Brian McNicoll

Kayleigh McEnany, a pro-Trump surrogate on CNN, apologized Wednesday for her gaffe on the network a day before–but not before anti-President Trump forces in and out of the media got their kicks in and Ann Coulter came to her defense.

If we learned nothing else from the 2016 election, we know Harwood spent the cycle cultivating Podesta and doing whatever he could to ingratiate himself to the Clinton campaign.

Megyn Kelly’s jump from Fox News to NBC seems like it has hit a rough patch. Kelly announced in early January she was leaving Fox News after 12 years and going to NBC to headline her own weekday news program

This year’s Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Television Political Journalism have named Jorge Ramos of Univision and Fusion TV networks, Katy Tur of NBC News, and Jake Tapper of ABC as the best national journalists of the 2016 election.

NBC News chairman Andy Lack said Tuesday that President Donald Trump “has us a bit more focused on temperament than we expected,” but he derided Trump’s complaints about “fake news” and the role the media has played in covering the campaign and now the administration.

Robert Iger, CEO of Walt Disney, said Wednesday that ABC News has been “extremely fair” in its coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration and that complaints of liberal bias on ESPN are “completely exaggerated.”

Donald Trump is considering three Texans – state agriculture commissioner Sid Miller, former ag commissioner Susan Combs and former Texas A&M President Elsa Murano.

There are whimsical recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – three states the Democrats were shocked to lose. There are death threats to the people who will vote in the Electoral College, as well as campaigns to try to convince them not to vote as their constituents directed.

The state has put more than $50 billion in oil and gas royalties into the Permanent Fund since the 1970s, when oil started flowing through the Alaska Pipeline. Interest from the fund is used to fund the payments of about $2,000 per year that go to every resident in Alaska.

It’s high time Congress strike back and re-assert its constitutionally enshrined co-equality with the other branches. After all, it holds the power of the purse, the ability to grant presidents the power to declare war and even the power to approve key presidential appointments.

The Surface Transportation Board, which governs rail traffic, wants to make it easier for big shippers to force private railroads to switch trains to tracks owned by other railroads to accommodate delivery.

The CFPB hid the results – it took a Freedom of Information Act request from the Community Financial Services Association of America to dislodge them – because they wanted to promulgate a far tougher regulation than the industry’s customers would want.

There already are a variety of apps that administer various eye tests, complete with the familiar black-on-white letters to be identified and other features. There is an app with it that allows your phone’s camera to see into and behind retinas and actually look through the eyes at the human brain.

Since 1970, when Congress passed the Postal Reorganization Act, the Postal Service has operated as a quasi-government agency. Revenues are supposed to cover costs, and political interference on where post offices and other facilities are located is supposed to be removed from the process.

On Sept. 1, a rocket made by SpaceX, the space exploration company Elon Musk owns, blew up on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was the second time in nine months one of Musk’s rocket projects blew up, but it wasn’t his engineers he questioned about the latest mistake. It was his biggest competitor.

The truth is Alaska’s economy would be helped by reducing dependence on government, accepting the will of the House and leaving the Permanent Fund as just that – a permanent fund to ensure Alaska’s viability.

Judge Lewis Stanton, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled the consent decree that BMI, a major American music publisher, operates under, does not prohibit fractional licensing.

As this most intellectually slothful of administrations mercifully winds down, the president is stepping up efforts to drive out private loans to small-dollar borrowers and replace them with a government-owned bank, run through the Postal Service.

Could the fines be politically motivated? These phone companies would not be the first to suggest as much from the Enforcement Bureau of the FCC.

Herbalife is a multilevel marketing company, much the same as Avon and Tupperware, in which distributors earn money both by selling products and by recruiting other distributors. Ackman tried to establish that it was rather a pyramid scheme, in which little of the actual product ever is sold and the entire effort is focused on recruiting new investors to keep the people at the top earning.

Why can’t Governor Inslee acknowledge that, unlike the pie-in-the-sky activists he seeks to appease, he has a responsibility to govern — for the people who need energy, jobs, infrastructure and the products these goods produce?

The key for Sherrill was a series of short-term loans to cover business expenses when he was starting out. His first was for $250 to cover expenses. He repaid it in two weeks, then took out another loan for his business. He met payroll, purchased equipment and supplies and stayed above water in his business’ formative years with the help of these small loans.

Elon Musk has made a ton of money on his own – and continues to. He founded X.com, an online payment company, with profits he made off the sale of Zip2, the first online version of the Yellow Pages. X.com eventually merged with Confinity and became PayPal.

Liberals hold fewer electoral offices at the federal, state and local level than at any time in the last century. Their sole significant legislative victory of the last 20 years – Obamacare – passed in the dead of night on Christmas Eve without a single Republican vote.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its long awaited rule on small-dollar consumer loans on June 2, and it looks as if the 27 million Americans with less-than-perfect credit who rely on consumer loans to meet short-term emergencies will not fare well.

The 340B program is a case study in what happens when a powerful lobby doesn’t like having to participate in a government program but knows it can’t kill the program.

It’ll be Christmas in May this week for members of the global warming cult.

According to the Postal Service, the red ink went up because of “a $547 million unfavorable change in the workers’ compensation expense as a result of interest rate changes – a factor outside of management’s control.”

In recent weeks, Chris Edwards at the libertarian Cato Institute has called for the Postal Service to be privatized, and the Washington Post has called for it to be reformed from within.

There are no shortcuts for Puerto Rico. It must trim its public sector drastically, lower taxes and work with private industry to return middle-class private sector jobs to the island. It will be a hard road back no matter what happens with this legislation.