Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday fretted about Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte’s appointment as the acting director of national intelligence, describing him as “grossly unqualified.” Senate Democrats have slammed Pulte for using his role as FHFA director to help President Trump use mortgage records to go after his political opponents. “You’re… […]
California ballot counting will continue until the key republicans in each race are pushed into 3rd place. That’s when ballot counting will conclude. At a certain point, the pretending gets ridiculous. This X message from the First Asst U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of California is a case study in pretending not to know […]
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Several people have asked for opinion. I’m being polite and kind. While the core of the storyline is accurate, the White House is not that strategic, insightful or competent to organize what is promoted in this video as a coordinated design, operation or plan. There is no plan. There are individual people within the administration […]
Authored by Satyajit Das via NewIndiaExpress,Reliable availability of cheap energy is, as the Iran war highlights, essential to modern economies and societies, at least for the foreseeable future. Shocks divide the world into the oil haves and oil have-nots.Alongside higher energy prices, shortages of petrochemical derived chemicals will affect agriculture, mining, plastics, textiles, semi-conductors and […]
President Trump has newly estimated that Iran has 21%-22% of its missiles remaining. Trump said in an interview with NBC: “They have some missiles and drones, percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That’s a lot, but it’s not what it was before the war.”He and top White House officials had previously mused that the Iranians […]
Friday on HBO’s “Real Time,” former Vice President Mike Pence said anyone who assaulted police officers or vandalized government “should never get a dime.” Host Bill Maher asked, “OK, so, I mean, it seems like we could, so many of these things we could come to some agreement with the middle, like January 6, like, Trump, […]
In 2015, even before President Trump came down the golden escalator, CTH was outlining a ‘new era and dimension’ in American economics that could be possible if a presidential candidate focused on specific Main Street policy. {Go Deep} Throughout the next four years we watched carefully how Donald Trump was organizing that Main Street revival […]
Richard Gere went to Germany to attack the United States’ crackdown on illegal immigration. “Did you ever imagine that someone as crazy as this would become President of the United States?” the actor asked an audience of foreigners on Thursday. “I think the term I was actually given today — apparently the U.S. government is calling […]
A federal Obama judge, John J. McConnell of Rhode Island, struck down several of the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict asylum claims and other immigration benefits. He claimed the measures exceeded agency authority and were motivated by “anti-immigrant sentiments.” This is the judge who ordered the administration to pay SNAP benefits from emergency funds after […]
