Do White People Not Like Working With Latinos?
Jebb Harris/The Orange County Register/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have two stories for you today. Here is Story #1 from the Wall Street Journal: The share of workers in the [construction] sector who are 24 years old or younger has declined in 48 states since the last housing…
“Collusion Is Not a Crime” Becomes Trump’s Official New Line of Defense
Mark Wilson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump echoed his lawyer’s questionable assertion that “collusion is not a crime” on Tuesday morning, officially ushering in a new line of defense against the special counsel investigation into his campaign and its links to Russian nationals and officials. For good measure, Trump continued…
Conservative Think Tank Says Medicare For All Would Save $2 Trillion
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s some good news. The libertarians at the Mercatus Center did a cost breakdown of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan and concluded that it would save $2 trillion during its first ten years: Now, as you might guess, this was not the spin the…
Are You Rich? Trump Wants to Give You Yet Another Tax Cut!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let’s say that ten years ago you bought $1,000 in shares of DrumCo stock. Naturally it’s a well-managed company and today those shares are worth $1,300. You sell them for a $300 profit, and pay a nice, low 20 percent capital gains tax of $60.…
Maybe Trump Paid the Russians to Hack the DNC Server?
Metzel Mikhail/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s Monday morning, so I might as well start off with where we are on the collusion witch hunt news, so that at least I can keep track of which new lies get told this week. Aaron Blake gets me up…
Dana Rohrabacher Says Anyone “In This Town” Would Meet With Russians Peddling Political Dirt
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Capitol Hill on Friday evening, I ran into Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has earned the moniker “Putin’s favorite congressman.” In recent days, he has been linked in news reports to Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian woman who had spent years cozying…