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Michael Whatley appointed sex offender Harvey West to high-ranking positions in the North Carolina Republican Party. Now, it appears that West may have had access to young adults while serving in those roles. Whatley led the North Carolina Republican Party from 2019 to 2024. The Asheville Watchdog reported that Whatley appointed West to two different committees during this period: the party’s 1st…
Karl Rove, a longtime Republican operative and fixer, issued a dire warning to Republicans about the failing campaign of Senate candidate Ken Paxton during a Fox News appearance on Tuesday. Rove told the hosts of Fox’s America’s Newsroom that he believes that recent campaign finance filings from Paxton, which show his fundraising heavily trailing that of Democratic nominee James Talarico, will…
"If you find that you've dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is quit digging." That old country saying has a newly urgent relevance to us today, for Big Tech, Big Finance and Big Government are colluding to dig us into the unfathomable hole of artificial intelligence. All across the country, entire communities are in an uproar as they learn that thousands of massive,…
Donald Trump might not be doing very well in his effort to defeat Iran, but he’s scoring serious points in his attack on the U.S. housing market. The war on Iran has pushed long-term interest rates up by 0.7 percentage points, with the 30-year bond rate hitting levels not seen before the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007-2009. The jump in rates had the predictable effect on the housing…
Republicans are losing in Ohio and they're starting to panic, according to an internal memo released Wednesday. Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt obtained a revealing memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), posting it on X Wednesday . A recent Fox News poll shows that former Sen. Sherrod Brown continues to hold a lead over appointed Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH). But the NRSC claims…
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here . Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation into the mining company Energy Fuels after its CEO and chairman bought thousands of shares of the company’s stock just days before President Donald Trump downsized the neighboring Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. The Denver-based company…
As the "memorandum of understanding" that was supposed to herald the end of Donald Trump's war on Iran expires, so may the American public's patience with his tragic clowning on the global stage. The world's leaders lost patience with Trump long ago, except for American adversaries like Vladmir Putin and Xi Jinping, who benefit enormously from his incompetence and malice. What the expiration…
President Donald Trump's latest betrayal of a close foreign ally has drawn withering criticism from all corners, with a new piece from MS NOW likening his statement to the words of the infamous dictator he claims to be close with . Over the weekend, Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth via a Truth Social post to "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea, shortly…
Yes, the crypto scammer wing of the Trump family business, World Liberty Financial, now has a federally chartered bank thanks to a morally flexible President Donald Trump appointee, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould. What could possibly go wrong? You know, we knew this was coming for a while now, as World Liberty’s application had been kicking around for months. They’re not applying to…
President Trump’s latest move to downgrade U.S. involvement in long-planned military exercises with South Korea should make one thing very clear if it was not already. Under Donald Trump, the United States cannot be viewed as a reliable ally by anyone, except for Israel. Trump has zero respect for the commitments of prior administrations or even treaty obligations. He doesn’t even care about his…
