Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's net worth is approaching $250 million in a surging stock market, and pressure also is growing for the California Democrat and others in Congress to ban lawmakers from individual stock trades.
While Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is out complaining about racism and bigotry in other states, it turns out that hate crimes have surged in supposedly tolerant California during his tenure. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, reported hate crimes (described as “crimes with reasonable evidence of motivation based on a victim’s race/ethnicity, gender, […]
President Joe Biden’s flailing reelection campaign shows that blind party loyalty to the status quo can, in fact, cost parties elections. All the alarms are blaring about Biden’s campaign, given that he is consistently polling behind former President Donald Trump despite having beaten Trump in 2020, Biden being the incumbent, and Trump being Trump. A […]
When special counsel Robert Hur announced he wouldn’t bring charges against President Joe Biden for his improper handling of documents, he set off a torrent of anger among Biden’s supporters — because he did it in a way that made Biden look bad. This isn’t an unfair criticism of Hur, but it applies 1,000 times […]
Last week, President Joe Biden commemorated George Floyd‘s death with several social media postings and a statement released by the White House. He repeated the anecdote about meeting Floyd’s daughter since he’s been president. “The day before George Floyd’s funeral, his young daughter Gianna told me, ‘Daddy changed the world,'” Biden said. “Four years after […]
Hot off the heels of his wildly successful Netflix series The Gentlemen, filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s latest project is effectively his version of a James Bond film, set amid World War II. An adaptation of Damien Lewis’s 2014 nonfiction book about Operation Postmaster, the film features Ian Fleming, a British intelligence officer in 1942, conspiring with Prime Minister […]
For 3 1/2 years, the Biden White House has seemed remarkably leakproof. Even amid popular backlash to administration policies — the spending splurge in 2021 that was followed by sharp inflation in 2022 and 2023, the changes in enforcement of immigration laws that have produced numbers of incoming illegal immigrants unmatched even in border boom […]
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ron Wyden (D-Oreg.) are scrutinizing a data analytic firm over concerns the services it provides to insurance companies are leaving patients with "sky-high medical bills." The senators issued a letter last week to Travis Dalton, president and CEO of the healthcare data analytics firm MultiPlan, stating their concerns over reports...
Less Americans are planning to donate to political campaigns compared to 2020, according to a new survey from LendingTree. According to the survey, 26 percent of Americans are intending to give to a political campaign this year. In comparison, 36 percent of Americans said they were planning to give money to a political campaign in...
Former President Trump on Wednesday praised Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for his refusal to recuse himself from upcoming cases related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021, after it was reported that flags connected to the “Stop The Steal” effort were flown outside his homes. "Congratulations to United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel...