President Trump, in a televised White House address Saturday, offered Democrats a compromise package on immigration in an effort to end the nearly monthlong partial government shutdown — although some prominent Democrats were dismissing the olive branch as a “non-starter” before Trump even spoke. Trump announced that he was prepared to back a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 immigrants who came…

In truth, they never liked each other to begin with.  Christie put Kushner’s father behind federal bars years ago.  And, Jared never liked him.  Christie did try to make amends with Jared to a point.  But, at the end of the day, Christie’s point was he was just doing his job. Source: Chris Christie accuses…

In a nutshell, the United States speaker the house does not have the power to specifically cancel a state of the union. But she does have the power to prevent the president of the United States from addressing the nation in the House of Representatives. Either way, it seems a little ludicrous that Pelosi would…

It’s a framing that’s been everywhere over the past two years: the Resistance v Donald Trump. By some definitions that “resistance” even includes people like Mitt Romney and George W Bush. By almost all definitions it encompasses mainstream Democrats, such as the likely presidential hopefuls Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Source: Democratic 2020 hopefuls pay lip service…

Yes this is sarcasm, but it also seems surreal that in only two years the Trump administration has lost so many individuals in key administrative positions. Raj Shah Out As White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary. Here’s a list – rather long at that – of people who have left the administration for one reason…

It’s a complicated story, but in a nutshell the guy smuggled 222 kg of Meth. Source: Chinese court sentences Canadian to death as diplomatic row deepens | IOL News

As it turns out, fact checkers are as much prone to inaccuracy as the facts they sometimes check.  Case in point: this report by Snopes. If you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that there is some bias to this “community patrol” in NYC.  The NYPD has had several complaints by women of color who…

David Greene talks to Newt Gingrich, former GOP speaker of the House, who presided over one of the longest shutdowns of the federal government. In 1995, parts of the government closed for 21 days. Source: Newt Gingrich: Lessons Learned From Past Government Shutdowns : NPR

And, here’s another take on the Trump/Putin thingy.  Is thingy still a word?  Hmm. Source: Trump rejects report that he hid details of Putin meetings, seized translator’s notes | The Japan Times