House Dem freshmen: Help us, Obi-Wan Amashi, you're our only hope
Now that impeachment is all but assured, the question facing House Democrats is who gets to pursue a conviction in the Senate trial. The role of impeachment manager can make a career for the Democrats...
View ArticlePorch pirates vs. fart-spray-glitter-bomb 2.0
Porch pirates continue to steal millions of packages every year, especially around the holidays. For the most part, they get away with it because the police don't have time to track down the thieves...
View ArticleLoughlin: Prosecutors are covering up evidence of our innocence
Well, why not? It's not as if the FBI hasn't cooked a case or two in the recent past. Perhaps sensing an opening, or at least a clever PR movement, actor Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli...
View ArticleWill the debate be canceled over a union strike?
Look for, the union label... but possibly not at the Thursday night debate. As of this weekend, all seven of the candidates who qualified for the debate have stated that they will not show up if they...
View ArticleWill Sanders and Warren team up to take on Joe Biden (or will they go to war)?
The battle for control of the Democratic party continues where it left off in 2016. In place of the relatively moderate Hillary Clinton, this year we have moderate front runner Joe Biden. And in place...
View ArticleWow: Two Dems from solid red districts say they'll vote to impeach as Collin...
Elissa Slotkin's decision to support impeachment wasn't a surprise. Her district is red but not deep red, and she'd already signaled strong support for the Ukraine impeachment inquiry. She was...
View ArticleNo, my swastika art isn't racist. Why would you say that?
Out in Des Moines, Iowa, William Stark lives a quiet life in a small home adjacent to the local elementary school. Mr. Stark is apparently something of an artist, displaying some of his rather unusual...
View ArticleSome on the far left blame Corbyn's loss on the pro-Israel lobby
In an opinion piece at Haaretz, Daniella Peled predicts that rather than becoming introspective in the wake of the party's historic loss last week, Labour stalwarts will instead blame Jews who opposed...
View ArticleVideo: This morning's Elissa Slotkin town hall on impeachment sure was ......
I knew it would be "zesty."I did not expect this much zest.I'll give her credit for staying on message and even-keeled, though. Not easy to do in a room this hostile. Watch the two clips (both posted...
View ArticleSchiff: Hey, how could I know that the FBI's FISA applications were so bad?
Another fun gas-biscuit leftover from yesterday, in which Adam Schiff also claims vindication from Michael Horowitz' report and claims that it debunked Devin Nunes. After Nunes wrote a memo in February...
View ArticleWhoopi Goldberg to Meghan McCain: 'Girl, please stop talking'
We've all become used to the left-leaning co-hosts of the View blowing up at Meghan McCain (or vice versa). In today's instance, what's striking was how quickly Whoopi Goldberg went from zero to...
View ArticleIs Pelosi going to end up losing only two votes on impeachment?
Are Democrats all going to hold hands and jump together? Besides Jeff Van Drew and Collin Peterson, I mean. But those two were opposed all along, having voted against authorizing the impeachment...
View ArticleOf course: Budget deal repeals funding mechanisms for "deficit neutral"...
Remember all of the taxes Democrats added to ObamaCare as a means to project it as deficit neutral in its first ten years? That strategy allowed Harry Reid to pass it without risking a filibuster under...
View ArticleBackfire? On eve of impeachment, Trump matches best job approval ever in new...
I don't think this poll proves what it appears at first blush to prove, although it's obviously great news for Trump either way. "Trump's job approval hits new high" is not the headline Pelosi wanted...
View ArticleAgain. California uniformed deputies denied service at Starbucks
Stop me if you've heard this one before - two sheriff's deputies walk into a Starbucks coffee shop and are refused service. It's happened again. The latest ugly story revolving around Starbucks...
View ArticleSay, does anyone remember Nadler calling Page "an agent of a foreign power"?
Adam Schiff has found himself under belated fire for his response to Devin Nunes' memo in February 2018, but the House Intelligence chair shouldn't be alone. When then-chair Nunes wrote that the FBI...
View ArticleInterview: Lt. Tim McMillan on law enforcement, government secrecy, UFOs and...
This week I interviewed Lt. Tim McMillan, a retired law enforcement officer who now works as an investigative journalist. He's been published at outlets including the War Zone, Vice and Popular...
View ArticleLone undecided House Republican Francis Rooney leaning towards opposing...
I didn't expect that most of the suspense on the eve of the big vote would have to do with a Republican potentially crossing the aisle, but after Pelosi got some of the most endangered members of her...
View ArticleMcConnell to Schumer: It's not our job to save your "slapdash work product," pal
Chuck Schumer finally got an answer to his letter to Mitch McConnell ... but he's not going to like it. The Senate Majority Leader offered an amused but cutting rebuttal to his counterpart's demand...
View ArticleWhat would a Sanders administration look like?
Politico has a piece speculating about what a Sanders administration would actually look like. Some of it is based upon what Sanders has said about his own priorities and people he'd like to see in his...
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