Take a seat, Nancy Pelosi — you’ve been replaced. For years, the California Democrat has been the cornerstone of Republican negative attack ads and campaign rhetoric against her party. But as Republicans work to keep control of key statehouses this fall ahead of the all-important redistricting process that comes with the 2020 census, state and local GOP politicians are building a robust Read More…
Jeff Bridges is urging people to donate to his “good buddy,” Steve Bullock, so the Montana governor can make it onto the next Democratic presidential debate stage. “I don’t care if you vote for somebody else,” the “Big Lebowski” actor said in a video posted on Twitter on Monday. “But it’s so important to have Steve Bullock’s Read More…
Andrew Yang’s surprising debate gambit — giving away $120,000 to 10 families over a year to highlight his universal basic income proposal — helped the outsider candidate raise $1 million in the 72 hours since the debate and collect more than 450,000 email addresses from people who entered the online raffle, the presidential campaign told Read More…
Longshot Tom Steyer doesn’t think his billionaire status should disqualify him from the Democratic presidential nomination, despite an increasing portion of his party shying away from corporate money. Instead, the business magnate told CNBC on Thursday, his experience in the private sector positions him to “expose” President Donald Trump “as the failure he’s been as Read More…
It really is wacky how readers overreacted to a new claim in the country’s most respected paper that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman while in college — after the story neglected to mention that the supposed victim doesn’t remember it happening. I grudgingly admire the sheer balls it takes for these two to blame readers Read More…
What do I win? Earlier this morning, I wrote a piece predicting that this story about Trump and Ukraine, supposedly involving a quid pro quo and an investigation request into Joe Biden, would blow up. The centerpiece of this was Biden being on tape bragging that he threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees Read More…
The Iron Range in northern Minnesota has been deep blue forever. CNN’s Martin Savidge traveled to this rural area to speak to voters and found that many of them plan to cast their vote for President Trump. Savidge tells viewers: Once a Democratic stronghold, many of the voters we talk to here say more and Read More…
When I was a young journalist decades ago, training to cover Washington, one of my mentors offered sage advice: When it comes to U.S. intelligence and diplomacy, things often aren’t what they first seem. Those words echo in my brain today, as much as they did that first day. And following the news recently, I Read More…
This is ridiculous but it’s also the logical conclusion to Pelosi’s extreme aversion to impeachment. What could be nicer for a House Speaker who doesn’t want to risk an impeachment backlash at the polls than handing off the responsibility for ousting the president to the Department of Justice? Let federal prosecutors decide what to do! Read More…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Back in August, Facebook hit the Pro Life group Live Action with sanctions for Read More…
[Screenshot from The Hill via Twitter, https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1174911312058617856?] Sometimes everything just gets all messed up. On Thursday, Chris Cuomo questioned Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani as to whether he personally asked Ukraine to investigate former VP Joe Biden with regard to pro-Hillary 2016 election interference. Rudy said he didn’t. Just a brief bit later, he replied that Read More…
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Today the Trump administration reached an agreement which would allow the U.S. to return people who had passed through El Salvador and later applied for asylum back to that country, though it’s not being called a safe-third country agreement: U.S. officials describe the deal as an “asylum cooperation agreement,” insisting that such an accord does Read More…
Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix September 20 at 6:10 PM Washington has been engulfed in recent days with a fast-evolving story about a whistleblower complaint about alleged misdeeds by President Trump. Given the complexity of it and all the angles involved, here’s an explainer that covers the major points. 1. What Read More…
Some Friday afternoon drama to cleanse the palate from the single most reliable source of petty drama on American television. Not “Real Housewives.” Not “The Bachelor.” “The View.” In Meg’s defense, storming off the set of this show in rage is a fine conservative tradition. She and Navarro have history, with McCain once asking her Read More…
GOP lawmakers who repeatedly demanded documents and witnesses from Democratic administrations back Trump administration decision not to share complaint with Congress.
Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiPatagonia says to shut stores for a few hours during Global Climate Strike Overnight Health Care — Presented by Partnership for America’s Health Care Future — Pelosi unveils signature plan to lower drug prices | Trump says it’s ‘great to see’ plan | Progressives pushing for changes Progressives push for changes to Read More…
Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at his gubernatorial campaign’s primary night watch party in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) If you live in either a red or purple state, chances are it’s been subjected to state-funded travel bans from solidly blue states like New York or California. Oftentimes these bans Read More…
Of course he did. The man has said openly on national television that he’d “probably” accept dirt on a political rival from foreign sources. He knew the Ukrainians had an investigation on the backburner that might eventually reach Hunter Biden and, more importantly, efforts by Joe Biden to pressure Ukraine into removing the prosecutor in Read More…
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This summer, Trump was asked about aid from Russia. That may not have been the country Trump had in mind.
I like NBA legend Charles Barkley. He’s a guy who says what he thinks and doesn’t really care how anyone feels about it. Not so long ago, that was called “strong.” These days, I believe it’s called being an insensitive jerk. For a significant other, that’s probably accurate, but when it comes to national personalities, Read More…
A city worker uses a power washer to clean the sidewalk by a tent city along Division Street Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in San Francisco. Homeless people have until the end of Friday to vacate a rambling tent city along a busy San Francisco street declared a health hazard by city officials earlier this week. Read More…
The rules just aren’t set up for something this big.
The Working Families Party is a fringe, left-wing party with a little over 57,000 members in the United States. Earlier this week the WFP announced that after a complicated voting process it had decided to endorse Elizabeth Warren for president. That was a big disappointment to fans of Bernie Sanders because the group had overwhelmingly Read More…
Michael Pack Source: US Senate President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a federal media organization has been funding his own private film company with donations from a nonprofit that he runs. Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker, saw at least $1.6 million in donations from his nonprofit sent into the coffers of his independent production company, Read More…
President Donald J. Trump greets the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau Thursday, June 20, 2019, at the West Wing Lobby entrance of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Katie Ricks) The fluffy, girly-man prime minister of the Great White North is embroiled in the woke type of scandal possible. Several images have Read More…
Pelosi criticized Trump officials for “sitting across from the person who chopped up a reporter,” a clear reference to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
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Are we about to lose the war on cigarettes by winning a battle against vaping? “If we lose this opportunity” to get rid of cigarettes, David Abrams tells CBS News, “I think we will have blown the single biggest public health opportunity we’ve ever had in 120 years.” At issue is whether vaping is better Read More…
The controversial firing of Shane Gillis from the cast of SNL after some edgy jokes he told on a podcast surfaced has caused a rift in the entertainment industry, with some comics taking his side while others are making it clear that they think his firing is well deserved. As Alex Parker covered in a Read More…
In fact, they’ll likely be the most underrepresented in American history.
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President Donald Trump repeatedly urged Ukraine’s president during a telephone call in July to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his involvement with a Ukraine natural gas company, a new report says. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump encouraged Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky “about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani, his Read More…
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Yesterday, small arms manufacturing legend, Colt Manufacturing Company, has announced that it will cease manufacture of all modern sporting rifles including the popular AR-15 (for you anti-gun goobers, AR stands for Armalite, not Automatic Rifle). The reason: lack of future demand. The gun maker Colt said on Thursday that it would effectively suspend production of Read More…
A Twitter pal reminds me that scapegoating gun-rights advocates was also the distraction favored by Harvey Weinstein when his own personal scandal exploded in the media two years ago. The difference being that Weinstein didn’t have the power of the state behind him like the Canadian Al Jolson here does. Justin Trudeau didn’t have the Read More…
New York City judge says Trump is not “above the law.”
You think you can dance? Watch this. Islam isn’t particularly known for its fairness to women. In fact, it’s well known to be a society that treats them a second class and below, forbidding them to learn basic things such as reading and math. They’re used more like servants and breeding stock in many Islam Read More…
Chinese shipping containers are stored beside a US flag after they were unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California on May 14, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images The cacophonous opening of the 2020 presidential campaign has clarified one thing: free trade is now politically homeless. That’s remarkable, since Read More…
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Virginia Roberts gave an interview which is set to air on Dateline later tonight. But this morning the Today show ran excerpts from the interview. Roberts, who has claimed she was a sex slave for Epstein starting when she was a teenager, describes how she was given to Prince Andrew for sex on three occasions, Read More…