Written by Jorge Gomez
Are court packing and radical “court reform” making a comeback? A coalition of 30+ activist organizations relaunched an effort calling for “structural changes” to the U.S. Supreme Court.
They kicked off their “Just Majority” campaign this week in Boston alongside Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley. This is the first stop in a nationwide bus tour scheduled to end in late June in Washington.… Continue Reading
Written by Michael Barone
When the Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page lead story that the Department of Energy had concluded the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a leak from China’s Wuhan laboratory, you might have argued it was old news. The FBI had already, it turns out, come to the same conclusion and with a higher degree of confidence (moderate) than the Energy Department (low).
Those agencies’ conclusions, moreover, came as a result of a May 21 directive from President Joe Biden to multiple intelligence agencies to review two “equally plausible scenarios” for COVID’s origin, “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal” (the zoonotic theory) “or from a laboratory accident” (the lab leak theory).… Continue Reading
Tags: Alina Chen, Anthony Fauci, Apoorva Mandavilli, China virus, Cochrane Library, COVID–19, Department of Energy, Donald Trump, Fox News, Gabe Kaminsky, Joe Biden, Kristian Andersen, Matt Ridley, Michael Barone, Nate Silver, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Review, Nicholas Wade, Scripps Research Institute, The Lancet, The New York Times, Tom Cotton, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Wuhan Institute of Virology
COVID, Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
March 4, 2023 8:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
What part of a judge being soft on child pornography offenders don’t they understand?
Having embraced every perversion under the sun and proclaimed it all good, Democrats in the U.S. Senate predictably voted 50-0 on Thursday to affirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
That would include Joe Manchin. The senator from West Virginia has stood in the gap against some of the Democrats’ worst schemes like “Build Back Better.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Biden Administration, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Build Back Better, Donald Trump, Dwight Eisenhower, FBI, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, John F. Kennedy, John McCain, Josh Hawley, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Lee, Mitt Romney, New York Post, Peggy Noonan, Richard Nixon, Susan Collins, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Cotton, U.S. Sentencing Commission, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith |
April 11, 2022 6:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
You know it’s getting thick when even U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says Facebook and other social media are too censorious.
First, she took the mandatory shot at Donald Trump. “I’m glad that he’s not on Facebook,” the Massachusetts Democrat said of the ban on the former president upheld on May 5 by a Facebook appeals board. “I think that he poses a real danger.”
She went on: “But I don’t think that Facebook ought to have this kind of power.… Continue Reading
Tags: Adam Smith, Amy Klobucher, Apple, Big Media, Big Tech, Bust Up Big Tech Act, CCP, COVID–19, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Google, James Freeman, Josh Hawley, Kelly Loeffler, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Mark Zuckerberg, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act, Parler.com, Prager U, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Robert Epstein, Roger Wicker, Section 230 Immunity, Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Vimeo, Wall Street Journal, World Health Organization, YouTube
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
May 17, 2021 8:00 AM |
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Written by David Limbaugh
I haven’t seen much humor in life during the past year or so, but one thing that has been uproariously hilarious lately is the orchestrated media narrative that President Joe Biden is bipartisan and conciliatory. Please give me a moment to catch my breath.
I think it was Karl Rove who recently observed that the media’s effective definition of bipartisan legislation is not that significant numbers of both parties’ lawmakers support a bill but that some poll somewhere shows that a large percentage of Americans of each party support some vaguely described initiative, even if zero Republican legislators support the actual bill.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bipartisanship, David Limbaugh, Ed Markey, Election integrity, Human Rights Council, Jerry Nader, Jim Crow laws, Joe Biden, Karl Rove, Kristen Clarke, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Never-Trumpers, Newt Gingrich, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, United Nations
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
April 16, 2021 6:00 AM |
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Written by Austin Bay
The psychological-warfare attack — its script straight from the antifa/Black Lives Matter version of the Cold War’s Marxist playbook — began in January when the predictable chorus of hard-left hacks in academia, media and government vilified the American military with toxic allegations calculated to demoralize military personnel, sow destructive institutional suspicion and undermine command authority with the goal of weakening U.S. national security.
The propaganda ploy the hard left’s commissars, fuhrers and utopian messiahs use in their psychological assault first targets individuals. … Continue Reading
Tags: Air Force, Army, Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, Democratic Party, Department of Defense, Marines, national security, Navy, Tom Cotton, U.S. Military
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
March 31, 2021 8:00 AM |
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Written by Charles Lipson
On his first day as president, Joe Biden issued an “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities.” Mr. Biden’s cabinet nominees must now explain whether this commitment to “equity” means they intend to abolish “equal treatment under law.” Their answers are a confused mess.
Arkansas U.S. Senator Tom Cotton raised the question explicitly in confirmation hearings. Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland responded: “I think discrimination is morally wrong. Absolutely.”… Continue Reading
Tags: affirmative action, discrimination, Equity, Housing and Urban Development, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Marcia Fudge, Merrick Garland, social justice, Tom Cotton
Marriage, Family & Culture, Media Watch | David E. Smith |
March 8, 2021 4:00 AM |
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Written by Elise Cooper
Slanted is the third book by Sharyl Attkisson, and as with her other two, it is a refreshing read. It is nice to know that there are still independent journalists who put fact over opinion, and she is one of those. To no one’s surprise, she talks about the shift in the news, from a focus on reporting the facts to more on trying to push a narrative on the American people.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1984, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, American Thinker, Carolyn Ryan, Elise Cooper, Facebook, George Orwell, Google, Jeremy Peters, Ministry of Truth, Sharyl Attkisson, Slanted, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tom Cotton, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
December 8, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
For every person who fits the profile of the El Paso shooter, there are likely thousands who fit the profile of Maurice Hill, the man arrested for shooting six cops in north Philadelphia [last week]. Based on a quick look at court documents from Philadelphia and Delaware Counties, Hill has a rap sheet dating back to 2001 that includes charges for illegal gun possession, drugs, driving offenses, assault, burglary, theft, robbery, kidnapping, and attempted murder.… Continue Reading
Tags: Chuck Schumer, criminal justice reform, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Dukakis Democrats, El Paso shooter, Eric Holder, felon, illegal gun possession, Ivanka Trump, Kamala Harris, Lindsey Graham, Maurice Hill, Michael Dukakis, Richard Blumenthal, Second Amendment, Tom Cotton, “First Step” Act, “red flag” bill
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
August 19, 2019 5:01 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
“So, is she lying or telling the truth?” That is the question on all the minds of the political animals, but that is not the most important question for the average citizen or for those who care about public policy. With a growing trend of sexual accusations coming forth from decades ago lodged against all sorts of people, this is about more than the two subjects of the public spectacle. The most important question is what sort of standard we are going to pursue for criminal justice, whether in a real court or a court of public opinion.… Continue Reading
Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Criminal Justice, Democratic Party, Fifth Amendment, Hollywood, incarceration, Tom Cotton, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
October 1, 2018 5:00 AM |
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