The director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, was fired Tuesday, setting off a firestorm throughout the media, Congress and the internet. President Donald Trump, in a blunt letter to Comey Tuesday, told him: “I have received the attached letters from the Attorney… Keep Reading
Lima Charlie Political Correspondent Jose Robledo takes on the myth of the smug Liberal, the first of a 3 part series. Part 2 tackles the myth of the angry Conservative. Part 3 examines the frightening deterioration of political discourse in America. In a recent interview, Jake Tapper asked… Keep Reading
The Trump era will, one day, be used as a case study for how it catapulted the environmental industry forward and brought greater attention to climate change. According to IBISWorld, the environmental consulting industry will grow 18.6 billion despite current efforts to dismantle the system… Keep Reading
WASHINGTON, DC (LC) Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, might formally register as a foreign agent, according to a spokesman. Reportedly, Manafort recently received “formal guidance” from the U.S. Justice Department advising that he register, retroactively, as a foreign agent for lobbying… Keep Reading
| WASHINGTON, D.C. (LC) Neil Gorsuch, 49, was sworn in on Monday as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. President Trump commented as he swore in Gorsuch in the White House rose garden, “I got it done in the first 100 days.” Trump said, “You… Keep Reading
Here is what we know: The U.S. launched a Tomahawk cruise missile attack from nearby destroyers in the east Mediterranean against a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. President Trump called on “civilized nations to end… Keep Reading
The humiliating defeat of the American Health Care Act has sparked a new energy in the left’s push for universal health care legislation. Activists are rallying behind Representative John Conyers’ (D-MI-13) bill which expands Medicare coverage for all U.S. citizens. The bill was introduced in… Keep Reading
U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council Wednesday, after deciding he was no longer needed to change the role of the NSC, according to a senior White House official. National security adviser H.R. McMaster will remain on the… Keep Reading
Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), had announced earlier this week that he won’t recuse himself from the committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday he told ABC News that he “will never reveal sources and… Keep Reading
Surrounded by coal miners, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday intended to undo a range of President Obama’s climate change regulations. The Trump administration says the regulations are hurting oil and coal producers. Environmental groups are vowing to fight the order in… Keep Reading
When Paul Ryan announced that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was being withdrawn, it signaled the end of the first legislative push of the Trump Presidency and dampened hopes of unity within the Republican Party. Market trading trended downward after the announcement on Friday… Keep Reading
We recently learned that the FBI is investigating a curious link between a Russian bank and a Trump Organization computer server. According to cyber security experts, the Russia-based Alfa Bank computer electronically looked up the contact information for the Trump Organization server more than 2800… Keep Reading
Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, faced Day 1 of his Senate confirmation hearing, with Democrats seeking to show he is pro-business, socially conservative and insufficiently independent of the president. After four hours of opening statements from committee members, Democrats also made clear… Keep Reading
The much anticipated hearing by the House Intelligence Committee began this morning, ending shortly after 3:pm. FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers testified before the committee that is seeking to ascertain whether Russia interfered with the 2016 election, whether President Trump… Keep Reading
President Trump and his team’s past anti-Muslim rhetoric, ill advised tweets, a series of flawed national security arguments, and Lyndon B. Johnson, would all contribute to the dooming of Trump’s travel ban Executive Order. President Trump’s new executive order (No. 13,780, issued March 6) banning… Keep Reading
While CEO of Exxon, current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email address with the pseudonym “Wayne Tracker” from 2008 to 2015, the New York attorney general’s office said in a letter on Monday. Tillerson’s middle name is Wayne. New York Attorney General Eric… Keep Reading
