New poll: Biden leads O’Rourke and Trump… in Texas 5/1/2019 11:01:15 AM Karen Townsend 0 Comments I know. It’s very early in the process. The Emerson College poll released Monday is the most recent to point out the political atmosphere in Texas, a state Democrats are desperately hoping to win in 2020. So, how is the leading candidate More...
New plan: Just have all the Democratic men drop out of the primary 5/1/2019 10:31:54 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments As the weekly polling cycles grind on, mostly producing the same results, we’ve had some admittedly uncharitable fun pointing out that either two or three white men remain in the lead in the primary race for the “party of youth and More...
Senate Dems: Yeah, let’s not get into impeachment 5/1/2019 10:01:01 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Impeachment? Senate Democrats would rather change the subject, The Hill’s Alexander Bolton discovered after talking it over with a few of them. Their answer for public consumption is that it’s just too soon after Robert Mueller’s More...
Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail 5/1/2019 9:21:49 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments They say the wheels of justice grind slowly, but that’s primarily in the United States. Over in Great Britain, they’re apparently capable of moving at lightning speed when the need arises. Less than three weeks after being dragged out of More...
Barr to tell Senate: I made the Mueller report as public as possible 5/1/2019 8:41:54 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As Bette Davis once said, fasten your seatbelts — it’s going to be a bumpy ride. William Barr goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, beginning at 10 am ET or thereabouts. This will offer Congress its first specific chance for More...
Let’s face it: The Venezuelan coup has fizzled 5/1/2019 8:01:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When opposition leader Juan Guaido called for the military to join him and oust dictator Nicolas Maduro yesterday, I suggested that he was making a high stakes bet against long odds and it might backfire on him. Barely 24 hours later, it looks as if More...
Report: Lori Loughlin eager to rehabilitate her reputation by … going to trial 4/30/2019 10:41:59 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is like being called a coward and deciding to disprove it by climbing into the tiger cage at the zoo. There must be a less insane way to make the point. Go skydiving. Take up boxing. Attend a MAGA rally and heckle Trump. Although I’m not More...
From Russia with glub? Beluga with harness suggests new Cold War getting … weird 4/30/2019 10:01:37 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Old and busted: Sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads. New Russian-spy hotness: Beluga whales with GoPros. Norwegian fishermen discovered a tame Beluga whale swimming in their waters with a very odd accessory — a harness and a More...
Mueller objected to AG Barr’s description of his conclusions 4/30/2019 9:21:06 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent Attorney General William Barr a letter last month saying he disagreed with how Barr had framed the conclusions of his report. From the Washington Post: “The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and More...
Did Bernie’s support for letting prisoners vote hurt his campaign? 4/30/2019 8:41:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mentioned in this post that I’d have more to say later about his surprising downturn in Quinnipiac’s new poll, slipping to third place behind Elizabeth Warren(!) at a meager 11 percent. You might dismiss that as an outlier, noting that More...
Pompeo: Maduro was ready to leave Venezuela this morning — until the Russians talked him out of it 4/30/2019 8:01:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments If it’s a lie, it’s a lie in service to a good cause. Guaido’s supporters and members of the military who are loyal to him might take heart from it. Maduro’s supporters and military loyalists will denounce it as Yanqui More...
Portland Antifa group flooded the office of lawyer representing ICE’s union 4/30/2019 7:21:49 PM John Sexton 0 Comments An Antifa group in Portland decided to punish a lawyer representing the union for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by flooding his office. Oregon Live reports Sean Riddell’s law office suffered thousands of dollars in damage from the More...
Emails show Baltimore mayor lied about book sales, no resignation yet 4/30/2019 6:41:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The waiting game continues in Charm City. A spokesperson for embattled (and missing) Mayor Catherine Pugh told us last week that she would be making a decision by today as to her possible resignation under a cloud of scandal and recent federal raids More...
Endgame? Trump advisor Stephen Moore’s nomination to the Fed would be “very problematic,” says … Lindsey Graham 4/30/2019 6:01:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments You’d expect some harrumphing about a Trump nominee from Mitt Romney or Susan Collins. You wouldn’t expect it from a crony as loyal as Graham unless the nomination is on life support. If you’d asked me two weeks ago to wager on More...
WSJ to Dems: Impeachment’s a trap — set by Trump 4/30/2019 5:31:12 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Call this the Unified Theory of Politics, at least in the Trump era. The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib wonders why Donald Trump seems to be baiting Democrats into starting impeachment proceedings. He concludes that impeachment might be the More...
Mayor de Blasio’s car was involved in an accident but the NYPD covered it up 4/30/2019 5:01:58 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Back in 2015, Mayor de Blasio was involved in a car crash. He wasn’t driving and no one was hurt. In fact, there’s no real scandal here at all except for the complete cover-up that followed (always worse than the crime). Howard Redmond, More...
WaPo writer: James Holzhauer has become “a menace” 4/30/2019 4:31:00 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Even if you don’t watch the game show Jeopardy!, you’ve probably heard of James Holzhauer by now. He’s the whiz player who has currently run up more than one million dollars in winnings. He’s a professional gambler and More...
Yikes: Biden leads by 26 in new Quinnipiac poll 4/30/2019 4:01:27 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments What the hell? The commentariat had collectively decided that this week would be “Joe Biden Flop Sweat Week,” when he jumped into the race and his polls immediately began to crash when everyone was reminded that he’s a gaffe More...
MSNBC: The people in Venezuela have no guns, and so therefore no power 4/30/2019 3:41:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments How long have I lived? Long enough to see a mainstream media outlet other than Fox News make a core Second Amendment argument. And guess who it is? All right, all right, MSNBC didn’t know they were making a core Second Amendment argument. They More...
Today’s hot topics: Bidenmania, polling insania, Taxifornia, Endgame euphoria, and more! 4/30/2019 3:31:56 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we More...
Venezuela: Armored vehicle plows through crowd (Update: Crowd moving toward presidential palace) 4/30/2019 3:01:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier today Jazz wrote about developments taking place in Venezuela. In short, Juan Guaido claims some in the military now support him and he’s making a move to oust Maduro from power. Maduro meanwhile claims he is stopping a coup. Not long More...
Post Office terminated veteran who was fighting in the war on terror 4/30/2019 2:31:47 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This is a story that’s been far too long in the making and will likely enrage you. Fortunately (spoiler alert) it has a somewhat happy ending. It deals with a postal carrier from Maine named John Patrie. John was a member of the Maine National More...
Jill Biden: I never heard any complaints about my husband’s handsiness 4/30/2019 2:01:23 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Never? Not even when those stories made national news? That’s the story Jill Biden’s sticking with today on ABC’s Good Morning America, making a campaign appearance with her husband. Times have changed, Jill Biden allowed, but a More...
Pelosi and Schumer: We’ve agreed with Trump to discuss a $2 trillion infrastructure package 4/30/2019 1:31:54 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Ah, an agreement to make an agreement. Ask the nearest lawyer how solid those are. I assume this announcement amounts to PR by both sides. Both benefit from signaling seriousness of purpose about infrastructure to voters, after all, and since More...
FBI investigating Antifa over possible border plot 4/30/2019 1:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The San Diego Union-Tribune was given a copy of a report from Dec. 2018 which outlined a possible plot involving anti-fascists who (allegedly) wanted to buy guns from Mexican cartels. The plan, according to the document, was to use the guns to More...
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