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Prince Andrew filmed a tell-all interview with the BBC during which he discussed his controversial relationship with now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the sexual assault allegations against him. The Duke of York, 59, was interviewed by BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis on Thursday at Buckingham Palace and claimed: “I kick myself … on a daily
Lloyd Billingsley, Schiff Show’s Stalinist Back Story. As California Republican Devin Nunes pointed out, Wednesday’s impeachment hearing was not a one-off but a televised sequel to the bogus Russia probe that tagged Donald Trump as an agent of Russia. When that one flopped, Democrats quickly ginned up the low-rent Ukrainian sequel, produced and scripted by
Jason Meister, It’s hard to believe that anyone could actually take the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry seriously, given how transparent its architects have been about their obsession with taking down President Trump. This week’s public impeachment hearings have been almost three years in the making. Washington lawyer Mark Zaid, literally tweeted about his plans for a
William Marshall, This week we witnessed yet another august civil servant, Ambassador William Taylor, immolate a hard-earned reputation over a 50-plus year career on the altar of the Deep State. Both Ambassador Taylor and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller began their public service careers as nobly as any American can – in the uniform of
President Donald Trump on Friday defended his decision to fire former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, saying that she had “turned bad.” “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “She started off in Somalia, how did that go?” Yovanovitch’s first tour was in Mogadishu, Somalia and was installed in Ukraine during the
David Limbaugh, You know what doesn’t pass the smell test in the Democrats’ sham impeachment crusade? Their main beef is that President Donald Trump abused his power to interfere with a presidential election (2020), yet that’s all they have been doing for the last three years. Interference with a presidential election (2016) was also their
Roger Stone was found guilty on all counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress by a jury in Washington, D.C. federal court, after deliberations had been going on since Thursday morning. The former Trump associate and longtime political operative faced charges that stemmed from Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Sentencing has been
David Harsanyi, One of the most durable conspiracy theories of our times finds Vladimir Putin recruiting a billionaire media personality named Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. In some iterations of the tale, Trump is willingly serving his Kremlin comrades; in others, he is merely the victim of kompromat. In every version, he is an
Raymond Ibrahim, International Day of Prayer for the persecuted Church reminds us of some hard truths. Last November 10 was one of the International Day[s] of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (known by the acronym IDOP). Initiated over 20 years ago by the World Evangelical Alliance, 100,000 congregations around the world and millions of Christians
Bruce Thornton, How progressives mask their envy and lust for power. The Democrat presidential primary frontrunners are in a heated bidding war for voters, proposing policies with price-tags in the trillions of dollars. Elizabeth Warren wants to spend $49 trillion over the next decade on “Medicare for All” and wholly subsidize college tuition, among other
And now, the all-important pizzazz debate. After the first day of the House impeachment hearings droned to a close, NBC ran a “plenty of substance but little drama” piece, with the subhead: “The first two witnesses called Wednesday testified to Trump’s scheme, but lacked the pizzazz necessary for public attention.” Reporter Jonathan Allen defended himself,
John R. Lott, Jr., Another school shooting, this time by a 15-year-old at Saugus High School in California, another quest for answers. Yet, 20 years after Columbine, the United States is still looking for how to stop mass public shootings. The rest of the world, where mass public shootings are actually much more common, is