President Donald Trump defied climate scientists, intelligence specialists and even his own defense secretary on Sunday evening, capping a week of freewheeling press engagements with a sprawling prime-time network television interview in which he portrayed himself as an isolated but eminently empowered commander in chief. “I felt comfortable at the beginning, other than it was Read More…
The Treasury Department announced new actions Wednesday directed at Chinese and Russian companies that the department said have facilitated illicit shipments on behalf of North Korea. The department announced designations against one individual and three companies. Those businesses include a Chinese logistics company and its affiliate in Singapore, as well as Russia-based Profinet and its Read More…
Fifty percent of likely U.S. voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows. Another 49 percent disapprove of Trump’s performance, according to Rasmussen. READ THE FULL STORY.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Sunday denied allegations posted on social media accounts linked to the family of his former girlfriend that he had behaved abusively towards her. Ellison, who is battling four challengers for his party’s nomination in the race for Minnesota attorney general, spoke out through his campaign after a Facebook post alleging Read More…
Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp faced off Tuesday night in their first debate in Georgia’s razor-tight gubernatorial race. The debate, which also included Libertarian candidate Ted Metz, was marked by sharp personal attacks, hot-button issues such as immigration and health care, and continued allegations of voter suppression. There was also a moment of local TV Read More…
Cocaine Mitch says he won’t be intimidated by people screaming at him while he eats dinner. McConnell wrote a piece for the Courier-Journal today in which he described the incident that happened last week, including what happened before he and his wife were shouted at: As Elaine and I sat at a booth and enjoyed our dinner, Read More…
Posted at 8:45 pm on October 23, 2018 by T.LaDuke Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Bourbon On The Rocks for Tuesday Oct-23-2018 is here and on todays show…Duke goes over what is happening in 14 days and why do people that feel rather than think just pipe down for a bit. You can Listen Read More…
Man, he’s really leaving MAGA Nation out on a limb here. For two weeks they’ve been spinning the Khashoggi murder for him every which way. Maybe the Turks and their sleazy autocratic leader are lying, maybe Khashoggi’s a jihadist and therefore had it coming, maybe one death just doesn’t matter when containing Iran and $100 Read More…
Andrew Gillum is the Democratic Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida and also a candidate for governor who is running against Republican Ron DeSantis. One issue that has dogged Gillum in the race is an FBI investigation of Tallahassee’s economic development agency. Today, a lobbyist and friend of Gillum’s released emails which prove Gillum accepted a ticket Read More…
House Republicans are postponing a closed-door interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod Jay RosensteinConservatives fume over format of upcoming Rosenstein interview Papadopoulos set to testify before House lawmakers Rod Rosenstein has no conflict MORE planned for Wednesday. Reps. Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteConservatives fume over format of upcoming Rosenstein interview Rosenstein to appear for House interview next week Read More…
Via the Free Beacon, apart from the military conquests and the systematic extermination of entire races, he has a point. The bad news is that this boils down to saying that if you like Trump or at least support him on nationalist policies like strong borders and tariffs, you might be a Nazi in the Read More…
Sex change surgeries for people who suffer from gender dysphoria often lead to disastrous ends. Those who undergo the surgeries are 19 times more likely to commit suicide after the procedure, and that’s already on top of a 41 percent suicide rate for those who suffer from gender dysphoria as is. Yet, despite our knowledge Read More…
Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp are set to clash on Tuesday in the first debate of their razor-tight gubernatorial race in Georgia. The race has been marked by sharp attacks from both parties, especially over allegations of voter suppression. Kemp and Abrams are neck-and-neck, according to recent polls, and the race has been rated as a “toss-up” by Read More…
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By John SolomonOpinion Contributor Just weeks after the FBI opened a dramatic counterintelligence probe into President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump to fundraise for 3 Republicans running for open seats: report Trump to nominate former Monsanto exec to top Interior position White House aides hadn’t heard of Trump’s new tax cut: report MORE and Russia, one of his Read More…
Bannonfreude continues as Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former campaign CEO and senior adviser, is finding it tough to find any fans even among the most MAGA-fied Trump supporters in the Sunshine State. A fundraising dinner featuring Bannon as the keynote speaker has resorted to giving away the tickets for free. Bannon was announced as Read More…
Sen. Jeff Flake appeared on the View today and said he wasn’t sure if he believed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford or Judge Brett Kavanaugh, an answer that didn’t sit well with most of the show’s hosts. Of course, all of the ladies on the show approved of Flake’s decision to demand an FBI investigation after Read More…
CNN is using a moment from Monday’s Florida gubernatorial debate between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisElection Countdown: Takeaways from heated Florida governor’s debate | DNC chief pushes back on ‘blue wave’ talk | Manchin faces progressive backlash | Trump heads to Houston rally | Obama in Las Vegas | Signs of Read More…
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump to fundraise for 3 Republicans running for open seats: report Trump to nominate former Monsanto exec to top Interior position White House aides hadn’t heard of Trump’s new tax cut: report MORE on Tuesday ramped up his rhetoric against Saudi Arabia over the death of Jamal Khashoggi, as the U.S. took Read More…
Believe them when they tell you who they are. I say that a lot these days. When the mask slips, politicians should be held accountable for their honest thoughts seeping out. Take the comments from a candidate for U.S. Senate, Kyrsten Sinema. Turns out, she doesn’t think highly of stay-at-home moms. As a matter of Read More…
Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoWarren wants probe into whether former U.S. soldiers worked as assassins for UAE Slain Saudi columnist upends ‘Davos in the Desert’ Koreas, UN Command pulling weapons, guard posts inside DMZ MORE announced Tuesday that the U.S. has taken steps to punish those it suspects of being involved in Read More…
Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix October 23 at 4:44 PM President Trump is fond of making threats to withhold financial support from countries that don’t do his bidding. But his fondness for threatening other countries is nothing compared with his love of threatening California. For the second time in a week, Read More…
Students walk past campaign signs next to an early voting site on the Miami Dade College campus, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, in Miami. Early voting is available for the first time on the campuses of Florida’s major state colleges and universities. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) NBC News is reporting that early vote numbers in a handful Read More…
In case you haven’t heard, slut shaming is a thing. And the brave among us march to proudly proclaim the victory of their whorish ways (Whore shaming is unacceptable, as well. Power to the people!). That’s a virtue in the 21st century. Yet, apparently, that virtue is stupid: According to the Institute for Family Studies, Read More…
He offered a compromise yesterday in an op-ed about the caravan for Fox: In exchange for amnesty for DREAMers, immigration fans like him should agree to support the wall. That’s a shrewd offer in how it capitalizes on the fetish Trump and MAGA Nation have made of the wall as a concrete symbol of America’s Read More…
Several high-level Amazon executives including CEO Jeff Bezos pumped cash into Republican Sen. Cory Gardner’s campaign committee, a new third-quarter Federal Election Commission filing revealed. But the money isn’t to help the senator from Colorado in the Nov. 6 midterms. Gardner isn’t up for re-election until 2020. Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, each wrote checks Read More…
Don’t look now, but America’s first Trump-era midterm election could substantially expand Obamacare. That’s right, expand Obamacare – implausible as it sounds after the all-GOP government’s near miss on repealing the program and attempts to undermine it. Polls show Democratic calls for improved health insurance continue to resonate with big chunks of the electorate, and Read More…
“They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “They had the worst cover-up ever.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected the Saudis’ account of Khashoggi’s killing and said the dissident journalist was murdered in Read More…
October 23 at 3:42 PM During an exchange at the second Republican presidential debate on Sept. 16, 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump laid out what became a central cultural tenet of his campaign. “This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish,” Trump told Jeb Bush, after he was asked about criticizing the former Florida Read More…
Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for The Fix October 23 at 3:37 PM Efforts by some in the Trump administration to change how transgender people are identified — and protected — under the law have renewed concerns by the LGBT community that President Trump’s vision of a great America includes curtailing some of the Read More…
Some of the things Trump has said about the caravan of migrants making its way toward the U.S. border aren’t true. For instance, this bit about unknown Middle Easterners being mixed in which he tweeted yesterday: Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of Read More…
The relationship between Texas Senator Ted Cruz and President Donald Trump has been a roller coaster. At first, the two got along during the early moments of the 2016 elections, but then it quickly devolved into one of the most contentious back and forths the Republican party has seen in a long while. It was Read More…
The FBI says it was unable to locate any photos of former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyConservatives fume over format of upcoming Rosenstein interview Former FBI lawyer speaks with House lawmakers on Rosenstein, 2016 Emmet Flood steps in as White House counsel following McGahn departure MORE and special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US Read More…
Hollywood Democrats are pouring money into the midterm elections, infusing races with cash in a last-ditch push to flip control of Congress. Some of the country’s most famous faces — including Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Alec Baldwin and Paul Rudd — have been splashing their signatures on big-money checks for House and Senate candidates in Read More…
Records show that undercover FBI agents gave Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) a ticket to “Hamilton” in 2016, contrary to his campaign’s previous explanation. Former lobbyist Adam Corey’s lawyer, Chris Kise, released the records Tuesday, only two weeks before the gubernatorial election in which Gillum narrowly leads his Republican opponent, former Rep. Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisElection Countdown: Read More…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. National security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) On Saturday, President Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty. This treaty, signed when Ronald Reagan was president and the Read More…
Democrats have easily raised more cash than Republicans in dozens of key races as they try to take a House majority. If the party fails to flip enough seats to win control of the chamber on Nov. 6, Democrats are unlikely to point to a lack of money as the cause. Democrats have pulled in Read More…
Do you remember the story of Pablo Villavicencio? He’s the illegal alien who was delivering pizza to Fort Hamilton Army base in New York in June when his identity was discovered and ICE picked him up. Having already been on their radar, Villavicencio was detained and scheduled for deportation. A friendly judge threw a wrench Read More…
President Donald Trump‘s national security advisor, John Bolton, told reporters Tuesday in Moscow that the Russian effort to interfere in America’s elections is “objectionable” and made it “impossible for two years” for the United States and Russia to make progress diplomatically. “That’s a loss, particularly for Russia,” said Bolton, after a 90-minute meeting with Russian Read More…
A racist robocall that targets Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is dialing up Florida voters, according to NBC News. “Well hello there. I is the negro Andrew Gillum and I’ll be askin’ you to make me governor of this here state of Florida,” a man impersonating Gillum in a minstrel-stye dialect says, according to audio obtained by Read More…
Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York, Thursday, March 2, 2107. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Over the weekend, Tucker Carlson appeared at a rehearsal for Purgatory called the Politicon conference. Before an audience, he took on the story of the death of Jamal Khashoggi. Read More…
Republicans are looking good and riding high as we approach November. There’s no doubt about that. As we head into midterms, it looks more and more likely that Republicans will stay in power, ignoring the typical undulation currently seen in voters and possibly even picking up seats. The prophesied “blue wave” that was going to Read More…