Schoolyard News: In retaliation for Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially cancelling the State of the Union address, President Trump scotched Pelosi’s planned trip to foreign war zones. She was about to leave yesterday forAfghanistan.     In a snidely-worded letter calling for Pelosi to …

Day 24:The federal government is still closed and there are no negotiations to re-open it.  President Trump tweeted, “The damage done to our Country from a badly broken Border – Drugs, Crime and so much that is bad – is …

Pravda: President Trump has gone to unusual and extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, including confiscating the notes of his own interpreter and ordering the linguist not to discuss the conversation with other administration …

Short Shutdown: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul kept Congress up all night, blocking a budget vote and causing a six-hour government shutdown. Paul delivered a long and impassioned speech condemning the hypocrisy of his own party for deepening the national deficit …

The VIX: Wall Street rebounded yesterday with a 567-point gain for the Dow Jones, putting a stop at least for a day to the world-wide stock slide. Analysts say that investors realize the fundamentals of the economy are still strong. …

The Shutdown: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to take a vote today at noon to see whether he can end the government shutdown. As of last night, there didn’t seem to be an agreement that would allow that to …

Hashtag Government: Republicans and Democrats spent a lot of energy yesterday pinning the blame on each other for the government shutdown with Twitter hashtags. President Trump offered “#DemocratShutdown,” which just doesn’t sing.  The Democrats are pushing “#TrumpShutdown.” The Republicans are …

The Shutdown: Good morning. The federal government is shut down after the Senate failed to pass a bill to keep it running. It’s Saturday, so you might not notice. President Trump was up early this morning furiously tweeting blame. “This …

Chaos Theory: The House has approved a short-term spending bill to keep the government running, but in the Senate at least a dozen Democrats have said they’re against it, enough to kill the bill. With about 14 hours to go, a …

Politics: Congress has until midnight tomorrow to pass a spending bill and avoid a government shutdown. In the mix of issues is border security, a solution for the younger illegal immigrants known as Dreamers, and the Children’s health Insurance Program. …