**Written by Doug Powers Rumor has it that Planned Parenthood's considering this CNN tweet for a Margaret Sanger Award: If the Republican alternative to Obamacare becomes law, this mom says she'll drive to Mexico for birth control https://t.co/zQ6YczQfvW pic.twitter.com/lfmFSu4Qi0 — CNN (@CNN) June 26, 2017 “News” story or ad for Planned Parenthood? But the California couple says that if the Republican alternative to Obamacare becomes law, they'll be driving over the border to Mexico to get it...

**Written by Doug Powers Today in stories that will come as a total shock to progressive economists gives us this study just released by Captain Obvious: When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. Yet according to a major new study that could force economists to reassess past research on the issue, the hike has had the opposite effect. The city is gradually increasing the ...

**Written by Doug Powers Will The Resistance be thrilled to know the media's incessant anonymously sourced reporting about Trump/Russia collusion has finally claimed some scalps? Probably not, since the first people who have been held accountable are all CNN employees: Three CNN journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a Russia-related article that was retracted. Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric...

**Written by Doug Powers I'm going to go ahead and assume Bloomberg and the progressive mayors who will take him up on his offer won't be able to grasp the multiple levels of irony: Entrepreneur and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) plans to launch a $17 million contest to incentivize U.S. cities to bypass policymaking in Washington under the Trump administration, according to The Associated Press. Thirty-five cities will win $100,000, while four other cities will get $1 million. ...

**Written by Doug Powers Another Sunday cavalcade of odds and ends is here. We'll kick it off with the story of how one of America's highest profile socialists and his wife are sharing their wealth… with defense lawyers: Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) wife Jane Sanders has booked top notch lawyers to defend her against allegations of bank fraud. The FBI launched an investigation into loans Sanders applied for when she was president of Burlington College, alleging that she lied to qualify for them...

**Written by Doug Powers Obama's previous pledge to try and remain on the sidelines like his predecessors had all the promissory integrity of “if you like your plan you can keep it,” and the ex-prez will start hitting the road soon on behalf of Dems seeking office, starting in Virginia: Former President Obama plans to return to the political spotlight this fall by hitting the campaign trail for Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee running for Virginia governor. This will be Obama's fi...

**Written by Doug Powers Alarmist rhetoric is like penicillin — the more you use the stuff when it isn't necessary the less effective it becomes — and Dems are now trying to inject everybody with it by the gallon. After taking the obligatory 1/2 hour off from accusing the other side of murder after the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise, they were back at it about a potential “repeal and replace” of Obamacare. Leading off we have Hillary Clinton, who has stumbled across a great anti-death line she c...

**Written by Doug Powers A woman defeated a man in Georgia's 6th District this week, which Planned Parenthood considers a loss for women (and you know why): Jon @Ossoff came within 5% in a district that elected @SecPriceMD by 23% 7 months ago. We won't stop fighting for women. #GA06 — Planned Parenthood (@PPact) June 21, 2017 Apparently women aren't women until they become lock-step fellow travelers. Whenever you read anything from Planned Parenthood, substitute “women” with “abortion” because...

**Written by Doug Powers Nancy Pelosi's pushing back against a few Democrats who seem to be recognizing that doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result might not be a good long-term strategy: Nancy Pelosi is shrugging off the calls from within her own party that she step down as House Minority Leader. Ever since Jon Ossoff‘s failed effort to win the special election in Georgia, Pelosi has taken fire from colleagues who say that her leadership has led to too many D...

**Written by Doug Powers I've written before that if Hillary Clinton had won the election last November the whole Russia thing would have completely fallen off the radar and gone away. Even before the election, Ex-DHS chief Jeh Johnson confirmed yesterday that Democrats didn't seem very alarmed by Russian intrusions back when they were certain Hillary was going to win: Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified Wednesday that the Democratic National Committee last year turned down ...

**Written by Doug Powers The response to this should simply be “OK, good luck with that”: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced — and that won't be good for America or for the world. Guterres made clear to reporters at his first press conference here since taking the reins of the United Nations on Jan. 1 that proposed cuts in U.S. funding for t...

**Written by Doug Powers If you're keeping score at home, Democrat Jon Ossoff's loss in Georgia last night means it's time to update your “#1 cause of Democrat voter disenfranchisement” card to voter ID laws Russian hacking rain: Maddow: “Steve, let me ask you one last question on this. If there was a turnout effect from the bad weather today in the district, does that have any partisan implications that you could foresee in terms of what was expected for same day, election day voting rather tha...

The double murder of Otto Warmbier by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 We may never know what brutal torture and malign neglect American student Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea's dictatorship before losing his life this week at the age of 22. But it wasn't the first time the free-spirited Ohio native died. More than a year before succumbing to the unknown illness or injury that left him in a coma thousands of miles away from home, Otto Warmbier's own countryme...

**Written by Doug Powers In Georgia, Democrat Jon Ossoff seemed to model his campaign off of Hillary Clinton's “all liberal celebrities all the time” approach. How'd that work out for Ossoff? About as well as it did for Hillary: BREAKING: Republican Karen Handel wins Georgia special election, avoiding major upset in most expensive House race in US history. — The Associated Press (@AP) June 21, 2017 Democrat Jon Ossoff thanks his #GA06 supporters: “This is the beginning of something much bigge...

**Written by Doug Powers In the last few years, high profile Democrats have railed against Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and promised him the days were numbered for that name. Harry Reid in June of 2014: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — a vocal opponent of the Washington Redskins name — took to the floor Wednesday and continued to slam the team's owner in light of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's decision to cancel the team's trademarks. “The Redskins no longer have trademarks. T...

**Written by Doug Powers Call it “Historic Levels of Transparency: The Next Generation“: Judicial Watch today announced that the National Security Council (NSC) on May 23, 2017, informed it by letter that the materials regarding the unmasking by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of “the identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” have been removed to the Obama Library. The NSC will not fulfill an April 4 Judicial Watch request for ...

**Written by Doug Powers A post-shooting spin of choice embraced by liberal actors and MSNBC talking heads obviously resonated in select totally objective mainstream media newsrooms. CBS News' Scott Pelley took that handoff and ran with it as evidenced by a commentary that started this way: It's time to ask whether the attack on the United States Congress, yesterday, was foreseeable, predictable and, to some degree, self-inflicted. Too many leaders, and political commentators, who set an example...

Rape fakers must pay a higher price by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 It's settled, but far from over. The University of Virginia fraternity that was slimed and defamed by sicko fabulist Sabrina Erdely will receive a $1.65 million payment, the fraternity announced this week. Erdely's manufactured tale of gang rape by Phi Kappa Psi members, spun through a manipulated UVA student dubbed “Jackie” and published by left-wing Rolling Stone magazine, combusted spectacularly after scru...

Have a good Sunday/Father's Day all! ***** **Written by Doug Powers Twitter **Written by Doug Powers Here's a somewhat shorter than usual Sunday open thread lead-in, since it's Father's Day and I've got a few father-ish things to do. Happy Father's Day to all the dads here! And we're off… This is the person who did the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia at a congressional baseball practice just a few days ago: James T. Hodgkinson, the shooter who opened fire on dozens of Republican congressmen a...

**Written by Doug Powers Coming from Planned Parenthood this is utterly laughable: No politicians should be involved in “health care”? They have a weird way of leading by example: They can tell Nancy Pelosi personally they don't think she should be involved in their business the next time they present her with a Margaret Sanger award. But anyway, it's nice of Planned Parenthood to argue in favor of the defunding of Planned Parenthood. (h/t Twitchy) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @TheP...