Earlier this week, Public Policy Polling released a new national poll that revealed the stark gulf between diehard supporters of Donald Trump and the country at large. For instance, only 45 percent of Trump voters believe that Donald Trump Jr. actually held a meeting in Trump Tower in hopes of getting Russian-flavored “opposition research” about […]
Beleaguered and (justifiably) ridiculed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has resigned in objection to Pres. Donald Trump’s hiring of new Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, a post left open since being vacated by Michael Dubke in May. Spicer had only been in office for 182 days. How bad does someone have to be for Sean […]
It wasn’t long after my little boy was born, about ten years ago, at the age of 25, that I found out that I was adopted. I knew a lot of people that were adopted but all of them had known since birth, and in my ignorance I just thought that was how it was […]
As of Thursday night, Donald Trump’s approval rating stands at 39.3 percent. As anemic as that looks, it would be even worse if not for the support of the religious right. At last report, well over 70 percent of white evangelicals approved of Trump’s job performance. Not only does this track closely with the 81 […]
As of Monday night, Donald Trump’s average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 39.1 percent. That’s the second-worst average on record for any president at this early point in his administration, and the worst for any newly elected president at this point in his administration. By any standard, a politician with numbers this bad would be in […]
What better way to prove his campaign never colluded with Russia than by spending a full two hours with their president, especially when they were given thirty minutes to meet. Ladies and gentleman, that Russian smoke just got thicker. Comrades They go together like peanut butter and jelly. President Donald Trump and the president of Russia, Vladimir […]
Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren loves to ruffle feathers, especially when it comes to liberals. Her latest rant against the left was quickly debunked, though. Birth Control Getting companies to cover birth control is disturbingly hard in the 21st century, even though doing so would result in far less abortions. Lahren just doesn’t see what the […]
Of course you’re not a climate change denier. You wouldn’t be reading this on this site if you were. You realize, of course, though, here in the United States of America, we are in the unique (and embarrassing) position of having an entire political party – and president – that has staked its reputation on fabricated doubt, or […]
The Troubles began in the late 1960s and is usually thought to have ended in 1998. The root of the problem, however, stretches back centuries, not decades. In 1534, Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, a law that made Henry VII the Supreme Head of the Church. This break from Rome set in motion events that would […]
There are certain qualities that can make a president stand out from previous ones. For example, most people would favor one who ran the country with dignity over a buffoon with a fragile ego. Judging by their Twitter posts, there are stark and recognizable differences between these two men. America was once again reminded of […]
In case you missed it, the only reason Donald Trump’s head is still above water is that over 70 percent of white evangelicals still back him, even in the face of the nearly daily outrages coming from the White House. It’s partly because they listen to people like Rick Wiles of TruNews. Wiles is so […]
For most Americans, under normal circumstances, it doesn’t really matter who the British Prime Minister is. That many Brits avidly follow U.S. politics is understandable. The U.S. has, after all, held the balance of global power since 1945. But whilst American focus shifted away from British politics sometime around 1776, there are times when such […]
The Queen of Alternative Facts and advisor to President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, recently took some time off from babysitting our president to criticize the media. She didn’t mince words while acknowledging how much Twitter hates her, either. MSM In the aftermath of the tragic Alexandria shooting, both sides of the political spectrum took to Twitter. Supporters […]
On Wednesday morning, the Democratic Congressional baseball team had just arrived at Galludet University in Washington to practice for the following night’s Congressional Baseball Game when word got out that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise had been shot at the Republican practice across the Potomac in Alexandria. The Democrats’ manager, Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania, immediately stopped […]
When word got out that a hardcore Bernie Sanders supporter turned a Republican baseball team practice in Alexandria, Virginia into a shooting gallery, a number of Republicans wasted no time pointing fingers. Newt Gingrich blamed potty-mouthed Democrats, while Donald Trump, Jr.–undoubtedly speaking for his father–blamed a version of “Julius Caesar” with a man who looked a […]
When you listen to religious right radio shows and podcasts, you expect to hear outrageous and jaw-dropping commentary. But what Dave Daubenmire did on his daily podcast, “Pass the Salt,” is staggering even by those standards. In case you missed it, his guest that day, fellow religious right podcast host Sheila Zilinsky, called for California […]
The much-anticipated Jeff Sessions hearing started with blah blah blah statements such as: “Such [Russian interference] can never be tolerated, and I encourage every effort to get to the bottom of any such allegations.” JUST IN: Department of Justice releases Attorney General Jeff Sessions' prepared remarks https://t.co/OOKrWQp9jG pic.twitter.com/ATYt7xPYfi — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 13, 2017 They’re […]
March in Arkansas can go either way: still below freezing and snowing, or already 80 degrees and humid. Driving down the two lane highway on the edge of the Ouachita Forest that March day was exactly what it should be: 68 degrees and sunny. So I rolled the window down on the 2005 Ford Taurus […]
As the Russia investigation threatens to consume both the White House and the Republican Party, the Trump administration has been given a deadline: Turn over any “tapes” of conversations between President Trump and former FBI Director James Comey by no later than June 23. Rest assured, there will be no recordings handed over because none […]
A number of Republicans, especially those aligned with the religious right, held their noses and voted for Donald Trump, despite his many outrages, for only one reason–a chance to maintain the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. The Republicans in the Senate even went as far as to throw a year-long tantrum to keep President […]
