This was the day that President Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on American troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind. With three American …
Read More »Biden Takes Over Championship Sunday With Reproductive Rights Ads
How popular are reproductive rights in the United States? So popular that the Biden campaign is running ads about them on NFL Championship Sunday. Here is how much the Biden campaign is spending on the ad: The Joe Biden campaign is running this 60-second …
Read More »Turnout Shows Little Enthusiasm For Trump In Nevada
Another red flag for Republicans is that on the first day of early voting in the Nevada primary, more Democrats voted than Republicans. Jon Ralston tweeted: Lots more mail ballots have been returned and accepted: 84,000 49K, Dems; 35K, Repubs About 8 percent of …
Read More »Charles Fried, Legal Scholar Who Broke With Conservatives, Dies at 88
Charles Fried, a conservative legal scholar who as President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general argued against abortion rights and affirmative action before the Supreme Court — but who later rejected the conservative legal movement’s rightward march, calling the current high court “reactionary” — died on Tuesday at his home in Cambridge, …
Read More »In Las Vegas, Trump turns his focus back to Biden.
Former President Donald J. Trump, who has been itching for months to focus on a likely matchup between him and President Biden in November, previewed on Saturday a likely general-election message, extensively attacking Mr. Biden at an event in Nevada, a critical battleground state. Further proof of Nevada’s importance could …
Read More »Kari Lake Gets Booed At Arizona Republican Convention
Failed gubernatorial candidate/Senate candidate Kari Lake was booed at the Arizona Republican convention when she claimed Arizona elections are corrupt. Lake said, “We don’t agree on everything. But one thing we can agree on is the elections in Arizona are a corrupt mess. Can …
Read More »Democrats Plan To Cover House Republicans In Trump Stink
Democrats have a plan for taking back the House, and it involves covering the do-nothing House majority in the stink and failure of Donald Trump. Politico reported: The party plans to spend millions of dollars tying vulnerable Republicans in key House races to Trump and his MAGA base, anticipating the …
Read More »Biden Must Campaign Against a Man Who Already Thinks He’s President
He promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He demanded states deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border. He warned congressional Republicans to hold out for a perfect deal on immigration — or else. Former President Donald J. Trump has not even clinched the Republican presidential nomination, but he …
Read More »Things Are So Bad That Even Sean Hannity Doesn't Defend Trump After E. Jean Carroll Verdict
The E. Jean Carroll verdict was so bad for Trump that Sean Hannity pretended like it didn’t exist and didn’t defend the former president on his Fox News show. Instead of talking about E. Jean Carroll, Sean Hannity featured Rick Perry, who talked about the border and how Democrats are …
Read More »Bali Bombing Conspirators Get 5 More Years at Guantánamo Bay
A military jury at Guantánamo Bay sentenced two prisoners to 23 years in confinement on Friday for conspiring in the 2002 terrorist bombing that killed 202 people in Bali, Indonesia. But the men could be freed by 2029 under a secret deal and with sentencing credit. Mohammed Farik Bin Amin …
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