They said it couldn’t be done. A Liberian refugee who escaped a civil war could never be elected to office. And certainly couldn’t do it in Montana. They do not know Montana. They do not know America. Where if you dream, and if you work hard, anything is possible. I may not look or Read More…
There is little less unifying than our collective hate of robocalls. It’s a bipartisan issue, and unwanted calls, by far, elicit the most complaints to the Federal Communications Commission. I often receive as many robocalls over the course of a day as regular calls. And, in recent months, it has only gotten worse. For everyone. Read More…
The 66th legislative session is completed. I was humbled by the opportunity to serve the citizens of Flathead County in my first session. Now that the session is over, it is right and proper that I detail for my constituents my observations. Montana, like America throughout its history, has a two-party political system. Since Read More…
The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood. We spent an hour or two together while his toddler daughter cruised around. We talked politics Read More…
Parents should adopt a rule when it comes to technology: If the individuals who created a device or social network won’t post their children on it, neither will I. Like most Americans, you probably use social media to keep in touch with everyone from your high-school friends to colleagues, posting updates about your family, your Read More…
MAYSVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky state Rep. John Sims is a Democrat. He also voted for the state’s recent heartbeat bill, which bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.In a country where Democrats are viewed as overwhelmingly pro-choice, Sims seems like an oddity. Blue states like New York are increasingly expanding a woman’s right Read More…
When Galileo Galilei finished writing his last work, “Two New Sciences,” he had trouble finding a publisher. Galileo had been branded a heretic, and his work was prohibited by the Inquisition. A patron arranged for the book to be published in Venice and then chickened out. The House of Elzevir (whose name lives on in Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles NEW YORK (AP) — NBC set the lineup for its two-night debate of 2020 presidential contenders later this month, with a top-heavy second session that will pit former Vice President Joe Biden onstage against 2016 Democratic runner-up, Bernie Sanders, the youthful Mayor Pete Buttigieg and California Sen. Kamala Harris. The Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope that implicit U.S. threats to use force will yield talks with the Islamic Republic as the Pentagon considers beefing up defenses in the Persian Read More…
Amanda Sloat, Opinion contributor Published 8:15 a.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 8:48 a.m. ET June 15, 2019 CLOSE After 2016, several Clinton-supporting friends were appalled that I could even speak to my dad. Now he’s gone, and I see how he taught me empathy. The last present I bought my dad was a Read More…
CLOSE In honor of fathers everywhere, here are ten facts about the day we spend celebrating them. 10Best Editors, USA TODAY 10Best A story in a World War II-era newspaper gave me insight into how an Austria couple — my parents — escaped Nazis and built a home in England, America. I had little more Read More…
Mary Vought, Opinion contributor Published 4:00 a.m. ET June 15, 2019 CLOSE Trump was right to question the UK’s National Health Service. Single-payer health care prevents patients from procuring drugs to live longer and well. Somewhat surprisingly, President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to the United Kingdom sparked controversy over health care. At a press Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Last week, The New York Times ran a story about a study on Google and the press. The story claims that Google made $4.7 billion off the content created by American news outlets. The story is based on research done by the News Media Alliance. The Times reports, “That $4.7 Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles The news broke, appropriately enough, on Twitter. “After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas,” President Trump wrote in one tweet. “She is a very special person with Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles “History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance,” John Dean told the judiciary committee, drawing a parallel between Watergate, which brought down Richard Nixon, and “Russiagate” which has bedeviled Donald Trump. But what strikes this veteran of Nixon’s White House is not the similarities but the stark differences. Watergate began Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles The selective outrage from the left surrounding foreign interference in U.S. elections is beyond hypocritical — it’s absurd. Take President Trump’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday. When asked by the TV anchor if his campaign would accept information from foreign nations, including China or Russia, that could damage Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles “Know what I was most proud of?” presidential candidate Joe Biden told a crowd on Wednesday. “For eight years, there wasn’t one single hint of a scandal or a lie.” In an era where every presidential tweet is an existential threat to democracy, there are probably plenty of people who Read More…
It’s clear that President Trump had good reason to send the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, flanked by destroyers and cruisers, to the Persian Gulf to protect shipping lanes from Iranian aggression. Then again, if American military power is merely political performance art, rather than a tool of genuine deterrence, what’s the point? Even as Prime Read More…
President Trump’s detractors are trying to play down the significance of the US-Mexico immigration deal, saying it is largely comprised of actions that Mexico had already agreed to many months ago. Nice try. If Mexico had truly agreed to implement many of these measures in December, then why had they not been implemented six months Read More…
It was just father and son out there on the prairie, working the ranch. The town knew the dad as a model citizen, ready to step in at any hint of trouble to keep the peace. The son minded his manners and performed his daily chores without complaint. This was “The Rifleman,” which aired from Read More…
Urban beat: Central Park 5 Film Is Aimed at Trump President Trump’s role in the prosecution of the Central Park Five looks “pivotal” in Netflix’s dramatization of the story, notes Seth Barron at City Journal. Yet, while Trump placed a full-page ad at the time demanding “a tough-on-crime approach” and a return of the death Read More…
Mayor de Blasio doesn’t run the subways, but his homeless policies are still helping gum them up. Naturally, City Hall’s response to that news was: more of the same. The MTA reports that homeless-related incidents spiked 50 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to the same time in 2018. And, of Read More…
| Posted: Jun 15, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. If President Trump has a superpower, it’s saying things that get under the skin of the Left and Never Trumpers. It’s a struggle for many to discern whether his statements are calculated Read More…
| Posted: Jun 15, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. What the heck was President Trump doing? What was he thinking when he told ABC’s star fake journalist George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday that if a foreign adversary offered him dirt on a Read More…
“Trump and his administration have repeatedly rolled back existing (LGBT) protections, especially for transgender Americans…“This is an all-out attack on not only the rights of trans people but our very existence in the public square,” says Charlotte Clymer, an LGBTQ activist and press secretary at the Human Rights Campaign. “Never have transgender people been under Read More…
| Posted: Jun 15, 2019 12:01 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. Dealing with a complicated and fragile situation somewhere in the Middle East has become an expected staple within the massive foreign policy portfolio of any modern American president. Often the exacting circumstances Read More…
Presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced his “Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice.” While it might be viewed as a Green New Deal Lite, the plan would inflict serious economic, environmental and societal pain on most of the nation, for no climate benefits. First, as I’ve pointed out here and elsewhere, Mr. Read More…
Could everyone in America live above the poverty line if only employers were less greedy? Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks that. He also thinks that Medicaid, food stamps and other poverty programs are subsidizing corporate greed — because they make it possible for employers to pay low wages. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) calls the federal minimum wage Read More…
Since he launched his presidential campaign in 2015, Donald Trump has masterfully labeled the media as “fake news” for their ongoing liberal bias and censorship of conservatives. One method the “fake news” media uses to ridicule President Trump is to champion supposedly independent polls that show his low approval rating. The latest tactic is to Read More…
Kudos to the Legislature and Gov. Cuomo for doing the right thing on vaccines. It was touch-and-go: The bill to end the “religious exemption” from laws mandating basic public-health vaccinations almost died in committee. But Assemblyman Nader Sayegh (D-W’chester) courageously changed his vote to let the measure move to the floor. The current measles outbreak Read More…
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza insists he’s under attack because of his ethnicity and his focus on racial justice, but it increasingly looks like everything is a cover for simply packing the top reaches of the city Department of Education with his cronies. One of his first moves on taking over was to add a whole Read More…
Paul Brandus, Opinion columnist Published 2:46 p.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 3:13 p.m. ET June 14, 2019 CLOSE During her time as press secretary, Sanders has lied repeatedly on behalf of the president. Now, she’s leaving him to lie for himself. Listening to White House reporters complain about Sarah Sanders, the outgoing White Read More…
Share This Story! Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about Fallon says Trump is abiding by the gentlemen’s code: Don’t ‘collude and tell.’ How do the comics explain Trump’s foreign government cooperation? Take a look in Best of Late Night. Post to Facebook Sent! A link has been sent to Read More…
James S. Robbins, Opinion Columnist Published 11:35 a.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 12:01 p.m. ET June 14, 2019 CLOSE During the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the Reagan administration faced off a spate of tanker attacks with targeted military force and smart diplomacy. On Thursday two tankers in the Gulf of Oman were Read More…
American companies recently made headlines for saying that abortion is good for business and essential to women’s equality. But their actions indicate otherwise. Nearly 200 CEOs and company executives publicly expressed support for U.S. abortion in a full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times on June 10. Since then, others have added their Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles This week, the Democratic leadership in Congress held an impromptu strategy session in a Capitol Hill restaurant. Present were Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Whip Dick Durbin. From the lower chamber was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip James Clyburn. RealClearPolitics obtained a Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Hello, it’s June 14, a Friday, the day of the week when I pass along an inspirational quotation. This morning’s quote comes from President Trump, who turns 73 today. Are you curious what Trumpism I have up my sleeve? Good. But first, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular press briefings and questions about the administration’s credibility, as well as her own, will leave her post at the end of the month, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. Trump said he’s encouraging Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is expanding options for employers to use special accounts to help workers buy their own health insurance, upgrade job-based coverage, or choose low-cost plans with limited benefits, officials said Thursday. The tax-free individual accounts are called “health reimbursement arrangements,” or HRAs, and starting next Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles The U.S. Education Department has opened investigations into foreign funding at Georgetown University and Texas A&M University as part of a broader push to monitor international money flowing to American colleges. Both universities are being ordered to disclose years of financial records amid concerns they have not fully reported their Read More…
USA TODAY Published 8:00 a.m. ET June 14, 2019 CLOSE From Trump impeachment to Boy Scout sex abuse to an alternative abortion policy, here are some of our top columns this week. In today’s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we’ve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump took the unusual step of pledging to choose his Supreme Court nominees from a list vetted and compiled by two well-established conservative outside groups, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. That step provided Republicans wary of how Trump would govern with reassurance that their Read More…
| Posted: Jun 14, 2019 9:32 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. The Ohio state legislature is considering HB 6, the Ohio Clean Air Program–a poorly named bill that will cost Ohio families money and harm clean energy job growth, all the while failing to improve Read More…
Sarah Armstrong, Opinion contributor Published 5:00 a.m. ET June 14, 2019 CLOSE The military appeals court did not deliver justice for the West Point rape victim; it allowed her traumatic experience to be replayed and rewritten. Three military appellate judges last week overturned U.S. Military Academy Cadet Jacob Whisenhunt’s conviction for raping a sleeping classmate, which had Read More…