The Shamelessness of Mitch McConnell
Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls So, the former leader of Senate Republicans continues his brazen shamelessness, this time in a piece written for Foreign Affairs, The Price of American Retreat: Why Washington Must Reject...
Read MoreTrump is Right: The Debt Ceiling Should Go
In the middle of the current kerfuffle over keeping the government open is the surprising (to me, anyway) demand from Trump to take the debt ceiling issue off the table for at least two years, maybe five, or perhaps forever....
Read MoreA Photo for Friday
“Floating” November 27, 2024 Oak Mountain State Park (Pelham, AL)
Read MoreIncest sex slave horror: Couple who raped their four daughters, aged 12 to 21 left them with pelvic injuries, bruising and sexually transmitted diseases
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A Belgian couple who repeatedly raped their four daughters left them with sexually transmitted diseases bruising, and pelvic injuries. (Stock image) Click here to see original...
Read MoreUN negotiator warns of grave risks in Syria and calls for end to Israeli incursions
Many Syrians are celebrating their sudden freedom from tyrant Bashar al-Assad while Israeli troops are quickly occupying his military installations overlooking the Golan Heights, but the jubilation may be short-lived. Barely 48...
Read MoreBiden ‘AWOL’ amid shutdown fight: ‘He’s completely disappeared’
President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week. Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies were the ones wrestling with...
Read MoreMike Johnson’s GOP rebels want a leader who is “forceful like Nancy Pelosi”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) notched a major win Friday by averting a government shutdown, but it has not taken him out of the woods
Read MoreTrump Wanted Shutdown to Happen on Biden’s Watch, Not His
The president-elect was eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a bipartisan deal that would have kept the government open. Click here to see original...
Read MoreWATCH: Multiple storms barrel across US as holiday travel ramps up
Back-to-back storms are heading to the Northeast, with one storm stretching from the mid-South to Maine, ahead of a record number of flights in the air Thursday.
Read MoreThe morning read for Friday, Dec. 20
ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: The Constitution Allows for Term-Limited Supreme Court Justices (Nancy Gertner, Brennan...
Read MoreSara Jacobs – Fact-check: Past government shutdowns cost the U.S. economy billions
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
Read MoreWinter Solstice Forum
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Read MoreThree Democratic Senators Introduce Amendment to Abolish Electoral College
The Hill (“Senate Democrats push plan to abolish Electoral College“): Three Democratic senators unveiled a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College system Monday, just more than a month after President-elect...
Read MoreBiden cancels student loan debt for thousands of borrowers
President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Friday another $4.28 billion dollars in student loan relief for nearly 55,000 public service workers.
Read More‘Catastrophic event’: What the US defaulting on its debt could mean
The reality is that a U.S. government default would be unprecedented, and many experts have said it would likely lead to economic chaos.
Read MoreTrump backs House GOP accusation Liz Cheney tampered with Jan. 6 committee witness
She called the allegation “a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth.”
Read MoreThe morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 17
ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: The Supreme Court just took up its first religion case of the year. It could add 6 more....
Read MoreExisting bipartisan funding deal killed by “President Musk”: Is Musk running the show?
Is the man now increasingly called “President Elon Musk” now running the Trump administration show with Donald Trump either a)an echo b)unable to meeting alone national, foreign government and business bigwigs” in meetings...
Read MoreThreads posts – No, this isn’t footage of a drone crash, and the ‘Star Wars’ stormtroopers are a clue
Video shows footage of a “drone crash.”
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