Patriot Games: The House committee investigating the January  6th insurrection has recommended criminal contempt charges to be brought against Donald Trump’s last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, for his refusal to cooperate with the investigation.   A trove of 9,000 documents Meadows handed over before going …

Aaaaaaand, were back!!! Disaster and Counting: Mayfield, Kentucky is only beginning to dig out from the monstrous tornado that levelled the town and flattened a candle factory on top of more than 100 overnight workers.   The overall number of certain dead …

Relaxing the Hands: Some subscribers have been kindly asking why The Rooney Report has suspended publication. The reason is that the editor in chief has developed arthrititis in the hands after a lifetime of typing. We expect it to calm …

The report is on leave for another week. We’ll be back

Taking a Break: The Editor in chief, beat reporter, and typesetter of The Rooney Report has sore hands after too many hours at the keyboard. We’e taking another week off, but we’ll be back. -30-

Guns and the Defense: The jury in the Kenosha, Wisconsin trial of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse found him not guilty of any crimes in the killing of two men and wounding of a third during street demonstrations in August of 2020.   Rittenhouse …

A Lot of Talk: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke on the floor for eight and a half hours overnight in an effort to block a vote on President Biden’s giant climate change and social policy bill. McCarthy started talking at 8:38 …

No Apologies: The House voted yesterday to censure Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for his posting of an anime video that depicted him killing Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and assaulting President Biden.   Only two Republicans voted with the Democrats, Representatives Liz …

Borderline Behavior: The crisis at the border of Poland and Belarus turned violent yesterday with Polish authorities using water cannon, tear gas, and rubber bullets to turn back a crush of desperate migrants. Despite that, the migrants continued overnight to crash …

The Chaos Tourist: As the jury starts deliberations today in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two protesters in 2020 and wounded a third, what’s on trial as much as the 18-year-old defendant is the notion of self-defense …