WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Trump, had his sentence postponed by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan didn’t mince words in his courtroom remarks, barely hiding his outrage as he pointed out that Flynn had …
Read More »Benedict Cumberbatch's Combover Stars in New Trailer for HBO's 'Brexit'
Vice, the Dick Cheney biopic from Adam McKay, isn’t the only political film due out this winter. On January 19th, Brexit will premiere on HBO. Directed byToby Haynes and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the film tells the story behind the controversial vote to remove the United Kingdom from the European Union. …
Read More »Paul Manafort's Story Is Unraveling Before Our Eyes
WASHINGTON —It’s been an extraordinary 24 hours in the world of Paul Manafort. On Monday evening, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in an explosive new court filing that Manafort, the disgraced former Trump campaign chairman and Republican lobbyist, had lied to the FBI and the special counsel’s office despite signing …
Read More »Federal Judge Strikes Down Mississippi's Restrictive Abortion Ban as 'Pure Gaslighting'
A federal judge has struck down a ban on abortion after 15 weeks that was passed by the Mississippi state legislature in March. In a blistering opinion, Judge Carlton Reeves declares the legislature’s “professed interest in ‘women’s health’ is pure gaslighting.” Reeves sided with Jackson Women’s Health Organization —Mississippi’s sole …
Read More »Jason Isbell, Sheryl Crow Urge Action at Tennessee Voting Rally
A small but enthusiastic group of Middle Tennessee residents showed up to hear some music and use their voices at Party at the Polls, a voting rally organized by WME and Endeavor Impact. Held at the very un-rock & roll hour of 10 a.m. at Ascend Amphitheater, the event nonetheless …
Read More »Devin Nunes Has Jumped the Shark
President Trump has plenty of supporters in Congress. Then there’s Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee may be the most ardent and aggressive Trump loyalist in Washington. Most notably, he’sused his position atop the traditionallynonpartisan House Intelligence Committee to compromise the investigation into the Trump …
Read More »Fox News and the GOP Seem to Have Forgotten Who the President Is
Some prominent Democrats are done playing nice now that Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said it may be time to consider abandoning the idea of civility when dealing with “a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.” A day later, former …
Read More »Why the FBI's Kavanaugh Investigation Is So Troubling
United States senators are taking turns reading the FBI’s updated background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But the report is unaccountably incomplete. The FBI interviewed only one of Kavanaugh’s three accusers. And investigators failed to interview key witnesses who could have helped corroborate allegations of sexual misconduct by …
Read More »Taibbi: Why Aren't We Talking More About Trump's Nihilism?
While America was consumed with the Brett Kavanaugh drama last week, the Washington Post unearthed a crazy tidbit in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) latest environmental impact statement. The study predicts a rise in global temperatures of about four degrees Celsius, or seven degrees Fahrenheit, by the year …
Read More »Cynical Decision to Hire 'Female Assistant' Rapidly Backfiring on Republicans
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, nervous about the optics of an all-male panel interrogating an alleged victim of sexual assault, gambled and hired a “female assistant” to question Christine Blasey FordThursday on their behalf.All 11 members of the Republican majority — including Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who called for …
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