Alabama elected Democrat, Doug Jones, in a tight race against Judge Roy Moore who was the target of a smear campaign by Democrats, the media, late-night comics, and George Soros. The Senate is now composed of 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats. [That is not as important as it may seem, because there is no conflict between the two parties on most important issues, such as US sovereignty, the Federal Reserve. and privacy.
Opinion — Don’t kid yourself: 2016 was a revolutionary year in the United States.
Yes, I know, the United States is a deeply conservative country. Americans don’t engage in periodic attempts to overthrow the system. There is no viable political party that threatens the status quo. When protesters gather in Washington, they have no intention of storming Congress, the White House, or the Federal Reserve.
The most radical movements, like Occupy Wall Street, are leaderless and amorphous, and thus toothless.
Rep. Raul Grijalva spent $48,395 from taxpayer funds to buy the silence of a former female staffer who threatened a lawsuit claiming Grijalva was frequently drunk and created a hostile workplace environment in 2015. Democrat Rep. Al Green is also under fire following reports he had sex with a drug-addicted staffer and then sued her in 2008 after she threatened to go public with the encounter. [...]
A mistrial was declared in the corruption case against Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), but he still faces an ethics investigation that will include allegations that were excluded by the judge from his trial. Those allegations include lurid sex acts with underage girls. [...]
Senator Al Franken is accused of sexually assaulting radio host, Leeann Tweedon, who says he forced his tongue into her mouth while they were rehearsing a kiss, and later photographed himself groping her while she was asleep. He volunteered to be investigated by an ethics committee, in a ploy to put the issue out of sight long enough so that the public forgets about it. [...]
Last year, Donald J. Trump triumphed over 15 Republican primary opponents and a Democratic candidate with an impressive résumé largely on the strength of a simple four-word message:
Make America Great Again.”
In what may be the final nail in President Trump’s tax reform proposal, months after the White House proposed ending a tax break for people in high-tax states – which would suggest Trump had more than enough time familiarize himself with how it all works – Trump reportedly “grew angry” when he learned that the change would hurt some middle-income taxpayers, Bloomberg reports citing people familiar with his thinking.
A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment Friday against the Democratic political operative whom a state judge claims to have taken bribes from.
The 29-page indictment, which is dated Oct. 5 but unsealed this morning, takes aim at G. Steven Pigeon, who chaired the Erie County Democratic Committee from 1996 to 2002.
The majority of Americans in both political parties hold teachers and members of the military in high regard, but are starkly divided in their opinions of police and college professors, according to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday.
