Month: January 2017

Kansas Congressman’s son ‘dabs’ during swearing-in photo op

A new Kansas Congressman is dishing out discipline after his 17-year-old son pulled a dance move resembling a sneeze during a photo shoot with House Speaker Paul Ryan after the U.S. House of Representatives swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol. During the photo shoot Tuesday, Cal Marshall held the Bible with his father and Ryan.

Civil Rights at Risk Under Jeff Sessions

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, cheers on the crowd during a Trump rally in Mobile, Alabama, in December. Confirmation hearings for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald Trump to be attorney general of the United States, will begin on Jan. 10, before Trump is even inaugurated.

Gaslighting and the Left’s War on Reality

Donald Trump’s victory over one of the most powerful political machines in American history has given mainstream America the opportunity to turn America onto a sensible course. The success or failure of that turnaround, however, depends largely on the ability of mainstream Americans to see through the left’s longstanding use of a vile political tactic known as gaslighting.

Trump names Wall Street lawyer Clayton as SEC chairman

” President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday chose a Wall Street attorney with experience in corporate mergers and public stock launches as his nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump announced his nomination of Jay Clayton, a partner in the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, as chairman of the independent agency that oversees Wall Street and the financial markets.

The Most Vulnerable NASA Missions Under Trump

About a week before the presidential election, NASA invited reporters to its facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, to look at the observatory it hopes to launch in two years, to a point far beyond Hubble’s orbit, where it will continue that telescope’s search for distant stars and galaxies. Charlie Bolden, the head of the space agency, took questions, including one from a reporter for The Guardian , who asked Bolden whether the program was safe, regardless of the election’s outcome.

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United States President-elect Donald Trump has mocked an upcoming intelligence briefing on alleged Russian hacking in the U.S. presidential election, implying the U.S. authorities will fabricate the contents of the briefing. Trump tweeted that he was originally scheduled to receive the briefing on Tuesday, Jan. 3, but the meeting was delayed until Friday because “perhaps more time [was] needed to build a case.”

U.S. House makes it easier to repeal Obamacare, harder for lawmakers to protest

WASHINGTON — House Republicans, after dropping plans to eliminate an independent ethics office, approved new rules that would fine lawmakers if they broadcast from the floor, as Democrats did last year to demand new gun safety legislation. The rules package, which passed with no Democratic support, 234-193, also will make it easier for the House GOP to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which provides health insurance for more than 20 million Americans, without offering any way to replace their coverage.

Obama, Pence To Visit Capitol Hill for Healthcare Talks

President Barack Obama is traveling to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss the best way to send Obama’s cherished law to its graveyard and replace it with – well, something.

The 15 Warnings Signs of Impending Tyranny

2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections. 5. Hold few if any press conferences , preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements .

.com | California gets ready to protect foreigners from Trump

California, home to many foreigners without residence papers, is girding to fight any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to expel them. Trump, who takes office on January 20, has vowed to deport from the country as many as three million immigrants with criminal records and build a wall along the border with Mexico.

DHS chief: Don’t use ‘Dreamer’ info to deport them

Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson is warning lawmakers that personal information collected by his agency for applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or so-called Dreamers, should not be used in the future to deport them. Johnson’s veiled warning to incoming President Donald Trump and his administration could be useful in upcoming court cases if Trump revokes an executive order signed by President Barack Obama.

Chuck Schumer: Trump opposition leader

Chuck Schumer arrived for his first day as Senate Democratic leader to a large, new Capitol suite still strewn with unpacked boxes. “It’s a little fancier than I’m used to, but it goes with the territory,” Schumer told us, as he sat down for his maiden television interview as the Senate’s top Democrat.

U.S. Banks Gear Up to Fight Dodd-Frank Act’s Volcker Rule

Big U.S. banks are set on getting Congress this year to loosen or eliminate the Volcker rule against using depositors’ funds for speculative bets on the bank’s own account, a test case of whether Wall Street can flex its muscle in Washington again. In interviews over the past several weeks, half a dozen industry lobbyists said they began meeting with legislative staff after the U.S. election in November to discuss matters including a rollback of Volcker, part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform that Congress enacted after the financial crisis and bank bailouts.

Our failed Israel policy

Try as he might this late in the game, President Barack Obama’s Israel policy should go down in history as a failure. In keeping with a broader pattern, the White House has expected Israel to accept its judgments on the largest matters, such as Iran, and then has become frustrated when Israel reacts poorly to its judgments on smaller ones, such as the status of settlements.

4 dead following plane crash in rugged Arizona mountains

Searchers in Arizona found the bodies of four members of a family Tuesday in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed on a flight from Scottsdale to Telluride, Colorado, officials said. Debris from the single-engine Cessna 210 was spotted north of Payson on the rugged Mogollon Rim, Gila County Sheriff Adam Shepherd said.

Trump, with 2 tweets, helps push GOP reversal on ethics

Members of the House of Representatives, some joined by family, gather in the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, as the 115th Congress gets under way. Members of the House of Representatives, some joined by family, gather in the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, as the 115th Congress gets under way.

GOP Senator outlines Obamacare provisions on chopping block

With Republicans looking to make immediate progress on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act this month — and Democrats rallying on Capitol Hill Wednesday to try to preserve it — Sen. Bill Cassidy said American voters who favor repeal of the law have particular provisions in mind, and aren’t necessarily talking about the whole law. “Really we have to, if you will, differentiate between Obamacare — the penalties, the mandates, you gotta do this or the federal government is coming after you — and the other things that were in the bill that were put in there because it was a vehicle,” Cassidy said during the debut of CBSN’s new daily political show “Red and Blue.”

Commentary: Trump should target defense waste

Donald Trump has an opportunity to chart a new course for Republicans on defense spending — a course that would combine GOP hawkishness with a budget-cutter’s approach to Pentagon waste. Although falling as a percentage of the federal budget, defense is still the federal government’s largest single non-entitlement spending item — about 16 percent of the budget in 2016.

Commentary: So long to dump things politicians said

And while it’s unnerving having an unpredictable motormouth running the show, as we plunge into 2017, we should at least rejoice in having a chance to mothball a lot of ridiculous statements made over the past 12 months by politicians who should have known better. Let’s never hear again the phrase “basket of deplorables,” which Hillary Clinton unfortunately used to describe Donald Trump supporters.

Big banks are gearing up to fight the Volcker rule

Big U.S. banks are set on getting Congress this year to loosen or eliminate the Volcker rule against using depositors’ funds for speculative bets on the bank’s own account, a test case of whether Wall Street can flex its muscle in Washington again. In interviews over the past several weeks, half a dozen industry lobbyists said they began meeting with legislative staff after the U.S. election in November to discuss matters including a rollback of Volcker, part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform that Congress enacted after the financial crisis and bank bailouts.

Shankland Talks Plans for Finance Committee

Rep. Katrina Shankland is Central Wisconsin’s voice on the Joint Committee on Finance in the state legislature this session, and she’s not planning on taking the role lightly. Shankland says her first day back in session was full of discussions of common ground, despite being a member of the minority party in both houses.

Trump nixes pet projects

It’s been a tough year for political elites, here and around the world, what with the passage of Brexit in June in Britain, the repudiation of Colombia’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the October FARC referendum and the defeat of America’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient’s preferred candidate in the November presidential election. Not all the consequences are clear.

Police, feds looking for burglars who robbed Ohio gun store

Local police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are searching for a team of burglars who broke into a northeast Ohio gun shop last month and stole seven rifles. The ATF says the theft occurred around 4:15 a.m. on Dec. 27 at Accurate Arms and Ammunition gun store in North Royalton.

French corruption trial of African leader’s son postponed

Amid reports that Charles Manson has been taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, a state corrections official would confirm only that the 82-year-old killer and cult leader was still alive. Amid reports that Charles Manson has been taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, a state corrections official would confirm only that the 82-year-old killer and cult leader was still alive.

‘Pressing concern’ to manage water in Middle East troublespot

There is a “pressing concern” to manage Euphrates River water, a key resource for a “politically volatile” area of the Middle East, US officials said, in a face of another sub-par rice crop in Iraq. Iraq, which until the mid-1970s relied on home-grown rice to cover most domestic demand, has seen buy-ins soar, becoming one of the top 10 biggest importers.