[ad_1] Last night, Biden said, “Not one single person with private insurance would lose their insurance under my plan, nor did they under Obamacare.” The second part of that sentence is flatly false. While neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times included it in their fact-checking round-ups about the debate, in 2013 and

[ad_1] Wednesday Democrats announced that they would boycott the Judiciary Committee vote on Amy Coney Barrett. Instead of showing up for the vote they set up over-sized photos in their chairs of people who could lose their Obamacare insurance. This stunt didn’t accomplish anything except to signal to frustrated resistance Democrats that their representatives are

[ad_1] “We’ll have a big, beautiful party at the end,” Donald Trump promised today in announcing two moves in the Middle East. Trump ordered the removal of Sudan from the State Department list of terror sponsors after the new government adopted US requirements, and ponied up over $300 million in a fund for terror victims.

[ad_1] Detail of Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain), 1902, by John Singer Sargent (National Gallery of Art / Open Access) Who is that lady up there? She’s Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain, as painted by John Singer Sargent in 1902. She was the wife of Joseph Chamberlain, the “Empire Builder” (who was also father

[ad_1] No profession is ever really “finished” after a catastrophic failure. Ask someone who opposed the Iraq war. They’ll talk your ear off about how cheerleaders for the invasion ended up failing upward in the foreign policy establishment or landing softly as “wise men” commentators in American media. Polling won’t disappear either if it misjudges

[ad_1] This morning Ed wrote about Joe Biden’s comments in last night’s debate about the oil industry. I wanted to highlight some reactions from the media and from within the industry itself. Ed included video of the exchange but in case you missed it, here’s what was said: Trump: Would you close down the oil

[ad_1] Higher education has been one of President Trump’s best areas. He and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have made some noteworthy improvements, particularly the replacement of Obama-era Title IX regulations with ones that are more fair, and an executive order protecting free speech. If there is to be a second term for Trump, higher

[ad_1] The Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a pilot program for drive-thru voting can continue in Harris County (Houston). The state and county Republican parties and a Houston conservative activist sought to halt the voter option of drive-thru voting in ten locations throughout the county. The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court denied the request. It

[ad_1] President Donald Trump answers a question during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., October 22, 2020. (Morry Gash/Reuters) There was a low bar for Joe Biden in the first debate, given his cognitive challenges. Because he exceeded that pessimism, he won momentum.  In opposite fashion, there was similarly an expectation that a disruptive

[ad_1] There’s malarkey, and then there’s recycled malarkey. In what had been one of Joe Biden’s few better moments of last night’s debate, the former VP suddenly offered up a rehash of the Obama administration’s biggest lies about its signature health-care policy. Biden insisted that no one would lose their private insurance under his health care plan —

[ad_1] One of the many digital advertisements that the Biden campaign has produced suddenly disappeared earlier this week. At first glance, the now “private” video didn’t seem all that unusual. A “struggling bar owner” in Michigan, the proprietor of the Blind Pig bar, was shown talking about how his business was empty and was likely

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told a brazen lie about Obamacare Thursday evening during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, claiming that no one lost their private health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act. President Donald Trump attacked Biden’s health care plan, accusing the Democratic nominee’s plan of being “socialized medicine” that

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during the final 2020 presidential campaign debate in Nashville, Tenn., October 22, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Joe Biden is a career liar and he lied some more in the debate, for instance when he dismissed the now well-supported New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s business dealing as “a

[ad_1] The final debate before the 2020 presidential election saw the two candidates punching hard at each other, but neither struck a knockout blow. Most commentators thought NBC News moderator Kristen Welker did a much better job and the muting of microphones seemed to aid in keeping the discussion civil and more intelligible. Here are

[ad_1] Crabbers rip off one claw, then throw the mutilated creatures back into the ocean. Sounds a lot like the Democratic Party. In the middle of last October, two harvesting operations went into high gear. At first glance, the two might seem completely unrelated. Actually, they had a lot in common. Taken together they offer

[ad_1] “Trump’s attack on the debate commission is an attack on the election itself,” blares the headline from today’s Washington Post op-ed page. That article was written by former senator John Danforth, who has been a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates since 1994. Danforth, an ordained Episcopal priest whose piety earned him the

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during the final 2020 presidential campaign debate in Nashville, Tenn., October 22, 2020. (Morry Gash/Pool via Reuters) “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” was a promise President Barack Obama often made when selling the Affordable Care Act. It was one of the most significant

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during the second presidential campaign debate in Nashville, Tenn., October 22, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The mikes-off-while-the-other-guy-is-talking format Thursday night was a great improvement over the first Trump-Biden debate, and was a big help to moderator Kristen Welker, who was able to avoid the two-toddlers-fighting atmosphere that overwhelmed Chris Wallace last

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (left) and President Donald Trump at the second 2020 presidential campaign debate in Nashville, Tenn., October 22, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Thursday’s debate between President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden is probably what everyone expected the first debate would be like, instead of the discordant, crosstalk-filled food-fight we

[ad_1] President Donald Trump will travel to Florida where he will hold two campaign rallies then go to his home at Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. President Trump’s Itinerary for 10/23/20 – note: this  page will be updated during the day if events warrant All Times EDT 1:30 PM Depart the White House en route to

[ad_1] Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, made explosive allegations against the Biden family at a news conference Thursday, claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was directly involved in foreign business dealings with a Chinese energy company and that the Biden family inappropriately benefited from that business relationship. Bobulinski also said

[ad_1] Self-avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) may not have won the Democratic nomination, but he is still reportedly hoping to bring his progressive views into the executive branch. According to a new report from Politico, Sanders has expressed interest in joining a potential Joe Biden administration and is particularly interested in becoming the next

[ad_1] Sticker referencing the QAnon slogan on a truck that participated in a caravan convoy in Adairsville, Ga., September 5, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) During the televised town hall last Thursday on NBC, President Trump was asked if he would disavow the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory and its followers who believe, among other things, that elite

[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) Walk through what is known about Hunter Biden and his business partners, and what is not speculation… In the July 2019 New Yorker profile of Hunter Biden, he talked about

[ad_1] Goldman Sachs, a global financial institution headquartered in New York City, and its Malaysian subsidiary, have admitted to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with a scheme to pay over $1 billion in bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials to obtain lucrative business for Goldman Sachs, including its

[ad_1] President Trump called out Joe Biden for his support of banning fracking during Thursday night’s debate, noting that during the primaries Joe repeatedly said he wanted to ban fracking. The president pointed out that after he won the nomination, Biden went to Pennsylvania, a battleground state that relies on fracking and natural gas for

[ad_1] The fifth Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism has been released by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC). The news is not good if these findings are to be looked upon as the direction in which our country is going. Capitalists beware, Socialism is gaining in popularity, especially among

[ad_1] Italy is in the midst of a full-blown second wave coronavirus outbreak, along with the entire continent of Europe. But why? Italy, especially, is a puzzle. The nation — the hardest hit in Europe — hasn’t had this many deaths and positive tests since May. At that time, they quarantined the entire northern half