President Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1977 (LIbrary of Congress) 1979–Taking advantage of its (and the House’s) massive increase in the number of judgeships a year earlier, the Democrat-controlled Senate confirms on a single day 25 of President Jimmy Carter’s judicial nominees, seven to appellate judgeships and eighteen to district judgeships.
The American Civil Liberties Union tweeted a botched quote on Sept. 18 that the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg supposedly told the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearings in 1993. On the one-year anniversary of Ginsburg’s death, the American Civil Liberties Union attributed the following quote to her: “The decision whether or not to
In this article NKE A pedestrian walks past American multinational sport clothing brand, Nike store and its logo seen in Hong Kong. Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images A lower sales forecast, slowing growth in China and a bottlenecked supply channel. The news coming out of Nike’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report
Huawei’s chief financial officer has reached a deal with US prosecutors that allows her to return to China. Meng Wanzhou, who is also the daughter of the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei, has been in Canada since she was arrested at Vancouver’s airport in December 2018. Her arrest followed an extradition warrant issued by the US
In the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss Black Lives Matter and the media with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez, who has written the hot new book BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution. Our media downplay BLM’s radicalism, their calls for an end to police and even the nuclear family. Back in May, Gonzalez appeared in
What a week for phony media narratives. In the aftermath of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, I had a glimmer of hope that the media had suddenly released that they could act like journalists and not Democratic Party activists. Sadly, however, their brief dalliance with semi-objective journalism was short-lived. This week alone, there were three huge
Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that botched airstrikes like the one that killed 10 Afghan civilians will continue without a ground presence in the country. “It’s going to be harder to target people and know they’re the right people,” Mick Mulroy, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for the Middle East and
The once respected British medical journal the Lancet continues its devolution into another hopeless liberal institution. Now, the word “women” has evidently become too controversial. Our new issue is here! On the cover—’Periods on display’ and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and #PeriodPoverty. Plus, @WHO air quality guidelines, low #BackPain management, community-acquired bacterial #meningitis,
More than a dozen House Republicans led by Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona have introduced legislation that takes aim at federal vaccine mandates, according to the Daily Caller. The Freedom From Mandates Act would kill the Biden administration’s plan to force employers with 100 or more employees to require workers to either get vaccinated or
United Kingdom Labour Party leader Keir Starmer authored a pamphlet published by the Fabian Society that runs more than 11,000 words in length, but The Spectator pulled a stunt that may indicate nobody gave the piece a thorough reading when the outlet published it on its own website. Deep within the lengthy work by the
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell or Planned Parenthood’s Andrea Mitchell? It’s hard to tell sometimes. On her Friday show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell welcomed California Rep. Jackie Speier to discuss the House passing a bill that would prohibit any restrictions on abortion. Speaking in a solemn tone the host declared that pro-lifers, especially men, just don’t get it
Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by Andy Ngo (Center Street: 2021), 320 pages. On June 29, 2019, journalist Andy Ngo was covering a standoff between Antifa and the Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon. Black-clad Antifa rioters punched him in the head, kicked him, and beat him so badly he suffered a brain
Dr. Fauci said the US will face a “dark winter” unless Americans stop making the Covid vaccines a political issue and just get jabbed. Fauci said the US can avoid the “dark winter” if Americans get vaccinated to a “very high degree” within the next couple months. Last year around this time Joe Biden said
Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command guide evacuees on to a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 21, 2021. (Sergeant Samuel Ruiz/U.S. Marine Corps) The FBI has launched an investigation into the alleged assault of a female soldier perpetrated
The Arizona Senate’s audit of election results in the state’s most populous county has affirmed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump last November to win Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. However, the election audit in Maricopa County did find procedural problems such as duplication of ballots and potential for fraud. Auditors recommended that the state address
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who has been selected to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Susan Walsh | AP CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky insisted Friday she didn’t overrule a vaccine advisory committee by expanding the
Human remains found in an alligator’s stomach in Louisiana have been identified as those of a man who was attacked and killed in Hurricane Ida floodwaters. Timothy Satterlee Sr, 71, had been reported missing since the attack near his home in the New Orleans suburb of Slidell on 30 August. The remains were confirmed as
Friday’s The View was a chaotic mess, as two hosts left mid-show before their VIP guest even arrived. Vice President Kamala Harris was that guest, and though she has faced strong criticism for basically ignoring the border crisis she’s supposed to be in charge of, she still found time to come talk to the friendly
The mainstream media was quick to jump on the leaked draft report of the Maricopa Country 2020 election audit, claiming (falsely) that it proved Joe Biden was the legitimate winner of Arizona. It did no such thing. Like the hand recounts before it, the hand recount conducted by the audit team found few discrepancies in
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of ‘Admin.’ The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,
Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the abysmal infrastructure and reconciliation bills, AOC’s House-floor playacting, and the grossness of the Gabby Petito coverage. Listen below, or follow this podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element.
A father caught a church minister inappropriately touching his 9-year-old son at a school bus top Wednesday, after which the father gave the minister a serious beating, Oklahoma City police told KWTV-DT. Michael Coghill, 33, was arrested Wednesday on a child sex crime complaint, the station said, adding that Lakehoma Church of Christ in Mustang
Tennessee grocery store employees reportedly hid in freezers during Thursday afternoon’s mass shooting in which at least 15 were injured and at least one person was killed. The gunman — identified Friday by CNN as Uk Thang — also died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, and a motive is not known at the
Welcome to TV’s Worst of the Week, where MRC Culture’s on TV Blog recounts the top liberal bias moments in entertainment television. From Our Blog • The fall tv season kicked off this week with the Emmys on CBS. It was a lame, tame show compared to the Trump years with jokes and mentions of
Joe Hoft is the twin brother of TGP’s founder, Jim Hoft, and a contributing editor at TGP. Joe’s reporting is often months ahead of the Mainstream media as was observed in his reporting on the Mueller sham investigation, the origins of the China coronavirus, and 2020 Election fraud. Joe was a corporate executive in Hong
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Afghanistan during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D,C., August 31, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Axios has a report out about how President Biden’s team is finally coming to the realization that with razor thin majorities in Congress, maybe it was a bit
Involvement in the Middle East has been a large part of U.S. foreign policy for generations. President after president has had to take the multifaceted and complex web of alliances and relationships in the Middle East into account as they navigated policy in the region. But after President Joe Biden withdrew U.S. forces from Afghanistan
Intercity bus travel in the U.S. has long been dominated by one iconic brand: Greyhound. With its fleet of 1,200 buses, Greyhound shuttles nearly 16 million passengers annually to 2,400 North American destinations. Known primarily for catering to budget-conscious, long-distance travelers, the company also offers charter services for businesses, conventions and schools. And its Greyhound
A former Louisiana police officer has been charged with a civil rights violation after hitting a black motorist 18 times with a torch during a traffic stop. It is the first criminal case to emerge from federal investigations into the trooper’s beatings of at least three black men. In distressing body camera footage, kept secret
In the last weeks before the 2020 election, the news media and the social media giants alike sought to squash, strangle and dissolve the New York Post stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the secrets it contained. There are two tracks of Hunter’s life to follow – the family-exploiting, buckraking public life, and then the