Thune plans 30-day sprint to pass border and defense bill Senate Republicans huddled for hours at the Library of Congress near the Capitol to discuss their priorities for next year. 12/3/2024 - 10:04 am | View Link
House-Senate clash over military pay, benefits continues as NDAA deadline approaches House lawmakers said it is “disheartening" their Senate colleagues didn't include most of quality of life recommendations in their version of the defense bill. 12/2/2024 - 12:55 pm | View Link
Putin approves Russia's budget with record spending on national defense Spending on war and law enforcement agencies exceeds expenditures on education, healthcare, social policy, and the national economy combined. 11/30/2024 - 10:20 pm | View Link
House Republicans try to cut IVF expansion in defense bill Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story 2 Republicans try to cut IVF expansions in defense billA pair of House Republicans are asking House ... 11/21/2024 - 9:43 am | View Link
2 House Republicans seek to stop IVF expansion in defense bill Matt Rosendale (Mont.) and Josh Brecheen (Okla.), are asking the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees to not include provisions in the annual defense authorization bill that ... 11/20/2024 - 7:17 pm | View Link
Trump’s nominee to run the DEA has withdrawn from consideration after MAGAt lawmakers objected to him (you'll love this) for enforcing COVID restrictions seriously during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Via HuffPost:
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, a Florida Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that he had decided to drop out after the “gravity of this very important responsibility set in.”
“To have been nominated to serve as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration is the honor of a lifetime,” Chronister said in a statement.
I don’t know why any Democrat would allow President Joe Biden’s pardon of son Hunter to turn into any kind of controversy. Even if they disagree with the decision, any media discussion about it only distracts from the cabinet of unqualified horrors Trump wants to put in charge of life-and-death departments.
As we know, Pete Hegseth has some big problems with his nomination to head up the Defense Department, what with the out-of-control drinking, a rape accusation, and financial mismanagement that left his veterans organization broke. Things are so bad, they're doing an interview today (on Fox News. Not like a real interview!) to try to rescue his nomination.
Above, Kon Kan performs, I Beg Your Pardon. Yeah, we have something to say about Our Failed Political Press ™ and the Puritopians' latest obsession.
Lucien Truscott asks, High Road? What fucking high road?"
No More Mister Nice Blog ties the pardon to the Hegseth nomination and concludes they are related in a way.
Juanita Jean's wants to get out the flame thrower.
Notus wants to know what about everyone else's pardons.
Bonus Track: Colossal has photographs from the Northern Lights Photography contest.
The media is currently clutching its pearls over President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, saying President-elect Donald Trump will use Biden’s act of clemency to justify bad pardons once he takes office again.
Politico declared Biden’s pardon “a rich gift to those who want to blow up the justice system as we know it,” while The New York Times said Biden’s act “will inevitably muddy the political waters as Mr.