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Trump...YUGE Gift to America's Big Oil Lobby
With the richest cabinet in United States history, Donald Trump is clearly not "draining the swamp" in Washington DC, but he is making it easier for US oil companies to buy favors in other countries around the world.
How Far Will Trump's Executive Overreach Go?
White House advisor Stephen Miller took to the Sunday morning news shows to answer questions including everything from North Korea's ballistic test to the 9th Circuit ruling putting a stay on Trump's Muslim ban.
Trump Vows "Ruthless" War On Drugs
With Jeff Sessions now officially leading the Justice Department, Donald Trump has set the stage for the administration to quote "restore safety in America" by getting tough on crime - especially drugs.
Is "Gorsuch getting disheartened" just a ploy?
Donald Trump's Twitter rampages might be the best thing to ever happen to Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court hopes.
The White House denies it, but according to Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, Gorsuch told him in a private meeting that he's "disheartened" by Donald Trump's attacks on the judiciary.
Trump's GOP Moves to "Make America White Again"
Stopping "illegal," or, more appropriately, undocumented immigration was one of the big three messages of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
But so was stopping legal immigration, and now Trump's fellow Republicans are making good on his promises.
Is Trump A Fascist Or...Something Even Worse?
Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States.
But if you spend any time at all on the internet reading liberal blogs or any time watching liberal TV shows like this one, you may have heard him described as the second coming of well, pretty much every dictator ever… even fictional ones, like Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter books.
Trump's Dangerous Iran Gamble
On Tuesday night the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments in a major case against Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
The hearing was held over telephone, and comes just days after a federal judge named James Robart out in Seattle blocked the ban.
On one side of today's oral arguments were the Attorneys General of Minnesota and Washington state.
Trump's Most Outrageous Tweet Yet
As the clash between Donald Trump and the courts deepened this weekend - the president took a dangerous new line of argument.
Trump Lends the Banksters a Hand
Donald Trump just pulled off the biggest bait-and-switch in American history.
Back when he was a presidential candidate, Trump said things about the big banks that made him sound like a Bernie Sanders Democrat.
Is It Time For A General Strike?
When Republicans take control of state legislatures, the first thing they always go after is the unions.
Republicans do this because unions are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party, and by destroying unions they know they can destroy the best chance Democrats have of putting up a resistance.