At a recent church service, a close relative (an avid Trump supporter) mentioned to me that the president-elect needs to clean house at the U.S. Secret Service and staff it with vetted and loyal special agents.  His comment caught me, a former Secret Service special agent, off guard. I spent the entire church service thinking […]Read More

As Democrats, we are deeply disappointed in President Joe Biden’s decision to offer a full and unconditional pardon to his son Hunter, who was convicted on multiple tax and gun charges. To be clear, we do not deny the president’s absolute right to pardon anyone – including his son – nor do we necessarily dispute […]Read More

As Democrats, we are deeply disappointed in President Joe Biden’s decision to offer a full and unconditional pardon to his son Hunter, who was convicted on multiple tax and gun charges. To be clear, we do not deny the president’s absolute right to pardon anyone – including his son – nor do we necessarily dispute […]Read More

President Biden is returning to the White House after a history-making trip to Angola this week, as Biden became the first American president to visit the sub-Saharan African nation. But Biden, likely on his last overseas trip before President-elect Donald Trump takes over in the White House next month, is already being overshadowed on the […]Read More

The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet Thursday after the panel failed to come to an agreement last month on whether to release its report about former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. The report could still be made public, however, even if history repeats itself. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., moved to force a vote on […]Read More

President-elect Trump announced Wednesday he is nominating former Missouri Rep. Billy Long to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in his new administration. In a statement released Wednesday, Trump called the former congressman ‘an extremely hard worker, and respected by all, especially by those who know him in Congress.’ The president-elect also […]Read More

President-elect Trump announced Wednesday he is nominating former Missouri Rep. Billy Long to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in his new administration. In a statement released Wednesday, Trump called the former congressman ‘an extremely hard worker, and respected by all, especially by those who know him in Congress.’ The president-elect also […]Read More

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling on Republican leaders to reject President Biden’s $98.4 billion disaster aid request. In an official position staked out by the GOP group on Wednesday evening, lawmakers are demanding a slimmed-down package covering what is ‘absolutely necessary,’ to be offset with spending cuts elsewhere. ‘Congress should not pass a […]Read More

: An overwhelming majority of Americans view foreign policy and national defense as being ‘somewhat’ or ‘extremely’ important to them, according to a new survey from the Ronald Reagan Institute that also weighed U.S. attitudes about rival nations and revealed which is viewed as posing the ‘greatest threat’ to the country. As Americans await another […]Read More

: An overwhelming majority of Americans view foreign policy and national defense as being ‘somewhat’ or ‘extremely’ important to them, according to a new survey from the Ronald Reagan Institute that also weighed U.S. attitudes about rival nations and revealed which is viewed as posing the ‘greatest threat’ to the country. As Americans await another […]Read More