Picking up takeout, taking care of the family dog, making Cheesecake Factory reservations, helping write a medical school recommendation for a friend and sending out Christmas cards are just some of the personal, non-work related tasks former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan Pompeo, asked State Department …
Read More »Voter Suppression Is Violence
As he prepared to make State Bill 202 law on Thursday, it seemed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was shielding himself. Six white men in suits flanked him, three each on his left and right, and a portrait of a plantation hung on the wall behind him. The only way …
Read More »Mandy Patinkin: After 10 Years of Untold Suffering, the War in Syria Needs to End
In Syria today, 10-year-olds across the country are now as old as the war. It’s hard to believe because it doesn’t make the headlines anymore, but March 15 marks a decade since the start of the brutal conflict. I was first introduced to the Syrian refugee crisis on the shores …
Read More »Why Trump Isn't Being Charged With Treason
Here we go again! After having two presidential impeachment trials in the United States’ first 231 years, the Senate is now about to start its second trial of Donald Trump in just over 12 months. While we all developed great expertise from taking the 2020 class Trump Impeachment 101, there …
Read More »Republicans Hit the Sunday News Shows to Blast Trump
Two Republicans, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), blasted the outgoing president on Sunday morning, one going so far as to call out his own party, along with the president for possibly driving people to “violence” over bogus claims of voter fraud. Kinzinger, one of the few …
Read More »Mike Pompeo: 'There Will Be a Smooth Transition to a Second Trump Administration'
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the chorus of Trump World slime who have lined up behind the president in disputing the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the man who leads the agency responsible for promoting America’s democratic model to the …
Read More »Debates Can Shake Up an Election. But Does Record Early Voting Mean This One Is Too Late?
In a normal election year, Thursday night’s debate would offer perhaps Donald Trump‘s last-best hope of upending the dynamics of an election that — if the polls are correct — is trending against him. In national polling, Trump trails Joe Biden by nearly 8 points. Polling averages also show Biden …
Read More »Trump Wanted to Swap Puerto Rico for Greenland, Now Says He's 'The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Puerto Rico'
During Friday’s press conference the president, staying true to form, once again lied to the media and to the American people. While boasting about his decision to finally send an additional 13 billion in aid to Puerto Rico – three years after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the still-recovering US …
Read More »Michael Cohen: 'Trump Was a Mobster, Plain and Simple'
The president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, says in a new book that Trump acted like a mob boss and used mafia-type tactics to battle foes and advance his personal agenda. According to the New York Times, which received an advanced copy of the book, Disloyal, a Memoir, …
Read More »Jerry Falwell Jr. Says His Wife Had an Affair With the Miami Pool Boy They Befriended
UPDATE: A day after he denied reports that he had resigned from Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr. has, in fact, resigned as the school’s president. “It’s a relief,” he told local reporter Richard Chumney. “The quote that keeps going through my mind this morning is Martin Luther Ling Jr.: ‘Free …
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