Month: January 2020

‘If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” This sound advice, handed down by generations of crusty newspaper editors with unkempt hair and mustard stains on their ties, used to serve reporters well. At the City News Bureau of Chicago, which for decades steered coverage for area reporters, the legend … Read More
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Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses attendees during the AFL-CIO Workers Presidential Summit in Philadelphia, Penn., September 17, 2019. (Mark Makela/Reuters) During his 1972 gubernatorial run, Senator Bernie Sanders told high-school students that the U.S. had committed acts in its war with Vietnam that were “almost as bad as what Hitler did.” An article in
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Attorney Alan Dershowitz addresses a question from senators during the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate Chamber in Washington, January 29, 2020. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) Alan Dershowitz maintained in his Senate testimony this week that a president can be impeached only for treason and bribery (the two offenses that the Constitution
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It’s not over yet … but it’s getting closer and closer to over with this press release e-mailed from the office of retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). After a late-night session closed out the question session of the trial of Donald Trump, Alexander declared he’d heard and seen enough: “I worked with other senators to
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) The Center for Disease Control on Thursday confirmed the first U.S. case of human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus involving a Chicago woman who gave the deadly virus to her husband. “This person-to-person spread was between two very close contacts, a wife and husband,”
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Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg have had Iowa all to themselves this week, while Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, and Elizabeth Warren are trapped at the impeachment trial in Washington.  But Biden and Buttigieg didn’t draw impressive crowds on Thursday: Biden began his day on the campaign trail speaking to a small crowd outside of Des
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Hong Kong closes border with mainland China due to Coronavirus outbreak and CDC reports suicide rate climbing in America. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks in Columbia, S.C., January 20, 2020. (Sam Wolfe/Reuters) A centrist super-PAC funded by supporters of Israel is in full anybody-but-Bernie mode as the first-in-the-nation caucuses near. Iowa’s tiny Jewish community doesn’t normally play a serious role in the first-in-the-nation presidential-nominating caucuses that make the Hawkeye State the center
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks to reporters after learning that she received the endorsement of the Des Moines Register in Muscatine, Iowa, U.S., January 25, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The answers are invariably formulaic and dissembling If I could give one piece of completely nonpartisan, non-ideological advice to political reporters that would actually be in their interests
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White House counsel Pat Cipollone speaks during opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2020. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) Chief White House counsel Pat Cipollone traded barbs with House Intelligence Committee Chairman and impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) over the alleged coordination between Schiff’s
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A needle used for shooting heroin and other opioids lies in the street in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) Deaths from drug overdoses dipped in 2018 for the first time in nearly two decades as the nation continues to battle the opioid crisis. The number of drug overdoses deaths dropped 4.1 percent
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Who can deny the value of laughter over a crazy video going viral in social media during the days of impeachment, impeachment, impeachment? Tuesday several videos delivered on a welcome distraction from daily political discourse. Michael Bloomberg provided the most entertainment. If he continues like this, he will be a strong contender for Joe Biden’s
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr warned New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan of “an organized, militant secular effort” to suppress religion in “the marketplace of ideas” in an interview Wednesday. “The problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views
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CNN television news anchor Don Lemon (Mike Segar/Reuters) His performance in that segment is going to be a way bigger help to the incumbent president than anything that Trump could ever do for himself. A  video of CNN news anchor Don Lemon laughing hysterically as his guests mocked Donald Trump’s supporters went viral this week —
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President Donald Trump greets Chinese Vice Premier Liu He after signing phase one of the U.S.-China trade agreement in the East Room of the White House, January 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) An email in response to my NRO article, “Navarro’s Faith-Based Case for Tariffs.” Your recent observations on China and trade compel me to make
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 15, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Late Tuesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein made a comment to reporters that certainly sounded like she was, at minimum, considering acquitting Trump in the impeachment trial: “Nine months left to go, the people should judge. We are a republic,
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Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) On Wednesday, after the Virginia Senate deadlocked 20-20 on a bill repealing several modest abortion restrictions in the state, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax cast a tie-breaking vote to pass the legislation. Senate Bill 733 would remove Virginia’s requirement that only doctors may perform abortion in order to
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