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Syrian anti-aircraft batteries scored a rare shoot-down of an Israeli F-16 late Saturday morning local time. It is being alleged by a whole range of that this shoot-down could not have happened without Russian help.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events The government was officially shutdown for a few hours overnight, as Congress struggled to pass a massive spending bill. Now Congress has killed a part of Obamacare that never even got to live except in the realm of political theater.
Christmas may seem like a distant memory but the environmental effect of the annual consumer frenzy, over-indulgence and extravagance is lasting damage. And year on year the cost to the planet grows.
Even with Nancy Pelosi's epic 8-hour Speech on Stilettos yesterday, it seemed as though we would get a vote out of the way in the Senate and the House would be a close, but done deal. Except now Rand Paul is on the Senate floor yammering about liberty and blocking the Senate vote.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer leaves a closed-door meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 6 as they work on a plan to keep the government open for six more weeks. Eight months after Democrats began to release their "Better Deal" agenda, they're on the cusp of passing some of it into law - by tucking it into this week's must-pass spending bill.
I'll bet you're a little bit like me. As you draw nearer your last trip around the sun, your coma glows brighter and a tail of brilliant ideas strings out behind you in the firmament-ideas which you have neither the time nor the resources to implement.
This is a good piece by Adam Serwer. And what he's saying about the FBI is true of all of institutions, especially the media: Republicans, insulated from the potential backlash by the very "law and order" voters who put them in office, are willing to attack the FBI publicly as a covert political tool of Democrats in a way that the opposition party simply is not.
President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. But one area where his administration's radical, deregulatory agenda has been successful is in dismantling environmental protections.
The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Sunday blasted a Republican memo alleging abuses of power by the FBI and the Justice Department. John Brennan accused Rep. Devin Nunes , the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of selectively releasing information to accuse law enforcement officials of improperly obtaining a warrant to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser.
To follow up on Paul's post below, since political science models have played a role in advancing the strongest versions of legal realism, it's worth explaining what a more realistic version of legal realism looks like. One way I like to explain it is borrowed from Michael Klarman's superb book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights .
Almost a month before Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chose to publicly release what was a classified and partisan memo written by intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes alleging Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the FBI and Department of Justice , Fox host Sean Hannity appeared to have advanced knowledge of some of the claims laid out in the Nunes memo. Almost a month prior to the memo's public release, Hannity was hyping "shocking information a that will show systemic FISA abuse" and bragged that the media will "be forced to cover this story."
Days later a social media post from State Senate Candidate Mike Saari from Commerce Township has sparked an ugly exchange on Facebook. The post reads, "Judge was wrong for her personal vocal opinions on record that should be a crime against jurisprudence itself.
One of the things of which Donald Trump reassured his supporters during his campaign rallies was that he--by virtue of being high profile and rich--knew all the best people, so that he could get things done that weren't being addressed by all those Washington insiders. Even without Michael Wolff's book, it's been increasingly apparent that Donald Trump was more heavily influenced by what he was watching on Fox News than actual intelligence coming in from the multitudes of intelligence agencies available to the president.
Bruce Levell, an adviser to Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, told MSNBC on Sunday that President Barack Obama should not get credit for jobs created during his administration because Trump is the real "Yes We Can" president. During an interview with Levell, MSNBC host Alex Witt noted that Trump has recently taken credit for record-low black unemployment, a trend which started under Obama.
Conservative CNN contributor Rick Santorum got shot down on a CNN panel on Sunday after he asserted that there was a conspiracy between President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the FBI to take down Donald Trump. During an panel discussion on CNN's State of the Union , host Jake Tapper asked Santorum if he agreed with Donald Trump Jr. that the controversial GOP memo smearing the FBI's Russia was "sweet revenge" for Trump supporters.
I don't know about you, but I spent much of the month of December 2016 in a near constant panic attack. Because after reeling from an election that didn't go at all the way the polls predicted, it became patently obvious how tenuous and how optimistic our Founding Fathers were when they tasked " checks and balances " of the Executive Branch to Congress.
Jacob Ambinder had a great piece on the failing politics of transit last week, well worth a read if you're interested in that sort of thing. I particularly appreciate the way he gives a much smarter and more sophisticated response to Brian Rosenthal's important reporting on the wildly inflated cost of the second avenue subway.
President Donald Trump has been talking to his friends about possibly asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to prosecute Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Russia probe, and his team, NBC News reported. The revelation appears in a news analysis piece written by Howard Fineman, an NBCNews.com contributor and an analyst for MSNBC.