The Biden administration imposed tough new sanctions on Russia to hold the country accountable for its interference in the 2020 U.S. election, cyberattacks against both federal agencies and private companies, as well as its ongoing occupation in Crimea. The wide-ranging measures announced on Thursday, include sanctions against six Russian companies, …
Read More »Biden: 90 Percent of Americans Will Be Vaccine Eligible by Mid-April
President Joe Biden announced that 90 percent of American adults will be eligible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next three weeks. While he had originally encouraged states to make all adults eligible by May 1, Biden moved up the deadline to mid-April based on the progress many …
Read More »GOP Senator Proudly Voices Racism: If Trump's Mob Were BLM Then I'd Be Concerned
Republican Senator Ron Johnson, a staunch Trump sycophant, let his racist flag fly high when he said that he was unafraid of the insurrectionists on January 6 because they were not members of Black Lives Matter or antifa. Johnson made the remarks during a Thursday interview on conservative radio host …
Read More »Joe Manchin Offers a Glimmer of Hope for Filibuster Reform
WASHINGTON —Six weeks into Joe Biden‘s presidency, there are new signs filibuster reform might happen. After a marathon overnight voting session last week, the Senate voted along party lines to pass the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill supported by Biden. The American Recovery Plan Act of 2021 now heads to …
Read More »Joe Biden Inherited the Forever War. Will He Give it Away?
Last Friday, Joe Biden announced that U.S. forces had dropped seven 500-pound bombs on a small building complex in Syria believed to be used by members of an Iranian-backed militia responsible for a rocket attack on U.S. forces in neighboring Iraq earlier last month. Already, it is easy to get …
Read More »Rush Limbaugh Did His Best to Ruin America
When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the AM dial, signed off from the “Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,” two days before Christmas, he warned the faithful in the raspy remains of his famous trumpeting baritone: “The day is gonna come, folks, where I’m not going to be able …
Read More »America Needs to Hear From Mike Pence
WASHINGTON —There is one and only one person who would qualify as the star witness in the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. That person is Mike Pence. To call the former vice president a key figure in the events preceding and during the deadly January 6th insurrection …
Read More »I Stayed Up Past Midnight to Watch Mike Pence Eat Shit, and It Was Beautiful
Related: The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence Mike Pence sowed the wind on July 15th, 2016, signing on to become the running mate of a man manifestly unfit to sit in the White House. On January 6th 2021, he reaped the whirlwind. More than any other Republican, Michael R. Pence …
Read More »The Pastor, the Pandemic, and the Political Race of a Lifetime
Kenya Harmon and Keynan Williams are cutting it up on a December afternoon at the Kayton Homes in Savannah, Georgia. Williams, a wiry man with big eyes, sits in a wicker chair with a sun-bleached cushion, cigarette in his hand, Miller High Life at his feet, dog staring quizzically out …
Read More »Democracy Narrowly Defeats Trump As Wisconsin Supreme Court Dismisses Bogus Election Lawsuit
President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the presidential election suffered another blow Monday as the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, rejected Trump’s lawsuit. This was the court’s fourth ruling within 10 days against the president, and each ruling was 4-3 — an uncomfortably narrow margin when the health …
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