The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed a resolution blocking an Obama-era rule that would have prevented an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from buying guns.
The rule was part of former President Barack Obama’s push … Read more »
By Henry Waxman – The Washington Post.
Henry Waxman is chairman of Waxman Strategies, a public affairs and strategic communications firm. He served as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1975 to 2015.
Congressional Republicans and President Trump … Read more »
By Dana Milbank – The Washington Post.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a fourth-generation military man, deployed twice to Afghanistan. The second time, as a 22-year-old Marine corporal in 2010, he led an eight-man infantry team into combat. Two of his men were … Read more »
By EMILY DREYFUSS – Wired.com
YOU ONLY USE 10 percent of your brain. Eating carrots improves your eyesight. Vitamin C cures the common cold. Crime in the United States is at an all-time high.
None of those things are true.… Read more »
By Linda Qui – The New York Times.
President Trump’s speech on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference followed a familiar pattern: Blast the news media as “dishonest,” repeat a string of falsehoods and wrap up by promising to
By Callum Borchers – The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/25/the-remarkable-inconsistency-of-trumps-attacks-on-the-media… Read more »
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM – The New York Times.
WASHINGTON — Journalists from The New York Times and several other news organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing by President Trump’s press secretary on Friday, a highly unusual breach of … Read more »
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch
It started in June 2015 with that Trump Tower escalator ride into the presidential race to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” (“But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead, … Read more »
By Dana Milbank – The Washington Post.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a fourth-generation military man, deployed twice to Afghanistan. The second time, as a 22-year-old Marine corporal in 2010, he led an eight-man infantry team into combat. Two of his men were … Read more »
By Edward Price – The Washington Post.
Edward Price worked at the CIA from 2006 until this month, most recently as the spokesman for the National Security Council.
Nearly 15 years ago, I informed my skeptical father that I was … Read more »