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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews livid over Mueller report: ‘How could they let Trump off the hook?’

Via: make-america-great-again • News & Politics • 45 Comments • 13 minutes ago

Video MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed outrage on Friday upon hearing reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his Russia investigation and submitted it to the attorney...

Look Who's Holding Secret Fundraisers with Islamic Groups Tied to Terror

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 44 minutes ago

And the winner is... Rep. Ilhan Omar. According to the Washington Free Beacon,Omar has held private fundraisers, not open to the public, with two groups that have known ties to terrorism. Her...

Trump complains he 'didn't get a thank you' for agreeing to John McCain's state funeral, in latest attack on recently deceased war hero

Via: tessylo • News & Politics • 89 Comments • 49 minutes ago

Trump complains he 'didn't get a thank you' for agreeing to John McCain's state funeral, in latest attack on recently deceased war hero Tom Embury-Dennis,The Independent 1 hour 22...

GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson Slams Trump's 'Deplorable' Attacks On McCain

Via: tessylo • News & Politics • 163 Comments • an hour ago

GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson Slams Trump's 'Deplorable' Attacks On McCain Hayley Miller,HuffPost 16 hours ago This iframe is not allowed Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia, breaking with a...

Legless man rescued by Border Patrol agents

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • News & Politics • 14 Comments • an hour ago

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Border patrol agents had to rescue a double amputee from an island in the middle of the Rio Grande River this week. It happened on Wednesday, March 20. Agents from the...

Marine Corps commandant says deploying troops to the border poses ‘unacceptable risk’

Via: bob-nelson • News & Politics • 136 Comments • 2 hours ago

In two internal memos, Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller said the “unplanned/unbudgeted” deployment along the border that President Trump ordered last fall, and shifts of other funds to support...

Border Patrol Inland Checkpoints Shut Down So Agents Can Help Process Asylum Seekers

Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 26 Comments • 2 hours ago

The El Paso Border Patrol sector has temporarily closed its system of highway checkpoints as it struggles to cope with a record influx of families crossing the border and requesting asylum. The...

Sydney Aiello, a Parkland school shooting survivor, kills herself

Via: perrie-halpern • News & Politics • 35 Comments • 12 hours ago

By Elisha Fieldstadt Sydney Aiello, a student who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, and graduated last year took her life over the weekend, officials...

Trump suggests that it could get 'very bad' if military, police, biker supporters play 'tough'

Via: pat-wilson • News & Politics • 303 Comments • 22 hours ago

President Trump in a new interview suggested that his supporters are tougher than Democrats, and that if they actually play tough things could get "very bad." Trump made the comments in...

CNN Poll: 7 in 10 say economy in good shape -- and Trump may reap the benefits

By: xdm9mm • News & Politics • 30 Comments • 23 hours ago

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Updated 4:18 PM ET, Mon March 18, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/18/politics/cnn-poll-trump-economy-tech/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN)Americans give...

Senate Rejects Trump’s Border Emergency Declaration, Setting Up First Veto

Via: atheist • News & Politics • 138 Comments • yesterday

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday easily voted to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southwestern border, delivering a bipartisan rebuke to what lawmakers in...

George Conway Calls Donald Trump 'Mentally Unstable,' Says He's 'Incompetent' and 'Inept' Narcissist

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 2 Comments • yesterday

U.S. George Conway Calls Donald Trump 'Mentally Unstable,' Says He's 'Incompetent' and 'Inept' Narcissist Who Puts His Ego Before National Security By Alexandra Hutzler On 3/23/19 at 9:52 AM...

Trump promised to shrink the trade deficit. Instead, it exploded.

Via: atheist • News & Politics • 92 Comments • yesterday

The department’s final 2018 trade report, which was delayed by the partial government shutdown, showed that the United States bought far more in foreign goods than it sold to customers in Africa,...

Fox News Promotes Pro-Trump QAnon Conspiracy Theorist

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 days ago

A Fox News reporter cited a major promoter of QAnon on-air Friday morning, exposing the network’s viewers to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory. In a Fox & Friends First segment on Donald...

Republican senator Johnny Isakson says Trump will get a major ‘whipping’ after McCain attacks: ‘The country deserves better’

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 2 days ago

Senator Jonny Isakson, Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee The Republican chairman of the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee was slated to deliver a major rebuke of Donald Trump...

President Trump abruptly yanks sanctions on North Korea because he 'likes' dictator Kim Jong Un

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 2 days ago

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump appeared to overrule his own Treasury Department on Friday and withdrew new sanctions aimed at North Korea because, the White House said, the president...

Democrats accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of violating law with private emails

Via: tessylo • News & Politics • 41 Comments • 2 days ago

Democrats accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of violating law with private emails David Knowles 14 hours ago Scroll back up to restore default view. President Trump’s...

Hate Runs High In Counties Hosting Trump Rallies

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 days ago

Hate Runs High In Counties Hosting Trump RalliesMarch 22, 2019, 2:54 PM This will surely come as a shock to anyone who has ever seen one of Trump's Nuremberg rallies, but now we have evidence:...

Bus full of children in Italy set alight by angry driver 'in retaliation' for migrant drownings in Mediterranean

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 2 days ago

An Italian bus driver of Senegalese descent was arrested on Wednesday after hijacking his own vehicle and setting it on fire, allegedly threatening to kill more than 50 children on board whose...

Experts call for halt to gene editing that results in 'designer babies'

Via: flynavy1 • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 2 days ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Top scientists and ethicists from seven countries on Wednesday called for a global moratorium on gene editing of human eggs, sperm or embryos that would result in...

On Constitutions and the Rule of Law

Via: don-overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 2 days ago

Fifty million or more people are estimated to have died due to the 2nd World War; untold many millions more bore scars of every kind: Catastrophe enough. The weapons of war had by the end of the...

FBI joins criminal probe into Boeing 737 Max certification

Via: perrie-halpern • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 2 days ago

By Dawn Kopecki, CNBC and Leslie Josephs, CNBC Shares of Boeing fell in after-market trading Wednesday on news that the FBI has reportedly joined a criminal investigation of the certification...

IF 'REPUBLICANS LOSE WITH DONALD TRUMP' IN 2020 ELECTION THEN AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT IS OVER, SAYS GLENN BECK

Via: john-russell • News & Politics • 86 Comments • 2 days ago

Glenn Beck has suggested that it would be the “end of the country as we know it” if Donald Trump does not win at the 2020 election because of the rise of radicalism and socialism in the Democratic...

Gorsuch Provides Decisive 5th Vote In Case Interpreting Treaty With Indian Tribe

Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 2 days ago

Every year, the Supreme Court hears dozens of cases, and while there will usually be a few blockbuster opinions, the majority garner little media attention. But these more obscure decisions can...

Schools across U.S. do a terrible job of teaching about slavery.

By: john-russell • News & Politics • 156 Comments • 2 days ago

Research by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2017 found U.S. schools are failing to teach the hard history of slavery. Only 8 percent of high school seniors surveyed in the SPLC's report...

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