Hillary and Bill Houdini
How do they do it? I am not the first to compare the Clintons to Harry Houdini, the great magician and escape artist, but Bill and Hillary make him look like a rank amateur. No law seems to touch them.
Category Archives: Hillary Clinton
Russia Scandal Befalls Two Brothers:John and Tony Podesta
One is a rail-thin liberal idealist who spent his career in government, on campaigns and at think tanks. The other is an overweight pragmatist who made a fortune lobbying for all manner of liberal boogeymen.
Papadopoulos represented Trump campaign at meetings
He's been dismissed as a "low-level volunteer" and just a "coffee boy," but former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos represented the Trump campaign at various meetings with foreign officials up until Inauguration Day. In October, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI "about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials," according to court filings.
Senate tax plan sprinkles SALT in Illinois taxpayers’ wounds
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speak to reporters as work gets underway on the Senate's version of the GOP tax reform bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 9, 2017 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speak to reporters as work gets underway on the Senate's version of the GOP tax reform bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 9, 2017 The tax-overhaul plan introduced Thursday by U.S. Senate Republicans threatens to hit middle- and upper-middle-income Illinois residents particularly hard.
Steve Bannon Claims N.H. Voter Fraud and Pitches Party Unity
Former White House chief strategist and head of Breitbart News Steve Bannon spoke to New Hampshire Republicans last night at an event in Manchester. As people arrived at the Executive Court Banquet Facility in Manchester to hear Bannon speak, many of them were greeted by "boos" from across the street.
OP-ED | Are All Politics National, Now?
It happens every municipal election cycle. Everyone drags out the mystic runes and Ouija boards to try and divine what it all means for the next state and federal elections.
Cynicism deserved for both parties
Turmoil has been the order of the day among leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Californians strongly oppose Trump – and 53% say state’s…
A year after his election, President Trump remains wildly unpopular in California, and the state's voters are split over whether members of Congress should work with him when possible, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll has found. The percentage of voters seeking cooperation overall - 47% - dropped somewhat when it came to Trump's immigration policies, which the state's Democratic officeholders have fought with legislation and lawsuits.
Libertarians Have Almost Nothing In Common With the Alt-Right
At Smith College, academic Loretta Ross recently gave a talk on, "Connections Between Far Right, Religious Right, Economic Conservatives, Libertarians, and Traditional Bigotry." Ross is just the latest example of writers and academics who mistakenly conflate libertarianism and the alt-right.
Hillary Clinton and the DNC: The Fish Rots From the Head
Citizens have been swamped by the tidal wave of corruption associated with or emanating from the Trump campaign and presidency, but late last week brought affirmation of a long-held belief that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee rigged the primary campaign against populist Bernie Sanders. The revelations emanated from none other than Donna Brazile, the woman who sat in as the DNC's chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was deposed for exactly the corruption Brazile now exposes.
How Russian Twitter trolls worked to deflect bad news around Trump’s campaign
Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts. Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts.
Fox’s Smith avoids story covered heavily by colleagues
While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely. Fresh evidence that Smith is an island unto himself at the news network came in research released Thursday by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Hillary Clinton praises Democrat victories during book tour updated
Hillary Clinton says the wave of Democratic victories in Tuesday's elections showed that "hope beat hate" and that the country is "one step closer to an America that is fairer." Clinton made the remarks Thursday night in Milwaukee's Riverside Theater where she promoted her new book, entitled "What Happened."
Guess Who Fusion GPS was REALLY Working for
A new report from Reuters gives an eye-opening account of how Fusion GPS, the firm behind the controversial Trump-Russia dossier, walked the line between both candidates in the 2016 presidential election. According to sources who spoke to Reuters, while the firm was working to gather information tying Trump to the Kremlin, they also had some goodies on the Clintons to offer Trump's campaign.
Russia Twitter trolls deflected Trump bad news
Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year's presidential election while straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of since-deleted accounts. Tweets by Russia-backed accounts such as "America_1st_" and "BatonRougeVoice" on Oct. 7, 2016, actively pivoted away from news of an audio recording in which Trump made crude comments about groping women, and instead touted damaging emails hacked from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.
Donna Brazile wasn’t even allowedto swear in front of Clinton’s people
Donna Brazile wasn't even allowed to swear in front of Clinton's people New York Post, by Maureen Callahan "Hacks," Donna Brazile's memoir of the 2016 election, opens with a seemingly minor conflict: Months after the election, Brazile keeps checking her cellphone, waiting for her old friend Hillary Clinton to call. "On Election Day, the tradition in politics is that candidates personally thank the people who helped most in the campaign," Brazile writes.
Forget Donna Brazile & Hillary: the Single-Payer Army Can Lead the Way
Only a few days ago, the Old Guard, elitist leaders of the Democratic National Committee , began showing their teeth to the thousands of Berniecrats they once signaled might fill cavities in a rotting party . Add thousands more Bernie Sanders diehards in dozens of grassroots movements-Our Revolution to BerniePDX-or the thousands joining party affiliates such as the Working Families Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Is Hillary Just the “Fall Guy” for the Intel Agencies and their Moneybags Bosses?
For nearly a year, Hillary Clinton failed to admit that her campaign and the Democratic National Committee had provided funding for the notorious dossier that alleged Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Then, two weeks ago, the Washington Post published a blockbuster article that proved that Clinton had been misleading the public about her Campaign's role in producing the report.
Trump’s limited appeal a warning sign for Republicans ahead of 2018 elections
Democratic election victories in Virginia and New Jersey showed Republicans losing more ground in suburban areas, where President Donald Trump's unpopularity could cost them dearly in next year's congressional races. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump greets supporters as he departs for Bedminster, New Jersey, from the White House in Washington, U.S., September 29, 2017.
What do Virginia election results portend for Ohio?
WASHINGTON - Democrat Ralph Northam's surprisingly easy victory Tuesday in the Virginia governor's race is a warning to Republicans that President Donald Trump's unpopularity, combined with a deep party split, could cripple their candidates next year. One year after Trump relied on a nationalistic message of cracking down on immigration to win the presidency, Republican Ed Gillespie's emphasis on many of those same issues ricocheted as he was defeated in the Virginia's governor contest by almost 300,000 votes while the GOP lost 15 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates.