Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Always a tricky subject but I’ll offer my 2 cents on anything.
Seventy-six percent of Americans say members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to buy and sell individual stocks. Six percent say they should. That’s from an Economist/YouGov poll in May, and I would genuinely like to meet the six percent. This week Reuters reported that Democrats, who are on track for at least 255 House seats …
Four senators, two Republicans and two Democrats, wrote a bill together, and on Monday the Senate voted 73-25 to move it forward. Mark the date, because it doesn’t happen often. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act comes from Shelley Moore Capito, Mike Lee, Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse, and it goes after permitting, the …
Voters picked a Democratic Congress and kept a Republican president, which is about the closest thing to a spending freeze this country ever gets by accident. The Associated Press and ABC News projected this week that Democrats won both the House and the Senate. Trump’s answer was to remind everybody he still has a veto. …
The federal government sent out roughly $186 billion last year that it should not have. That’s not my number or a think tank’s number. It’s from the Government Accountability Office, which is the government auditing itself and not enjoying the results. Do the math with me. $186 billion over 365 days is about $510 million …
You got an extra hour of sleep Sunday, and Congress got an extra hour to ignore the one bill 308 House members already agreed on. Clocks fell back at 2 a.m. on November 1, same as they have every first Sunday of November since 2007. Meanwhile the Sunshine Protection Act, which would stop all of …
Over 30 million Americans had already voted by October 26, according to the University of Florida Election Lab, and every cable panel in the country is now squinting at that number like it’s a tea leaf. It isn’t one. Here’s what the early numbers actually say. An AP comparison reported by the National Desk found …
At a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, on October 14, the President of the United States told a crowd that a swimmer “suffered massive windburn” because a giant in the next lane “swam by her so fast that the wind was unbelievable.” Nobody in the story was named, and he never said where or when …
Ask a Democrat who their 2028 nominee should be and you’ll get a long pause, then a shrug, then a name that changes depending on who’s in the room. So I went looking for an actual answer. First, a definition, because “serious” gets thrown around like confetti. My test: polling in the double digits nationally, …
I agree with the Libertarian Party about a lot of things, and I keep waiting for the party to say them to more than a rounding error of voters. The scorecard is ugly. Gary Johnson pulled about 4.49 million votes in 2016, or 3.28 percent, which is the best showing the party has ever had. …
Your boss would ask one question before hiring you: does your last job look anything like this one? I ran that test on ten of Trump’s most prominent hires from both terms, using nothing but public résumés. Here’s my rubric, and yes, it’s subjective. I compared the size and type of what each person had …
A federal judge had to order the government to stop airing commercials for the president, and the government’s best defense was that they were about to stop anyway. Here’s what happened. Judge Jennifer Rochon in New York issued a two-week temporary restraining order Sunday night, telling the administration to cancel every remaining ad it bought …
Seven months ago Donald Trump started a war with Iran he said would take “four to five weeks.” Now he’s decided the reason your diesel costs so much is the president of Ukraine. Earlier today I wrote about the 77 million people who voted for the dumbest human on earth. I figured I’d have to …