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This week on “Problematic Women,” we break down the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and the left’s ensuing meltdown, the new Nike Colin Kaepernick ad and how he didn’t really sacrifice anything, and the former TV actor who had to quit his job at Trader Joe’s thanks to the internet’s over reaction. We also give you…
Pennsylvania is taking a page out of the Obama playbook. A state commission in Pennsylvania is attempting to impose gender ideology on residents of the state by going around the legislature. The Heritage Foundation’s Monica Burke explains. Plus: We discuss the now-infamous article written by a self-identified resistance person in the Trump administration. We also…
When cameras at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing caught sight of a woman named Zina Bash, a Republican lawyer, with her arm resting in a position that allowed her index finger and thumb to almost touch—a purportedly racist gesture—a conspiracy theory broke out on social media, accusing Bash of signaling her support of white nationalism….
After a marathon 13 hours of questioning on Wednesday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings continued Thursday with more questions from the senators. Protesters continued to punctuate the senators’ questions throughout the day, and a dozen or so of the girls Kavanaugh has coached on basketball teams showed up in the afternoon to support…
I’ve served on the Senate Judiciary Committee for more than 40 years, and this week marks my 15th and final hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. It also marks what I hope will be the end of partisan high jinks designed to delay the confirmation of an all-star nominee. After all these years, I’m good at judging judges. But you…
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Aug. 28 signed state Senate Bill 10 into law, which will entirely replace California’s cash bail system with a risk-assessment bail system. Under the new law, which will take effect Oct. 1, 2019, California judges will no longer impose monetary bail conditions on criminal defendants who are in jail while…
The Department of Defense has released the latest edition of its report on Chinese military and security developments. Mandated in the fiscal 2000 National Defense Authorization Act, the annual report is an important source of regular updates regarding China’s growing military capabilities and its expanding range of security-related activities. Since the People’s Republic of China…
Last week, the State Department announced that the Trump administration had concluded an internal review and decided to end all U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Part of the administration’s justification for the decision was the disproportionate level of U.S. financial support, but…
Wednesday was Day Two of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. Senators probed him on a range of hot-button issues, including Roe vs. Wade. Heritage legal fellow Elizabeth Slattery joins us to discuss how the hearing is going. Plus: The woman sitting behind Kavanaugh gets accused of white supremacy. We also cover these…
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings this week to review the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, an eminently qualified jurist to serve on the Supreme Court. When Kavanaugh, a long-serving federal appeals court judge, was first nominated, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, committed to every member that we would have the most open,…
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing continued Wednesday, with senators posing questions to the nominee. Obstruction and absurdity were hallmarks of the first day—with Democrats demanding a delay, more than 60 protesters being arrested, conspiracy theories that a White House staffer and former law clerk sitting behind Kavanaugh was flashing a “white power” sign,…
The director and the star of “First Man,” a forthcoming film about Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11, are congratulating themselves for leaving out one of the most dramatic moments in spaceflight and, indeed, 20th-century history, namely, astronaut Armstrong’s planting the American flag on the moon. The reason: We mustn’t be “jingoistic.” What’s next? Omitting the…
The passing of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was marked by a sea of eulogies mourning the end of an era of civility and compromise. What has happened, they ask, to those noble, bipartisan days of yesteryear, and how have we descended into today’s crude and primitive tribalism? I read this stuff and wonder where I…
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court opened with fireworks Tuesday, as Democratic senators schemed to halt the hearing and liberal activists heckled lawmakers from the audience. What did Kavanaugh do to deserve such antics? He is, after all, supremely qualified—even the American Bar Association, long recognized as…
The minutes on the hospital clock dwindled as I swaddled my infant daughter one last time before she was placed in the arms of her adoptive parents. In those final moments, I thought my heart might shatter. I was broken. Then I felt a hand placed on top of mine and looked into the face…
A Pennsylvania agency has made an end run around citizens to impose gender ideology. Last month, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission released new guidance reinterpreting the category of “sex” in state anti-discrimination law to include “sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender identity, gender transition, and/or gender expression.” The commission circumvented the state Legislature, which…
There’s been no news from New York about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s little eagle feather and his big mistake of law. And no news is bad news for the rule of law. Congress should take note. In a speech last month, Cuomo inadvertently discussed violating a federal statute, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, when…
Religious freedom is facing new threats here in America, but you don’t have to look very far overseas to see that we still have it remarkably good. Andreas Thonhauser of ADF International weighs in about the state of religious freedom abroad, and what his organization is doing to fight for it. Plus: The next season…
South Africa has been thrown into the news because of President Donald Trump’s recent tweet that he instructed his secretary of state to “closely study” alleged land seizures from white farmers in South Africa. Earlier this year, a land confiscation motion was brought by radical Marxist opposition leader Julius Malema, and it passed South Africa’s…
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has summoned the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google for a hearing Wednesday about online political mischief by foreign governments. As was the case in a hearing several months ago, committee members will question the executives on their efforts (or lack thereof) to stop Russia and other countries from…