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Hillary Clinton may be angling for a spot on Joe Biden's presidential ticket, Fox News contributor John Sununu said Monday. "I think as almost everything the Clintons do, there is a bigger purpose behind what's going on," Sununu told "America's Newsroom." "I think she is actually angling to be the vice presidential nominee hoping the party will understand that if Biden is the nominee, they have to have a backup there that the public has confidence in." Sununu was responding to Clinton's recent interview with CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” where she took jabs at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders but stopped...

President Trump's decision to move some of the offices of the Bureau of Land Management geographically closer to the land being managed, has led to more than a 50% attrition rate in the staff. Of the 187 personnel that would be required to relocate 87 have chosen to leave their jobs. Steve Ellis, who retired from BLM's top career-level post in 2018, denounced the relocation policy as "a brain drain. There is a lot of really solid expertise walking out the door." Trump, however, sees things differently. "We all know that the bureaucracy is bloated with excess personnel," he said....

In May 2018, in response to protests, Starbucks changed its policies nationwide to allow anybody to sit in their stores and use the bathroom without making a purchase. Using a large panel of anonymized cellphone location data, we estimate that the policy led to a 7.3% decline in store attendance at Starbucks locations relative to other nearby coffee shops and restaurants. This decline cannot be calculated from Starbucks’ public disclosures, which lack the comparison group of other coffee shops. The decline in visits is around 84% larger for stores located near homeless shelters. The policy also affected the intensive margin...

Most people hold that since former President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office as president before the full House of Representatives could vote on the articles of impeachment, he therefore was not impeached. But they omit the House vote 12 days after he resigned. There were two votes on impeachment by the full House of Representatives. The first, Feb. 6, 1974, was a vote 410 for and 4 against, authorizing impeachment proceedings against Nixon which allowed the House Judiciary Committee to begin the formal inquiry. Talk of such had preceded this vote for several months. Thereafter, following six months of...

Standing in front of the library of the University of Michigan on Sunday, Bernie Sanders could be excused if he paused a moment to reflect on the estimated ten thousands of cheering supporters. It was 60 years ago at the University of Chicago that Sanders began what he later described as "the major period of intellectual ferment in my life". Sanders joined the Young People's Socialist League and other organisations and organised his first protest. He could only marshal a force of 32 students to occupy the administration building, but he ultimately prevailed. Sanders spent much of his life fighting...

Getting ripped off on textbooks has long been part of the standard American college experience, up there with frat parties, cheap pizza, and bad choices. Now, though, one student has taken up the cause in a class-action lawsuit that calls out the three main textbook publishers for alleged antitrust violations. The lawsuit alleges that publishers Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill, along with college bookstores, formed a conspiracy to monopolize the textbook market and inflate the price of course materials. The named plaintiff, Martha Barabas, sued on her own behalf and for the class of “at least hundreds of thousands if not...

COVID-19 infected the American psyche and stocks rather suddenly during the final week of February. Last week I attended at large technology investment conference in California -- The Montgomery Summit 2020 -- and was eager to see whether investors and entrepreneurs were pulling in their horns. I also moderated two discussions on the pandemic’s likely damage to the economy, markets and supply chains around the world. My first session was with Michael Milken, the noted financier and philanthropist. Milken was cautious for the short term, but generally optimistic. Computer power for gene sequencing and AI models to predict infection spread,...

An oft-repeated adage claims the left falls in love — with ideas and personalities, probably — and the right falls in line. In short, it’s often asserted that the right is more disciplined, hierarchical, and mechanical than the left.Is it, though? After Super Tuesday, many such assumptions are under renewed scrutiny. For example, after Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg torched their millions, only a lunatic would claim money can buy everything in politics. Yes, that includes a few thousand dollars of Facebook ads, allegedly by someone sitting in Saint Petersburg, Russia.Likewise, the coalescing of the Democratic field behind Joe...

NEW YORK - Oil prices crashed on Monday, suffering their biggest daily rout since the 1991 Gulf War, after the collapse of an OPEC+ supply agreement that now threatens to overwhelm the world with oil, inciting panic throughout the energy sector. After failing to come to an agreement to cut supply, Saudi Arabia and Russia over the weekend pledged instead to ramp up production, which could quickly flood global markets with oil at a time when demand has already weakened substantially. The market’s reaction has been furious, with crude futures plunging by nearly 20%, while energy stocks collapse as shale...

President Trump tried to calm Americans' fears on Monday by tweeting that his coronavirus task force is hard at work to protect us from the virus outbreak. The U.S. now has over 500 confirmed cases, and 22 deaths related to the disease. Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the task force, has been meeting with health officials to assess the government's next steps, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced bans on all non-essential travel to China, Italy, Iran, and South Korea as governments try to contain the outbreak. The BEST decision made was the toughest...

Just like in 2008, the stock market's behavior over the past two weeks is signaling that the Democrats will win in November. The corona virus scare is a manufactured panic. The Democrats and their media toadies will do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g to win this election. Tanking the stock market and blaming President Trump for it is just a warm-up. Complacent Republicans are going to have a shock this November just like the Democrats had in 2016. Winning elections is hard work. Registering new voters, identifying supporters, educating voters, watching the polls for fraud, are all hard work. The work is frustrating, time...

A Washington State-based regional body of Presbyterian Church (USA) is encouraging congregations in the Seattle area to cancel in-person worship services due to the coronavirus.The Presbytery of Seattle posted a letter to its website last Friday that was signed by the Reverends Eliana Maxim and Scott Lumsden, the co-executive presbyters of the regional body. The leadership of the presbytery stated that it was “time to cancel regular worship” due to the recently reported cases of coronavirus in the state.“Eliana and I, as pastoral leaders in this presbytery lament this conclusion, but believe in our hearts that it's in the best...

The data sites can give you electoral odds on just about anything but I haven’t seen them gauge the probability yet that Bernie will be out of this race 48 hours from now. It can’t be much worse than 50/50.Let’s start with Mississippi and Missouri: Missouri Results:Biden – 62Sanders – 32Warren – 4Gabbard – 2Mississippi Results:Biden – 77Sanders – 22Gabbard – 1N: 348 MO, 340 MS, fielded 3/4 to 3/7 text to web https://t.co/xRhHbK9P98— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) March 9, 2020 ‘Nuff said. Ed already wrote about how Washington state looks surprisingly close, which should’t be the case if...

A baby girl was found dead on a pile of toilet paper inside a restroom stall at a Pasadena park Thursday night, authorities said. Police got a call that there was a "lifeless infant" in a stall of the women’s restroom at Pasadena Memorial Park on 85 E. Holly Street around 10 p.m., the Pasadena Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find the dead newborn, who police said appeared to be full term. The child had no signs of visible trauma and the L.A. County coroner's office is working to determine whether she was stillborn or...

'We are likely to see the lowest oil prices of the past 20 years in the next quarter,' says analyst ==================================================================== Saudi Arabia has announced it will slash its official selling prices for crude by between $4 and $8 per barrel, Arab News reports, to be in effect from April when the current production cuts expire. The biggest discounts were offered to buyers in northwestern Europe and the United States. The announcement pressured already severely hurt benchmarks after the failed meeting of OPEC+ on Friday when Russia refused to take part in further cuts that would have reduced global oil...

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) is busy peddling lies and making wild recommendations.  She believes that Trump should cancel all his rallies because by not doing so "he is willing to place even his most ardent supporters at risk." She backs up her claim by stating that "we're supposed to stay six feet away from other persons in order to mitigate the exchange of those viruses." Say what? I thought perhaps I'd missed something.  Maybe I lost more than an hour with Daylight Savings Time.  Did the Coronavirus Task Force announce this six-foot rule for everyone? Apparently not. Now, just to clarify, six feet is a...

DRY RIDGE, Ky. — A Northern Kentucky woman faces several charges, accused of concealing the birth of her newborn child and hiding its remains in a plastic bag under a pile of laundry. Pamela Davis, 24, faces charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing the birth of an infant. According to a court summons, authorities were called to Davis' Grant County home on Vallandingham Drive on Feb. 17, where Davis had been bleeding for hours. Davis was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, where doctors told investigators she either recently gave birth or was raped....

As you may have heard, our nation's most successful social program is in a bit of a bind. Every year since 1982, the Social Security program has generated a net cash surplus. By bringing in more revenue than is paid out in benefits each year, the program has been able to build up a $2.9 trillion reserve. However, according to the 2019 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees, the program is about to hit an unwanted inflection point. You see, more than a half-dozen ongoing demographic changes are expected to result in Social Security expending more than it...

Zaya Wade, whose parents recently said she identifies as transgender, made her first red carpet appearance at the sixth annual Truth Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday night. The 12-year-old was...

Is Planet Earth warming, cooling, or staying the same? I often challenge advocates for climate alarmism: what is the temperature of the planet today? Or we can use any specific day in recent years for which data are available. We cannot know the temperature of the planet thousands or millions of years ago if we cannot even measure it today. Yes, the question is one single temperature of the entire planet. Not the temperature in Nome, Alaska or Dallas, Texas, or Sydney, Australia or in your home town. One single temperature reading for the entire globe. To put it that...