May 20, 2017 – (I’m spelling out the WaPo headline because all manner of NeverTrumpers have claimed that I made up the inference in the story.) … I was at DOJ at the time, and what it told me was Comey had the presence of mind to write the email in the first place, print a copy … He had spent the last few months working to defend the normative lines that protect the FBI from the White House.…

May 19, 2017 – He worked closely with Trump for months, as he served as ghost writer for Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal.” … “And by the way, he is going to lose.” It certainly looks as if he is losing. … nowhere) into Hillary Clinton’s emails, just before the election.…

May 18, 2017 – An Internet company was the leading place for child sex slavery businesses to sell their victims. … The preferred site by these traffickers was Backpage.com. … Because they’re in the same boat.…

May 18, 2017 – He’s always been a bit of a jackwagon on Twitter, but the AHCA vote and the pre-existing conditions lies have him operating at an entirely … Ross pointed out, that the 2017 spending bill does not touch Planned Parenthood’s funding, and that the federal funds the organization … The falsehoods and predictions of people dying (especially minority women) start in the opening frames of the film.…

May 16, 2017 – This reminded me of ‘The Pelican Brief’ when the President asked FBI Director Voyles to “back off” looking into the brief that implicated … Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr … The White House, of course, is denying it: “While the president has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent…

May 16, 2017 – When the people receive a bigly “Keep Out” posted at the President’s office door, the people instinctively ask “why?” … Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon, by Jeffrey Kluger. … forever changed our view of the home planet.”…

May 16, 2017 – [<a href=”//storify.com/streiff/mcmaster-presser” target=”_blank”>View the story “McMaster … The statement that is getting the most attention is this: McMaster: "The president wasn't even aware of where the information came … Over the past eight years, the foreign policy choices made by the Obama administration increased the profile of Russia in the Middle…

May 16, 2017 – Here’s another: The Senate is in the process or is supposed to be in the process of debating the health-care bill. … by the health-care bill to fund the tax cuts by the fall. … The Post does not report whether the White House also notified the foreign ally who provided the information of the compromise.…

Jun 3, 2017 – Like the leaders of all the other countries in the world. Ignore him.” … , full of people just waiting for the right trigger to set them off with the wrong idea. … herself as the victim.…

Jun 3, 2017 – Theme 1: There are the give up on the GOP and join a new party threads. … Theme 2: There are the this guy is a great conservative and he can do it for us threads with the reverse argument that the this guy … Tail Wags Dog: Once again, the comments in this post by Streiff shows that the tail can in fact wag the dog: McMaster Talks About…

Jun 2, 2017 – Now, the Assembly is not renewing the contract, though Speaker Anthony Rendon said Holder had provided “valuable guidance.” … , not of the state as a whole. … As the spring progressed, Republican staffers and office holders complained that they were not allowed to view any documents coming…

Jun 1, 2017 – The ladies of “The View” were all ginned up over news that the Trump administration is drafting a regulation that would reverse the … a comeback in the US. … How is it different from the Taliban? Let me count the ways.…

Jun 1, 2017 – “If they are patriotically minded, they start making their contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight … He has praised the former KGB agent as a strong leader, even before he entered the race for the presidency, and he and members of his … had created the illusion of foreign involvement in the hacks.…

May 31, 2017 – He gives more information on how he would view the contacts: –This is as much about Flynn as it is about Kushner. … Why the request for the use of the Russian Embassy’s secure communications? … Was the vice-president elect, then the head of the transition, aware? Were other senior members of the transition aware?…

May 31, 2017 – They view religion as vitally important to their national identity despite the fact they are not particularly observant.   … They view Russia and Putin in particular as being an important buffer against the encroachments of the West with our “liberal democracy … The explanation is the inherent social conservatism among Russians and the source of that conservatism is the Orthodox Church.  …

May 30, 2017 – The first and, by far, the greatest reason is this: They do not believe that America is engaged in a civil war, with the survival of … speech; the continuing degradation of our universities and high schools; the weakening of the American military; and so much more, … to the America envisioned by the Founders.…

May 30, 2017 – According to McClatchy’s Katie Glueck and Alex Roarty the contest “is setting up to be the party’s last opportunity to score the kind … The New York Times reports that the GA6 special election is also a testing ground for Republican midterms Trump strategy — do they … the president without alienating conservative voters who would view any overt rebuff as a betrayal.…

May 30, 2017 – Thanks to what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump’s “evolving” view of Islam, the financiers of 9/11 were the beneficiary … This broken promise followed statements made by a senior Trump official that the Western Wall–the wall of the Temple Mount, the holiest … It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media.…

May 29, 2017 – Throughout the latter decade or two of the Cold War, the possibility that Germany would go the way of Finland and Austria was never … the thought of it. … Overall, the view expressed by Macron shows that there is a greater chance of improved relations with France than there is of working…

May 29, 2017 – Like many of the underdeveloped parts of the world, the Philippines has a jihad problem. … The radical Islam group known as the Maute Group was founded in the Philippines in 2013 by two local brothers, coinciding with the … It is a miscalculation to view and judge leaders abroad through the same lens as American leaders.…

May 29, 2017 – The Court then considered the proper test to apply to determine whether the Order violates the Constitution.  … the balance of powers, thus raising serious constitutional concerns not just for the cases at hand but for the Court’s own view of … , the notice she was given regarding the denial of the visa satisfied the requirements of Due Process. …

May 29, 2017 – A view from the outside in doesn’t look pretty. … The anonymous sources for the New York Times and the Washington Post tell us that the Priebus’s are at war with the Bannon’s, and the … Of course, you look at the sources for the New York Times, and they disagree with the sources for the Washington Post.…

May 25, 2017 – Yet in spite of the if-it-bleeds-it-leads bias toward reporting the outrageous, I argue that the biggest problem in the American political … fact that the only rival to the Republican Party in size is the Democratic Party. … I am partial to the view that the path partially is to be found outside of party politics, but the degree to which politics is downstream…

Jun 13, 2017 – I’m sure those questions will be answered over the course of the investigation, but for now, it’s not about the leaks, but about the … Comey used to funnel the memos to the press. The New York Times ultimately reported on a portion of the material. … As the investigation and the hearings roll on, we can only hope those with a more rational view of the world prevail, and we get the…

Jun 13, 2017 – making such a move, right in the middle of an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. … The general view is that it wouldn’t be a good thing, even though some argued that Trump could fire Mueller, if he wanted. … “I have talked to the president recently but we did not talk about the Mueller situation at all.”…