Washington, D.C. – Within hours of North Korea’s nuclear test Friday, it had become a political weapon in the U.S. The test – Pyongyang’s fifth and most powerful – had enough force to “rip the heart out of a city,” one expert said. It marks one more step in North Korea’s efforts to develop the missiles and miniaturized warheads needed to reach…
New federal filings show that President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is paying Donald Trump Jr.’s defense attorney. Just two weeks prior to the release of emails documenting Trump, Jr.s’ meeting with Kremlin-linked attorney Nataliya Veselnitskaya, Trump’s reelection campaign paid $50,000 to the law offices of Alan Futerfas, The Daily Beast reports. “Trump Jr. does not yet face any official allegations of legal…
On the same day the first daughter represented the United States at the G20 in Hamburg, President Donald Trump suggested Ivanka Trump should be pitied. “If she weren’t my daughter, it would be so much easier for her,” Trump claimed. “It might be the only bad thing she has going if you want to know the truth.” This is not the first…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) this week disputed reports that 22 million people would lose insurance under the Republican health care plan. During an interview that aired on Tuesday, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked Ryan to respond to a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that said there would be 22 million more people without health insurance by 2026 if the…
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who is taking over the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from the departing Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), said on Friday that he will not pursue any investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. Politico reports that Gowdy told reporters on Friday that he “wants to return the Oversight panel to its original ‘compulsory’ jurisdiction,…
During a Monday press conference that media outlets were banned from airing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced that the president was sending “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of an alleged terrorist attack in London and to the families of seven dead U.S. sailors. Spicer defended the ban on broadcasting the briefing by noting that President Donald Trump had already…
Following last week’s terrorist attack in London, President Trump at one point decided to use his Twitter to criticize London mayor Sadiq Khan’s message to his city. White House counsel Kellyanne Conway News appeared on NBC’s “TODAY Show” where the tweet was discussed in a very heated exchange between herself and co-anchor Thomas Roberts. Conway News About Fire Thomas Roberts For Crossing…
The absence of communications director Michael Dubke might already be impacting the White House because the statements coming out of the press office seem a little off. In fact, some online critics are mocking a newly released statement as a “parody” that looks like something President Donald Trump would write about himself. “President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy,…
“I have a feeling that the government could suddenly start proclaiming that water is bad for us and that we need to switch over to beer, and the entire population of the country would probably start buying beer by the gallons”
Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn plans to ignore the subpoena issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee and will cite his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) said last week that Flynn had not yet complied with the Senate’s subpoena, and added that he didn’t expect Flynn to agree to testify under oath. Flynn asked…
Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday sent out a tweet that seemed to confirm the contents of former FBI Director James Comey’s memo claiming that President Donald Trump had asked Comey to stop investigating former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The trouble for Trump Jr. began after he retweeted a message from Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera saying President Trump “hoping James Comey cuts…
Right-wing polemicist Ann Coulter, who last year authored a pro-Trump book called In Trump We Trust, is very unhappy about the early days of his presidency. In an interview with the Daily Caller, Coulter fumed that Trump so far has not kept his promises to build the border wall and to roll back protections for undocumented immigrants in the United States whose…
A new study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest that damage to particular areas of the prefrontal cortex indirectly promotes religious fundamentalism by diminishing cognitive flexibility and openness – a psychology term that describes a personality trait…
“Closeted Democrats are sort of like a mix between suicide bombers and gays: the signs are all there lurking just beneath the surface, but you keep ignoring them until it’s too late”
Congressman Roger Marshall of Kansas is distancing himself from comments made recently to STAT about poor patients and their health care, which garnered considerable backlash. In a recent interview, discussing the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, Marshall, a Republican, said: “Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us.’ There is a group of people that just don’t want health…
Pat Boone, the right wing lobbyist and musical personality has been at loggerheads with the show Saturday Night Live from the time they made a skit parodying the rightists’ persecution complex. He has condemned the program’s cast members and called them Satanic and possibly headed for hell. Speaking with Alan Colmes, Boone stated that “there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy.” He…
Recently on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson blasted Barack Obama for securing an agreement with Iran over the country’s nuclear program, which Robertson claimed allowed “them to get technology which could be used to destroy America.” While Iran has been complying with the agreement, the televangelist suggested that it was actually part of an Obama plan to destroy our country: “What kind…
A profile of First Lady Melania Trump in Vanity Fair magazine paints the former model as bored and disinterested with the duties of First Lady and sources close to Mr. Trump say that she has been dragged along behind her husband’s political ambitions against her will. “She never wanted this, and never had any interest,” said one source to Vanity Fair’s Evgenia…
“What’s more, I know for a fact that Ted is currently working on a new rock-style national anthem geared towards true Americans, not these imported ones. Donald is going to love it”
“What the good book won’t tell you is that Abraham’s son was also gay and that that’s the real reason why God wanted him to sacrifice his boy. The Bible then says that Abraham used a ram instead, but that’s beside the point”
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer asserted on Tuesday that Adolf Hitler had never used “chemical weapons.” During Tuesday’s White House press conference about Russia’s support of Syria, Spicer was asked why the White House expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to drop support for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. “Someone as despicable as Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” Spicer said.…
“All this just because daddy’s little girl couldn’t meet a nice Christian boy. But, I guess things could be worse. She could have just as easily fallen in love with a black guy or worse – a Muslim. Then we’d be in real trouble”
During an interview on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claimed that it was the American people who made Senate Republicans refuse to give President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Merrick Garland, a hearing. “The tradition had been not to confirm vacancies in the middle of a presidential [election] year,” McConnell told host Chuck Todd. “You’d…
Republicans are constantly working to kill SNAP (food stamps) and have used every excuse in the book as to why it doesn’t work, including their favorite, which is that the majority of the unemployed adults choose not to work just so they can freeload off of the system. They use this strategy so much that they even claim it comes from the…
