After three straight nights of braying about his greatness and dancing to the Village People in front of his most devoted supporters, President Trump ran into a buzzsaw in Miami on Thursday. Unlike his rallies, the town hall event hosted by NBC took place in reality, and a confused, exceptionally …
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I n August, Justin Walker, a federal judge in Louisville, Kentucky, issued an unusual order in favor of Chelsey Nelson, a local wedding photographer and blogger. Nelson, a Southern Baptist, claimed in a lawsuit that her Christian faith dictates “that God ordained marriage to be a covenant between one man …
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Department of Homeland Security officials were given “talking points” supportive of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who was charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisc., in August, according to NBC News. The talking points, according to the report, instructed DHS officials to use “comments sympathetic” to Rittenhouse when questioned …
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President Donald Trump and and former Vice President Joe Biden will square off in-person for the first time on Tuesday, and judging by Trump’s ludicrous insistence that Biden take a drug test prior to taking the stage, it’s probably going to be ugly. But more concerning than whatever low blows …
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The president seemingly does not care about the more than 200,000 Americans who have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus, but we do know one thing he cares deeply about — his golf game. Before hitting the links at one own private golf courses in Virginia on …
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WASHINGTON —This summer, with Americans hunkered down at home as the Covid-19 pandemic raged, teams of organizers located in a half-dozen battleground states made thousands of phone calls and put a theory to the test: Can an empathetic, heartfelt conversation persuade a complete stranger to change their mind about how …
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Fox News host Chris Wallace made a point to differentiate himself from what some of his colleagues seem to be comfortable doing—namely, compromising away the use of vigilante justice to make a political point. During a Thursday panel discussion, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlic seemed to make excuses for the …
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Rep. Katie Porter is one of the most formidable questioners in Congress. In advance of Monday’s hearing on the monkey-wrenching of the Postal Service under the watch of new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Porter warned the longtime GOP megadonor to come prepared. How did that turn out? DeJoy’s testimony at …
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Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain died on Thursday. Cain, who was 74, spent most of July hospitalized after contracting the coronavirus. The news of the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza death was announced on his website, where according to CNBC, the site’s editor, Dan Calabrese, wrote about Cain’s death. …
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed Friday that she had a recurrence of cancer and that recent treatments have yielded “positive results.” Ginsburg’s recurrence is unrelated to her recent hospitalizations, which were to remove gall stones and treat an infection. In May, Ginsburg began treatment after “a periodic scan …
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