Domestic Issues

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 ...

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 ...

12/18/2017 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 ...

12/15/2017 Donald Trump’s first year in the White House has been tumultuous for his staff, resulting in massive turnover.   Michael Flynn has put in a guilty plea. Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Anthony Scaramucci were pushed out. Sean Spicer is off working on a book. Omarosa Manigault, the former contestant on “The Apprentice”, was escorted out the door on Tuesday. ...

12/14/2017 Donald Jr. has once again proven he is not smart.  He has held meetings with the Russians in order to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. For almost a year he was in touch with a "secret" WikiLeaks source hoping to receive stolen and/or illegal information.  He has claimed to have "attorney/client immunity from providing information, when no such relationship ...

12/14/2017 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today voted to repeal Net Neutrality rules put in place by the Obama Administration.  The regulations prohibited broadband providers from blocking websites or charging for higher-quality service or certain content. The federal government will also no longer regulate high-speed internet delivery as if it were a utility. Under the new rule,  internet service providers ...

12/7/2017 Donald Trump Jr. has refused to tell lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee about conversations he had with his father this summer about the now-infamous June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin. Trump Jr. cited “attorney-client privilege” to avoid answering the lawmakers’ questions about the conversation, explaining that both his and President Trump’s lawyers ...

12/7/2017 In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out.  Kellyanne Conway, White House Advisor to President Trump, is now facing her second strike. The former director of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, is filing a second complaint against White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act in some of her statements regarding the Alabama Senate race. ...