The star of the first Democratic presidential primary debate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., was attorney general of California and, before that, district attorney for San Francisco. This put her in the vanguard of the Golden State’s sanctuary state and sanctuary city policies. Now, it seems, all the 2020 Democratic hopefuls—and[Read More…]
Author: Debra J. Saunders
The deficit in media questioning
Trade secret: We in the news media often hate the media, too. I had such a moment Tuesday at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s annual summit when CNN senior congressional respondent Manu Raju interviewed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The topic was supposed to be “fiscal sustainability”—a Washington phrase for curbing[Read More…]
No winners in infrastructure spat
Here’s a scary thought about last week’s skirmishes between President Donald Trump and the Democratic leaders formerly known to him as “Chuck and Nancy”: Both sides think they won. When both parties think they’ve won, dear reader, that probably means you lost. Because there always has to be a big[Read More…]
The $2 trillion infrastructure trap
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer emerged from the White House after meeting with President Donald Trump. They announced that Trump and congressional Democrats had agreed to spend $2 trillion on a big infrastructure package. It’s amazing how chummy partisans can be when they doubt they[Read More…]
There was no collusion Rep. Schiff
President Donald Trump called on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to resign from Congress. That, of course, is not going to happen. Even after special counsel Robert Mueller found no conspiracy or coordination between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian actors, Schiff told The Washington Post, “Undoubtedly, there is collusion.”[Read More…]
Demo praised, Trump condemned
President Donald Trump, meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic rising star who tracks mud across the legal system the same way you do, but his dirty footprints win accolades from the mainstream media. Last week Newsom signed an executive order granting execution reprieves for all 737 inmates on California’s[Read More…]
Debate over ISIS bride
In 2014, Hoda Muthana, then 20 years old, left Alabama to become an ISIS bride in Syria. When she left the United States, she posted her passport on her Twitter account and implied she was about to burn it. Now Muthana wants to return to the U.S. with her 18-month-old[Read More…]