Kelly: Trump Has “Evolved” on the Wall
K.C. Alfred/San Diego Union-Tribune via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wut? President Trump’s chief of staff privately told a group of Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had not been “fully informed” when promising voters a wall along the Mexican border last year, and said that he had…
Is Trump’s New National Park Fee Increase Really Outrageous?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jesse Lee is unhappy: Trump and Zinke doubling National Park fees to an insane $80 per vehicle is one of the most underreported outrages of the Administration. That price is essentially unaffordable to most families in this country. Then they took those jacked up fees…
California’s Bullet Train Gets Yet Another Price Hike
California High-Speed Rail Authority Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Buckle your seat belts for yet another big surprise. This one is for Californians: The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the…
It Looks Like Everyone Knew About Trump and Stormy Daniels
Lisa O’Connor/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Prepare yourself to be shocked. You might want to be sitting down for the latest news about Donald Trump’s alleged affair with porn star Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels: The allegation of a relationship was no secret to Fox News….One of the network’s…
White Racial Resentment Hasn’t Become More Politically Powerful Recently
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “White racial resentment has been gaining political power for decades,” says the Washington Post. But I have some problems with this. For starters, the two authors¹ present a chart which, they say, “shows that racial resentment hasn’t fluctuated much over time.” I’ve redrawn it to…
Immigration Negotiations Have Gone Off the Deep End
Anik Rahman/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let’s talk immigration for a bit. It’s gone completely cuckoo. I realize that this is all due to politics of various stripes, but let’s stop for a minute and look just at the policy. It all started when President Trump killed…