President Trump on Wednesday announced that all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircrafts will be grounded until they can be determined safe. “We’re going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the 737 Max 8 and the 737 Max 9 and planes …
Read More »Trump Will Seek Billions for His Nonsensical Wall Next Week
President Donald Trump’s desire for a border wall is like a horror movie where the killer just won’t die. No matter how much some may want the issue to go away, it won’t. And so, the president will seek $8.6 billion in funding for the wall when he submits his …
Read More »How Republicans, Democrats and Trump Responded to Michael Cohen's Hearing
Michael Cohen sat before the House Oversight Committee for seven hours on Wednesday, fielding questions about President Trump while deflecting attacks on his own character. Trump’s former attorney and fixer offered a host of bombshell revelations,implicating his former boss in a host of federal crimes ranging from insurance fraud to …
Read More »Can a Young Rustbelt Mayor Prevail in 2020? Mayor Pete Is About to Find Out
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Democratic wunderkind mayor of South Bend, Indiana, joined the 2020 presidential fray on Wednesday morning. Buttigieg (pronounced BOOT-edge-edge) announced an exploratory committee for president, Pete for America, in the form of a minute-and-a-half long video. Buttigieg’s place at the forefront of a new crop …
Read More »Supreme Leader Donald Trump Lies About Volume of Fast Food Hamburgers
Imagine being invited to the White House for dinner. You pack your best suit or dress and fly up to Washington, D.C. The day of the dinner, the president announces to reporters that he will be serving you fast food. He seems really excited about it.“I think we’re going to …
Read More »Julian Castro Officially Enters the 2020 Presidential Race
WASHINGTON — In the early 1900s, the grandmother of Julián Castro crossed the border from Mexico to the U.S. as a seven-year-old and an orphan, her future uncertain. She found work as a maid in the city of San Antonio, working various jobs and raising her daughter and later her …
Read More »Trump's Proposed Middle Class Tax Cut Is Not Real. Merry Christmas.
Way back before the midterms, President Trump was so desperate for Republicans to retain their majority in the House of Representatives that he blurted out his intention to give the middle class a big tax cut.“We are going to be putting in and are studying very deeply right now, around …
Read More »Is Trump Worried About Impeachment?
It’s been obvious for months that President Trump was lying when he said he did not direct Michael Cohen to make hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal prior to the 2016 election. On Thursday morning, he essentially admitted it, tweeting that the responsibility would have fallen on …
Read More »Obama Met Beto. Then the Whispers Began.
Barack Obama endorsed more than 250 candidates during the 2018 midterm elections, including 11 in the state of Texas. Beto O’Rourke was not one of them. “I don’t think we’re interested,” O’Rourke said when asked back in October about being left off the ex-president’s list. O’Rourke was, at the time, …
Read More »Former Bernie Sanders Staffers Are Preparing to 'Draft Bernie' for 2020
BURLINGTON, VERMONT — Get ready to feel the Bern again. A movement to draft Bernie Sanders to run for president in 2020 is launching today, with the aim of building an organizational structure so the Vermont Senator can start campaigning at a moment’s notice. “We have two goals,” Rich Pelletier, …
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