At a rally in May, President Trump laughed when a supporter suggested shooting migrants to prevent them from crossing the Southern border. “That’s only in the Panhandle can you get away with that statement,” the president said to a cheering audience in Panama City Beach, Florida. On Tuesday, we also …
Read More »Chris Wallace Shoots Down Stephen Miller's Claim Whistleblower Is Part of 'Deep State'
“This is a deep state operative, pure and simple,” White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in an attempt to characterize as partisan the whistleblower who came forward following President Donald Trump‘s phone call with Ukraine’s president asking him to dig up dirt …
Read More »Strip Mining Could Come to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Under President Donald Trump, the United States has seen the largest reduction of nationally protected lands in the country’s history. One of the victims of the administration is Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which will soon be open to strip mining and gas extraction, according to a Bureau of Land Management …
Read More »David Koch, Billionaire Conservative Activist, Dead at 79
David Koch, the billionaire conservative activist who helped shape modern American politics, has died. He was 79. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” David’s brother Charles Koch wrote in a statement Friday morning. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his …
Read More »Trump's Cuckoo('s Nest) Plan to Address Gun Violence
The president’s flirtation with universal background checks and other popular gun control measures has been predictably brief. (We’ve been predicting the president was running another bait-and-switch on the American public for since basically the moment the latest racket started.) In the wake of the massacres in Dayton and El Paso, …
Read More »Does Elizabeth Warren Really Have a Double-Digit Lead in Iowa?
An eye-popping new poll shows Elizabeth Warren vaulting to an 11 point lead in Iowa — hitting 28 percent support, while Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have dropped back, tied for second at 17 percent. https://thisforall.net/7im/status/1162101188784902144 But something seems off about the Iowa survey, which comes from a pollster called …
Read More »Steve King's View of Rape and Incest Is Not Abnormal Among GOP Lawmakers
At a breakfast meeting of the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa on Wednesday, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) paused to muse upon the sheer magnitude of violence visited upon women and children throughout the course of human history. “What if we went back through all the family trees and just …
Read More »Lock Him Up? Mueller's Testimony Emphasizes the Seriousness of Trump's Alleged Crimes
Robert Mueller‘s taciturn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee broke little news. But it underscored that the evidence of obstruction of justice developed in the Special Counsel’s report could haunt President Trump after he leaves office, exposing him to legal jeopardy and even — though the possibility seems remote — …
Read More »How (Actual) Fake News Is the (Actual) Enemy of the People
President Trump lashed out at the media Monday over a Washington Post story about how the White House responded to his racist attacks against four congresswomen of color. “The Mainstream Media is out of control,” he tweeted. “They constantly lie and cheat in order to get their Radical Left Democrat …
Read More »Joe Biden in 1987: 'We (Delawareans) Were on the South's Side in the Civil War'
Since entering the presidential race, former Vice President Joe Biden has faced repeated questions about past statements he’s made criticizing school busing, fondly remembering racist white senators, and helping pass draconian laws in the ill-conceived drug war. On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s …
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