The history of the little guy being squashed by massive Chicago political clout at election time is just too long to print without weeping. But the story for today is so amazing that some Chicago election officials have never seen the like. “No one can remember anything approaching this,” said an election official. Really? It’s […]
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Senators Press for Expanded Probe of FEMA Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico Relief Efforts…
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Bernie Sanders, and Dick Durbin last week sent a letter to John Kelly, acting inspector general (IG) of the Department of Homeland Security, asking him to expand the ongoing investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) contracting in Hurricane Maria relief efforts in Puerto Rico. The senators asked the […]
Clintons Resort to Groupon After Speaking Tour Fails to Draw Crowds…
Bill and Hillary Clinton, who just can’t seem to exit stage-left, have resorted to selling tickets for their 13-city speaking tour on Groupon for nearly 60% off after failing to attract crowds at full price – or any price. What’s worse, their Groupon deal is for a May 4, 2019 appearance in the liberal stronghold […]
What a Whackadoodle: Dems Have Hard Time Connecting to Voters Because They Know So Much…
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, on Tuesday told a conference that she heard one of the reasons that her party has a difficult time connecting with voters is because Democrats know so much, and have a tendency of appealing to voters’ minds instead of their hearts. Hirono made the comment at a conference in Washington, D.C. […]
Pelosi Says No to Support for Border Wall Funding in Exchange for DACA Solution (VIDEO)…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took questions from reporters about spending negotiations as well as the legislative priorities for the 116th Congress. On spending, the Democratic leader dismissed the idea of Democrats agreeing to more funding for a wall along the Southern border in exchange for a permanent solution for undocumented children brought to […]
Wisconsin Republicans Pass Legislation to Reduce Powers of Governor, Attorney General…
Republicans in Wisconsin passed legislation on Dec. 5 that will weaken the power of the governor and attorney general while strengthening the Republican-controlled legislature. The move comes nearly a month after Gov.-elect Tony Evers, a Democrat, narrowly beat Republican Gov. Scott Walker. The attorney general-elect, Josh Kaul, is also a Democrat. He beat challenger Brad […]
Emails of Top NRCC Officials Stolen in Major 2018 Hack…
The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials. The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials said. The intrusion was detected in […]
Orange County Releases Official Vote Count and the Numbers Don’t Add Up – One Precinct Has 120% Turnout…
Orange County, a conservative area just south of Los Angeles, California turned all blue after Democrats produced hundreds of thousands of votes weeks after election day using a practice known as “ballot harvesting.” The amount of mail-in ballots counted in Orange County were unprecedented – a whopping 250,000 ballots were produced in OC as a […]
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Felix Sater Says Putin Penthouse Idea Was Just a ‘Marketing Conversation’…
A former adviser to the Trump Organization said the idea of giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a penthouse at the top of a new development in Moscow was just a “marketing” strategy, according to a conversation Friday with The Daily Caller News Foundation. BuzzFeed News published a report Thursday alleging that the Trump Organization was […]
Greenwald Goes Ballistic on Politico “Theory” Guardian’s Assange-Manafort Story Was Planted by Russians…
After The Guardian attempted to shovel what appears to be a wholly fabricated story down our throats that Trump campaign manager met with Julian Assange at the London Embassy – Politico allowed an ex-CIA agent to use their platform to come up with a ham-handed cover story ever; Russia tricked The Guardian into publishing the […]
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What Is ‘Ballot Harvesting,’ and How Did California Dems Use it to Nuke the GOP?…
As the polls closed on election day last month, six California Republican House candidates, including Representatives Dana Rohrabacher, Steve Knight, and Mimi Walters, were ahead in their respective races. However, as the absentee and provisional ballots rolled in over the intervening weeks, all six lost to their Democratic opponents. The case of Korean-American GOP candidate […]
She Resigns. Gov Makes Resignation Immediate. She Rescinds…
Embattled Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes abruptly rescinded her official resignation over the weekend; vowing to stay in her position after a fierce backlash surrounding the 2018 midterm elections. “The embattled Broward County Supervisor of Elections rescinded her resignation Saturday, a day after Gov. Rick Scott suspended her without pay,” writes the NY Daily […]
Cindy Hyde-Smith Easily Wins Mississippi – 55 to 45…
The Mississippi Senate Seat of retired senator Thad Cochran will be decided today as Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy have a runoff today. Mississippi has a history of sketchy political power schemes between professional democrats and professional republicans that often crosses party boundaries. The outcomes are often under the control of a few […]
Scientists Trash New Federal Climate Report as ‘Tripe’ … ‘Embarassing’ … ‘400 Page Pile of Crap’…
Climate expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The claim of economic damage from climate change is based on a 15 degree F temperature increase that is double the “most extreme value reported elsewhere in the report.” The “sole editor” of this claim in the report was an alumni of the Center for American Progress, which is […]
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Hillary Clinton Does It Again — Dems Not Happy as She Blasts Europe’s Open Border Policy…
Hillary Clinton has stepped in it again. Just recently she told an interviewer with The Guardian that European leaders must stop offering “refuge and hope” to migrants if they want to slow the spread of right-wing populism. She urged them to “send a very clear message – ‘we are not going to be able to […]
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OPINION: Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism by Chris Hedges…
Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as the divine right of kings and fascism’s belief in the Übermensch. None of its vaunted promises were even remotely possible. Concentrating wealth in the hands of a global oligarchic elite—eight families now hold as much wealth […]
Barbra Streisand Rips Female Trump Voters: ‘They don’t believe enough in their own thoughts’…
Barbra Streisand said democracy is “being assaulted” and bashed women who voted for President Trump, saying they “don’t believe enough in their own thoughts” to vote against their husbands. “I love my country and it’s painful to see democracy being assaulted, institutions being assaulted and women being assaulted,” Streisand, 76, told The Daily Mail in […]
Clinton Foundation Donations Plummet 90%…
The Clinton Foundation saw contributions dry up approximately 90% over a three-year period between 2014 and 2017, according to financial statements. The global charity is currently under investigation by the DOJ, FBI and IRS for a variety of allegations – including whether favors were handed out while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, also known […]
Election Fraud Scheme on L.A.’s Skid Row Got Homeless to Sign Fake Names for Cigarettes and Cash…
A forged signature swapped for $1 — or sometimes a cigarette. The crude exchange played out hundreds of times on L.A.’s skid row during the 2016 election cycle and again this year, prosecutors said Tuesday as they announced criminal charges against nine people accused in a fraud scheme. Using cash and cigarettes as lures, the […]
Watch Dan Crenshaw Beat Down Media’s Wild Hyperbole About Trump ‘Undermining Democracy’…
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” representative-elect Dan Crenshaw calmly exposed the bankruptcy of wild and never-ending claims that President Trump is a threat to democracy, enemy of the press, fascist dictator, yadda yadda yadda. Another incoming representative, Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), claimed on the show that, “Some of our democratic freedoms and the principles that […]
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