The good news: this paves the way for tax reform. The bad news: the tax reform, and this budget, are highly irresponsible, as they do nothing to control spending in an era of a $20 trillion deficit: Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a budget measure that will unlock the route to a sweeping tax overhaul, Read More…

Well here’s a fun little nightmare before you head to bed. Google, in an attempt to compete with Amazon’s Alexa/Dot and Apple’s Siri, developed a voice assistant speaker that was scheduled to go on sale yesterday. They sent test units around to reporters before the speakers hit shelves. One of those reporters discovered that the Read More…

Delusions of grandiosity. But he’s totally not a malignant narcissist. President Trump, along with VP Pence, Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long took part in a meeting with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, who was in Washington to request more disaster relief Read More…

It takes an awful lot of bravery to be a lefty in the entertainment business, doesn’t it? It takes a real hero to go on television and say the same thing that your friends, co-workers, and the people who sign your paycheck want you to say. As the MRC reports, Matt Lauer is super-duper proud Read More…

FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein participates in the “War and Peace” panel at the A&E 2016 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif. The Foundation for AIDS Research, known as amfAR, announced Thursday, Jan. 28, that Weinstein will be the guest of honor at a black-tie dinner on Feb. 10, Read More…

Between innings at most professional baseball games, young and lithe cheer squads prance out onto the field near the foul line accompanied by a goofily costumed team employee to unleash a Hobbesian “state of nature” on the assembled crowds. Armed with a T-shirt cannon and a dozen more balled up pieces of sweatshop-made team gear, Read More…

It’s still early, but a large number of Americans are already calling it: Donald Trump will go down as one of the worst presidents in our history. A new Marist Poll reveals the negative outlook harbored towards a Trump presidency. According to the poll, 42 percent of respondents said that Trump will leave behind a Read More…

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Thursday confirmed that President Donald Trump told the wife of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger earlier this month, “he knew what he was getting himself into.” Trump’s statement to the Miami, Florida widow was overheard by Rep. Fredrica Wilson (D-Fla.), who later made the rounds to Read More…

FILE – In this March 25, 2012, file photo, then U.S. President Barack Obama looks through binoculars to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, the tense military border between the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea. Straddling the world’s most heavily fortified border, the Korean truce village of Panmunjom is Read More…

Acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Thomas Homan gave a speech at Heritage earlier in the week and his key point was that the focal point of immigration enforcement efforts is shifting from the border to employers. [embedded content] “[A]s long as they think they can come here and get U.S. Read More…

President Donald Trump will give an address to Republican Senators during their weekly policy lunch next Tuesday according to Politico, marking the first time he has done so at the Capitol, according to Politico. While this is the first time he has done so at the Capitol, he has addressed Republican Senators before when he hosted the Read More…

Let’s not forget, folks. President Trump calls each and every family of every fallen U.S. soldier, traditionally. He’s 9 months into his term, but already, he’s done more for vets, shown more compassion, bridged more divides than any president, living or dead, in the nation’s history. Truly, he is a legend in his own mind. Read More…

The Associated Press reports the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, on Thursday, temporarily stayed Judge Chutkan’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to allow the illegal alien teenager to obtain an abortion. Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the Trump administration to allow an illegal alien teenager to obtain an abortion. On Read More…

Bottled Weins With undiluted words Bob Weinstein speaks out about his brother Harvey, the persona non grata rapist of Hollywood. “I asked him to get help for many years. And that’s the truth. He avoided getting the help. We begged him.” With all of the focus being placed on Harvey Weinstein’s decades long abusive Heimlich Read More…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, joined at left by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, leads a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on attempts to influence American elections, with a focus on Russian meddling in the last presidential race. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) This morning the President of the Read More…

If you want to understand why the media is so distrusted by Americans, then looking at CBS’s report about the NRA’s attempts at helping those with legal bills after they lawfully use their firearm in self-defense is a perfect example. On Thursday, CBS released an Associated Press report detailing “Guns Down,” a gun-control group, whose Read More…

Former U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at a forum sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute in New York, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) George W. Bush came out of his quiet retirement as a former president to give a speech at the George W. Bush Institute Thursday. The speech was sober Read More…

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) has stepped in it again — this time earning herself not two, not three, but a FOUR Pinocchio rating from the Washington Post. The rating comes on the heels of the recent WaPo/60 Minutes exposé regarding a recent law passed by Congress which purportedly impeded the DEA’s ability to pursue Read More…

If one does a Google search with the term “the Russia connection” (which I just did), you will get a page full of stories about Donald Trump and his ties to Putin’s government. The image search is even better, political cartoons being what they are. But, as Susan Wright wrote here yesterday working off a Read More…

The intent of antitrust law is to protect innovation and competition. But with antitrust enforcement against American companies increasing at an alarming rate around the world, there is more reason than ever to be circumspect of the motivation behind these events. According to a March 2017 report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s International Competition Read More…