Pentagon to examine legality of using troops on the border
It looks like we have yet another showdown between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats over questions of border security. The Pentagon's Inspector General announced this week that he...
View ArticleDon't call them homeless encampments. They're "curbside communities"
As part of their continuing coverage of the homelessness crisis in the San Francisco bay area, CBS produced a profile of one woman who has been living out on the streets in Oakland for at least a year...
View ArticleTIME's Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg. Will she accept the award?
The annual guessing game is over. Teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg is TIME's Person of the Year. The announcement was made this morning on NBC's Today show by TIME editor in chief Edward...
View ArticleLefty Dems rip moderates for floating censure in lieu of impeaching Trump
If we're going to have a Republican civil war over whether Trump should be allowed to call witnesses at his trial, it'd be nice to balance it with a Democratic civil war over whether the party should...
View ArticleGraham: Horowitz report shows Crossfire Hurricane akin to resurrecting J....
So much for vindication! Lindsey Graham complimented Michael Horowitz and his team to start off the Senate Judiciary hearing into Operation Crossfire Hurricane. "You were able to uncover and discover...
View ArticleJersey City shooter published anti-Semitic messages, targeted Kosher supermarket
There was a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey Tuesday which left six people dead including the two suspects and several more wounded. This morning the NY Times is reporting that online messages plus...
View ArticleKey swing-district Dem who led the charge on impeachment: I'm undecided
Sweet fancy Moses. This isn't any ol' centrist Democrat hinting that she's gotten cold feet on impeachment. This is Elissa Slotkin, a veteran of the natsec bureaucracy who ran for Congress for the...
View ArticleDid we give too much away to Big Tech and Big Pharma in the USMCA?
Earlier today I talked about how this trade deal might be the best we could hope to achieve while still having serious flaws that left me with misgivings. Now let's take a look at a couple of those...
View ArticleNY Times story on Trump's executive order set off a major freak-out about...
Yesterday afternoon I wrote about President Trump's plan to issue an executive order aimed at anti-Semitism. The NY Times was the first to report on the executive order and reported that, in order to...
View ArticleDems' national nightmare over: Yang qualifies for DNC debate
Take that, Cory Booker! The DNC stopped "spiraling towards a debate stage with no diversity whatsoever" late yesterday, courtesy of a new Quinnipiac poll. With today's deadline for qualifying for the...
View ArticleShould we just ban all NDAs?
I realize that #MeToo hasn't been on the front page all that much lately and even Epstein (who didn't kill himself) has been shoved to the side by the impeachment follies. But both of those stories...
View ArticleThe Nunes memo was mostly right about the FBI's FISA application (and Comey...
In case you've forgotten, the Nunes memo was a major battle in the long history of the Russia collusion investigation. Released in early February of 2018, the Nunes memo (full text here) pointed out...
View ArticleAnother pollster finds more opposed to impeaching and removing Trump than in...
Yesterday it was Quinnipiac, today it's Monmouth. This new one isn't as bad for Democrats inasmuch as it doesn't show opposition to impeachment and removal growing, as Quinnipiac did. The Q-poll had it...
View ArticleCruz to Horowitz: Did an FBI attorney defraud the FISA court? Horowitz: Yup
Call this the moment that Republicans well and truly pounced. At least that's how The Hill reports it, with a headline blaring that "conservatives rip FBI over IG report." While The Hill also includes...
View ArticleThe coming era of genetically modified superhumans
Ready or not, the arrival of a generation of gene-edited humans that will dominate competitive sports and many other aspects of life are on their way, possibly in the next two or three years. Or they...
View ArticleHarvey Weinstein reaches deal with dozens of his accusers
The outlines of this deal were reported back in May. Now the NY Times reports that all of the principles involved have agreed to the deal, though it will still take more work by lawyers and approval by...
View ArticleMark Levin: "The next president who's a Democrat must be impeached"
Okay, although I don't know that the GOP needed Democrats' impeachment of Trump as motivation to impeach a modern Democratic president. I was reminded today that Andy McCarthy of NRO called for...
View ArticlePelosi spox: How dare McConnell delay the USMCA we sat on all year long!
A lack of preparation on Democrats' part does not constitute an emergency for Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell said yesterday -- but the White House might disagree. The Senate Majority Leader told...
View ArticleWhistleblower's lawyers preparing him for possible Senate trial testimony as...
C'mon, they're not getting 51 votes to call the whistleblower.Although, as you're about to see, they might be a little closer than anyone expected.The legal team is taking no chances, in any...
View ArticleBloomberg is at U.N. climate conference: “Because Donald Trump is not”
Billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg flew to Madrid, Spain to participate in the U.N. annual climate change conference (COP25). Why you might rightfully ask? He took it upon himself to...
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