White House: Illegal Laws Can Only Be Extended for Six Months
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If Congress can’t come to an agreement on DACA, President Trump could always just extend the program a while longer. Right? White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump is not expected to extend a March 5 deadline for when…
Notes Toward a Postmodern Trump
Gary M Williams/EFE via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a rally today in Ohio, President Trump said that Democrats who didn’t clap at his State of the Union address were treasonous. Over at National Review, Dan McLaughlin comments: If you watch the actual video, you can see the…
The House Intelligence Committee Just Voted to Release the Democrats’ Response to the Nunes Memo
Rep. Adam Schiff, D=Calif, addresses reporters.Alex Edelman/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday to release a 10-page memo prepared by Democrats to rebut what they say are inaccuracies in an infamous memo written by aides to committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), which alleges FBI misconduct at the heart…
Bitcoin, Stock Market Both Tumbling
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things that make you go “hmmm”: I can’t say that these things are necessarily related. Presumably bitcoin is crashing because it was a Ponzi scheme all along and the air finally went out of it. The stock market isn’t crashing, but it is tumbling and…
Trump’s Speech Bragging About Tax Cuts Smacks Into a Nosediving Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s frequent boasting of a booming stock market collided with reality on Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,500 points in afternoon trading. The massive drop continues steep losses seen last week. News networks, many of which had been airing a Trump speech live…
The Eagles Won and Pennsylvania’s Gerrymandering Is Finally Dead
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl yesterday. But that wasn’t the only good news for Pennsylvania. There’s more. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that the Republican gerrymandering of the state’s congressional districts was wildly unconstitutional. That is, it violates the state constitution. Republicans…