The Supreme Court’s striking 6-3 ruling in Donald Trump’s immunity case on Monday means that it will be that much more difficult to use the criminal courts to hold a former president accountable, giving the president more power to act with impunity. The same justices who ruled to jail people who are homeless and sleeping […]
Representative Lauren Boebert wants to bring morality back. Ironic, no? The Colorado Republican went off on a tangent Thursday evening while cheerleading Louisiana’s wild new law mandating that the Ten Commandments be hung in every public school classroom, from kindergarten to state university, on prison-bound Steve Bannon’s podcast. The Louisiana legislation is a blatant violation […]
Take that mask off, I wanna see what’s under them achievements Why believe you? You never gave us nothing to believe in ’Cause you lied about religious views, you lied about your surgery You lied about your accent and your past tense — all is perjury. Shoutout to Kendrick Lamar for giving us all some […]
You and Leader Scalise talked about the importance of Merrick Garland complying with a congressional subpoena. I’m curious, since Chairman Jordan and four other colleagues declined to do that under the January 6th Committee, if you worry that undermines the argument at all? Oh, I’m so glad you brought up the January 6th Committee. We’ll […]
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday rejected claims of hypocrisy with House Republicans pushing a contempt of Congress charge against Attorney General Merrick Garland when Rep. Jim Jordan and other Republicans refused to comply with January 6th committee subpoenas. “You talk about apples to oranges, there couldn’t be a more clear contrast between that and what […]
Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt doesn’t seem to have a sense of irony when it comes to calling Republicans the party of “law and order” in defense of their presumptive nominee, who as of last week is an actual felon. During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Representative Adam Schiff discussed […]
The Supreme Court is facing an enormous ethical crisis, MSNBC host and former Joe Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on her show Sunday. After citing recent reports that Justice Samuel Alito kept an upside-down American flag outside his home following the 2020 election — a symbol commonly used at the time to […]
[Source] Malaysia’s plan to gift orangutans to buyers of its palm oil — an industry that destroys the great apes’ habitats — is drawing criticism from conservationists. Key points: Malaysia is considering gifting orangutans to foreign countries that buy its palm oil, a strategy dubbed as “orangutan diplomacy.” The plan mirrors China’s world-famous “panda diplomacy,” […]
The BBC seems eager to reassure us that the students taking over campuses to protest against Israel are gentle, peace-loving pillars of the community – rather than, as some members of the public might have supposed, a pack of brainwashed, Jew-hating apologists for terrorism. To this end, on Sunday the BBC News website ran an […]
Political brainwashing makes hypocrites of even the most well-meaning people. This political season is no exception. Among the major areas of hypocrisy are three that affect a disproportionate number of Americans. Especially vulnerable are the people who claim they are religious adherents and support family values. They are not only evangelicals who, one would assume, […]
Former Countdown star Carol Vorderman is set to publish a political diary exploring how she “exposed the incompetence and lies” of the Conservative UK government. Out Of Order: What’s Gone Wrong With Britain And One Woman’s Mission To Fix It will be published on September 12th and will be supported by her Carol Vorderman Live! […]
Some politicians have hit out at planned US arms supplies to Israel. Bernie Sanders said the US could not “beg” Israel to stop bombing civilians and then continue to supply arms. The Biden Administration has authorized a new package worth billions in fighter jets and bombs for Israel. A new US arms package for Israel […]