Trump And John Kerry Team Up To Take On Rep Massie For Tossing A Wrench In Coronavirus Bill
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Trump And John Kerry Team Up To Take On Rep Massie For Tossing A Wrench In Coronavirus Bill

Chris White  President Donald Trump and former Sen. John Kerry joined forces Friday to criticize Rep. Thomas Massie after the Kentucky Republican tried to derail the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill. Massie announced Friday that he intends on forcing a quorum vote on the stimulus package, which is designed to help Americans who were rendered unemployed following…

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Republicans Head Into Election Year With Seven Times The Cash Democrats Have, FEC Filings Show

Mary Margaret Olohan The Republican National Committee heads into the 2020 election year with more than seven times as much cash on hand as the Democratic National Committee, the parties’ FEC filings show. FEC filings from both parties show the RNC has $63 million in cash on hand compared to the DNC’s $8.3 million, Bloomberg reported….

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Public Impeachment Hearing Begins With Arguments Over Outing The Whistleblower

Shelby Talcott  The first public impeachment hearing into President Donald Trump began Wednesday with arguments over whether or not to out a whistleblower. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff began the hearing with his opening statements, saying that the president’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine was an impeachable offense and questioning whether Trump was trying to “exploit”…

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Women For Trump Say Bus Canceled Trip, Preventing Americans From Expressing Free Speech — The Company Says They Never Paid

Audrey Conklinon The pro-Trump group Women for America First said U.S. Coachways canceled its charter bus trip, leaving members stranded. U.S. Coachways told the Daily Caller News Foundation the woman who organized the trip didn’t book her itinerary until the day of the trip and had credit card issues. “Now, we’re dealing with blowback on…

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House Leaders Want Vulnerable Dems To Have ‘Love For The Constitution,’ But To Test What Impeachment Messaging Polls Well

Mary Margaret Olohan  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats to have their “hearts full of love for the Constitution” as she laid out a strategy on how to win public support of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, but a colleague said vulnerable representatives would need to determine what messaging worked best. “We have…

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Reasons for Hope

For us true liberals and libertarians, these days are among the darkest we’ve encountered in a couple of generations. “Conservative nationalism” is fast rising on the political right, “democratic socialism” is increasingly popular on the political left, and the only attraction of policy positions in the middle is that these aren’t at one or the…

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Imam Alleges Congressional Collusion

On July 25th, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi dropped a large thread on Twitter alleging a possible scandal against him, involving false accusations of collusion. https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1154426961646649345?s=20 The initial thread tagged Sean Hannity, President Trump, VP Pence, and Jared Kushner, but by the end of it a considerably larger number of major figures had been included. The entire…

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Art of the Budget Deal: Trump, Pelosi Agree to Up Spending and Debt

When President Donald Trump begrudgingly signed a budget deal he called “ridiculous” in order to get increases for the military budget, he asserted: “I’m not going to do it again.” That was 16 months ago. Now, the Trump administration and House Democrats reportedly have reached a deal to suspend the debt limit temporarily and increase spending…

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The Congressional Black Caucus and the Racial Politics of Purity

In recent reporting, the term ‘Progressive Squad‘ has been coined in reference to a group of freshmen congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. Of the four, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in particular, has been a subject of heated controversy. She has repeatedly gaffed on key subjects, and cost her district considerably in economic…

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Nancy Pelosi: The Ghost of Democrats Past

In the  last two years, the Democrats have taken a giant leap leftward. With insane proposals to abolish ICE (the same agency that caught 11 child molesters last year), ban private health insurance, legalize all unauthorized border crossings, and spend $90 trillion dollars to stop climate change, the modern left resembles a circus more than…