Writing legislation to counteract the Citizens United ruling is the single most important thing our government could do right now.

Bernie is right but it'll never happen.

The White House has lost confidence...

Yet they still won't fire him. Weird.

If any event in the history of our country should be ground to a halt by protesters this is it.

More: Mr. Walczak, a former nursing home executive who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a pardon application to President Trump around Inauguration Day. The application focused not solely on Mr. Walczak's offenses but also on the political activity of his mother, Elizabeth Fago.

Ms. Fago had raised millions of dollars for Mr. Trump's campaigns and those of other Republicans, the application said. It also highlighted her connections to an effort to sabotage Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s 2020 campaign by publicizing the addiction diary of his daughter Ashley Biden " an episode that drew law enforcement scrutiny.

Mr. Walczak's pardon application argued that his criminal prosecution was motivated more by his mother's efforts for Mr. Trump than by his admitted use of money earmarked for employees' taxes to fund an extravagant lifestyle.

Still, weeks went by and no pardon was forthcoming, even as Mr. Trump issued clemency grants to hundreds of other allies.

Then, Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner last month that promised face-to-face access to Mr. Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Less than three weeks after she attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon.

The only thing shocking about this is that the cop admitted he shot himself.

Birds of a feather...

The passed this law on the sabbath breaking a commandment in the process.

It is a national embarrassment that the PotUS writes English at an elementary school level.

He was MAGAt trash.

The courts strike this BS down every time

Same vibe

More: But the global picture is even more interesting. While the world is now awash in debt, this is not a universal problem. Western governments, fuelled by cheap credit and the huge run-up in pandemic-era debt, account for most of the planet's borrowing. Add the private borrowing of their citizens, and their debts now account for several times their annual output.

While debt crises used to be thought of as a developing-world problem, most major governments there have since got their fiscal houses back in order. As a result, while investors have been demanding higher returns on loans to Western governments, since the start of the year bond yields in India, Nigeria, Brazil and Mexico have all been trending downwards.

It's obvious why. With better growth prospects and more prudent budgeting " not just by governments, but by the private and household sectors too " the countries of the developing world are starting to prove more attractive as long-term prospects for bond investors. If Western politicians continue to wave off the concerns of their lenders, they will continue to receive negative responses that choke off their credit supply. It happened in Britain three years ago; will America be next?

Calling it now, this will never be built.

She never should have made it though the Senate confirmation process.

Cory Booker shows his true colors. Shame on him.

Crime does pay I guess.

Just more proof that Donald Trump is a raving madman.

I wouldn't wish Alabama on anyone. I give them a month at most before they realize they should have stayed in SA.

They're blaming a "rogue employee."

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86, as I've known the term, comes from restaurants and it means stop selling an item because you ran out of it.