[ad_1] Hats off to Noah Feldman for having the integrity and sheer guts, frankly, to have written this piece. It won’t make him any friends on his own side but it might help drain out of the body politic a bit of the toxic ruthlessness that poisons every SCOTUS fight nowadays. Feldman clerked for David

[ad_1] “Let it be clear, I am against America. America is my enemy.” This was written in an online chat by a man in Texas, Jaylyn Christopher Molina, who has been charged with conspiring with another American, Kristopher Sean Matthews of Elgin, South Carolina, to commit “Netflix worthy” terror attacks at Trump Tower and the

[ad_1] Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem issued a social media slap down to MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow over her attempt to criticize a humorous video the governor posted about social distancing. Noem posted a video showing her hunting and calling it “how we do social distancing in South Dakota,” on Wednesday. This is how

[ad_1] Impossible? After Donald Trump won the presidency by successfully rebranding himself the hero of the common man, anything’s possible, I suppose. How about an American who married into the British royal family running as a hero of the proletarian masses marching toward a socialist utopia? Yeah, sure, why not, Vanity Fair suggests: Her comments about the

[ad_1] Why let a little detail like being more than 200 miles above earth interfere with exercising your right to vote? NASA astronaut Kate Rubins isn’t going to let a little thing like being at the International Space Station get in her way of voting in the election in November. Right now Kate is in

[ad_1] Just hours before Donald Trump will presumably announce his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the New York Times pushed out this attempt to rehab attacks on Barrett over her Catholic faith. Give Elizabeth Breunig this much credit — she manages to front-load the debunking of attacks on Barrett over the

[ad_1] This was to be the first presidential election without the option for voters to cast a straight-ticket ballot in Texas. During the 2017 legislative session, the Texas legislature ended straight-ticket voting. A last-minute amendment to the legislation delayed its implementation until this year’s general election. Late Friday, U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo threw

[ad_1] President Donald Trump will meet with religious leaders on Saturday, then he will announce his pick for U.S. Supreme Court Justice and hold a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. President Trump’s Itinerary for 9/26/20 – note: this  page will be updated during the day if events warrant All Times EDT 3:15 PM Participate in a

[ad_1] This is a copy of a post by a gentleman named Andrew Harmon, a postal employee.  It’s well worth the read. “I am an employee of the USPS.  Like everything else the media gets their hands on, the current news about the USPS, and especially Trump’s involvement with it, is hyped and in some

[ad_1] Judge Amy Coney Barrett was hit with a fresh round of assaults on Friday, after several media outlets reported that sources confirmed she would be named Saturday as President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the U.S. Supreme Court. But one attack that grabbed the attention of social media was

[ad_1] Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky attends a photocall for the film “Citizen K” on August 31, 2019 presented out of competition during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) Since 2016, the specter of “Russian interference” has been an idée fixe of the Washington political establishment and its media

[ad_1] An attorney for the police officer who shot Jacob Blake says that the officer believed he was kidnapping a child after hearing the mother’s cries during the altercation. The revelation comes from a CNN interview with the officer’s attorney published on Friday. The controversial police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparked protests and riots from

[ad_1] Charles Michel, president of the European Council, in Brussels, Belgium, August 19, 2020 (Olivier Hoslet/Reuters) The president of the European Council does not usually make news when addressing the UN General Assembly. In fact, the current occupant of the post, Charles Michel might be used to giving UN addresses that attract minimal attention. He

[ad_1] The City of Portland has denied a protest permit requested by the Proud Boys, saying their demonstration slated for Saturday would likely draw a crowd too large to comply with social distancing measures required under coronavirus restrictions. While COVID-19 risk was cited as the reason for rejecting the permit, officials in the Oregon city

[ad_1] Singer-songwriter John Legend has repeatedly made it clear that he is not a fan of President Donald Trump. In an interview with Cosmopolitan UK posted Friday, Legend revealed that he and his wife, model Chrissy Teigen, have considered leaving the country over embarrassment that Trump is president. He went on to say that leaving

[ad_1] Nothing says hypocrite like the governor of Oregon sounding the alarm about conservative protesters on the streets of her state’s largest city after letting leftists run amok for months. Gov. Kate Brown (D) is not concerned about the resumed nightly riots by antifa and Marxist Black Lives Matter militants

[ad_1] A lucky break for Chuck Schumer, since he’s not going to have the votes in the Senate to pack the Court even if he ends up with a majority come January. That’s not to say progressives won’t make his life hell if he refuses. They will. It might even earn him a credible primary

[ad_1] Charles Barkley made some news during his appearance on Inside the NBA last night. There are two clips here, the first of which is Barkley talking about the slogan “defund police.” Charles Barkley: “You know, I hear these fools on TV talking about ‘defund the police’ and things like that. So that notion they

[ad_1] (iStock/Getty Images) Daphne du Maurier’s brilliant novel Rebecca, first made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock (who ruined the ending), has inspired a remake. Netflix is set to release the movie on October 21, 2020. Even though I don’t expect to enjoy the film half as much as the book, it is a fantastic

[ad_1] Every time you look at your television there is a new Black Lives Matter protest in another city and it invariably involves violence and looting. And after months of the nation being under siege from these thugs, the citizens have had enough of their antics, The Daily Mail reports.

[ad_1] (SARINYAPINNGAM/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Two years ago, I wrote about Congress’ efforts to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the interagency body that vets acquisitions of sensitive U.S. assets. The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), which Congress passed in August of 2018, expanded the powers CFIUS has to

[ad_1] Singer/songwriter John Legend is sending out his hot takes on the possibility of President Trump’s re-election. He is so traumatized over the mere thoughts of Trump winning four more years in the White House that he is advising Americans to leave the country. In years past, celebrities and public officials that opposed whichever Republican

[ad_1] The least suspenseful Supreme Court nomination of my lifetime, and almost certainly of yours too. Who’s ever been more of a sure thing for a seat on the Court than Barrett was for Ginsburg’s seat, assuming that it was vacated while Trump was president? In fact, the only suspense to this “process” is whether

[ad_1] As Ramesh Ponnuru noted on the Corner earlier this week, some media coverage of Judge Amy Coney Barrett — the leading candidate to replace late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — has zeroed in on Barrett’s purported membership in a mostly Catholic group called People of Praise. Ramesh’s post chronicles how one such

[ad_1] The U.S. Navy will commission the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Port Canaveral, Florida. USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Due to public health and safety concerns related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the commissioning is a

[ad_1] Portland rioters set fire to a police union building and over a dozen people found themselves behind bars after another night of unrest in the embattled city Thursday. A large mob of demonstrators used vehicles to block street traffic and vandalized local property with insignia supporting their group’s message, according to a blog post

[ad_1] Yesterday the Washington Post published a story titled “Since 2015: 48 Black Women Killed by the Police. And Only 1 Charge.” The story itself connect the lack of charges in the Breonna Taylor case to the wider argument that police are not held accountable when they kill, in this case, black women.  The story

[ad_1] A Brown University researcher demanded a refund from Airbnb over “Trump yard signs and other white nationalist symbols” she and her husband saw when they reached their rented house in Maine, according to Twitter posts. Carycruz M. Bueno, a research associate at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute, said she was “scared for my life and