01/04/2018 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today announced his plans to to greatly expand the areas available for offshore oil and natural gas drilling, including all areas off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. As production of US oil is currently at an all time high, and prices are near historic lows, the Trump Administration somehow reasoned even more oil was needed. In ...

1/3/2018 On New Year’s Day, Kim Jong Un stated North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is a real threat and that he has a nuclear launch button on his desk at all times.  Mr Kim said the entire US was within range of North Korean nuclear weapons, adding: “This is reality, not a threat.” President Trump responded with the following tweet: North Korean Leader ...

01/03/2018 In a new book due to be released Wednesday, Steve Bannon is quoted as saying Donald Jr. was treasonous when he agreed to meet with Russians in an attempt to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.  Bannon is the former Chief Strategist and confidant to Donald Trump. In “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House”  author Michael Wolff quotes ...

01/01/2018 There were some big ones, some really big ones.  And there were many, very many lies.  As a matter of fact, Donald Trump set an all time record for telling lies during his short tenure (Trump tells over 2,000 lies )  But when we look back at the year and try to pick out the biggest lie Donald Trump told ...

12/29/2017 South Korea has seized a Hong Kong-registered ship that allegedly transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in violation of United Nations sanctions. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said the Lighthouse Winmore left the port of Yeosu in South Korea carrying refined oil which was then transferred to a North Korean ship in international waters on October 19.  The US ...

12/25/2017 Russian election officials under Vladimir Putin formally barred Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting calls from him for a boycott of next year’s vote. The Central Election Commission decided unanimously that the anti-corruption crusader isn’t eligible to run. Navalny is implicitly barred from running for office because of a conviction in a fraud case which ...

12/21/2017 John Brennan has served four Presidents in various intelligence rolls.  He was the Director of the CIA.  He served over seas.  He knows a thing or two about diplomacy.  Last week he heard just about enough from the Trump Administration and Nikki Haley, Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations. The former CIA Director lashed out at the Trump administration ...

12/20/2017 Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, sent a letter to several UN member states ahead of a vote in the General Assembly on Thursday. In the letter, she warned that President Donald Trump had instructed her to make note of members’ votes on the resolution — then tweeted she would be “taking names” of members who ...

12/18/2017 Republican Senator John Kennedy took a stand against hiring unqualified Judges nominated by the Trump administration.  In an embarrassing blow to Trump, the senator asked Mathew Peterson about his qualifications, and the answers provided stunning evidence of how little Trump cares about seating qualified Federal Judges. Prior to his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Peterson was ...

12/18/2017 The son of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was charged Monday with assault and burglary in a violent confrontation with his father in which the two men struggled over a handgun at his parents’ Alaska home, court records show. According to the criminal complaint and supporting documents, Track Palin, 28, broke through a window of the house ...