Joe Biden hates poor kids so much he says when he’s president charter schools are gone. Cats actor Jason Derulo complains his anaconda bulge didn’t make the final cut. Whoopi Goldberg tells Meghan McCain to shut up about her voice being suppressed on The View. All of this and the X-59 space plane on this episode of Stephen Green’s Lightning Round.
While the Beltway crowd and political geeks get lathered about the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, in the vast swath of the country, nobody cares. What if the Democrats threw an impeachment party and no one came?
The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that Boise, Idaho, violated the 8th Amendment rights of homeless people by levying a small fine for sleeping on the sidewalk. Is keeping public spaces clear of vagrants “cruel and unusual punishment” if no suitable homeless shelters exist?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans a speedy impeachment trial that rapidly acquits President Donald Trump of the two charges brought by the House. But why even have the trial? If the Republican-controlled Senate took a vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment, the country could move on.
There’s bipartisan agreement that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is inefficient, using antiquated and vulnerable computer systems. But after 18 months of trying to eliminate an agency that employs 5,500 bureaucrats, President Trump now says he won’t.
His Democrat presidential rivals have outed Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his private-sector work as a McKinsey consultant, and forced him to explain it away. Will success shaming catapult Democrats to victory in 2020, or are there still enough Democratic voters who don’t work for government to steer the party away from bashing business — the engine that enables government to give away free college, free health care and more?
A new Harvard Harris poll shows Hillary Clinton tops Joe Biden in a theoretical race — a theory which the former FLOTUS is doing everything she can to nudge toward reality.
Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz releases his report essentially clearing former FBI officials James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and others of launching an investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections with Russia for political reasons.
Democrats are in a pickle for 2020, as the Labor Department reports a 6th straight month of record job growth, and a 50-year low in unemployment. How can they compete with this economic juggernaut. Quick, impeach Trump!
The Bloomberg headline says “Trump Administration Moves to End Food Stamps for 750,000”, and that sounds bad during an election year. But as Scott Ott digs deeper into the story, he finds details that don’t make great anti-Trump clickbait.
“If communities don’t give that support and respect, they might find themselves without the police protection they need,” says U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the top law enforcement officer in the federal government. Should this implied threat concern residents of those communities?
Lagging far behind ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, the CBS Evening News moves to “the center of where everything is happening” with new anchor Norah O’Donnell. Will proximity to the action in Washington D.C. save the once-great newscast?
President Trump said he’d “strongly consider” accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to testify in his own defense before Congress and “speak all the truth that he wants.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, breaks shocking news about how President Trump treats a woman who works for him. In her new tell-all book, “With All Due Respect”, Haley gives an insider’s perspective on the administration, and her personal dealings with the man who’s branded as disrespectful to women…and worse.
The North Bristol Trust, a British health care provider, says doctors can withhold care from patients it determines to be racists or sexists, based on their public statements. When you give power of attorney to the government, don’t be surprised if funding for your line item gets redistributed to a better sort of person.