Trump Supporters Really Don’t Care About the Russian Indictments. Do You?

Do You?" > >" addthis:title="Trump Supporters Really Don't Care About the Russian Indictments. Do You?" > The hardcore followers of Donald Trump-the ones who consume nothing but right-wing media, including social media-really do think the indictments of twelve Russian operatives for meddling in the 2016 presidential election is just so much fake news, just another effort by the "deep state" to discredit the 45th President.

Trump criticized for not leading effort to secure elections

As alarms blare about Russian interference in U.S. elections, the Trump administration is facing criticism that it has no clear national strategy to protect the country during the upcoming midterms and beyond. Both Republicans and Democrats have criticized the administration's response as fragmented, without enough coordination across federal agencies.

As Supreme Court battle roils DC, suburban voters shrug

It stands to shift the direction of the nation's highest court for decades, but President Donald Trump's move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has barely cracked the consciousness of some voters in the nation's top political battlegrounds. Even among this year's most prized voting bloc - educated suburban women - there's no evidence that a groundswell of opposition to a conservative transformation of the judicial branch, which could lead to the erosion or reversal of Roe v.

Black students canvassing for Congressional candidate get police called on them

A pair of black college students who were canvassing for a Congressional candidate had the police called on them in a video circulating on Facebook. Eli Sabur and another student, identified only as Debo, were campaigning for David Kim in Snellville, GA, when someone in the neighborhood called the cops.

U.S. lifts ban on suppliers selling to China’s ZTE

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday lifted a ban on U.S. companies selling goods to ZTE Corp., allowing China's second-largest telecommunications equipment-maker to resume business. The Commerce Department removed the ban shortly after ZTE deposited $400 million in a U.S. bank escrow account as part of a settlement reached last month.

Hillary: Forget the 1950s. This Kavanaugh character’s taking us back to the 1850s.

A fine entry here for the SCOTUS chapter of "Sh*t Liberals Say" and a fine note on which to end the week via the Daily Caller , as it's a preview of the hysteria to come and just a taste of the hysteria that'll greet a true culture-warrior nominee like Barrett down the road. It's also a reminder of why the left distrusts Hillary.

Pence family’s failed gas stations cost taxpayers $21M

GARDEN CITY, Ind. - Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build an empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the "front row of the American dream."

Ex-GOP Rep. David Jolly pounds GOP for ‘humiliating’…

Former Rep. Dave Jolly didn't have much nice to say about the daylong hearing the GOP held on Thursday where they bullied and attacked FBI agent Peter Strzok in a nationally televised spectacle. Appearing on MSNBC on Friday afternoon with host Katy Tur, the former lawmaker took his party to the woodshed, saying his former colleagues turned the hearing into a "humiliating day to be a Republican."

NAR joins fight to extend the National Flood Insurance Program

The National Association of Realtors today announced that they've joined 21 of the nation's largest trade associations in a campaign urging Congress to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program before a July 31 deadline. The NFIP, which is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, provides homeowners, business owners, and renters with affordable flood insurance since 1968.

Russia Investigation: McCain calls on Trump to confront Putin

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona says President Donald Trump must be willing to confront Russia's Vladimir Putin during their summit Monday in Helsinki. McCain's statement comes after the Justice Department announced charges Friday against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking into Democratic accounts during the 2016 presidential election.

Former HHS secretary Tom Price’s air travel wasted $341,000 in government funds, watchdog says

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price repeatedly failed to follow federal requirements during his travels, wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funds, according to the internal watchdog of the department he once led. The inspector general's report, released Friday morning, comes 10 months after Price, an orthopedic surgeon and former congressman from Georgia, resigned under pressure amid criticism for his extensive use of private jets while traveling on government business.

Subpoena Sought Over Allegations EPA Mishandled Records Requests

Environmental Protection Agency manipulated its handling of open records requests so that documents from the Obama years got priority over those involving the agency's embattled former chief, Scott Pruitt, and other Trump administration officials, according to congressional interviews with EPA staffers. The agency also allowed political appointees to review some planned responses to requests lodged under the Freedom of Information Act, according to interview excerpts cited by Representative Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat.

EPA aide: Scrutiny of ‘politically charged’ records requests Source: AP

The Environmental Protection Agency assigns public-records requests from environmental groups or others that it sees as "politically charged" to special internal review, a top agency official told congressional staffers investigating the actions of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former administrator who resigned this month amid mounting ethical allegations. EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson told congressional investigators one such records request, from the Sierra Club, was a "fishing expedition."

Conservative states balk at voter-approved medical marijuana

In this Tuesday, July 10, 2018 photo, Chip Paul, who helped write the medical marijuana state question and push for its passage, answers a question for a reporter before a meeting of the Oklahoma Board of Health in Oklahoma City. When nearly 60 percent of voters in Oklahoma approved medical marijuana last month, pot advocates celebrated a hard-fought victory that was the culmination of a years-long effort to ease restrictions on the use of cannabis.

Conservative states balk at voter-approved medical marijuana Source: AP

Pot advocates celebrated the culmination of a yearslong effort to ease restrictions on the use of cannabis last month when nearly 60 percent of Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana. Oklahoma's proponents had even included a two-month deadline for the implementation in their measure so as to avoid the years of delays they had seen elsewhere.

Peter Strzok fiasco wrecks the GOP’s bogus conspiracy theory

There are times when you watch what's happening in American politics and come to believe you've fallen through the rabbit hole, to a place where everything is upside down. Today was one of those times, as FBI agent Peter Strzok testified in a public hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, the latest chapter in the saga of Republican attempts to prove that any and all investigation into Russia's attempt to manipulate the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's eager cooperation with that effort is a "witch hunt."