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MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace asked twice over the course of an hour whether Republicans were dead inside, citing the tax reform bill and the Russia investigation respectively. In the first instance, Wallace expressed frustration that Republican senators didn't care how much President Donald Trump benefits from the GOP tax legislation. "Why don't Republicans care to know how much the president's going to benefit from a bill with their names on it?" Wallace asked. "Why don't they care? Are they dead inside? Are they—what is it?" Her guests did not defend Republicans' motivations. Later during her show, she...

Make the Road New York has been awarded more than $25 million in gov't grants since 2002 A liberal activist group that has been involved in direct action campaigns against President Donald Trump and Republicans was recently awarded $400,000 more in taxpayer-backed government grants, records show. Make the Road New York (MRNY), a New York City-based Latino immigrant group with nearly 20,000 dues-paying members, is closely linked to an $80 million dollar anti-Trump network and an approved funding group of the Democracy Alliance, a secretive liberal donor network. MRNY has already hauled in millions of dollars in government grants. Between...

The Justice Department inspector general’s decision in January to open an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation was met with widespread praise from Democrats. “My reaction is that it’s entirely appropriate and very necessary but also not surprising,” Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon told MSNBC on Jan. 12, the day that inspector general Michael Horowitz announced the investigation. “I welcome it,” Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said the same day. “I support what they’re doing. It’s long overdue.” He was joined in his endorsement by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. “It’s a troubling pattern that...

<p>A production assistant at Fox News, Joseph De La Cruz, has been tweeting extremely vulgar and disparaging remarks about President Trump.</p> <p>Replying to Trump earlier today, De La Cruz called President Trump a “low down, classes (sic) scum bag, piece of shit.”</p>

On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was put through the wringer by House Republicans in an open hearing when it came to the derogatory text messages sent by anti-Trump/pro-Hillary FBI officials. The texts included name-calling directed at Trump but also a cryptic message about an “insurance policy” for the “risk” of a Trump presidency. The coverage of the texts varied wildly among the network evening newscasts; from no texts shown to covering up the officials’ relation to certain FBI investigations. The FBI officials in question were investigator Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page. Their messages were released as part...

USA Today isn't known for its blistering opinion pieces. Which makes the one the paper's editorial board just published on President Donald Trump all the more savage.

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My hometown paper drives me crazy. I read The New York Times because it often has good coverage. The newspaper pays to send reporters to dangerous places all around the world. This weekend, the Times Magazine did a surprisingly fair profile of Sean Hannity, although they chose photos that make him look evil. But mostly I read the Times because my neighbors read it, and I need to understand what they think. Sadly, many think dumb things because most every day the Times runs deceitful, biased stories and headlines that mislead. Opinion columns have license to do that, but these...

Laura Ingraham reported...Jeannie Rhee was hired by Mueller this past summer...formerly worked in the Obama Justice Department as a deputy assistant attorney general...was also the personal attorney for Ben Rhodes...represented the Clinton Foundation and donated $9,000 to Hillary and other Democrats...Rhee worked in private practice with...another Mueller deputy...

The FBI must release the texts. All of them, between Peter Strzok, the top FBI investigator that special counsel Robert Mueller removed from the Russian investigation in August, and his colleague Lisa Page, so voters can examine for themselves whether the probe is what many, including our president, believe it is ... a partisan witch hunt. Without seeing the politically biased texts — the FBI has been stonewalling Congress for months on that and other document requests — one can safely assume the missives must have been highly problematic to prompt a dismissal. So what political biases did agent Strzok...

Just one day after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. in the Russia investigation, reports have surfaced accusing a veteran investigator in the special probe of sending disparaging text messages regarding President Donald Trump. The investigator was removed from the probe a few months ago because of the potential of a political bias. The New York Times and The Washington Post both reported December 2 that Peter Strzok, a senior counterintelligence investigator at the F.B.I., was removed from the probe because several disparaging text messages indicated he wasn’t a fan of Trump and was possibly a Hillary...

Suppose a scientist makes a bold claim that turns out to be true. How confident are you that this claim would become widely accepted? extraordinary evidence. Still, the indirect evidence is mounting and most cosmologists now believe that dark matter exists. To the extent that non-scientists think about this issue at all, we tend to defer to experts in the field and move on with our lives. But what about politically contentious topics? Does it work the same way? Suppose we have evidence for the truth of a hypothesis the consequences of which many people fear. For example, suppose we...

Democrats' success in this month's elections was bigger than expected, and was fueled in part by strong opposition to President Trump... We asked Republicans and Democrats what the off-year elections could mean... 1. Good news for Democrats ....The Democratic base was energized [in Virginia]. The 2008 Obama coalition of millennials, minorities, single women and affluent educated suburbanites...] 2....can the lessons of Virginia work in states like Missouri and Indiana? ....there were limits to the Democratic victory in Virginia. They got their own coalition out, but they didn't make inroads with the Trump vote.... 3. Democrats need a message that resonates...

Religious leaders, lawmakers and the Haitian community members have come together in the hopes of stopping President Trump’s decision on the Temporary Protected Status for Haitians... Instead of writing to Santa Claus, this time of year, some youngsters wrote to lawmakers. A 12-year-old girl wrote, “Christmas is almost here, and my dream for the holidays is to keep my family together. It is hard to concentrate in school because I am scared that when I get home, they will not be there because they were taken away.” This is part of the Dream for the Holidays campaign where children have...

The Post identifies the participants as “Trump voters,” which is ostensibly true. But they are an unrepresentative sample. What better way to find Trump voters who regret their vote than to talk to non-Republicans. The majority of Trump voters are Republicans, but only a third of the Trump voter focus group participants are Republicans, which may explain why only one participant said she was still fully supportive of the president. The headline says, “Trump voters” but the piece focuses only on women, with the opinions of one man tacked on at the end. The Post doesn’t explain the gender breakdown...

National reporter Janell Ross helped donor group craft liberal economic message without notifying superiors Washington Post reporter Janell Ross gave a presentation at a secretive California gathering where Democratic politicians, liberal activists, and their biggest donors plotted the future of the progressive movement without notifying her superiors that she would be attending, according to a Post spokesman. The Democracy Alliance went to great lengths to keep the identities of its members and guests confidential at its fall investment conference last week at the La Costa Resort, but the Washington Free Beacon obtained a detailed conference agenda that lists both events...

Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is speaking out against the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians, saying it will negatively affect thousands of students in his schools. Nearly 12,000 children and another 5,700 adults enrolled in the school system are impacted.... "A nation that chooses to embark on the destruction of community, yanking children from their parents, forcing some to return to conditions not appropriate for their existence, is a nation that has lost its moral compass," Carvalho said....

A group of protesters, including some personally affected by the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS for thousands of Haitians allowed into America after the devastating 2010 earthquake, will hit the road to the President’s Mar-a-Lago home Tuesday in an effort for their voices to be heard. The Rally for TPS Extension & Permanent Status will leave Miami Gardens

President Donald Trump's administration announced it would end special protection from deportation for Haitians.... For Peterson Exais, 17, who has been living in Miami since being injured in the country's 2010 earthquake, the news was tough to hear. "It's very devastating hearing this news," Exais said...

A Democrat running for Congress was arrested on a stalking charge last week, but the media has refused to give the story any coverage. David Alcon, who is running for an open congressional seat in New Mexico, was arrested this past Friday on a felony stalking charge after a woman accused him of sending her frightening and lewd text messages and showing up at her home. Alcon was previously convicted of stalking his ex-girlfriend in 2007 and was described as “infatuated” and “clearly obsessed” by the judge in the case. The story has been met with silence from a number...