Roger Stone Gets 40-Month Prison Sentence
Win McNamee/Getty Image After originally asking for a 7-9 year sentence for presidential pal and longtime Republican ratfucker¹ Roger Stone, Attorney General Bill Barr intervened in the case and sent in a new prosecutor who recommended 3-4 years instead.² Today, judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to . . . 3-4 years: In a lengthy…
Jeff Sessions Hopes You’ve Forgotten What His “Zero Tolerance” Policy Actually Did
Former US Attorney General Jeff SessionsJay Reeves/AP In a new ad for his Alabama Senate campaign released last week, Jeff Sessions brags about the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy he oversaw as attorney general. The ad touts the policy as proof of Sessions’ ability to “take action” on immigration and includes clips of the…
Household Debt Remains Startlingly Low
Household debt has hit yet another record. Should we be worried? Michael Strain says no, and I agree. This time, though, it’s more than my usual gripe about not adjusting for inflation. The thing to look at isn’t raw debt in the first place, but how much it’s affecting family finances: The average family is…
The Easy Part Is Over for Michael Bloomberg
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg at the Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada.John Locher/Associated Press Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for president has been an attempt to reinvent the presidential primary process entirely. The billionaire former three-term mayor of New York City jumped into a race that was already…
Mike Bloomberg Either Won or Lost Tonight
If my Twitter feed is any indication, the unanimous opinion of everyone on the planet is that Mike Bloomberg got completely thrashed in the debate tonight. Conversely, I thought he came through OK. He took a ton of hits, but he mostly swatted them away without suffering a lot of damage. So what really happened?…
Warren Landed the Night’s Biggest Blow on Bloomberg
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) campaigns at the College of Southern Nevada on February 17. Brian Cahn/ZUMA Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) landed what may prove to be the toughest blow against Michael Bloomberg in the Nevada Democratic debate Wednesday night when she pressed him to release female employees who had accused him of harassment and discrimination…