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Comedy Threatens Liberalism So Liberals Want To Kill It (Townhall)
It’s important to laugh at liberals, which is why liberals want to stamp out laughter. Laughter is subversive. Back when comedy was funny, before it got woke, the left used to use it to undermine traditional culture. Now that they have the wheel of the cultural car, they are afraid that people pointing and giggling at their hypocrisy, venality, and stupidity will make them lose control and crash.
Hence, comedy must die. [Read More]
Democrats Denounce Kavanaugh Process They Approved for Obama and Kagan (Breitbart News Network)
Democrats are protesting Sen. Chuck Grassley’s beginning Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court and the process for getting Kavanaugh documents, but recent history shows they have nothing to complain about, because they approved the very same process for the most recent nominee from a Democratic president.
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley (R-IA) decided to go the extra mile to accommodate Democratic senators. He will begin Kavanaugh’s hearing 57 days after President Trump nominated him, as compared to 48, 49, and 48 days for Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Gorsuch respectively—the three most recent nominees from both parties.
Grassley also agreed to provide 900,000 pages of documents involving Kavanaugh’s government service, more than any nominee in history, and more than four times the number provided for recent nominees of either party—including Kagan (who had only 172,000 pages). [Read More]
Keith Ellison Addresses Abuse Allegations In WCCO Exclusive (WCCO)
A Minnesota Congressman denied all wrongdoing in his first interview since #MeToo allegations surfaced against him.
In a WCCO exclusive, Rep. Keith Ellison also said he cannot understand why ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan accused him of abuse. The two had been in a relationship for several years, which ended in 2016.
WCCO’s Esme Murphy spoke with Ellison Wednesday afternoon, one day after winning the DFL primary in his bid to become the state’s next attorney general. [Read More]
Don’t blame capitalism for high health costs (The Hill)
On both sides of the aisle, lawmakers often propose lowering health-care costs, which consume a growing share of the U.S. economy each year. On track to claim about 1 in 5 of all American dollars in 2026, the health sector is a complex political landmine.
The idea of a national “Medicare for all” plan is gaining popularity and prominence. Already 59 percent of Americans support it, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. The sell for this idea, often presented by Bernie Sanders and other politicians on the left, is that capitalism has failed in American health care, and a government solution is needed to ensure equity and hold down costs.
This logic is flawed, as is the understanding of the word capitalism: Capitalism isn’t to blame for the woes in our current health-care conundrum. Capitalism is simply an economic framework where private actors own the means of production. The problem with our health-care system is that it lacks key characteristics of a healthy, competitive and free marketplace. [Read More]
More than a year and a half after the inauguration of Donald Trump’s presidency, the left continues to obstruct the confirmation of nominees to critical posts in both the executive and judicial branches. The unprecedented obstructionism denies leadership to executive branch departments and agencies and impedes the fair and swift administration of justice.
It is also an abuse of the Senate’s constitutional obligation to provide “Advice and Consent” regarding presidential nominations of judges and key “Officers of the United States.”
The Senate has a constitutional right and duty to ensure, through the confirmation process, that nominees have the education and professional experience necessary to qualify them for particular positions. No one questions that. And no one is arguing that the Senate is voting down unqualified nominees (yet). [Read More]
The Weekly Standard’s Ties to Fusion GPS (American Greatness)
In his online appeal for money after being fired this week, disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok credited an unlikely source to vouch for his victim status: The Weekly Standard.
At one time a leading conservative magazine, the Standard declared last month that Strzok’s plight was merely an “overwrought tale of bias” and the case against him is “just sound and fury.” The article brushed off Strzok’s actions as “several bad judgment calls” and blasted Congressional Republicans for continuing a criminal investigation into the now-unemployed G-man. [Read More]
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, Dies at 76 (Variety)
“Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, the eruptive singer who reigned atop the pop and R&B charts in the late ’60s and early ’70s with a succession of albums and singles of unparalleled power and emotional depth, has died. She was 76.
Franklin was suffering from pancreatic cancer, and had earlier undergone surgery in December 2010. Her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn reported Franklin died Thursday morning at her home in Detroit.
“In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart,” Quinn said in a statement. “We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds.” [Read More]
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