Mike Pence

Journalists have joined Venezuela officials in ridiculing allegations made on Tuesday by US Vice President Mike Pence that Venezuela is financing the migrant caravan traversing Central America en route to the Mexican-US border.
Pence, in an interview with the Washington Post, claimed that US-allied Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez had told him that the 7000-strong migrant march is “organized by leftist groups in Honduras, financed by Venezuela, and sent north to challenge our sovereignty and challenge our border.”

by NoahAh, poor Mike Pence, he's measuring the drapes but it may be curtains for him as the Mueller sweeper approaches. Thus the need for a fast getaway car, but not just any car, eh Mike?

The Associated Press reported on Friday that after citing national security concerns, President Trump said the Justice Department should investigate to find the identity of the “resister” within his Administrations who wrote the anonymous NYT op-ed.

Pence And Mother by Nancy OhanianOn Friday evening USAToday published an irony-tinged headline by Maureen Groppe, Vice President Mike Pence quotes Bible in response to being called 'Christian supremacist'.

In international law, a category regarded by certain legal philosophers as non-existent (there being no overarching sovereign to police it), aspirations reign like obstinate fantasies. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty is one such example, decorated by such expressions as outer space being the “province of all mankind” (Art. 1), with the “common interest of all mankind in the progress of the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes” being its animating principle.

Trump Impeached; Pence Pleased (source)by Gaius PubliusIn a piece called "Do Democrats Want an Impeachment Fight?" Pat Buchanan asks two key questions for people not focused on the story behind the story, the story of which the story we're watching is just a part.

The question is finally being asked, by the president himself: what’s wrong with collusion? Or at least his lawyer asks the question, while Trumps tweets:

Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion.

by NoahYeah, please, please don't forget about me! I'm a classic Repug! I'm a racist and a homophobe! I was great at voter suppression in Indiana! Please don't think the rest of the people working for Trump are the only psychos and traitors! I mean, come on, give me some credit! I'm a good Republican! I don't just support kidnapping kids, I want to hook up wires to them and turn on the power if they're gay!

A detailed study of the death toll that has been recorded in Nicaragua since a violent campaign to remove President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government shows that at least as many Sandinista supporters were killed as opposition members. The study, “Monopolizing Death,” demonstrates how partisan local NGOs conflated all deaths that occurred since April, including accidents and the murders of Sandinistas, with killings by government forces.

The warmth displayed by authorities over the past month to visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the IMF, respectively, further proves that Ecuador is melting back into the arms of international financial interests. (MPN Op-ed) — Ecuador’s passionate re-embrace of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offers one of the clearest and most dramatic signs that the country’s […]