Gov. Steve Bullock said Wednesday he needs a “willing partner” to call a special legislative session and address the state’s budget revenue shortfalls. Bullock met with the Chronicle editorial board Wednesday to talk about the decision he needs to make regarding budget cuts. READ THE FULL STORY.
State Rep. Tom Woods said Thursday he will challenge GOP Congressman Greg Gianforte for Montana’s at-large congressional seat in the House of Representatives. “Montanans deserve a government that is by people and for people,” the Bozeman Democrat said. “That principle is what this country was founded on. The principle of putting people first is what Read More…
Fourth-generation Montanan and 22-year District Judge Russ Fagg made a stop in Kalispell Monday to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. A small crowd gathered for Fagg’s announcement in front of the Flathead County Courthouse on the crisp, clear morning. “It’s just about a perfect day in the Flathead Valley, and it’s an honor Read More…
Here are the highlights from Monday’s proceedings in the federal corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez. Menendez, a Democrat and New Jersey’s senior senator, is charged with doing official favors for his friend and co-defendant, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, in exchange for expensive hotel stays, private jet flights and hundreds of thousands of Read More…
The good news: this paves the way for tax reform. The bad news: the tax reform, and this budget, are highly irresponsible, as they do nothing to control spending in an era of a $20 trillion deficit: Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a budget measure that will unlock the route to a sweeping tax overhaul, Read More…
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Quentin Tarantino said last week he needed time to process his feelings about the revelations that his friend Harvey Weinstein had harassed and assaulted dozens of women. Wednesday, in an hour-long interview with the NY Times, Tarantino admitted he knew enough about Weinstein’s behavior long before this week but that he didn’t follow up on Read More…
Well here’s a fun little nightmare before you head to bed. Google, in an attempt to compete with Amazon’s Alexa/Dot and Apple’s Siri, developed a voice assistant speaker that was scheduled to go on sale yesterday. They sent test units around to reporters before the speakers hit shelves. One of those reporters discovered that the Read More…
Makes sense. It’s the only show more hostile to Trump than North Korea’s own propaganda is. The funniest thing about this report is that “Morning Joe” is, relatively speaking, a hard show for most *Americans* to understand, let alone North Koreans. It’s the ultimate Beltway insider program, tailored to the tastes of political junkies. Imagine Read More…
Stupid, but unfortunately this stupidity is baked into the jurisprudential cake due to the intractability of the underlying problem. It’d be nice to set a bright-line rule about religious symbols on state land, where they’re either always okay or never okay. But neither of those positions works. You can’t have a system where they’re always Read More…
“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session,” Surrogate court Judge Gideon Tucker once wrote. If that’s true, then watch out when the US Senate gets transformed into a 24/7 operation. A group of Republican members have sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urging him to declare Read More…
Delusions of grandiosity. But he’s totally not a malignant narcissist. President Trump, along with VP Pence, Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long took part in a meeting with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, who was in Washington to request more disaster relief Read More…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced Thursday that he would not be attending the Women’s Convention, one week after the announcement that he would be the kickoff speaker for the event created an instant backlash. From the Hill: “I want to apologize to the organizers of the Women’s Convention for not being able to attend your conference next Read More…
For the second time in a week, “Salon conservatives” are high-fiving over an anti-Trump speech delivered by a Republican whose heyday came a decade ago. And for the second time in a week, it’s pretty much only Salon conservatives on the right who are high-fiving. Watching the praise for Bush pour in this morning from Read More…
White House Chief of Staff john Kelly on Oct. 19 criticized Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) for comments she made at an FBI building dedication in 2015. (Reuters) To White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the conversation between the president of the United States and the spouse of a fallen soldier is “sacred.” And Read More…
It takes an awful lot of bravery to be a lefty in the entertainment business, doesn’t it? It takes a real hero to go on television and say the same thing that your friends, co-workers, and the people who sign your paycheck want you to say. As the MRC reports, Matt Lauer is super-duper proud Read More…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. The Kim regime in North Korea has threatened the US with an “unimaginable strike” if … oh, you have heard this one before? Carry on: An angry North Korea is lashing out again, issuing a new threat of military action against the U.S. The country’s state-run media Read More…
President Trump said on Oct. 19 that the Puerto Rico disaster response was “the most difficult,” but that he would rate the White House’s response “a 10.” (The Washington Post) President Trump held a news conference with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló on Thursday. In it, Trump rated his own response to the devastation that Hurricane Read More…
When America has followed pro-growth economic policies, its economy has grown at a real annual rate of 3.5 to 4 percent. At 4 percent real growth, the real economy, and national income, double every 18 years. After another 18 years, they double again, making them 4 times as large, because the multiplication is geometric, compounding year Read More…
White House Chief of Staff john Kelly on Oct. 19 criticized Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) for comments she made at an FBI building dedication in 2015. (Reuters) White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly stood up for his boss, President Trump, during a media briefing on Thursday, telling reporters that he is the Read More…
Last Saturday the 54 member board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to remove Harvey Weinstein. The board issued a statement on the reasons for this decision. From the NY Times: In a statement, the academy said the vote was “well in excess of the required two-thirds majority.” It added, “We Read More…
FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein participates in the “War and Peace” panel at the A&E 2016 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif. The Foundation for AIDS Research, known as amfAR, announced Thursday, Jan. 28, that Weinstein will be the guest of honor at a black-tie dinner on Feb. 10, Read More…
Between innings at most professional baseball games, young and lithe cheer squads prance out onto the field near the foul line accompanied by a goofily costumed team employee to unleash a Hobbesian “state of nature” on the assembled crowds. Armed with a T-shirt cannon and a dozen more balled up pieces of sweatshop-made team gear, Read More…
One of the most effective damage-control performances you’ll ever see by possibly the only man in the administration with the moral authority to do it. John Kelly isn’t just a retired Marine general, he’s the father of a U.S. soldier killed in action in Afghanistan himself. If you believe CNN, he had no warning that Read More…
It’s still early, but a large number of Americans are already calling it: Donald Trump will go down as one of the worst presidents in our history. A new Marist Poll reveals the negative outlook harbored towards a Trump presidency. According to the poll, 42 percent of respondents said that Trump will leave behind a Read More…
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Thursday confirmed that President Donald Trump told the wife of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger earlier this month, “he knew what he was getting himself into.” Trump’s statement to the Miami, Florida widow was overheard by Rep. Fredrica Wilson (D-Fla.), who later made the rounds to Read More…
Richard Spencer at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Let’s start with what Richard Spencer — the man whose appearance at the University of Florida on Thursday triggered a state of emergency — calls himself. Spencer prefers the term “identitarian.” He also characterizes his views as “alternative right” or “alt-right.” News outlets generally consider those phrases Read More…
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly says he was stunned by the response of Congresswoman Federica Wilson, who was with a widow of a fallen soldier during a phone call from President Donald Trump. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). ▲ Hide Transcript ▶ View Transcript ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) The White House was Read More…
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, right-click the video and choose Unmute.) Join us Read More…
FILE – In this March 25, 2012, file photo, then U.S. President Barack Obama looks through binoculars to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, the tense military border between the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea. Straddling the world’s most heavily fortified border, the Korean truce village of Panmunjom is Read More…
Does the US have a duty to provide access for underaged illegal aliens in their custody to obtain abortions? That sounds like a question designed to touch as many culture war hot buttons as possible, but that scenario has played out in Texas and in federal courts this week. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Read More…
White House chief of staff John Kelly said Thursday that President Donald Trump had done the best he could in calling the widow of a slain U.S. Army sergeant killed in Niger earlier this month. “If you’ve never been in combat, you can’t even imagine how to make that call,” Kelly told reporters in a Read More…
Acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Thomas Homan gave a speech at Heritage earlier in the week and his key point was that the focal point of immigration enforcement efforts is shifting from the border to employers. [embedded content] “[A]s long as they think they can come here and get U.S. Read More…
Gov. Steve Bullock said Wednesday he needs a “willing partner” to call a special legislative session and address the state’s budget revenue shortfalls. Bullock met with the Chronicle editorial board Wednesday to talk about the decision he needs to make regarding budget cuts. READ THE FULL STORY.
Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File The tale of Harvey Weinstein is now a thread that has tangled its way through Hollywood, connecting women, mostly actresses, in a depressingly common way. We all seem to have a Harvey story, each one a little different but with essentially the same nauseating pattern and theme. Women were bullied, cajoled, manipulated, and worse, and then Read More…
After Charlottesville, the mask of irony that wrong-footed so many commentators was ripped from the U.S. alt-right. And more recently, an email leak reported by Buzzfeed has stripped the irony defense from Breitbart’s former star provocateur Milo Yiannopolous, who, leaked internal records show, was the celebrity nexus connecting Nazi-saluting race warriors, powerful Republican funders, and members of Read More…
When America has followed pro-growth economic policies, its economy has grown at a real annual rate of 3.5 to 4 percent. At 4 percent real growth, the real economy, and national income, double every 18 years. After another 18 years, they double again, making them 4 times as large, because the multiplication is geometric, compounding year Read More…
For fark’s sake. The guy’s accused of rape, by more than one woman. What sort of behavior does she think “invited” that? Even his somewhat less egregious offenses are inexplicable in terms of an invitation. Does anyone think Lauren Sivan put out the vibe upon meeting famous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein that she was hoping Read More…
President Donald Trump will give an address to Republican Senators during their weekly policy lunch next Tuesday according to Politico, marking the first time he has done so at the Capitol, according to Politico. While this is the first time he has done so at the Capitol, he has addressed Republican Senators before when he hosted the Read More…
Let’s not forget, folks. President Trump calls each and every family of every fallen U.S. soldier, traditionally. He’s 9 months into his term, but already, he’s done more for vets, shown more compassion, bridged more divides than any president, living or dead, in the nation’s history. Truly, he is a legend in his own mind. Read More…
Former President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that “bigotry seems emboldened” in America, and “our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.” Speaking at the Bush Institute’s Spirit of Liberty event in New York, the 43rd president warned against the isolationism and trade protectionism that Trump has long espoused. “People are Read More…
The Associated Press reports the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, on Thursday, temporarily stayed Judge Chutkan’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to allow the illegal alien teenager to obtain an abortion. Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the Trump administration to allow an illegal alien teenager to obtain an abortion. On Read More…
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