As the Trump Russia saga continues to unfold at lightning speed, it is becoming fairly obvious to anyone with an IQ over 70 and access to a tv or newspaper that the entire GOP is complicit and owned by the Russians. There is no other explanation for their beyond craven partisan actions of wasting millions of dollars investigating Hillary Clinton for Benghazi but putting on blinders, ear plugs and taking copious amounts of xanax to numb themselves from the reality of Russia's takeover of our democracy No one knows how many of the GOP are owned by Russia, but it is quite possible that many of them have been taking money for their PAC's for years.

I must dissent from Brother Loomis on several points . For those of you who don't know me, I'm a political scientist who studies military organizations, which often places me in the company with professional military historians.

From left: David Axelrod, Anderson Cooper and David Gergen discussing "the scandal of the Donald Trump Jr. meeting" on CNN on Friday. "So, my boss, I shouldn't say this.

Sean Hannity is in a snit that Republicans are not as enthusiastic about unpopular, life-threatening Trumpcare as he is. But he's pretending to speak out on behalf of "you, the American people."

Jane Kay, of the Center for Investigative Reporting, reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly cancelled funding for a number of ongoing scientific studies and programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy. The Trump administration has quietly axed $213.6 million in teen pregnancy prevention programs and research at more than 80 institutions around the country, including Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University.

Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a speech on the Senate floor regarding Republicans' health care plan, June 20, 2017. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt looked out into America during the Great Depression, he saw a third of our nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is the director of the Intelligence and Defense Project at Harvard's Belfer Center. He served for three years as director of intelligence and counterintelligence at the Department of Energy and for 23 years as a CIA intelligence officer in domestic and international posts.

The Trump administration's so-called Election Integrity Commission has gotten an overwhelmingly negative response - from states as well as individual voters. As the White House releases 112 pages of colorful comments-and personal information-after it asked for the public to weigh in on its so-called Election Integrity Commission and received an overwhelmingly negative response, a new lawsuit aims to protect voters' privacy rights by stopping the controversial commission's sweeping data demand.

Former Rep. Nan Hayworth did a little verbal dance after Witt talked about the drip, drip, drip on the Russia story. She did her best to push the current GOP narrative that the Democrats were working with Ukraine.

Speaking on a flight from Washington to Paris, Mr Trump told reporters on board Air Force One that it was vital border agents could see through the wall to be aware of oncoming dangers. "One of the things with the wall is you need transparency.

It had to be an incredibly exciting day for her. Of course, "Take your daughter to work" days are always exciting for the children.

A court decision on President Donald Trump's travel ban has reopened a window for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the United States, and the government is looking to quickly close it. The administration late Friday appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal judge in Hawaii ordered it to allow in refugees formally working with a resettlement agency in the United States.

An Indiana senator and longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries announced Friday that he's selling his stock in his family's arts and crafts company after The Associated Press reported it manufactures some products in Mexico. Democrat Joe Donnelly said he hasn't had an active role in the company for 20 years but was taking the action to avoid allowing the issue to become "a distraction from our work to end outsourcing and keep American jobs here instead of shipping them to other countries."

As Howard Mielke makes his way down the streets of his tree-lined New Orleans neighborhood toward the Bayou St. John, his walk is careful and deliberate. The canal's waters are calm and glassy, reflecting the wisps of clouds above, and revealing none of the dangers below where alligators sometimes lurk.

Jeff Sessions is real worried about drugs. The damn government is crashing down around him and Nero Sessions is real worried about pot.

The raspberry road that led to Abu Ghraib was paved with bland assumptions that people who had repeatedly proved their untrustworthiness, could be trusted. There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of "argumentum ad hominem".

Because of less expensive and more efficient technology, about one quarter of all Australian households now have solar panels. This process is uneven, with a rush to put them up recently because of a fall in the price of the panels.

The big changes in the new Senate bill - including dropping a tax cut for the rich and rolling back insurance regulation - were meant to influence blocs of senators and to address policy concerns. But there were also many more small changes, apparently calibrated to woo particular lawmakers.

As recently as last year, Rinat Akhmetshin could be seen regularly pedaling through downtown Washington, D.C., nattily dressed, with a pocket square and heavy-framed thick glasses, riding a retro hipster orange bicycle. He also showed an affinity for vintage motorcycles, which he parked for two years in the Washington driveway of renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

The four Arab countries currently boycotting Qatar are set to drop their demand that the Al Jazeera Media Network be shut down, a United Arab Emirates minister said. The closure of the Qatar-based broadcaster and its affiliates was one of 13 demands issued by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt as the price for lifting a political and economic blockade against Qatar, which began on June 5. Noura al-Kaabi, the UAE minister for the federal national council, said in an interview published by The Times newspaper on Wednesday that the UAE sought "fundamental change and restructuring" of Al Jazeera rather than shutting it down.