News That Defies The Status Quo!

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) became the first 2020 presidential candidate to call for the initiation of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump on Friday, calling it the “constitutional duty” of Congress following the findings of the Robert Mueller report. Warren sent out a series of tweets Friday afternoon saying the partially redacted Mueller report […]

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.) on Friday night said President Donald Trump “deserves to be impeached” in response to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) call for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings. Maloney appeared on MSNBC’s All In to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which was released on Thursday morning. Joy Reid, who […]

Reach hither thy hand, the risen Christ tells Doubting Thomas, and thrust it into my side. For an artist—for any believing Christian—a central fact about Easter, the element with the sharpest edge, is that Jesus has returned in the body. Something earthy is present across the gospel narratives, from the story of actual birth in […]

The Center for Union Facts has launched a new website, www.PublicUnionFacts.com, to track more than $1.5 billion in public sector union political spending over the past two decades. It found that these unions give 90 percent of political funding to Democrats. Democrats in California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Oregon alone received more money from […]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide how the state’s overtime laws should be interpreted after hearing oral arguments in a case challenging a formula for calculating overtime. Salaried employees with General Nutrition Centers (GNC) said in a 2013 lawsuit filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas that the company operated under a fluctuating […]

Sisterhood. That’s the word I kept hearing repeated as women gathered in Texas hill country last week for A Girl & A Gun‘s sold out national conference. And, after spending a few days among the ladies, it wasn’t hard to see why. About an hour away from the BBQ pits of Austin, among the Bluebonnet-covered […]

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) said on Thursday night that a conversation is definitely to be had on impeaching President Donald Trump. “I want to read you something Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House, a Democrat on the other side of the Capitol had to say. He said this today, ‘based […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit is set to hear a case Friday in which a citizen activist who habitually walks the halls of the state capitol in Missouri to talk to elected lawmakers about political issues was later declared by a state ethics commission to be a lobbyist. Heightening the drama is the fact […]

Hollywood is filled with remakes and reboots. Washington is about to get one of its own. The re-launched property: the 2016 campaign. You know the plot. An outsider with grassroots support leads a crusade against the party establishment and the legitimating institutions that bestow credibility upon a candidate. He’s old, white, been around for a […]

Ohio lawmakers want to reduce the number of regulations in the Buckeye State, saying it will make the state more business friendly and help improve the economy. House Bill 115 and Senate Bill 1 would require state agencies to reduce their rules and regulations by 30 percent by 2022. Any agency that cannot pare down […]

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway cast doubt on a tidbit from the Mueller report where President Donald Trump reportedly said “I’m fucked,” and declared it the end of his presidency when he learned the Special Counsel was appointed. On page 78 of Volume II of the Mueller report, Trump allegedly said this when then-Attorney General […]

In an appearance that President Donald Trump teased on Twitter Saturday night, Rudy Giuliani called out the “all these media people who hate” Trump for trying to make Attorney General William Barr look bad. “Attorney General Barr is not legally required to even release the full Mueller report. The report is written to be given […]

President Donald Trump plugged the Fox News Saturday line-up over the holiday weekend, touting the evening programming as a “good night of television.” The president started by telling folks to tune into Mark Levin‘s show, which featured an hour-long conversation with Byron York vigorously defending Trump and making it abundantly clear collusion did not take […]

In a very plain-spoken opening monologue, CNN’s S.E. Cupp railed against President Donald Trump‘s fitness for leadership. She made it clear, though, that despite Trump showing “disdain for the democratic process,” impeachment is not the way to go. “Let’s be honest, there’s plenty in that report that should worry American voters,” she said on Saturday, […]

President Donald Trump, it seems, could not help but share the front page of the New York Post declaring him “clean” and the “Dem hoax destroyed” in wake of the Mueller report release. pic.twitter.com/bCvpOGCD4t — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2019 The tweet came just moments after White House Director of Social Media Dan Scavino, […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom sat down with CNN’s Van Jones recently to talk about leading what he called the “most un-Trump state in America.” In a preview of the interview played on CNN Saturday afternoon, Jones asked Newsom, “Are you the anti-Trump? I mean, are you consciously trying to create a contrast, kind of set yourself […]

Mark Hemingway in the New York Post reported The New York Times is not in touch with Catholic lingo — which became very obvious in a story on the Notre Dame fire. They reported a chaplain for the Paris Fire Department rushed to save a “statue of Jesus,” but there was no statue. The priest […]

With all the big Mueller report news, you may have missed the most ambitious crossover event in history this week. For its 50th anniversary, Sesame Street put together some shorts on the important of respect and how it brings people together. To help illustrate this, they sent Elmo to Game of Thrones and Cookie Monster […]