MEQUOKETA, Iowa — When Gov. Steve Bullock hits the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, his security detail of two Montana Highway Patrol officers comes along, too — at taxpayer expense. The Montana Republican Party, in a statement earlier this week, asked why state taxpayers “should have to swallow the cost of his executive protection Read More…
Top Democrats in Montana and Washington are really excited about Gov. Steve Bullock running — for the Senate, not the presidency. The Montana governor’s seemingly quixotic presidential run comes as nearly everyone in the party is begging him to challenge GOP Sen. Steve Daines and transform the 2020 Senate map. Unlike any other Democratic candidate Read More…
Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate, said she doesn’t support eliminating all private health insurance under Medicare-for-all after suggesting in January that she does. Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday that “supplemental” private health insurance wouldn’t be eliminated under Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-all legislation, which she Read More…
By Valley News Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law making North Dakota the 25th state in the nation to eliminate the threat of jail time for possession of small amounts of marijuana. HB 1050 reclassifies possession of up to a half ounce of marijuana by adults 21 and older as an infraction Read More…
Whatever could be causing this saber rattling, the Washington Post wondered today. With tweets like these, Ishaan Tharoor writes, Trump is setting the Middle East “on a knife edge,” even though talk of war with Iran had receded during the week. Tharoor then provides enough context to make this sound like a chicken-egg exercise: If Read More…
There’s only one standard at MSNBC. You can shill for dictators and make all the factual errors you want, but if the end result is you slapping at Donald Trump, then it’s all good. We saw that on full display this weekend via Joy Reid’s show. That’d be the same Joy Reid who lied about Read More…
MEQUOKETA, Iowa — When Gov. Steve Bullock hits the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, his security detail of two Montana Highway Patrol officers comes along, too — at taxpayer expense. The Montana Republican Party, in a statement earlier this week, asked why state taxpayers “should have to swallow the cost of his executive protection Read More…
Last month the NY Times broke the story that two Florida counties had had their voter registration rolls accessed by persons the FBI is claiming to be Russians or one stripe or another. I say “claiming” because my belief is that as the investigation by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz nears completion and the criminal probe Read More…
Decades of government schools (kindergarten through grade 12) – have poisoned America’s intellectual well. An utterly pathetic school system which produces far too many people who can’t read the diplomas they’re handed – but can all roll a condom on a banana. College IS for Dummies to be sure – a festering cesspool of totalitarian Read More…
Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix May 20 at 11:23 AM There’s been quite a lot of debate on the left about how to best handle Trump voters who are now less supportive of the president. And Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg may have found a way to do that without completely Read More…
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to reconsider whether hundreds of lawsuits against a pharmaceutical company can move forward. The justices unanimously ruled that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals should revisit its prior ruling allowing for the legal challenges against the drug manufacturer Merck & Co. Hundreds of individuals had filed Read More…
The Trump administration earlier this year sought funds from Congress to reimburse leaders of the Taliban for expenses incurred traveling to negotiate peace in Afghanistan with U.S. representatives. The undisclosed sum would repay representatives of the Afghan terrorist organization for expenses like airfare, hotel, food and supplies. The idea, ultimately shot down by a House Read More…
John Oliver labeled conservative commentator Meghan McCainMeghan Marguerite McCainMeghan McCain’s viral Twitter clapback becomes a ‘Jeopardy!’ question Howard Stern: ‘I feel bad’ for 2020 women because Biden feels ‘safe’ Howard Stern defends McCain from Behar on ‘The View’: ‘Give the woman a chance!’ MORE the “most embarrassing child of a prominent political figure” as part Read More…
The Eiffel Tower in Paris has been evacuated and closed to visitors after someone tried to climb the monument. The official Twitter account for the tower wrote on Monday that the structure was “closed until further notice.” ⚠️La #tourEiffel est actuellement fermée jusqu’à nouvel ordre. Pour éviter une trop longue attente, nous conseillons à nos Read More…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R). Screen grab via CBS This Morning. The latest talking points are out for those still enraged over Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s signing of her state’s fetal heartbeat bill last week. You can’t call yourself a pro-life state if you’re also in the business of observing the death penalty for convicted Read More…
[SCREENSHOT FROM TWEET, https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1130164464282681346] On Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave a firm “No” to for-profit charter schools receiving any tax-dollar support. She’s not a fan of Betsy DeVos: “What [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos has done to our public education really undermines the best opportunities for our kids.” Pocahontas isn’t alone; Alyssa Milano’s down on Betsy, Read More…
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Wyoming hunter charged with off-season hunting, ruling 5-4 that a 150-year-old treaty between a Native American tribe and the United States was still active and protected the man’s rights. Clayvin Herrera was charged in 2014 with off-season hunting, but he argued that an 1868 treaty between the U.S. and the Crow Read More…
May 20 at 10:19 AM A Republican congressman thinks Congress should seriously consider impeaching President Trump. That is not something we thought we’d write in April, when reaction to special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s III report fell predictably along party lines. Here are my principal conclusions:1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report.2. President Read More…
Is there an FBI surveillance transcript that would change hardened views on the Russia-collusion investigation? “I would love for your viewers to see it,” former House Oversight chair Trey Gowdy told Maria Bartiromo yesterday on Fox News. Gowdy concedes that views on Donald Trump and the 2016 election have become so polarized and embedded that Read More…
Breitbart’s Rebecca Mansour spoke to Dr. Alveda King, director of Priests for Life’s Civil Rights for the Unborn project and the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. about the controversial new abortion laws. King made some rather controversial remarks of her own which are guaranteed to make liberals’ heads explode. (Scroll down for full audio.) Read More…
A transgender woman, who was attacked in a video that went viral last month, was found dead in Dallas on Saturday, police say. Muhlaysia Booker, 23, was fatally shot at least once, Maj. Vincent Weddington of the Dallas Police Department said at a news conference on Sunday. Officers reportedly responded to the scene after reports of Read More…
Just two weeks after “Game of Thrones” fans spotted a coffee cup in an episode of the show, the series is again being mocked for misplaced modern-day beverages. Fans watching the series finale of the long-running HBO series noticed multiple water bottles in a pivotal scene of Sunday night’s episode. ADVERTISEMENT The Verge reported Monday Read More…
This is a subject we’ve been tackling here for a while now. With the advent of Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy outfits, a lot of pressure has been put on taxi drivers that don’t deliver a similar quality of service. Part of the resulting economic distress has come from a simple lack of customers, but Read More…
Qatar’s influence in English media is undeniable. They’ve got their arms in a number of major print publications, including The Washington Post, while they also have a team of “analysts” who make the rounds on MSNBC and CNN. Despite the obvious issues at play, their motivations are never questioned because Al Jazeera promotes the right Read More…
AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File From now on, the Trump-Russia affair, the investigation that dominated the first years of Donald Trump’s presidency, will be divided into two parts: before and after the release of the Mueller report. Before the special counsel’s findings were made public last month, the president’s adversaries… Read Full Article »
There is something Kafkaesque about the current round of investigating possible FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, Justice Department, and National Security Council wrongdoing during the 2016 election, Trump transition, and early presidency. Read Full Article »
Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix May 20 at 9:00 AM When President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress earlier this year, one member on the Republican side of the hearing stood out. While the rest of the Republicans were resolute in their efforts to attack Cohen’s credibility, Rep. Justin Read More…
A Michigan state lawmaker on Monday announced he will mount a primary challenge to Rep. Justin AmashJustin AmashClash with Trump marks latest break with GOP leaders for Justin Amash Trump fires back at ‘loser’ GOP lawmaker who said he’d engaged in ‘impeachable conduct’ Romney: Justin Amash ‘reached a different conclusion’ than I did on impeachment MORE Read More…
The First Amendment to the Constitution, the most important 44 words in that priceless and precious promise of liberty and freedom, does not guarantee civil, wise or even responsible speech. It guarantees free speech, however goofy, dumb or even irresponsible. Read Full Article »
A sudden twist in the Julian Assange story has appeared. We’ve known from the beginning that Assange would fight extradition to the United States tooth and claw. Also, his accomplice from the heady days of Wikileaks’ leaking glory, Chelsea Manning, is willing to stay in jail rather than answer any questions about her involvement with Read More…
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump: ‘I will not let Iran have nuclear weapons’ Rocket attack hits Baghdad’s Green Zone amid escalating tensions: reports Buttigieg on Trump tweets: ‘I don’t care’ MORE attacked The New York Times in a series of tweets Monday morning, criticizing a report that Deutsche Bank employees flagged possible suspicious transactions by entities controlled by Read More…