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Shahid Buttar, a democratic socialist hoping to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, declared a tactical victory after finishing second in California’s primary election Tuesday. Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, easily won the primary contest upon receiving roughly 72.5% of the vote, guaranteeing her a spot on the ballot in November’s general election and effectively a shot at serving an 18th term representing the state’s 12th Congressional District. And despite receiving only 12.7% of the vote, Mr. Buttar’s second-place finish means his name will also appear on the ballot when Californians return to the polls this fall. Rules governing the state’s “top...

Tavis Smiley was found by a jury to have violated PBS’ morals clause, and the network will be awarded $1.486 million from a countersuit of its former host. “We are pleased with the jury’s decision,” a PBS spokesperson said in a statement. “PBS expects our producing partners to provide a workplace where people feel safe and are treated with dignity and respect. It was important for us to ensure that the courageous women who came forward were able to share their stories, and we continue to uphold the values and standards of our organization.” “With this jury verdict for PBS,...

Ilhan Omar has taken a swipe at Elizabeth Warren, claiming a 'united progressive movement' could have stopped Former Vice President Joe Biden's Super Tuesday success. The congresswoman appeared to question what would have happened if Senator Warren had endorsed Sanders - after Biden scored a surprise win in Minnesota. Warren remained in the race despite failing to win even her own state of Massachusetts and being urged to drop out as #WarrenEndorseBernie trended on Twitter. Minnesota Democrat Omar tweeted that Sanders may have won if the 'progressives consolidated last night like the moderates' did. 'Imagine if the progressives consolidated last...

President Trump plans to use former Vice President Joe Biden’s history with Ukraine against him in the general election should Biden win the Democratic nomination for president. Trump spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday night about the president’s campaign strategy after Biden took the lead in the Democratic primary with 566 delegates following Super Tuesday. Trump said that he plans to bring up allegations of corruption against Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, "all the time." "It’s not a campaign issue for the Democrats. They don't want to bring it up. They were obviously told, 'You can’t...

The American Bar Association said on Wednesday that it is "deeply troubled" by a comment made by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., outside the Supreme Court that many said was a direct threat to two sitting justices.

A recent sympathetic article on abortion in Bloomberg Businessweek offered a textbook lesson in liberal media bias. Written by Cynthia Koons and Rebecca Greenfield, the February 27 article’s headline whined that “Abortion Clinics Are Getting Nickel-and-Dimed Out of Business.” “Abortion Clinics Are the Most Challenging Small Business in America,” an alternative headline cried. And the subtitle moaned, “From legal battles to securing vendors to getting the walls painted, every budget line is a struggle.” Right from the outset we know this will not be a fair piece. The article began by talking about Amy Hagstrom Miller, the owner of the...

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Hollywood actresses always seem to make an appearance whenever there's a chance that one less baby might be aborted. Celebrity feminists Elizabeth Banks and Busy Philipps joined Democratic lawmakers and pro-abortion demonstrators at the foot of the Supreme Court on March 4 to stand in solidarity with baby-killing as a recent legal case involving the procedure was being heard. The demonstration, led by pro-choice non-profit the Center for Reproductive Rights, happened while the nation’s highest court was hearing “oral arguments in June Medical Services v. Russo,” which news site Mashable described as “a case that will determine the fate of...

WASHINGTON — The legislation at the center of Wednesday’s Supreme Court case was originally introduced by a black, pro-life, Democratic female state senator who says the legislation will “make sure women are protected.” Louisiana state Sen. Katrina Jackson introduced the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, or Act 620, in 2014, which requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility. These admitting privileges would allow a woman to go directly to the hospital if she were to need urgent care. Opponents say the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act would hinder and potentially eliminate abortion...

MRC Latino Director Jorge Bonilla was the first on the scene Wednesday when he shared a video of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatening a “price” would be paid by conservative Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, if they decided to uphold a pro-life law. The video drew outrage from many and a powerful rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts. But NBC Nightly News reported not a word of the incident and instead showcased cheerleading dads. In contrast, when Roberts had rebuked President Trump for a deriding comment directed at a federal judge, NBC Nightly News had...

It may not be a shock to anyone that Barbara Streisand wants to elect Democrats president, but Variety still thinks enough of the hard-left celebrity to give her a weird, stream of consciousness “column.” The aging celebrity on March 3 warned of Donald Trump causing more cases of depression and called him “a one-man weapon of mass destruction.” As you might expect, the entertainer is doing her best to prevent Trump from being re-elected in November 3, and she has found an outlet that will let her spew all of her venom and hatred. Entitled “Why Trump Must Be Defeated...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh Wednesday, telling them they will “pay the price” if they uphold a pro-life law from Louisiana that saves babies from abortion and protects women’s health. “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price, Schumer yelled into the mic before a crowd of abortion supporters. “You won’t know what hit you if you go through with these awful decisions,” he added. Responding to the tirade, pro-life Sen. Ben Sasse tore into...

The Supreme Court this morning held oral arguments on a key pro-life law that saves babies from abortion and protects women from dangerous abortions that could jeopardize their lives and health. The 2014 Louisiana law at the center of the case requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges to treat patients with emergency complications. If allowed to take effect, it could close shoddy abortion facilities that are not prepared to help patients suffering from emergency complications. But abortion activists suing in June Medical Services v. Russo (previously v. Gee) claim the law is an “undue burden” on access to...

The medieval theocrats who rule Iran with an iron hand may be helping the coronavirus fulfill its potential as an uncontrollable epidemic. Yesterday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sought to calm what must be mass concern by appearing in public (apparently wearing gloves) to tell his countrymen that it might even be a blessing: Many people strongly suspect that the practice of licking a holy shrine in Qom, epicenter of the current outbreak, has something to do with the rapid spread, including to senior members of the regime. Yet the supreme leader did nothing to discourage this practice. Perhaps even worse,...

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway described former Vice President Joe Biden as "Hillary 2.0" Wednesday after Biden emerged as the Democratic front-runner following a string of Super Tuesday victories. "There is a reason that the mainstream media, there's a reason the other Democrats were chomping and stomping all over him because he had receded out of view," Conway told "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "He still is highly flawed. I think he's Hillary all over again."

Following his public support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, Antonio Sabato Jr. says Hollywood ousted him. “I had to sell everything,” Sabato, 48, told Variety -- in an interview published on Tuesday -- about leaving Tinseltown not too long after Trump won the presidential bid. "I had to pay all my debts," he continued. "I was blacklisted. All my representatives left me, from agents to managers to commercial agents. I literally had to move, find a new job to survive and take care of my kids.

After temporarily blocking and unblocking the "Remain in Mexico" policy, a federal appeals court said it will in its own jurisdiction halt the immigration policy next week to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for their court hearings in the U.S. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Wednesday that it would block the "Remain in Mexico" policy in Arizona and California, the two border states where its authority extends. The judges said the policy will no longer be in effect on Mexico’s border with California and Arizona as of March 12. The three-judge panel did not extend...

FBI officials involved in the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page have been blocked, at least temporarily, from appearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in regard to other cases, in rebuke that exceeded the remedial recommendations made by the monitor recently appointed by the court. The decision by James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the secretive court created under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), comes as Congress faces a March 15 deadline on whether to renew three FBI national-security surveillance and investigative tools that were enacted after 9/11. "FBI personnel under disciplinary review in relation...

George Conway, the husband of Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, revealed on Tuesday that he donated $2,800 to former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign, the maximum contribution allowed by law from an individual to a candidate committee. New York magazine's Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi tweeted that Conway told her that he tried giving $5,600 but the "website wouldn't take it. They need to change that." Nuzzi also tweeted that Conway explained his donation by saying, "the nation can’t afford four more years with a megalomaniacal moron in the White House.”

There are plenty of differences between Gorbachev’s Soviet Union and Xi’s China. But there are enough similarities that Xi should be worried.“The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl” – wrote former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster – “even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the main cause of the Soviet Union’s collapse five years later.” He went on to write that “the Chernobyl catastrophe was a historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.” While the outcome from...