A Convicted Sex Offender Was the Face of a New Trump Dating Site
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new dating site intended for Trump-admirers seeking other Trump-admirers for romance, Trump.Dating, up until the last few days featured the image of a convicted sex offender, Barrett Riddleberger, alongside his wife Jodi on its homepage, wearing his-and-hers hats reading “Trump” and “Make America Great…
Judicial Watch: Never Give Up, Never Surrender
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Look what popped up in my inbox this morning from Judicial Watch: Rumors have been floating up from Little Rock for months now of a new investigation into the Clinton Foundation…. Do tell. Please go on: John Solomon advanced the story recently….The Wall Street Journal…
Here’s Another Reason Pennsylvania’s New Congressional Map Is Bad News for Donald Trump
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats got some good news over the long weekend when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a new map for the state’s 18 congressional districts. If it survives a federal lawsuit from Republicans, the court-drawn map will replace what had been one of the most lopsided GOP…
The Robots Are Coming! But Not For a While.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things are slow this morning, so I’m going to rail against one of my pet peeves: analogies to the Industrial Revolution as evidence that robots won’t reduce employment. My victim today is Heather Long at Wonkblog: History suggests new jobs will replace old ones. As…
Are “Deaths of Despair” Related to Lead Poisoning?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I want to toss out, even though I don’t have an answer to offer—or even a clue, really. It’s about lead. People periodically ask me about whether lead might be responsible for some phenomenon or other. I’m generally very careful about this stuff.…
The Right Is Attacking the Survivors of the Florida School Massacre
Manish Swarup/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former GOP congressman Jack Kingston on Tuesday doubled-down on his inflammatory allegations that a group of school shooting survivors pushing for tougher gun laws are simply being used by left-wing political groups. Appearing on CNN, the Georgia Republican suggested that billionaire George Soros…