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February 2019

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 08, 2019 17 Comments
In what can only be described as another diplomatic victory for President Donald Trump's administration, European countries have stopped importing Iranian oil. The Iranian regime has admitted that European buyers have refused to touch Iranian oil despite temporary waivers extended to them by the United States. "No European country is buying oil from Iran except Turkey," Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2019 53 Comments
The Supreme Court has granted a stay of the new Louisiana anti-abortion law, in a 5-4 vote with Chief Justice Roberts siding with the four liberal Justices. The law in question requires a doctor performing abortion to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, which critics alleged would result in only a single abortion doctor in the entire state. This is only a stay pending appeal, not an ultimate disposition of the case.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2019 18 Comments
There has been a fair amount of conservative frustration that the Trump administration was slow to get off the mark to renominate and start the confirmation process for judicial nominees held over from the last Congress. Particularly as to vacancies on the 9th Circuit, there were fears that the administration was cutting a bad deal with Democrats.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on February 07, 2019 13 Comments
Virginia Governor Northam's days in office may be numbered. Under pressure from both sides of the aisle, first for endorsing murdering newborn babies and then for donning racist costumes while in med school. Endorsing infanticide was just fine. The media and Democrats continue to pretend it never happened. But Northam's racist costume was a bridge too far, apparently.

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 07, 2019 14 Comments
TheWrap's Jon Levine dug up an old clip from The View in 2016 when host Joy Behar showed off a photo of herself dressed as a "beautiful African woman." The other women oohed and ahhed over it, but the clip did not cause much of a controversy. However, in light of the blackface scandals lately, it continues to show the hypocrisy. Liberals get a free pass while conservatives receive fire.

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 07, 2019 103 Comments
Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled the resolution for her Green New Deal with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). The resolution could cost up to $7 trillion. She stated that this deal "calls for a 'national, social, industrial and economic mobilization at a scale not seen since World War II.'" Somehow Ocasio-Cortez managed to fit into this Green New Deal a guaranteed job and health care for everyone. On Twitter, Lee Doren found a quote that proves this Green New Deal will hit the poor people the most.

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 07, 2019 19 Comments
Professor Vanessa Tyson, the woman who has accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, released a statement yesterday with precise details about what happened that night in 2004. In the statement, she wrote how she reached out to people in Virginia in 2017 when she realized Fairfax planned to run for office. Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott is one of those men. Why is he just now letting this out?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2019 41 Comments
Democrats are right to be worried that Elizabeth Warren's Native American controversy is eating away at her viability as a national general election candidate. The analogy to Hillary's emails is on point, an oozing campaign wound that saps the candidate's strength. The recent revelation that Warren signed her Texas State Bar registration card in 1986 as an "American Indian" comes on the heels of the disastrous DNA test rollout in October 2018.
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