GOP Rep. Liz Cheney has drawn the ire of House January 6 Committee staffers over her influence on the final committee report expected out next month. At least fifteen current and former members of the committee believe Cheney is manipulating the final report to place too much focus on former President Donald Trump while leaving […]
We are ruled by malevolent clowns. On Tuesday of this week, with the specter of a potentially devasting rail strike looming over the Christmas season and a fragile U.S. economy, a reporter at a White House press conference asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a simple, direct question. “Is there an update on the potential rail […]
A man in Chicago was arrested Friday after he claimed to have a bomb in his bag at O’Hare International Airport. Law enforcement officials arrested the man at Terminal 1 inside the airport. No explosives were located. “A man was arrested in Terminal 1 at @fly2ohare after stating he had a bomb in his bag,” […]
Elon Musk says Twitter helped progressive candidates win their elections. Musk was responding to a tweet discussing the censorship of conservative candidates on the platform in order to boost liberal ones. He promised that the company would be more transparent under his leadership. “The more I learn, the worse it gets. The world should know […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Friday that he will start to create smartphones if Apple and Google remove Twitter from their app stores, a move that would be highly damaging to the social media company. Musk’s remarks came in response to a tweet from political commentator Liz Wheeler, who wrote: “If Apple & Google boot […]
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, a sheriff in Kansas pardoned a turkey who broke into a family home. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office pardoned the wild turkey, given the name “Tom,” on Facebook Wednesday, after he broke into the home on November 10. The office also posted body cam footage of two sheriff’s deputies as […]
As a tactical concern, the House GOP’s decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return. It would serve Republicans, and the country, far better if the House focused on a hyper-politicized Justice Department that targets the political opposition, labels concerned parents “domestic terrorists” and ignores violence aimed […]
After watching various “reporting” from so-called news outlets, there is no doubt that the claim by the Colorado “Club Q” mass shooting suspect’s attorneys that the person identifies as “non-binary” and likely is not a fervent MAGA supporter has sent The Usual Suspects into an absolute tailspin. CNN, unsurprisingly, been the worst of the bunch, […]
By any measure, Democrats exceeded expectations this midterm. Though listening to the triumphalism today, you’d think Joe Biden was Hannibal at Cannae. A fractured Republican Party has won the House, which means the agenda portion of Biden’s first term is effectively over (save the executive abuse). As expected, though, the lazy Dobbs-sunk-the-GOP narrative quickly solidified […]
Among the key headlines from the 2022 election were gains by Republicans among minority voters. According to the AP VoteCast survey, Republican House candidates got 14% of the black vote, almost twice the 8% of the black vote that Republicans captured in 2020 and 2018. The difference between the percentage of black votes that Democrats […]
