The Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday issued a warning that the coronavirus is likely to break out in the United States. “It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country any more but a question of when this will happen,” said Dr. Nancy …
Read More »The New York Times Needle and the Damage Done
WASHINGTON —Back by unpopular demand is the New York Times‘ election-night needle. The paper announced Monday it would be rolling out not one but four different needles to project and predict the results of the Iowa caucus. You probably remember the Times’ needle from the 2016 election. The Times is …
Read More »Why Is Devin Nunes Named in the House Impeachment Inquiry?
As the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee conducting the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump, Rep. Devin Nunes is supposed to appear in the title pages of committee documents as an honorific — not in the body of a 300-page investigation into presidential abuse of power. But here …
Read More »Trump Wants to Sue Pelosi and Schiff: 'These Are Bad, Bad People'
President Donald Trump told an audience at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, on Saturday night that he spoke to his lawyers about suing both House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “We’re going to take a look at it. We’re going after these people. These …
Read More »Judge to Trump in Tax Return Case: You're Not Above the Law
Rejecting an “extraordinary claim” of legal immunity by the president, a federal judge has ruled Donald Trump must provide his tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney investigating his financial role in the Stormy Daniels hush-money scandal. While this decision could ultimately force Trump’s financial interests into the public eye, …
Read More »Trump to Deny Visas to Immigrants Who Can't Pay for Healthcare
Despite repeated promises to dismantle Obamacare and making no efforts to ensure Americans can afford their own healthcare, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday that declared immigrants coming to the United States must prove they can pay for their own healthcare or will be covered by an approved …
Read More »CNN Anchor Chokes Up Reporting on Trump's Latest Racist Twitter Rant
America’s racist-in-chief was at it again on Saturday morning, spewing racism and hate on Twitter. Triggered by House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Saturday morning’s edition of Fox and Friends, President Donald Trump went on an unhinged rant about the congressman’s city while using blatantly racist terms …
Read More »Trump Claims Mueller Asked Him for a Job. Mueller Calls Bullshit
Robert Mueller on Wednesday explicitly contradicted a claim from President Trump: that Mueller sought to become the new FBI director after James Comey was fired in the spring of 2017. In the hours before the former special counsel’s appearance before Congress, Trump claimed Mueller applied and interviewed for the position, …
Read More »Jeffrey Epstein's Finally Being Publicly Shamed — Could Trump Be Next?
Not so long ago, there was no public shame in being a dirty old man. While political pundits proclaimed 1992 the Year of the Woman, Donald Trump was manhandling an NFL cheerleader on camera, with pedo-predator Jeffrey Epstein snickering right next to him. In the early 2000s, when Donald Trump …
Read More »The Media Hands Trump a Hollow Victory on North Korea
President Donald Trump is exploiting the media’s love of photo ops to fool America into thinking he is making any kind of meaningful progress on North Korea. Today, after extending a last-minute invitation via Twitter, he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the border between North and South Korea …
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