by Jim Heath | Mar 6, 2019 | Democrats, Fox News, Headlines
It comes as a surprise to virtually no one that the Democratic National Committee has decided to exclude Fox News from televising any of its candidate debates during the 2019-2020 cycle. Fox News has become known in political circles as “Trump TV” as a...
by Jim Heath | Mar 4, 2019 | Congress, Democrats, Headlines
A string of allegedly anti-Semitic public comments from freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar has enraged fellow Democrats and forced Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top House leaders to take fresh action against one of the early stars of the freshman class. Lawmakers will vote...
by Jim Heath | Mar 1, 2019 | Congress, Democrats, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump once mocked Mitt Romney for not releasing his tax returns in 2012. He then promised he would do so as a candidate in 2016. Then the excuses started on why he couldn’t release them. The new House majority now plans to get them, one way or another....
by Jim Heath | Feb 27, 2019 | Beto O'Rourke, Democrats, Headlines
Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke says he has made a decision about whether to seek the Democratic nomination for president and will announce his plans soon. “Amy and I have made a decision about how we can best serve our country,” the former Texas congressman...
by Jim Heath | Feb 25, 2019 | 2020, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Headlines
In the final months of the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders refused to fly commercial and repeatedly requested, and received, the use of a carbon-spewing private jet for himself and his traveling staff when he served as a surrogate campaigner for Hillary Clinton. In the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 19, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Senator Bernie Sanders, 77, the Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic primary runner-up whose populist policy agenda has helped push the party to the left, embarked today on a second run for president. The self-styled democratic socialist whose calls for “Medicare...
