Category: Economy

Trump took cred­it for appoint­ing most of the Supreme Court jus­tices who vot­ed to over­turn Roe v. Wade in 2022 but sought to insu­late his cam­paign and the Repub­li­can Par­ty from the result­ing polit­i­cal fall­out.  The for­mer and now future pres­i­dent large­ly staked out a fed­er­al­ist posi­tion, say­ing abor­tion pol­i­cy should be for­mu­lat­ed by the […]

Gov. J.B. Pritzk­er, the far-left bil­lion­aire gov­er­nor of Illi­nois, is being tak­en to court over his schemes that force state res­i­dents to make the choice between pay­ing for abor­tions or going with­out health insur­ance entire­ly. The case has been brought by the Thomas More Soci­ety on behalf of Stu­dents for Life of Amer­i­ca, Mid­west Bible […]

NBC’s cov­er­age of the Lak­en Riley mur­der ver­dict in Athens, Geor­gia called upon famil­iar tropes that might lead view­ers to believe that they are watch­ing Tele­mu­n­do instead. Immi­gra­tion advo­ca­cy was pre­sent­ed to view­ers as a sub­sti­tute for jour­nal­ism. Here is the report in its entirety,as aired on NBC Night­ly News on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 20th, 2024 […]

Rep. Sean Cas­ten (D‑IL) says he will soon attempt to trig­ger a vote before all House mem­bers on whether or not to release the Ethics Committee’s report into Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s attor­ney gen­er­al nom­i­nee, for­mer Rep. Matt Gaetz (R‑FL). After the House Ethics Com­mit­tee dis­agreed on whether or not to release the report on Wednes­day, Cas­ten […]

Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er colum­nist David Harsany­i’s new book The Rise of Blue-Anon under­lines that the con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries on the Demo­c­rat side are not on the fringes. They come from the very cen­ter of the par­ty estab­lish­ment and the one-par­­ty media. Like MSNBC’s Michael Beschloss sug­gest­ing your kids will be killed if Repub­li­cans win. Right before the 2022 midterms, […]

Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump nom­i­nat­ed Michi­gan Repub­li­can Chair­man Pete Hoek­stra to be the next U.S. ambas­sador to Cana­da. Hoek­stra was a rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Michi­gan for 18 years and was Trump’s ambas­sador to the Nether­lands dur­ing his first admin­is­tra­tion. “Pete is well-respec­t­ed in the Great State of Michi­gan — A state we won siz­ably. He rep­re­sent­ed Michigan’s […]

House Repub­li­cans pressed Health and Human Ser­vices Sec­re­tary Xavier Becer­ra on Wednes­day to pro­vide an answer for los­ing track of thou­sands of unac­count­ed migrant chil­dren and fum­bling the vet­ting process that alleged­ly has allowed some minors to be sent to gang mem­bers and even a strip club. Becer­ra tes­ti­fied that his agency fol­lows “child wel­fare […]

We are on Day Two of the Capi­tol Hill Bath­room Cycle, which shows no sign of abat­ing. CBS and NBC have now tak­en up the cause of the trans­gen­der mem­ber of Con­gress who is, as of today, NOT allowed to use women’s facil­i­ties due to being a bio­log­i­cal male.  Here’s how the CBS Evening News […]

Repub­li­can Nick Begich oust­ed incum­bent Rep. Mary Pel­to­la (D‑AK) on Wednes­day, a vic­to­ry two weeks after Elec­tion Day that will help the GOP pad its nar­row House major­i­ty. The Asso­ci­at­ed Press called the race for Begich short­ly after 9 p.m. ET with 95% of the vote count­ed. Begich received 48.4% to Peltola’s 46.4% at the […]

The View co-hosts Alyssa Farah Grif­fin and Sun­ny Hostin have been increas­ing­ly spar­ring with more inten­si­ty since the 2024 elec­tion, but ten­sions boiled over on Wednes­day about Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s deci­sion to nom­i­nate Lin­da McMa­hon to lead the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and his plans to close the depart­ment. “I don’t think Don­ald Trump is going […]