Новости за 07.02.2020

President Donald Trump continued to rant about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday and suggested that her decision to tear up a copy of his speech was a criminal act. According to reporter Steve Herman, Trump said that Pelosi’s shredding of the president’s State of the Union address this week was “very illegal” and […]

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) got hammered online for smearing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — who’s about to be pushed out of the National Security Council in apparent retaliation for his impeachment testimony. Vindman corroborated much of the evidence about President Donald Trump’s call to his Ukrainian counterpart, saying he felt speaking up was his patriotic […]

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled this Friday that individual members of Congress cannot sue President Trump over his private businesses’ ability to receive money from foreign governments, the Washington Post reports. The ruling comes as a dismissal of lawsuit filed by over 200 Democrats in Congress who want to enforce the Constitution’s anti-corruption […]

On Monday night, February 3, Democrats all over the United States were anxious to find out who won the 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucuses. But thanks to a malfunction with a vote-counting app, Iowa Democrats were still counting the votes three days later — and on Friday morning, February 7, it remained unclear whether the winner was former South Bend […]

DSM is a Dutch company with its North American headquarters in Parsippany and manufacturing operations in Belvidere. We have had continuous operations in New Jersey for more than 50 years.“DSM” stands for Dutch State Mines, and the company started over a century ago in coal mining. Since that time we have evolved and adapted to […]

According to a report from CNN’s Vicky Ward, former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has handed Democratic investigators a treasure trove of previously unseen photographs and videos that bear out his contention that he was working closely with Donald Trump’s attorney despite disavowals. The report notes, “Stored in devices seized from Lev Parnas by law […]

The National Weather Servicehas issued a rare February tornado warning in parts of southern New Jersey, as strong thunderstorms have begun to develop, some of which are capable of producing a tornado.A tornado warning is active in parts of Gloucester and Salem counties — along with Delaware County in Pennsylvania and New Castle County in […]

In 2016, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association told the Internal Revenue Service that it no longer wanted to be treated merely as a tax-exempt religious organization, free from the obligation to pay taxes on its income. Instead, the association – a Charlotte, North Carolina-based group that produces evangelical events, celebrates the legacy of Billy Graham […]

A drunk college student was kicked out of a lecture room by his own classmates this week after he went off on a racist and homophobic rant while in class. CBS Los Angeles reports that 21-year-old Chapman University student Dayton Kingery was tossed out of class and subsequently arrested and charged with felony vandalism after […]

Healthcare advocates are calling out Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma for claiming Thursday that the Trump administration “is not cutting Medicaid” even as it moves forward with a block grant plan that critics warn would slash benefits for millions of vulnerable people across the nation. “This is a blatant lie,” Rebecca Vallas, senior fellow at […]

In a report on the changing demographics in multiple states that are causing formerly dependable Republican states to become Democratic Party-leaning — and vice versa — Politico points out that Donald Trump’s racial policies will soon blow up in the face of future Republican national candidates who don’t have his gift for harnessing voter resentment. […]

Democrats, both liberal and centrist, are still seething over what has been called “The Great Democratic Iowa Caucuses Debacle” of February 3, 2020. As of Friday morning, February 7, it was still unclear whether former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was the winner, although Buttigieg appeared to have a slight […]

Is there truth? During the late 20th century, the humanities became enmeshed in esoteric discussions about truth. Deconstructionists argued that all writing was relative to the writer, whose identity and biases created work that might be true for the writer, but not for other people with different identities. This argument came out of a radical critique […]

In an interview published in the Sun this Thursday, a former drone operator-turned whistleblower recounted his 6 years in the US military operating the weapon systems on drones in a base in the Nevada desert — 7,000 miles away from the conflicts the remote-controlled aircraft he operated were engaged in. Brandon Bryant, 34, became disillusioned […]

Following a blustery and threatening Thursday presidential address by Donald Trump to the public, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner cut right to the crux of the matter on Friday morning by posing a question to all Americans asking how much they really would trust the president if their life was on the line. After tweeting that […]

A new report from the Washington Post on Friday revealed that Secret Service agents are paying as much as $650 per night to stay at President Donald Trump’s properties, which directly contradicts claims from the Trump family that staying at his resorts saves taxpayers money. Even though Eric Trump has claimed that the Trump Organization […]

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress is defending President Donald Trump for ignoring a plea from a conservative Christian speaking directly to the president, to “love your enemies” as Jesus preached. Trump refused to observe the request, made to him Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, where instead he attacked and threatened Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sitting […]

The U.S. Senate has acquitted President Trump of two impeachment charges in just the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. Trump was accused of abusing power and obstructing Congress to aid his re-election campaign by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. Every Democratic senator voted to remove President Trump from office, […]

It’s hardly surprising that if a Democrat wins the White House, taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations will probably go up. How they’ll go up is the more interesting question. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates generally agree the U.S. economy faces a variety of challenges: record-high income inequality, decaying infrastructure, failing public schools, climate change […]

In an absolutely ferocious column for the Daily Beast, GOP campaign strategist Rick Wilson ripped into the Republican Party for acquitting Donald Trump on impeachment charges and thereby unleashing a vengeful “man more suited to a padded cell” upon the U.S. public. Using Trump’s two Thursday speeches — which Wilson described as indicative of “Trump’s […]

A former Democratic lawmaker described his growing horror at the transformation of “Never-Trump” Republicans into staunch allies of the president. Steve Israel, who served New York in Congress from 2001 to 2017, said in a New York Times column that all lawmakers find themselves trading away some of their political principles to improve their chances […]

Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) told CNN on Friday that she is pessimistic that President Donald Trump will be more wary in the future of extorting foreign governments for dirt on his political opponents after getting impeached. In an interview on CNN with her fellow House impeachment managers, Demings explained why it would be foolish to […]

Appearing on CNN on Friday morning, former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh ended his faltering challenge to replace President Donald Trump at the head of the GOP ticket in November — the completely trashed his party for becoming nothing less than a cult. Following a disappointing showing in Iowa, Walsh said it was time to […]

Donald Trump is a simple man but he does have one philosophy, and it’s very primitive: Get even. He has not kept it a secret. Most recently, he had his ghostwriter put it in “Think Big,” his 2009 self-help tome:  I love getting even when I get screwed by someone. … Always get even. When you […]

Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign appears to have plagiarized portions of its policy plans from news outlets, research publications, non-profit organizations and policy groups. An analysis by The Intercept found the campaign lifted text — sometimes verbatim — without attribution for policy plans on maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure and mental health. […]