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As we previously reported, Garth Brooks is set to open a new bar, and as expected, he couldn't resist making a politically charged comment, true to his style. In a recent statement, Brooks criticized conservatives who have boycotted Bud Light, referring to them as "a**holes" for not backing the beer brand. However, it seems that Garth is now facing some backlash, as he has significantly toned down his rhetoric. But he then backtracks big time by again doubling down on the importantness of "inclusiveness" at his bar. On Friday, Brooks took the position that his bar, Friends in Low Places,...

CONCORD, New Hampshire — Bernie Sanders said at a forum in New Hampshire that women still face obstacles when they run for office, describing being a woman as a potential “problem” and noting that anyone who runs for office “brings some negatives” when it comes to appealing to the American electorate. The language instantly re-opened a conflict between supporters of Elizabeth Warren and Sanders over questions about electability, gender, and a private conversation between the two senators where they discussed whether a woman can win in 2020. “Everybody has their own sets of problems,” Sanders said during a forum sponsored...

The House Intelligence and Financial Services committees jointly subpoenaed Deutsche Bank on Monday as part of their ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s financial dealings and concerns about foreign influence over the Trump Organization, the president's family business. "As part of our oversight authority and authorized investigation into allegations of potential foreign influence on the U.S. political process, the House Intelligence Committee today issued subpoenas to multiple financial institutions in coordination with the House Financial Services Committee, including a friendly subpoena to Deutsche Bank, which has been cooperative with the Committees," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in...

'I stand undeterred': Ilhan Omar lashes out at Trump and says she 'did not run for Congress to be silent' after Trump's 9/11 tweet aimed at her sparked a furious backlash from AOC and other Democrats AOC tweeted in defense of Omar using Martin Niemöller's famous poem 'First they came…' to condemn the president after he tweeted Friday nightTrump tweeted 'WE WILL NEVER FORGET' with a video that showed Omar's 'some people did something' 9/11 speech intersected with video of the disasterThe video didn't show Omar's speech in full and Ocasio-Cortez was quick to clap-back at the president's outburst, calling it...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to ignite outrage while defending freshman colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, this time by using a poem about the Holocaust to defend the Minnesota Democrat. [cut] She also shared an image of the words of "First they came ... ," the famous poem by German theologian Martin Niemöller that was inspired by the tragedies of the Holocaust. (The words are mounted on a wall at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.) The poem reads: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. "Then they...

'They could have worn white face': Jussie Smollett lawyer offers bizarre explanation as to why the Empire actor told police his Nigerian assailants were white - and points to old video of one of them wearing make-up to play the Joker as potential proof Tina Glandian said on Thursday first that it has never been proven it was the Osundairo brothers who attacked Jussie Smollett Then she said that the reason he told police the attackers were white was because they could have been wearing make-up Smollett himself identified surveillance video footage of the pair as the men who attacked...

Appearing Wednesday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Jussie Smollett attorney Tina Glandian told anchor George Stephanopoulos that the Empire star is mulling a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department over their handling of his alleged hate hoax case.

Michael Avenatti is accusing Nike of running a “diversion charade” and paying off prominent college and pro hoops stars on Tuesday — a day after the lawyer was federally charged in an alleged $20 million extortion plot. The brash attorney went on the attack in a series of morning tweets — but didn’t offer any solid evidence to back up his claims.

The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed. So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president. /snip to end/ In sum, the Left...

New tensions are flaring on the Senate Judiciary Committee over plans by newly minted Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to dig into Obama-era scandals. Graham, a close ally of President Trump’s, has outlined several areas he wants to probe now that he has the Judiciary Committee gavel. They include the FBI’s handling of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), asked about Graham’s plans, started laughing and compared them to the “thrilling days of yesteryear.” “This is going to be...

'I'm a really good nag.' A top of advisor to President Barack Obama is in Los Angeles to try to get Obamacare written into scripts of TV shows and movies. Valerie Jarrett explained in an appearance on Top That! on PopSugar.com: "That's the cool thing," a host said to the presidential advisor. "You've been reaching out to people that are, you know, outside of the norm of what the president might work with. Who else are you working with? Like celebrities, personalities, things like that?" "You name it," said Jarrett. "That's part of why I'm in L.A. I'm meeting with...

[embedded LINKS at source] Have you heard? “The government is subsidizing illegal immigration! The Texas DREAM Act grants amnesty! Illegal immigrants are going to college for FREE!” Hold your horses, folks. These statements, which are hurled at Gov. Rick Perry from both sides of the political spectrum, are simply not true. In-state tuition for illegal immigrants is a hard policy to argue because it rests on such a thin line between supporting education and rewarding law-breaking. Admittedly, the governor didn’t argue the case well when he said opponents of this policy “don’t have a heart.” (He’s since recanted that statement.)...

Did John Kerry (D-Mass.) help himself in his Seattle news conference this afternoon to explain his astonishing remarks yesterday which sounded like an elitist shot at the intelligence of members of the U.S. military serving in Iraq? Short answer: no.An angry Kerry tried to give his supporters and Democrats something to fight back with when he said: “My statement yesterday, and the White House knows this full well, was a botched joke about the president and the president’s people, not about the troops. “… If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me who’s been fighting my entire career to...

John Conyers is trying to collect a couple million emails on the voting investigation.. He has set up a special form for you to ask questions of the committee.. Please send off an email with a question for the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Ohio Vote. Click below and take a moment to write your opinions of the 2004 Presidential vote.http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/contact.html

Congressmen, Jesse Jackson Investigating Ohio Election Complaints Jackson Says Election Not Over UPDATED: 2:42 PM EST December 8, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Wednesday the burden is on Congress to investigate countless reports of election irregularities in Ohio and elsewhere. While he stopped short of calling for a delay in the Inauguration, Jackson repeatedly said the election is not over. "The legal challenges cannot stop. There should be a debate in Congress about what happened," said the former Democratic presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Jackson's comments came as Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan...