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Conservacare Bill Revealed, New Travel Ban

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

ConservaCare: Congressional Republicans have released the draft of an Obamacare replacement bill that replaces the requirement to have insurance with tax credits and incentives for people to buy health insurance. The key difference is that they propose to replace the …

Trump Demands Wiretap Investigation

Monday, March 6, 2017

Say It Ain’t So: FBI Director James Comey over the weekend asked the Justice Department to knock down President Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that his phones were tapped last fall on the orders of President Obama. Comey’s request puts him at …

The President and the Fertilizer King

Sunday, March 5, 2017

The Fertilizer King: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow did some long takeouts this past week about Donald Trump, his associates, and Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire known as the Fertilizer King for the commodity on which he made his fortune. During a …

Trump Claims Obama Tapped His Phone

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Tapped: President Trump went on a Twitter tirade from Florida this morning, claiming that President Obama had Trump’s phones tapped. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This …

Sessions in Russia Mire, All in the Family

Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Russia House: Congressional Democrats are demanding that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions recuse himself from investigations into Russian influence on the election because he spoke with the Russian ambassador while he was a close supporter of the Trump campaign. Sessions …

Presidential Trump, One Star Customer

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Presidential: A somewhat subdued President Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last night, laying out his plans for bulking up national defense, building a border wall, rebuilding the national infrastructure, and replacing Obamacare. He appeared to have finally …

Spend More Cut More, Moon Tourism

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Spend and Cut: President Trump wants to increase military spending by a whopping $54 billion —10 percent — while cutting across most of the rest of the budget to compensate for it, the White House announced yesterday. The US military …

You win; You lose, Govt. Deconstruction

Monday, February 27, 2017

Correct Envelope, Please: The Academy Awards ended in chaos last night when the musical La La Land was incorrectly named Best Picture instead of Moonlight. Acceptance speeches were already underway when La La Land’s producer announced that there had been …

Trump Rants and Raves, Immigrant Walkout

Friday, February 17, 2017

Trump Gives Self an “A”:  In a long, rambling press conference yesterday, President Trump declared that “This administration is running like a fine- tuned machine,” and “We have made incredible progress. I don’t think there’s ever been a president elected …

Trump Blames Press and Leakers

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Shoot the Messenger: President Trump is blaming the press as well as leaky intelligence and law enforcement agencies for the downfall of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whom he fired Monday night. This morning the president tweeted, “Leaking, and even …