[ad_1] Judge Amy Coney Barrett listens during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2020. (Susan Walsh/Reuters) The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination at its executive business meeting on Thursday in a 12-0 vote with no Democrats present. The ten Democratic senators on the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump walks on stage before delivering remarks during a Latinos For Trump campaign event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Fla., September 25, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) On the menu today: a deep look at Latinos, who might be the last of the swing voters in our heavily polarized political

[ad_1] Judge Amy Coney Barrett poses for a photo before a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 21, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/Reuters) Senate Judiciary Democrats plan to boycott a committee vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination on Thursday. Republicans will still hold the vote and advance the nomination, even if the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign event in Fayetteville, N.C., September 19, 2020. (File photo: Tom Brenner/Reuters) In Newport Beach, supporters were out in force for a rare campaign stop in the deep-blue state. At a Republican campaign rally in Fullerton, Calif., some years ago, President Reagan was stumping for then-presidential candidate George

[ad_1] (Kuzma/Getty Images) Newly proposed capital rules for Fannie and Freddie will protect taxpayers from another crisis. You may not have heard much about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae since the financial crisis of 2008. Back then, the taxpayer bailed out the institutions after they became insolvent and put them into federal conservatorship, where they’ve

[ad_1] The New England Journal of Medicine is a progressive menace when it comes to policy and cultural issues. In our latest example, the Journal published a doctor who helped his non-terminally ill grandfather starve himself to death–and it is presented as a reason to expand assisted suicide eligibility. The 103 year-old had the usual

[ad_1] CNN Host and Senior Media Correspondent Brian Stelter speaks on the “Trust, Truth and the Future of Journalism” panel at the Media Literacy Week Kick-off event at the Thomson Reuters building in Manhattan, November 6, 2017. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) CNN anchor Brian Stelter on Wednesday chided a reporter after she criticized the media’s double standard

[ad_1] (Bill Chizek/Getty Images) The big news on the judicial nominations front is, of course, the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Following her hearings last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding an executive business meeting tomorrow, when it is expected to vote her nomination out to the full

[ad_1] By a vote of 12 to 3—with, to my surprise, all three of President Trump’s appointees in the majority—the en banc Fourth Circuit today (in Wise v. Circosta) denied the request by Republican legislators in North Carolina for emergency injunctive relief barring the state board of elections from extending by six days its deadline

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden waves to journalists in New Castle, Del., October 18, 2020. If all of this is such a wild conspiracy theory, then Biden should be eager to dispel it. First, Joe Biden’s Praetorian Guard argued that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden scoop was “Russian disinformation.” The DOJ, FBI, and

[ad_1] The Google sign on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, Calif., October 20, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Trump administration’s lawsuit against Google doesn’t live up to the hype. Early reports suggested a bipartisan group of state attorneys general might join together with the feds and demand the company’s breakup. Instead, the eleven

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B ack in 2018, I wrote about the phenomenon of Great Southern Democratic Hopes — candidates with not-so-great chances of success running in a Republican-learning state who receive wildly optimistic coverage from national media organizations and reporters desperate to discover a Democrat who can win statewide races in the South and

[ad_1] Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s constitutional views can blow with the political winds. For example, he supported the filibuster of Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination in 2006 (Chemerinsky, Democrats Must Use the Filibuster to Block Alito, The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), Jan. 29, 2006); reversed course in 2016 when the Scalia vacancy was pending and

[ad_1] U.S. Attorney General William Barr discusses a Trump administration executive order in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) More than 20 progressive groups signed a letter Tuesday urging House Democrats to impeach Attorney General Bill Barr in an attempt to delay Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation vote until after the November

[ad_1] A pharmacist holds 40mg pills of OxyContin, made by Purdue Pharma. (George Frey/Reuters) Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges in an $8 billion settlement related to their role in the opioid crisis, Justice Department officials told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The settlement is

[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters after the Senate Republican luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., September 9 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) warned the Trump administration on Tuesday against making a deal on a coronavirus relief bill with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) before

[ad_1] (bodrumsurf/iStock/Getty Images Plus) In a recent Corner post, I discussed Arizona’s Proposition 208, which would introduce a new fifth income tax bracket, raising the top rate from 4.5 percent to 8 percent. As an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal points out, the new top tax rate would “move the state to the 10th

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ust imagine if something like this happened during the Trump administration, and ask yourself what the media-Democrat complex would be saying. In November 2011, an elite group of Chinese Communist Party members and billionaire cronies of the repressive regime in Beijing secured a meeting in the White House, said to

[ad_1] Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations officers execute criminal search warrants and arrest more than 100 company employees on federal immigration violations at a trailer manufacturing business in Sumner, Texas, August 28, 2018. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Handout via Reuters ) The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security on Tuesday announced new regulations

[ad_1] Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 26, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) In the great junior-high cafeteria of the American public square, it’s Toobin’s turn to sit alone. Oh, Jeffrey Toobin — let he among us with a free hand cast the first stone. Toobin, a writer

[ad_1] Hunter Biden speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., August 20, 2020. (DNC/Reuters) An ineffectual spotlight on Hunter Biden is what you get from a campaign that is informed only by its id. Hunter Biden, Joe’s younger son, has become a fixture of the 2020 race. Since August 27, 2019, Donald Trump

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N othing like this has ever happened in modern American journalism. There’s been incessant bias, sure. Events and stories have been ignored, of course. There have been loads of smears. We were just subjected to four years of Russian “collusion” fabulism. But now, most of the institutional media is openly colluding

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Great Barrington Declaration is an eight-paragraph statement from many leading skeptics of the First World’s aggressive reaction to COVID-19. It was organized by the American Institute for Economic Research, a free-market think tank, and signed by lockdown skeptics including Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, and plenty

[ad_1] FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testifies in Washington, D.C., July 12, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Former FBI agent Peter Strozk has been hired by Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he is currently teaching a course on counterintelligence. Strzok was one of the lead agents on the Crossfire Hurricane probe, which investigated

[ad_1] Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett reacts during the final minutes of her testimony on the third day of her Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, October 14, 2020. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) A slight majority of Americans support President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left on

[ad_1] Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks to Sen.Diane Feinstein during a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) At a time of ultra-partisanship, senators seem to genuinely enjoy one another’s company. The most

[ad_1] (Jon Nazca/Reuters) Legislators ought to incentivize entrepreneurs to innovate, and stay out of the way. It is true, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote, “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more

[ad_1] Workers prepare ballots from a drop box for the mail sorting machine during the presidential primary at King County Elections ballot processing center in Renton, Wash., March 10, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) The Supreme Court on Monday refused a Republican request to block an extended period for counting ballots in Pennsylvania, allowing mail-in ballots received

[ad_1] Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks at the 2020 Republican National Convention from the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., August 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Cameron had always found the Left to be intolerant of black conservatives Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron had always found the Left to be intolerant of black conservatives, but the

[ad_1] Republican Senate candidate John James (johnjamesforsenate.com) A number of prominent journalists shared a deceptively edited video that purported to show Republican Michigan Senate candidate John James fumbling his response to a question about protecting patients with pre-existing health conditions. “I don’t see a full health care plan on your website. What do you want to