Montana Gov. Steve Bullock on paper has a strong case for the Democratic nomination for president: He’s a twice-elected governor from a state Donald Trump won in 2016, he worked with a GOP-controlled legislature to expand Medicaid this year, and he is running against dark money in politics. But so far, none of that seems Read More…
Nearly three years after he began serving one of the longest prison terms ever for a member of Congress, former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah returned to federal court in Philadelphia on Friday to push for a lighter sentence now that some of his convictions were overturned on appeal. He left disappointed. Citing his still-standing convictions on 13 other Read More…
Not so long ago — as recently as the cover of the March 2019 Rolling Stone, in fact — they seemed like the best of friends. I’m referring to Nancy Pelosi and the members of “The Squad”: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and (not pictured) Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. They shared some good times. It was Read More…
UPDATED with total viewership numbers: Most of the contenders pulling in big poll numbers take the stage in Miami later today for Night 2 of the Democratic debates on NBC, but Night 1 has set a pretty high bar for Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and the rest to reach. That bar, however, is well below Read More…
Young boy and girl at school lunch table smiling to camera NBC affiliate WBRE reported that the Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania is cracking down on parents who have failed to pay their child’s delinquent school lunch accounts. A letter signed by the district’s federal programs director, Joseph Muth, was sent to parents on Read More…
[Screenshot from CampusReform, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj9IxVlLRl0] Sometimes people hate what Trump says…until they find out Obama said it. Same goes for does and did — “kids in cages,” anyone? Following the President’s recent plan to deport specific illegal immigrants who’ve refused their court order to go home voluntarily, Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips took a trip to Georgetown University Read More…
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Dr. Drew Pinsky, a California-based physician who now hosts a talk radio show, correctly predicted the current typhus outbreak in Los Angeles about 18 months ago. Now he is sounding the alarm about a potential outbreak of the bubonic plague in the Los Angeles area, saying that unless conditions change quickly and drastically, Southern California Read More…
Two former First Ladies weighed in on President Trump’s “send her back” comment Friday. Michelle Obama posted a tweet and Hillary Clinton delivered a call to action in Atlanta. Both women produced eye-roll worthy moments. Hillary Clinton posted a tweet Thursday that set the tone for her speech Friday at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Read More…
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Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world’s media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Learn Read More…
Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisWhat to expect when Mueller testifies: Not much Biden compares Trump to George Wallace CNN Democratic debate drawing finishes third in cable news ratings race MORE (D-Calif.) is coming under pressure to define her policy proposals from rivals raising questions about where she stands on “Medicare for All” and other key Read More…
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[Screenshot from Universal Pictures UK, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_O8DN1CY_E] Have you seen the trailer for Universal’s silver screen version of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Broadway biggie Cats? The feline film is coming to a theater near you, and some online are noting the project’s creepiness. Select cinemaphiles are even likening the kitty cult colossus’s movie manifestation to a horror Read More…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has found something else to blame on the supposed “climate crisis.” A few weeks ago she let us all know that heavy rain in a city built on a swamp was absolute proof of catastrophic global warming. She posted a picture of a few inches of water and called it “unprecedented flooding,” even Read More…
<img class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-399028″ src=”http://www.redstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/eaglre-620×618.jpg” alt=”eaglre” width=”574″ /> Remembering Tranquility Base. It’s been 48 years since we heard those famous words announcing that humans had finally reached another world:Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landedOn July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. As <a href=”https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>NASA reminds us</a> it was a Read More…
What’s going on with California Governor Gavin Newsom these days? After roughly six months in office, you might think that the Democratic chief executive of our nation’s largest state would be the belle of the ball, but the most recent polling shows that this isn’t the case at all. In fact, the number of Golden Read More…
Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzHow to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian energy Cruz calls for ‘every penny’ of El Chapo’s criminal enterprise to be used for Trump’s wall after sentencing Conservatives defend Chris Pratt for wearing ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ T-shirt MORE (R-Texas) said he thinks President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS-Saudi Arabia policy needs a Read More…
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If it happens, ending the electoral college will become as fixed and zealous a Democratic credo as abortion on demand. They’re already 80 percent of the way towards making it party orthodoxy after 2000 and 2016. To lose twice in a row to a character like Trump despite winning more overall votes would convert it Read More…
Japanese American actor George Takei blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS-Saudi Arabia policy needs a dose of ‘realpolitik’ Trump talks to Swedish leader about rapper A$AP Rocky, offers to vouch for his bail Matt Gaetz ahead of Mueller hearing: ‘We are going to reelect the president’ MORE on Friday, comparing recent political rhetoric to what he heard while Read More…
The hashtag #IStandWithErica trended on Twitter on Saturday after a black Georgia state lawmaker said she was told to “go back where you came from” as she shopped at a grocery store. State Rep. Erica Thomas (D), minority vice chairwoman in the Georgia state House, tweeted Friday that she was “verbally assaulted” at the supermarket by Read More…
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, talks to U.S. President Donald Trump, right, prior to a working session at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Saturday, July 8, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July 7 and 8. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) Whenever President Trump lights the internet on fire isn’t your Read More…
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Does this sound kind of … swampy? Only if it works. Concerns began percolating upward about the award of a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon by the Pentagon over the past week, with allegations of impropriety in the bidding process. On Thursday, Donald Trump injected himself into the controversy, declaring that he might Read More…
On his Friday night program, Sean Hannity played a clip of President Trump speaking to reporters earlier in the day. The news that Iran had seized two British oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz had just broken. A pretty significant story, wouldn’t you say? Except that the media’s best and brightest had other more Read More…
Immigrant communities across the country are on edge after mass deportation operations promised by President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS-Saudi Arabia policy needs a dose of ‘realpolitik’ Trump talks to Swedish leader about rapper A$AP Rocky, offers to vouch for his bail Matt Gaetz ahead of Mueller hearing: ‘We are going to reelect the president’ MORE failed Read More…
Democrats in Virginia’s state legislature are vowing to boycott a ceremony in Jamestown later this month celebrating the 400th anniversary of representative government in the country if President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS-Saudi Arabia policy needs a dose of ‘realpolitik’ Trump talks to Swedish leader about rapper A$AP Rocky, offers to vouch for his bail Matt Gaetz Read More…
Perhaps the Chicago Way isn’t quite as impenetrable any more as it’s seemed over the past century or so. Once State Attorney Kim Foxx and her friends managed to make Jussie Smollett’s problems go away for him and seal all the records, that looked like the end of the story. But since that time, a Read More…
Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Nellie Ohr (Image: Wikimedia Commons) When Nellie Ohr, who worked for Fusion GPS and was married to DOJ backchannel official Bruce Ohr, testified before Congress in December 2018, she indicated she had conducted opposition research on President Donald Trump and his family. She also said she’d be willing to share that Read More…
Presented by “Trump’s advisers say he will be better positioned to crack down on spending and shrink or eliminate certain agencies after next year,” wrote WaPo’s Damian Paletta, Jeff Stein and Josh Dawse. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY A NEW SIDE TO TRUMP … FISCAL HAWK? — “Trump tells aides to look for Read More…
Rep. Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzMatt Gaetz hints prosecutor won’t press charges against threatening caller for political reasons Hillicon Valley: Twitter says Trump ‘go back’ tweet didn’t violate rules | Unions back protests targeting Amazon ‘Prime Day’ | Mnuchin voices ‘serious concerns’ about Facebook crypto project | Congress mobilizes on cyber threats to electric grid House Read More…
Iran’s naval forces captured two British oil tankers for alleged “marine violations” on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. One vessel, the Mesdar, has been released and the other, the Stena Impero, remains in Iranian custody. There are 23 crew members on board whom are said to be of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino descent. Foreign Read More…
CBS programming went dark early Saturday morning for millions of viewers using AT&T’s DirecTV and U-verse after the two companies failed to agree on a new distribution deal. CBS announced that starting at 2 a.m. Saturday, AT&T would no longer include CBS-owned television stations in the channel lineups of millions of DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse TV Read More…
The Philadelphia Police Department, in yet another show of political correctness, is forcing its officers to lie. From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Updated: June 25, 2019 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police must use a person’s chosen name and pronoun when interacting with someone who is transgender, regardless of what is listed on their government-issued identification card. Read More…
Montana Senator Jon Tester and President Trump don’t have a good relationship, as we know from when Tester’s mission was to destroy Rear Admiral Jackson’s nomination as Surgeon General. President Trump went on to strongly support Montana’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Tester in 2018. That was to be expected, given Read More…
President TrumpDonald John TrumpCould Donald Trump and Boris Johnson be this generation’s Reagan-Thatcher? Merkel backs Democratic congresswomen over Trump How China’s currency manipulation cheats America on trade MORE is reportedly telling aides to prepare for significant budget cuts should he win reelection, marking a reversal of the sizeable spending the White House has directed since Read More…
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall David Axelrod says Joe Biden is likely to face criticism by two of his most aggressive attackers and several feisty progressives who are desperate for a big moment to keep their bids alive, but it gives him a chance to improve on his weak performance in the first round of debates Read Read More…