Oct 04, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where senators soon will review the FBI’s updated background check on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Fred Lucas looks at the political activities of lawyers for Kavanaugh’s accusers. This nasty fight shows the high court is way too powerful, Kim Holmes writes. Julie Swetnick’s stories of gang-rape parties don’t ring true to Ken McIntyre, who used to cover her neck of the woods. Plus: Doug Badger on cutting health insurance costs, Kelsey Harkness on Harvard’s shunning of Kavanaugh, Michelle Malkin on investigating the Democrats, and Penny Young Nance on the principles of a sexual assault survivor.
The Political Pasts of the Lawyers Representing Kavanaugh Accusers
One ran for office multiple times as a Democrat. Another was a federal appointee of both Presidents Clinton and Obama. Still another defended the alleged misconduct of Democrat politicians.
I Was a Crime Reporter in Maryland in the Early ’80s. I Never Heard of Teen Gang-Rape Parties
I was working my first job as a reporter in Montgomery County, Maryland, at the time Julie Swetnick claims Brett Kavanaugh and other teen boys routinely were drugging and gang-raping girls at a series of house parties in the county.
Congress Can Slash the Cost of Health Care Premiums by as Much as a Third. Here’s How.
A proposal to repeal Obamacare entitlements and replace them with grants to states would reduce premiums for individual coverage by as much as 32 percent.
The Daily Signal Podcast: The Media's Shameful Handling of Kavanaugh Accusations
What these students are really saying is that unless we #BelieveAllWomen, they can’t feel safe on college campuses—and anything less qualifies as gender-based discrimination.
Harvard Students Want Kavanaugh Banned From Public Life, Because of #MeToo
Should the media be rushing to cover allegations with little or no corroboration? The Daily Signal's Ken McIntyre, a veteran journalist who covered Maryland as a crime and government reporter in the ’80s, joins us to discuss.
Sen. Flake, I Was Assaulted by a Stranger. Here’s Why I Want Kavanaugh Confirmed.
“We must stand squarely on the side of victims of sexual assault and hear their pain, but we must also embrace the principle of a presumption of innocence for every man and woman,” writes Penny Young Nance of Concerned Women for America.
Investigate the Senate Democrat Wrecking Machine
The Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination circus didn’t happen by accident. The emergence of incredible accusers in the 11th hour was no mistake.
Fight Over Kavanaugh Proves Supreme Court Has Become Too Powerful
Ever since at least the 1960s (and frankly even before), we have increasingly allowed the Supreme Court to decide controversial issues we have been unwilling to solve legislatively.
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