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Court Allows Border Build, Economy Slows
Saturday, July 27, 2019
The Wall:The Supreme Court yesterday gave President Trump a big win allowing him to divert $2.5 billion budgeted for the Pentagon to build his wall on the southern border. In a 5-to-4 decision along partisan lines, the court said Trump …
Spinner in Chief, Death Makes a Comeback
Friday, July 26, 2019
Spin City: President Trump was on Fox News last night spinning like a top about the congressional testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump called the investigation “treason” and dismissed the Russian attack on the 2016 election as the work of a …
Mueller on the Grill, Response for Responders
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Sidekick: As the result of an unusual negotiation, Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be accompanied during his congressional testimony today by a long-time aide who will act as his counsel. Mueller had asked that Aaron Zebleybe sworn in as a co-witness, …
Boris Ascendant, Election-year Budget
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Boris Enters: Former London mayor and foreign secretary Boris Johnson, the British equivalent of Donald Trump who promises to lead his country out of the European Union after Theresa May failed, has been put in position to become the next prime …
Mueller Before Congress, Uproar in Puerto Rico
Monday, July 22, 2019
It’s Mueller Time: Expect fireworks in Washington today. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to start testifying before two congressional committees about his investigation into Russian election meddling and possible coordination with the 2016 Trump campaign. It took weeks of negotiations …
Iran Seizes Tankers, Corporate Drug Dealers
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Tough Straits: In a further escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf region, Iran has seized one and possibly even two foreign-owned oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. One of them is the British-flagged Stena Impero and the other is the …
Send Her Back, Epstein Denied
Friday, July 19, 2019
Send Her Back: In a moment demonstrating that hatred of immigrants and non-whites will be a feature of his 2020 re-election campaign, President Trump stood nodding his head Wednesday night as a crowd in Greenville, NC chanted about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan …
Trump Spreads Omar Rumor, Impeachment Denied
Thursday, July 18, 2019
He Knows Nothing:Stepping up his attacks on four Democratic freshmen members of Congress, President Trump yesterday renewed the rumor that Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar was married her brother in an act of immigration fraud. Trump told reporters before leaving the White …
Not a Racist Bone, Saving Notre Dame
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Calling it What it Is: Amidst a fiery debate yesterday about whether members of Congress are allowed by the rules to call the President racist, House Democrats yesterday voted to condemn President Trump’s recent declarations about four House members as racist. …
Racist in the White House, Calling it Like It Is
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
The Racist in Chief:The silence of Republican leaders after President Trump’s slurs against four non-white members of Congress reveals the Republican party for what it is, the party of Donald Trump, the angry racist in the White House. Carl Hulse …
