by Jim Heath | Oct 29, 2020 | 2020, Economy, Headlines, Joe Biden, Trump
The U.S. economy grew at 7.4 percent between July and September, recovering about two-thirds of its losses during the first half of the year. This is a number President Trump will ballyhoo for the five days remaining until the election, but the gross domestic product...
by Jim Heath | Oct 29, 2020 | 2020, Headlines
Two political operatives charged with launching robocalls that threatened black voters with arrest and forced vaccinations have been ordered to record a new message to more than 80,000 people admitting their crime of ‘electoral terror.’ US District Court Judge Victor...
by Jim Heath | Oct 28, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Headlines
The day after his first televised debate with Vice President Richard Nixon in 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy was campaigning in Canton, Ohio. During the fall he made stops in Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Elyria, Youngstown, Lorain, and Cleveland where crowds often...
by Jim Heath | Oct 28, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Trump fans not only have to worry about catching the coronavirus at his mask-free rallies, but now are being hit hard by Mother Nature too. Thousands of Trump supporters were left stranded at Eppley Airfield in Omaha for hours following his campaign event at the venue...
by Jim Heath | Oct 28, 2020 | 2020, GOP, Headlines, Trump
The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former center-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study. In a significant shift...
by Jim Heath | Oct 27, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
Donald Trump is the King of Lies, but this one, with just a week to go until the election, could be the biggest one yet. The White House science office has listed “ending the COVID-19 pandemic” as the top accomplishment of President Trump’s first...
