A jury took less than an hour Wednesday to convict a Donald Trump campaign staffer in Michigan of felony election fraud — from a previous campaign. Brandon Michael Hall, a recent and failed local GOP candidate, was found guilty of 10 counts of election fraud stemming from his work on an unsuccessful judicial campaign he […]
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Trump Selects ‘Mad Dog’ As Next Secretary Of Defense
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, who has said that responding to “political Islam” is the major security issue facing the United States, to be secretary of defense. “We are going to appoint Mad Dog Mattis as our secretary of defense,” Trump told a rally in Cincinnati, […]
Government working on drafting bill to limit Trump-era deportations
Democratic and Republican senators are reportedly crafting legislation that would put a limit on how many people President-elect Donald Trump would be allowed to deport if he reverses President Obama’s executive orders concerning illegal immigration. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., are working on a bill that would allow children who […]
Unemployment rate dropped to 4.6%; Adds 178k jobs in November
The U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs in November, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent, a level not seen since August 2007, according to government data released Friday morning. The first employment report since voters went to the polls last month shows an economy in strong shape as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office. “It looks […]
Parents disarm child that brings guns to school
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Police are applauding a mother and father who disarmed their 15-year-old son at a Utah junior high school, after they noticed him acting strangely in the morning and realized he had taken the family’s shotgun and handgun. The parents arrived shortly after the boy entered a classroom in the northern Utah […]
New Texas provisions require burial or cremation of aborted fetuses
New state regulations set to go into effect Dec. 19 will require medical providers to bury or cremate fetal tissue instead of disposing of remains in sanitary landfills. The regulations were first published this summer, shortly following a Supreme Court decision striking down Texas legislation meant to impose stricter requirements on abortion clinics. On Monday, the Health and […]
Tim Kaine Falsely Blames Gun Violence For Knife Attack On Ohio State University Campus
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said Monday he was saddened by the “senseless act of gun violence” at Ohio State University, even though the attacker used a butcher knife and a car. Mr. Kaine, who ran on the 2016 Democratic ticket with presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, was accused of pushing a gun-control agenda after his Twitter […]
Romney Does 180 Degree Flip With Compliments Of President-Elect Trump
It’s “like old times,” Mitt Romney said to a group of reporters on Tuesday night as he emerged from Trump International Hotel, which is in the old Gulf & Western building, at 1 Central Park West. Rubbing his hands together and flashing a smile that stretched all the way from his bottom teeth to his […]
Trump Praises Pakistan’s Prime Minister Despite The Foreign Relations Consequences
We have all seen how President-elect Donald Trump made a cozy, expansive, even flattering phone call to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. On one level, his remarks could be seen as simply amusing. In America, we have gotten used to Trump’s way of shooting his mouth off without any hint that he knows his subject. […]
Marijuana Being Shipped Across State Lines Via USPS Is A Growing Concern
Ever since recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado and Washington (followed by a handful of other states), and medical marijuana became legal in several others, scofflaws have taken to using the United States Postal Service to illegally move it across state lines. As it turns out, the USPS doesn’t have any clear policies, or clear […]
25th Amendment Might Declare Donald Trump Mentally Unfit
Amid widespread protests and worrying signs of dysfunction in the administration of President-elect Donald Trump, millions across the United States are likely wondering how, or if, it’s possible to oust the billionaire from the White House before the 2020 presidential election. While there have long been talks of impeachment hearings, a favorite theory this week for removing […]
Donald Lies About Voter Fraud In Tweet
“In addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” — President-elect Donald Trump, in a tweet, Nov. 27 Angered by demands for a recount in the three states that gave him an electoral college victory, President-elect Donald Trump made […]