Senator Rand Paul stopped an attempt by Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer from bringing a resolution to advance the senate vote on the house resolution to reverse President Trumps withdrawal of U.S. troops in Syria. Under Senate rules any one senator can try to set...
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Deficits Don’t Matter
Until they do. The federal budget deficit for 2019 is estimated at $984 billion, a hefty 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and the highest since 2012, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Monday. The difference between federal spending and revenue...
Ukraine Scandal for Who: Trump or Biden
On FPF #402, I discuss the impeachment push against Trump. The new impeachment call says Trump tried to leverage US aid to Ukraine to get Ukraine to investigate corruption by Joe Biden's son. Trump has released the transcript of the call showing he did not offer a...
Misfud’s Lawyer, Roh: He Was Sent By FBI to Entrap Papadopoulos
I mean, pretty much. (Sorry I missed this last week.) The Hill: Mifsud was a “longtime cooperator of western intel” who was asked specifically by his contacts at Link University in Rome and the London Center of International Law Practice (LCILP) — two academic groups...
Sanders Defends Omar from ‘Anti-Semitic’ Smears
Jewish Democratic Party Presidential Frontrunner Bernie Sanders: “Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world. We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the...
Will Paul Ryan and Co. Deny Another Vote on Yemen?
Remember when the House leadership squashed a vote on a resolution ending US involvement in Yemen by removing it’s privileged status? Well, the leaders of that resolution have reintroduced it as H.Con.Res.142 and I just heard from a friend on the Hill that the House...
FPF #213 – Russiagate: No Collusion guests Dan Wright & Joanne Leon
On FPF #213, Joanne Leon and Dan Wright join the show for the third in a three-part series covering the many claims that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to win the 2016 election. In part three, Joanne and Dan break down the FBI IG report on the Hillary email...
Why Mislabeling Keeps us Stuck in Partisan Politics
The biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that “[c]ategories often exert a tyranny over our perceptions and judgments,” adding that “[w]e do not ponder the bases of our classifications with sufficient scrutiny.” Popular political debates have yet to fully appreciate this...
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