The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.
Yet another example of why Trump and his views on Trade and the economy are contradictory and even incoherent. Not only should Trump be building his Great Trump Wall™ in Mexico he should be furiously working against any and all foreign investment in the U.S.
The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.
Steve Bannon is in. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Director of National Intelligence are out. Sort of.
As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.
President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.
The first full day of Donald Trump’s Presidency consisted largely of obsessions with irrelevant facts and outright lies.
While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.
A majority of the Supreme Court appears to be skeptical of a Federal law barring trademark protection for “offensive” names and slogans.
A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.
A long-standing staple of American culture will soon be no more.
With repeal of the Affordable Care Act now likely sooner rather than later, key Republicans are urging the party to have a replacement in place before repeal is voted on.
Once again, Donald Trump has played his supporters for suckers.
What is the deal with the love-fest for Julian Assange?
The new leader of the Senate’s Democrats says he regrets supporting the filibuster reforms his party passed in 2013.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.
Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.
Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.
The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.
Trump will maintain some level of private security once in office.
Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.
A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.
Good thing the world is a static, simple place…
New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.
As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.
Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.
I’m in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Duke’s Peter Feaver.
To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.
Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.
Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.
Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.
