s almost literally unimaginable in 2020 that a political actor would face meaningful consequences for smearing someone. This is the age of social media! We
[ad_1] U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen heard arguments on Tuesday in a Texas lawsuit that questions the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Both sides in the lawsuit asked for a hearing before the judge in Houston instead of holding a trial. Texas joined eight other states to argue that
[ad_1] The Christmas season offers some of the greatest television ever made — from touching commercials to holiday episodes of your favorite shows to seasonal specials. There is always something available for families to gather and watch this time of year. Yesterday, you experienced the “Top 15 Christmas family-friendly Christmas movies of all time.” Today,
[ad_1] The Martin Center has been accumulating a considerable library of books on higher education — more than 700 so far. There are always good new (and not-so-new) titles that we’d like to get, and the Center’s president, Jenna Robinson, lists ten she’d like to acquire. Mortimer Adler: How to Think about the Great Ideas
[ad_1] LGBT royalty Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe are among the 176 women who signed a friend of the court brief demanding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (aka “Ninth Circus”) overturn Idaho’s law H.B. 500 requiring athletes to compete with the teams of their actual gender, not the imagined gender
[ad_1] It’s been five long years but I think we may have finally arrived at a kumbaya moment for MAGA and Never Trump. Never Trumpers want to see the GOP establishment burn because of how servile they’ve behaved towards the president. MAGA wants to see the GOP establishment burn because they haven’t behaved servile enough.
[ad_1] Not January 7, eh? Donald Trump publicly insists that he won the election and will be vindicated, but his White House isn’t waiting around for Congress to formalize the inevitable. Staffers received memos last night ordering them to begin the process of vacating the executive offices starting on January 4, two days before Congress
[ad_1] One of the few missteps by HHS on the vaccine front has effectively been reversed. The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to supply an additional 100 million doses by the end of July, with most of those delivered by the end of the second quarter. The move
[ad_1] What, in today’s political culture, is a “centrist”? Old-fashioned political nerds define it by support for legislation and policy proposals. If you love really big tax cuts and favor abolishing several Cabinet departments, you’re not a “centrist.” If you want to defund the police and “end fossil fuels,” you’re also not a “centrist.” This
[ad_1] President Donald Trump granted 15 full pardons and commuted the sentences of five others on Tuesday, including allies convicted under the special counsel Robert Mueller probe, nonviolent drug offenders, and a man who was busted running moonshine in the 1950s as a teen. What are the details? White House press secretary Kaleigh McEnany issued
[ad_1] Hunter Biden’s corruption scandal may have tipped the results of the election. The media did its best to suppress it. Law enforcement is finally knocking on Biden Inc.’s door. The Biden family’s suspicious overseas business dealings are well-documented. But over time, as I wrote in the pages of TAC in October, these dealings “became
[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after participating in a Thanksgiving video teleconference with members of the armed forces at the White House, November 26, 2020. (File photo: Erin Scott/Reuters) Just when it looked like a COVID relief (and catchall appropriations) package was sealed and delivered, President Trump gave a stark reminder that it’s
[ad_1] President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the COVID-19 relief package that was rushed through Congress the night before, calling it a “disgrace” and saying he wants to see more money going to individuals and small businesses impacted by the virus and less in “wasteful spending.” He also suggested he may not sign it. The
[ad_1] What exactly is a “one-horse pony” and does it have anything to do with “lying dog-faced pony soldiers?” I’m not asking for a friend, I’m asking for a nation.
Joe Biden will in all likelihood be the next president of these United States. His son Hunter is under federal
[ad_1] President Donald Trump released a video from the White House Twitter account Tuesday evening. In the video, he called on Congress to strip out “wasteful, unnecessary” spending from the so-called COVID relief bill — especially the billions aimed at foreign governments. The president’s remarks imply he could veto the bill if his requests are