I’m an unabashed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supporter. I support comprehensive free trade including both NAFTA and TPP. I believe that immigration should virtually be unfettered and not limited to “make things easier for Americans”. Finally, I am certainly not opposed to investment from businesses and the wealthy...
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is the largest gathering of Puerto Ricans in the United States. This year, the parade organizers honored Oscar Lopez Rivera. In 1981, López Rivera was convicted on federal charges including seditious conspiracy—conspiring to oppose U.S. authority over Puerto Rico. In 1999, President Bill...
The Legal Information institute at Cornell Law School points out obstruction of justice is defined in the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which provides that “whoever . . . . corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes,...
News emerged that LeBron James’ Los Angeles home was vandalized with racist graffiti. Someone spray-painted the word “nigger” on the front gate of his home. James addressed the incident a day later with a thoughtful response on race in America. Jason Whitlock essentially said LeBron can’t experience racism because...
ESPN reports on Tiger Woods DUI arrest: The police had to wake up Tiger Woods when they approached his running vehicle prior to arresting him on a DUI charge early Monday morning, according to a police report. According to the report, the officer said Woods “had extremely slow and...
Kathy Griffin has now been fired from her CNN New Year’s Eve gig for her piece showing 45 with a decapitated head. I have no problems with this. CNN is a business and has to do what they feel is best for their product. What has struck me is...
The White House budget released on Tuesday appears to have double-counted more than two trillion dollars in estimated tax revenue. As such, the budget would not balance over 10-years (as promised), even if the U.S. economy were to hit sustained 3% growth (as projected by the White House, but...
A state representative from Winona, Mississippi urged in a weekend Facebook post that those who support the removal of Confederate monuments be lynched. Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, wrote: “The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and...
Petula Dvorak hits the nail on the head when she discusses the death of a 22 year old black male student from Bowie State by the hands of a 23 year old white student at the University of Maryland College Park. The excuse makers are nothing but white snowflakes....
Emily Zanotti outlines how former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn won’t respond to a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee, instead invoking the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination. Sources confirmed to the NBC News that Flynn will make his demand official in a letter to the committee Monday afternoon. ...
I’m an unabashed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton supporter. I support comprehensive free trade including both NAFTA and TPP. I believe that immigration should virtually be unfettered and not limited to “make things easier for Americans”. Finally, I am certainly not opposed to investment from businesses and the wealthy...
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is the largest gathering of Puerto Ricans in the United States. This year, the parade organizers honored Oscar Lopez Rivera. In 1981, López Rivera was convicted on federal charges including seditious conspiracy—conspiring to oppose U.S. authority over Puerto Rico. In 1999, President Bill...
The Legal Information institute at Cornell Law School points out obstruction of justice is defined in the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which provides that “whoever . . . . corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes,...
News emerged that LeBron James’ Los Angeles home was vandalized with racist graffiti. Someone spray-painted the word “nigger” on the front gate of his home. James addressed the incident a day later with a thoughtful response on race in America. Jason Whitlock essentially said LeBron can’t experience racism because...
ESPN reports on Tiger Woods DUI arrest: The police had to wake up Tiger Woods when they approached his running vehicle prior to arresting him on a DUI charge early Monday morning, according to a police report. According to the report, the officer said Woods “had extremely slow and...
Kathy Griffin has now been fired from her CNN New Year’s Eve gig for her piece showing 45 with a decapitated head. I have no problems with this. CNN is a business and has to do what they feel is best for their product. What has struck me is...
The White House budget released on Tuesday appears to have double-counted more than two trillion dollars in estimated tax revenue. As such, the budget would not balance over 10-years (as promised), even if the U.S. economy were to hit sustained 3% growth (as projected by the White House, but...
A state representative from Winona, Mississippi urged in a weekend Facebook post that those who support the removal of Confederate monuments be lynched. Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, wrote: “The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and...
Petula Dvorak hits the nail on the head when she discusses the death of a 22 year old black male student from Bowie State by the hands of a 23 year old white student at the University of Maryland College Park. The excuse makers are nothing but white snowflakes....
Emily Zanotti outlines how former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn won’t respond to a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee, instead invoking the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination. Sources confirmed to the NBC News that Flynn will make his demand official in a letter to the committee Monday afternoon. ...