The Black Lives Matter movement does not have many legislative accomplishments. But the passage of Proposition 47 in California in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014 is one of them. It has been a complete and predicted disaster, and California voters are now trying to repeal it with another ballot proposition this year. […]
President Joe Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes.
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Thursday endorsed former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in his Senate race in the deep-blue state.
No one is likely to accuse Netflix’s new limited series Eric of a lack of ambition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and created by British playwright and TV veteran Abi Morgan (River, The Split), it fairly crackles with aspirational energy. The problem is the series’s utter inability to find a coherent tone. Imagine Mrs. Doubtfire embroiled in […]
Sometimes, there’s a stupid sort of contest among soldiers. I’ll call it the “Hardcore Olympics.” Soldiers and veterans will tease each other or argue about who had the toughest job or roughest deployment. At its worst, the Hardcore Olympics will have infantry guys proclaiming, “If you ain’t infantry, you ain’t nothing.” I wish those guys […]
A concerned citizen made a 911 call on a balmy Wednesday evening in Spokane, Washington, at the beginning of June. Youths were committing a hateful act of vandalism, one for which they would shortly be arrested. The company whose product the young people used to commit the act of vandalism even released a statement, saying […]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) slammed her Republican colleagues who voted to block legislation on Thursday that would have codified into law the national right to access in vitro fertilization (IVF). In an interview on CNN’s “The Source,” Kaitlan Collins asked Klobuchar what her message is to Senate Republicans who say they support IVF but voted...
Legislation that could have ended a years-long freeze on pay raises for lawmakers was changed to uphold the pause as it passed out of committee on Thursday. The House Appropriations Committee sent the annual spending bill to fund the legislative branch to the floor for consideration with a 33-24 vote. The House is expected to...
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) defended former President Trump after reporting surfaced that he called Milwaukee a “horrible city” in a closed-door meeting with Republicans earlier Thursday. "Well, he said nothing that I considered an insult to Milwaukee,” Grothman, who was in the meeting with Trump, said on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” when asked about the remarks....