Embattled Missouri governor Eric Greitens will have to face trial in May despite a judge’s finding that prosecutors violated disclosure procedures. Judge Rex Burlison denied motions to dismiss the felony invasion of privacy charge related to an affair and … [Read More...]
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Ted Cruz in Time magazine: Three cheers for Donald Trump
Someone pointed out this morning that this tweet is still part of the presidential Twitter account two years later. Trump never deleted it, even after he and Cruz made nice. "@Don_Vito_08: "A picture is worth a thousand words" @realDonaldTrump #LyingTed #NeverCruz … [Read More...]
Big Government
Trump Fights Media Spin
President-elect Trump has a way of making Americans feel good again about their country, their future and themselves, and then the media spin comes along in an attempt to dilute that momentum. It is so obvious to the America people that every article the … [Read More...]
Election 2016
McCain rips Trump for congratulating Putin on election victory
Not that Barack Obama should be Republicans’ yardstick for proper presidential diplomatic behavior, but… Pres. Obama phoning congratulations from AF-1 to Pres-elect Vladimir Putin of […]
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Should Lamb’s special-election win worry Republicans … or Democrats?
Both? Neither? How much do special elections tell us about national elections, anyway? Conor Lamb’s win in PA-18 (assuming a recount or challenge doesn’t overturn […]
Health Care
Outrage Over Obamacare Anyone?
Come On People, Where’s The Outrage Over Obamacare? Okay, so at the moment Americans are distracted. With the Hillary Clinton scandals and scams all over the news […]
Obamacare Insurance Premium
Obamacare Insurance Premium Big Shock Obamacare insurance premium keeps shocking American voters…hmm, could that be due to the lies Americans were told about Obama care insurance premiums […]
Your Freedom
Hooray Americans Reject Democrats
Hooray, November 8th, 2016 will go down in history as the date the American voters changed history. The fact that a national uprising at the voting booths successfully defeated Hillary Clinton and handed Mr. Trump a win will change the direction of America's … [Read More...]
Outrage Over Obamacare Anyone?
Come On People, Where's The Outrage Over Obamacare? Okay, so at the moment Americans are distracted. With the Hillary Clinton scandals and scams all over the news and now the FBI's reopening of Hillary's email server scandal case stealing the headlines, the issue … [Read More...]
Judge: Full speed ahead on Greitens trial despite “serious” violations by prosecutors
Embattled Missouri governor Eric Greitens will have to face trial in May despite a judge’s finding that prosecutors violated disclosure procedures. Judge Rex Burlison denied motions to dismiss the felony invasion of privacy charge related to an affair and alleged attempts to keep it quiet. The decision will likely increase already growing pressure on the […]
Ted Cruz in Time magazine: Three cheers for Donald Trump
Someone pointed out this morning that this tweet is still part of the presidential Twitter account two years later. Trump never deleted it, even after he and Cruz made nice. “@Don_Vito_08: “A picture is worth a thousand words” @realDonaldTrump #LyingTed #NeverCruz @MELANIATRUMP pic.twitter.com/5bvVEwMVF8“ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2016 That came up because […]
Katie Couric’s downfall at Yahoo News
Page Six published a lengthy piece yesterday about Katie Couric’s time as the face of Yahoo News. The goal was to hire Couric and make Yahoo a rival to the big network newscasts without the benefit of television. It didn’t quite work out that way. One of the problems was that Couric and her team […]
Emmanuel Macron: The Warmongering Voice in Trump’s Ear
The European Parliament, united for its plenary session in Strasbourg, France, had the pleasure of listening to its favorite political leader earlier this week: French president Emmanuel Macron. In his speech, Macron laid out his vision for the future of the European Union. But the most memorable moment came in the debate that followed his address when […]
Job approvals for all 50 governors, top 15 are GOP
Americans like Republicans running their states. A new tabulation of state-by-state job approval ratings for all 50 of the nation’s governors finds that the top 15 with the highest approvals are all GOP. During the White House reign of Barack Obama, American voters made a distinct turn to the GOP at both the federal and […]
Why Tillerson Failed
Ronan Farrow’s long article on Rex Tillerson and the chaos he created at the State Department is worth reading in full. I was struck most by this passage: In April of last year, when the United States initiated strikes on Syria, the Administration skipped the conventional step of notifying its NATO allies. “When news broke, […]
Deadline: Corker sets Monday committee vote on Pompeo confirmation
Let the games … continue. There’s already been a considerable amount of game-playing surrounding the confirmation of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Democrats have their first real opportunity to block a Donald Trump Cabinet appointee in a floor vote, and the first step is to tarnish Pompeo with a negative recommendation from the Senate […]
Trump lawyer warns POTUS: Michael Cohen will roll over
Lefty Jonathan Chait noticed that no one in Trump’s orbit seems to dismiss the “Will Cohen flip?” question as unimportant since, after all, surely he and the president have committed no crimes together. The assumption seems to be that Cohen really might have information that could place Trump in dire legal jeopardy, in which case […]
Report: Haspel ‘Ran’ Program That Tortured Detainees
Gina Haspel (Central Intelligence Agency) Spencer Ackerman reports that Trump’s nominee for CIA Director, Gina Haspel, was more extensively involved in the use of torture on detainees than previously thought: But in his 2014 book, John Rizzo, a longtime senior CIA lawyer, indicated that Haspel was responsible for the incommunicado detention and torture not of […]
Moralistic Therapeutic Marriage
Clare Chambers, a Cambridge University philosopher, thinks marriage is a bad idea, period. Excerpts: When the state recognises marriage, it does three things: it defines, it endorses, and it regulates. First, state-recognised marriage means that the state defines marriage and controls access to it. In a marriage regime, the state dictates who may marry. It […]