House Republicans at an emergency conference meeting on Tuesday withdrew a proposal to gut an ethics watchdog. The new Congress hadn’t even formally gaveled in on before GOP leaders held an emergency conference meeting to discuss the blowback against the party’s vote Monday evening to gut the chamber’s independent ethics watchdog…
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The Death of Clintonism by Todd S. Purdum…
By all accounts, Bill and Hillary Clinton never had any such qualms, and now their quarter-century project to build a mutual buy-one, get-one-free Clinton dynasty has ended in her defeat, and their joint departure from the center of the national political stage they had hoped to occupy for another eight years. Their exit amounts to […]
California Issues 806,000 Driver’s Licenses to Illegals in Two Years…
California has issued more than 800,000 driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants in the two years since the state implemented a law allowing for issuance without proof of legal presence. The Mercury News reports that in the two years since AB 60 took effect the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to 806,000 undocumented […]
GOP Targets Medicaid…
While Democrats have been pounding the drum against proposed changes to Medicare, Republicans appear far more likely to pursue an overhaul of Medicaid, the healthcare program for the poor. Medicaid has grown in size in recent years, with ObamaCare extending coverage to millions of low-income people who hadn’t qualified before…
Harry Reid: Democrats 2020 Going To Be ‘An Old Folks Home’…
In a profile for New York Magazine, Reid was informed about Vice President Joe Biden’s possible interest in running for president. Asked if he would support the Vice President, Reid replied: “It depends on who’s running. It appears we’re going to have an old folks’ home. We’ve got [Elizabeth] Warren; she’ll be 71. Biden will […]
‘F**K YOU. GO TO HELL’: Georgetown Prof Loses It On Muslim Trump Voter…
Wow! Talk about crazy. A Georgetown University associate professor had a month-long meltdown after a Muslim woman explained why she voted for President-elect Donald Trump…
Post-Truthers, Bullshitters and Politics by Kenneth Surin…
This is the time when the major dictionaries disclose their “word of the year”. In 2016, two candidates were awarded this designation, namely, “surreal” and “post-truth”. It is easy to say, as many media outlets have done, that the election of the Orange Man and the Brexit vote were surreal. But in truth…
Investigations Into Alleged Trump Hate Crimes Stall For Lack Of Evidence…
Two investigations involving minority women who accused Donald Trump supporters of attacking them last month — one in California and another in Oregon — have stalled because of lack of cooperation or lack of evidence…
Harry Reid Says He ‘Did What Was Necessary’ By Lying About Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns…
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he “did what was necessary” in 2012 when he falsely accused Mitt Romney of not having paid his taxes for 10 years. Reid was asked about those comments, which he made during a speech on the Senate floor, in response to call during a live interview […]
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Media and Professional Left Begin Rewriting Obama’s Mid-East History…
There’s a visible twisting of history taking place that’s increasingly obvious within the last few days. Against all intellectual honesty, an entirely different version of historical reality is being seeded by the media. Here’s the basic outline…
The Godfather Admits Using Personal Email for Public Business…Thousands Released…
Under pressure from a pair of open records lawsuits, Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he has used personal email accounts to conduct public business, a practice that allowed him to hide some of his government correspondence from the public since he took office…
Schumer Fires More Than a Half a Dozen Employees from Dem Media Unit…
Schumer informed the employees of the Senate Democratic Media Center of their dismissal on Friday, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Several people in the unit had been with the in-house video production operation for years…who worked in the Senate for 29 years and 20 years, respectively…
What the ‘Sore Losers’ Really Want by Diana Johnstone…
If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can’t stand losing an election. And why is that? Because they are determined to impose “exceptional” America’s hegemony on the entire world, using military-backed regime changes…
Looks Like the Clinton Camp’s Fall Guy for Campaign Loss Is FBI’s Comey…
“James Comey cost her the election,” the former president said when he ran into the editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review in Katonah, New York recently. “We were seven percentage points up” in national polls at the time…
AG Lynch Says She ‘Regrets’ June Conversation with Bill Clinton…
“I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him, because it did give people concern. And as I said, my greatest concern has always been making sure that people understand that the Department of Justice works in a way that is independent and looks at everybody equally,” Lynch told Jake Tapper on CNN’s […]
Farage Undermines PM Theresa May Again with 3rd Trump Meeting…
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has visited Trump Tower in New York for the third time, in what is likely to be a major embarrassment to UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who has yet to meet the US president-elect. US news reporters confirmed Farage entered the lobby of Trump Tower in New York…
Soros, Big Banks And Google Fund Anti-Trump Resistance Group…
The liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), now fashioning itself as a powerful anti-Trump force, is funded by George Soros, big banks and several large corporations. CAP, founded in 2003 by former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, has long been a prominent liberal think tank in Washington…
Democratic Donors Call for Clinton Campaign Post-Mortem…
When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, many of them will have one question in mind: Where’s the autopsy? The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her […]
Muslim College Student Made Up Trump Supporter Subway Attack Story to Avoid Punishment for Missing Curfew…
And as a punishment for lying her parents forced her to shave her head…
White House, Clinton Tied To PR Firm Behind Electoral College Push…
The public relations firm working behind the scenes with the faithless electors is rife with ties to prominent Democrats like President Obama and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton…
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