Scathing remarks directed at Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe by John Dowd, President Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer, are understandably drawing attention. I am less interested in the ad hominem than in the salient issues Dowd has raised. Dowd described Mueller’s investigation as a “terrible waste of time,” suggesting that there are no crimes […]
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Judge Tosses Manafort Plea Deal After Ruling He Lied…
A D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday that Paul Manafort lied in three of five instances cited by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, invalidating his plea agreement with federal prosecutors. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling voids the government’s obligation to offer him lenience in exchange for his cooperation in the Russia probe…
New Study Finds 41% Increase in Cancer Risk from Roundup’s Glyphosate…
A comprehensive analysis of glyphosate – the most widely used weed-killing chemical in the world – reveals that those with the highest exposures to the popular herbicide have a 41% increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) cancer. The meta-analysis of six studies containing nearly 65,000 participants also looked at links between glyphosate-based herbicides and immunosuppression, endocrine […]
BREAKING: President Trump Will Sign Border Security Bill and McConnell Will Support National Security Declaration. Pelosi Threatens Legal Action…
The White House has announced that President Trump will sign the Pelosi appropriations bill that includes limited funding for border security, and will simultaneously use a National Security Declaration to shift existing funds to build a structural barrier. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell met with the President and announced the plan from the senate floor […]
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Stone Files Motion: Alleges Special Counsel’s Office Released Unsealed Indictment to CNN…
CNN obtained Roger Stone’s indictment from someone allegedly in the Special Counsel’s office hours before it had been unsealed by the court, thus allowing the news outlet to stage a camera crew outside his home and lie in wait until armed FBI agents arrested him, according to a motion filed by Stone’s lawyers Wednesday morning. […]
Criminal Referrals Coming on FISA Abuse, Lying to Congress…
Rep. Devin Nunes stopped by ‘Hannity’ Tuesday night to weigh-in on a series of scandals including FISA abuse and lying to Congress; confirming many “criminal referrals” are coming in the weeks ahead. “Congressman, this is a big deal… What specifically are you looking at?” asked Hannity. “A lot of people out there think that because […]
ALL Covington High School Students Cleared of Any Wrongdoing in Viral Incident After Independent Investigation…
The students from Covington Catholic High School were cleared of any wrongdoing after an independent investigation funded by the diocese found they were not the instigators of the viral incident with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., last month. The inquiry, conducted by Greater Cincinnati Investigation Inc., found that the […]
Trump to Use Executive Order to Allocate More Funds to Wall, Avoiding Shutdown…
In an interesting twist, it looks like Trump has decided on a middle path that will allow him to keep the government open while getting more of his border wall built than Congress had initially authorized. According to WaPo, Trump will use an executive order to reallocate federal funds to finance the wall – or […]
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FBI Scrambled to Respond to Hillary Clinton Lawyer Amid Weiner Laptop Review…
Newly released internal FBI emails showed the agency’s highest-ranking officials scrambling to answer to Hillary Clinton’s lawyer in the days prior to the 2016 presidential election, on the same day then-FBI Director James Comey sent a bombshell letter to Congress announcing a new review of hundreds of thousands of potentially classified emails found on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s […]
9th Circuit: Trump Can Build the Wall…
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration has the power to waive environmental laws in order to speed up border wall construction, dealing a major symbolic blow to the president’s opponents. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which President Trump regularly likes to chide as too liberal, […]
The Beginning of The End – MSNBC Reporting Senate Democrats Agree No Russian Collusion…
Mark the calendars; today is an important date. CTH has noted, repeatedly, how extremely difficult it would be for the media to walk-back over three years of false reporting on the insufferable and manufactured “Muh Russia” collusion narrative. However, remarkably, today that process actually begins. There’s way more to this shift. WAY more. ABC News, […]
Former Trump Lawyer Slams Mueller Probe, Maintains Will Be Cleared: ‘Knock it off and get it done’…
The veteran criminal defense attorney who headed President Donald Trump‘s legal team during a crucial stretch of the special counsel investigation believes the entire affair will end in silence from special counsel Robert Mueller, and called the massive two-year probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign “a terrible waste of time.” “I don’t think there’ll be a report,” John Dowd told ABC News in a […]
Northam Sparks New Controversy by Calling First Africans Brought to Virginia ‘Indentured Servants’…
Embattled Gov. Ralph Northam asserted Sunday “I’m not going anywhere,” but he sparked controversy anew by referring to the first Africans brought to Virginia in 1619 as “indentured servants.” Northam appeared to be making a technical distinction — Virginia’s key laws regarding slavery were passed after 1640 — but some of the state’s African-American lawmakers […]
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Yale Editor Urges Fellow Yalies to Act as a ‘Stasi’ to Monitor White Males…
At the Yale Daily News, East Germany had nothing on the paper’s opinion editor, Isis Davis-Marks. The Nazi SS had nothing. The Castroite Cuban turbas had nothing. Mao’s cultural revolution had nothing. Here’s what Davis-Marks has in mind for Yale college kids: Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions. He […]
How Our Administrative State Undermines The Constitution…
When Justice Clarence Thomas served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Reagan administration, he brought two political theorists, John Marini and Ken Masugi, onto his staff. As close advisors to Thomas, they spent much time discussing the political principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and their application to […]
U.S. Judge to Allow Controversial Evidence in Roundup Cancer Trials…
A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence that the company had hoped to exclude from upcoming trials. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria during a hearing in San Francisco federal court called his decision “probably most disappointing for Monsanto,” the Bayer […]
Defiant DOJ Boss Leaves House Dems Fuming with Snarky Replies…
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker stunned onlookers and lawmakers during an already-contentious House hearing Friday, when he tried to call time on the Democratic chairman after yet another line of questioning regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The retort came after Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., first said he wanted Whitaker to appear for a private […]
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Senate Judiciary Committee Approves William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General Nominee…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, William Barr, on Feb. 7. His nomination now heads to the full Senate, where Barr is expected to be confirmed. Barr’s nomination was passed along party lines, where 12 Republican senators voted for the nomination and 10 Democrats voted against it. Republicans praised Barr as well qualified, […]
NO COLLUSION FOUND – After More Than 200 Interviews, Review of Thousands of Documents, Sen Burr…
“If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia,” North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr told CBS News. “If I can finish tomorrow, I would finish tomorrow,” said Burr, adding, “We know we’re getting to the […]
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Mueller Hauled Before Secret FISA Court to Address FBI Abuses in 2002, Congress Told…
Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and current special prosecutor in the Russia case, once was hauled before the nation’s secret intelligence court to address a large number of instances in which the FBI cheated on sensitive surveillance warrants, according to evidence gathered by congressional investigators. For most of the past 16 years, Mueller’s closed-door encounter escaped […]