Lev Parnas, a former business associate of Rudy Giuliani, was convicted last week on six counts related to an illegal campaign finance scheme where a Russian oligarch’s money was used to pay for political contributions made in hopes of political favors. A fake company funneled hundreds of thousands in contributions to pro-Trump campaign committees including…Continue Reading
Trans Activist Ashlee Marie Preston tells MSNBC’s Alex Witt what needs to change following the Dave Chappelle controversy…Continue Reading
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Sunday declined to say whether she plans to run for reelection in 2022 and said she would have to discuss the decision with her family first. The…Continue Reading
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin said Saturday that he will ban critical race theory from schools on his first day in office if he is elected governor of Virginia. “We all know education starts with curriculum,” Youngkin said at a rally…Continue Reading
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Fox News’ Chris Wallace celebrated Jen Psaki as “one of the best press secretaries ever” after a tense exchange she had with his colleague Peter Doocy last week. During a White House press…Continue Reading
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World (Free to Choose Network/Trailer image via YouTube) A walk through some of the legendary economist’s most quotable lines. Few social scientists are able to distill their thoughts into such punchy lines as Thomas Sowell, the great economist whose ideas are celebrated in Jason L. Riley’s inspiring book…Continue Reading
U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, patrol in Mazraeh village, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan in 2010. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters) For far too long, lawmakers have ceded their warmaking powers to the executive. Reform bills gaining steam in the House and Senate would rebalance the scales. It has been…Continue Reading
Carlos eats breakfast at home in the Bronx. (Photo: Edward Keating) Carlos, a soon-to-be-19-year-old from Honduras, is most fond of pastimes and people who bring on temporary amnesia. His former girlfriend, Maria, was one such happy distraction. He plays soccer every Saturday in the Bronx at Mullally Park, just a few blocks from Yankee Stadium. That…Continue Reading
Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images A few weeks ago, the liberal comedian Bill Maher and conservative strategist and pundit Bill Kristol had a brief spat on Maher’s HBO show, putatively over what instigated the tea party but ultimately over the psychic wound that has divided red America and blue America in the Obama years. The rise…Continue Reading
Photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post/Getty Images If you come out in the next 3 minutes,” the e-mail reads, “just look for the SUV trapped in 1983 and rocking to ‘Gloria.’ ” Philippe Reines is BlackBerrying from an Uber car idling outside Union Station in Washington, D.C. Sure enough, there’s the black Suburban, shining in the afternoon…Continue Reading