Monthly Archives: February 2017

The authority for CBP/ICE to stop and search all passengers on a domestic flight by demanding they “show me your papers” is not in the authorizing statutes for either organization according to two sources interviewed in THE ATLANTIC: Barry Friedman, … Continue reading →

It has already cost over $15M to pay for travel and security for the tRump family which is 1/6 of Obama’s eight year term. Estimates are $183M/yr just to secure tRump Tower in NY and Jared Kushner’s recent business trip … Continue reading →

The first thing tRump says this morning after announcing his new pick for Labor Secretary is tell them he is holding an impromptu press conference to objurgate them as you can see on the 19 sec video at TPM (link … Continue reading →

Get out your pans: Oroville Dam erosion may yield a tiny gold rush. The picture below is from March 2017 after the reservoir level was lowered so the emergency runoff could be closed off, the huge sluice of earth revealed … Continue reading →

Hi Sam, According to Raw Story, Betsy DeVos quickly retreated from her trip to Jefferson Academy Washington DC in reaction to a handful of quietly standing demonstrators with signs. When she quickly departed with security guard in tow to a … Continue reading →

Reuters reports that tRump, while discussing nuclear weapons arms control during his most recent phone call to Putin, had to pause to ask aides about what new START is. Then he complained that the deal made by the Obama administration … Continue reading →

Received an email from VoteVets.org this morning about a 30 second ad they ran during MorningHo which tRump must have seen since he tweeted about it shortly after it ran. Here’s the ad https://youtu.be/e3qG5u1A_98 Here is what VoteVets had to … Continue reading →

When Sen Ben Cardin asked EPA nominee Scott Pruitt on lead exposure’s dangers in children: “I don’t know. That’s something I have not reviewed nor know about,” Pruitt responded. He went on to say that he would be “very concerned … Continue reading →

When Rex Tillerson gave his opening statement at his Secretary of State confirmation hearing he began with threatening China for their military expansion in the South China Sea. China responded on Friday in the government-run Global Times newspaper that Washington … Continue reading →

The difference between the opening statements this morning between Rex Tillerson at his confirmation hearing and Donald tRump at his press conference were yuge in their starkness. Tillerson covered China building illegal military sites in the South China Sea, radical … Continue reading →