California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) will force all taxpayer-funded public university campuses to provide abortion pills for students by 2023. The College Student Right to Access Act requires each of its 34 campuses in the California State and University of California systems to provide access to abortion pills.
Publication: Washington Free Beacon
Texas Tribune Smears Sheriff Over Immigrant Crime Claim
The Texas Tribune corrected an article Thursday that took a Texas sheriff’s words out of context to smear him. The paper initially claimed the sheriff referred to immigrants as “drunks who would run over your children and they will run over my children” before amending the article to include necessary context. The sheriff was specifically referring to illegal immigrants who are repeat criminal offenders, and was not trying to generalize about all immigrants.
Virginia Dems Turn Down Money to Combat Gun Crime to Stick It to ICE
Virginia turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money used to combat gun crime in 2018, rather than comply with federal immigration authorities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Midwest City Charges Trump $500K for Rally After Billing Obama $50K
President Donald Trump’s campaign is threatening a lawsuit after Minneapolis city leaders charged it $530,000 for security at an event scheduled for Thursday—26 times the amount it billed former president Barack Obama for a 2009 rally.
Hillary Proves She’s the Kween of Milquetoast Platitudes
The presumed 2020 frontrunner weighs in (sort of) on NBA-China controversy.
Elizabeth Warren Gives Unions Lobbying Loophole
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s anti-lobbying tax appears to leave union lobbyists and other Democratic interests untouched.
Pelosi’s Impeachment Bank Shot
Pelosi’s bank shot isn’t aimed at Trump’s conviction on the Hill. It’s aimed at his loss at the polls.
Soros’s New PAC Drops $350,000 Into Virginia Ahead of Pivotal Elections
A new political action committee launched by liberal billionaire George Soros has given $350,000 to Planned Parenthood Virginia, its largest outside contribution ever, ahead of the state’s November elections, records show.
Elizabeth Warren Attacks Facebook as Her Campaign Continues to Use Its Tools
As Elizabeth Warren tangles with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, her presidential campaign is using a Facebook tracking tool to quietly record behavior of its website visitors.
Warren Backs AOC’s Illegal Immigrant Welfare Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren endorsed a Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) policy proposal that includes taxpayer-funded welfare benefits for illegal immigrants.
Warren Pushes to Tax, Regulate Investments That Enriched Her
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to crack down on the private equity industry would place stringent regulations on a source of funds that helped enrich her as a law professor at Harvard. The plan, which would heavily tax and regular private equity firms to stop what Warren has called Wall Street’s “legalized looting,” could also end up hurting her former Harvard colleagues and Massachusetts retirees.
Buttigieg Staffer Attended Anti-Semitic Farrakhan Sermon
Deven Anderson, who recently joined Pete Buttigieg’s (D.) presidential campaign as a regional organizing director in Columbia, S.C., has a history of praising anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and attended a sermon where Farrakhan said “You can walk with a Jew, but you can’t walk with me.”
Kavanaugh and the Crisis of Legitimacy
It is impossible to separate the latest attack on Justice Brett Kavanaugh from the political strategy of the Democratic Party.
The Fall of Democratic Power Player Ed Buck
Ed Buck used to mingle with prominent Democrats while simultaneously filling their campaign coffers with generous contributions. All of it came crashing down after two men died in his West Hollywood apartment over the course of two years and, most recently, a third overdosed but survived, leading to Buck’s arrest.
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton Mourns Late Journalist But Picks Wrong Picture
MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton mourned the passing of journalist Cokie Roberts on Tuesday by sending out a tweet with pictures of the still-living journalist Christiane Amanpour…Sharpton, who began his career as a civil rights activist, has a history of mispronouncing, misspelling, and misidentifying people, places, and things while on TV.
Ben Rhodes Should Probably Just Shut Up About Foreign Policy
Ben Rhodes’ ability to deliver hot takes on U.S. foreign policy again and again for years while maintaining his status as an “expert” in the eyes of the national media, despite no discernible track record of successful foreign policy accomplishments, is quite extraordinary. These days, Rhodes is criticizing the Trump administration’s response to the coordinated drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities.
Tex Dem Supports Decriminalizing Border Crossings
A Democrat running in a key Texas swing district supports decriminalizing illegal border crossings. “Yes is the answer. We absolutely have to repeal it,” Shannon Hutcheson said in reference to Section 1325, the statute declaring illegal entry into the U.S. a criminal offense.
Biden Tried to Buy Putin’s Support for Iraq War with Promise of Oil Money
Joe Biden sought out Russian president Vladimir Putin before the 2003 invasion of Iraq to propose a deal in which Russia would be given the oil profits from the war if they entered alongside the United States.
Soros Fuels Dark Money Judicial Group That Fights Kavanaugh
A “dark money” group that was established to push back against the judicial nominations of President Donald Trump, and which was at the forefront of the battle against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and continues to go after him to this day, was heavily financed by liberal billionaire George Soros around the time of its inception, grants show.
How the Left Uses Corporate America to Evade Democracy
Every week brings new examples of CEOs intervening in political, cultural, and social debate. In every instance, the prominent spokesmen for American business situate themselves comfortably on the left side of the political spectrum. Shareholder capitalism finds itself under attack. Not just from socialism but also from woke capitalism.
Unions Sent $1.6 Billion to Liberal Groups
Labor unions contributed more than $1.6 billion to left-wing political advocacy groups between 2010 and 2018, according to a new report. Organized labor’s political spending stands in stark contrast to how membership votes.
Andrew McCabe to Headline Dem Fundraiser in Pennsylvania
McCabe, who was fired from the FBI in 2018 due to findings by Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz that he had lied to investigators about communications with the media, has emerged as a vocal critic of the Trump administration…He is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a fundraising banquet for the Lancaster County Democratic Committee.
Soros Spends Nearly $9 Million Lobbying and Now Targets Guns
Liberal billionaire George Soros’s advocacy organizations are lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill to repeal an act protecting firearms manufacturers from liability for gun crimes including murder, disclosure forms show.