It may be due to good luck or good planning (or both) but one thing for sure is that all the controversy surrounding Stormy Daniels and her affair with Donald Trump is making the porn star a lot of money. An article in CNNÂ quoted Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford) as saying that all…
President Donald Trump will support a tailored set of fixes to gun laws, stepping back from some of the more sweeping changes he had considered after the country’s latest mass school shooting, senior officials told reporters on Sunday.
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed concern over national policies dictated by fear, speaking only one week after Italy’s general elections which brought populist and anti-immigrant parties to the forefront.
After getting kicked out of the Trump Administration and his right-wing news website Breitbart, Steve Bannon is now touring Europe fomenting populist discontent.  In recent weeks Bannon has toured Europe, getting to know European far-right leaders. For example: In Zurich Tuesday he had a meeting with top people from Germany’s populist AfD party.  (The…
One of the reasons why the Pennsylvania House special election is so close is that Democrats who voted for Trump in the 18th District are coming home to Conor Lamb. Video: Democrats are coming home to Conor Lamb. #PA18 https://t.co/iOqepFjiXY pic.twitter.com/co6qyFAq4U — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 11, 2018 John Micek editorial and opinion editor…
The sleaze keeps oozing out of the right-wingers at Fox News.  After the long history of Fox people cheating on their spouses, and sexual harassment charges against people like Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly now it turns out that Jesse Watters — who is nearly 40 years old with a wife and two young…
Trump has convinced himself that he can lie to Robert Mueller under oath and get away with it. Video of Dep. Press Sec. Raj Shaw on Trump’s plans to testify under oath: Transcript via ABC’s This Week: KARL: All right, well let’s get to another topic where you can give me specifics, the Russia investigation….
Trump is now telling the American people to turn off their televisions when journalists report on his terrible poll numbers. Trump tweeted: Rasmussen and others have my approval ratings at around 50%, which is higher than Obama, and yet the political pundits love saying my approval ratings are “somewhat low.†They know they are lying…
This year’s race for the U.S. Senate will be a hard-fought battle throughout the country.  But a surprising new poll shows that vulnerable Democratic senators may be in better shape than most people expected. According to Axios, this could be a deciding factor in control of the Senate. The poll from Axios and Survey Monkey looked at…
The largest newspaper in two counties in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District just endorsed Democrat Conor Lamb in the PA House special election. The Observer-Reporter wrote in their endorsement of Lamb, “We believe one of the two candidates would be better positioned to be the kind of moderate, conciliatory figure that is needed in this tempestuous…
Who knew that the entitled Trump son-in-law (and future felon) Jared Kushner has a brother who is a good guy?  I sure didn’t, and I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t read it in an article in Axios.  Just this morning Axios reported that Josh Kushner — brother of Jared — has quietly donated…
Trump surrogate Anthony Scaramucci immediately changed the subject to Melania when he was asked if Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels. Video: Watch The Mooch change the subject to Melania when asked about Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels. #SOTU https://t.co/iooI0rIBCJ pic.twitter.com/vMmOvIAmfd — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 11, 2018 When asked about Stormy Daniels,…
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) called for his fellow Democrats to support universal healthcare. Ellison, the vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), believes a unified approach to healthcare will also heal divisions in his party. In an interview on SiriusXM “POTUS” radio channel, Ellison said that the “Medicare-for-all” movement was gaining approval with more and…
Fred Guttenberg has no faith in politicians’ ability to stand up to the NRA.  That’s why he has decided if anything is going to be done about guns in the United States, he has to do it himself. On February 14th, his daughter Jaime was murdered in her high school hallway, in Parkland, Florida. The…
Reading the Second Amendment on its face value and in its historical context or original intent, it is clear that these ideas did not fall from heaven but were tied to particular realities of the day.
A provision of the new Homeland Security reauthorization bill would allow armed Secret Service agents to enter polling locations at the direction of the President, and state officials in charge of elections are not happy.  The bill has been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and next will be considered in the U.S. Senate. Current…
Veteran Washington lawyer Emmet Flood is under consideration for a White House job assisting U.S. President Donald Trump with the Russia probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.
