Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday refused to answer senators’ questions about his conversations with President Trump about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into Russia’s election meddling, citing executive privilege. “I’m just not able to comment,” Sessions said. Democrats have maintained that because Trump did not invoke the privilege himself, the attorney general is […]

North Korea initiated construction of a new ballistic missile submarine, US intelligence officials told the Diplomat’s Ankit Panda October 17. US military intelligence assesses that North Korea has started building a “Sinpo-C-class” submarine at the Sinpo shipyard on the country’s east coast, the outlet reports. The sub’s specifications include a displacement of 2,000 tons, a maximum width of 11 meters and a diesel-electric propulsion […]

By Claire Chretien   WASHINGTON, D.C. October 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – An Obama-appointed judge ordered the government today to allow an illegal immigrant minor in its custody to abort her preborn child “promptly and without delay.” The mother seeking the abortion is a 17-year-old from Mexico. Justice Department lawyers argued the government has “strong and constitutionally legitimate interests in promoting childbirth, in […]

The globalist “swamp” in Washington, D.C., is aiming to put top Hillary Clinton aide Joseph Macmanus (shown) into a key post, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, according to GOP sources cited in news reports. If the plot succeeds, it would potentially help keep under wraps the sordid details of the Obama administration’s betrayal of Colombians to the mass-murdering Castro regime and its hordes […]

Here Come the Threats Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said if Congress fails to pass a bill overhauling the tax code, Wall Street will suffer. “There is no question that the rally in the stock market has baked into it reasonably high expectations of us getting tax cuts and tax reform done,” Mnuchin in an interview with a Politico podcast released […]

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) is trying to keep alive his deal with Democrats on ObamaCare by floating changes to clarify language. President Trump tweeted a heavy blow to the deal on Wednesday morning by saying he cannot support “bailing out” insurance companies, a reference to payments to insurers that the deal would continue to help fund discounts for consumers. Alexander’s proposed […]

President Trump on Wednesday suggested he will oppose a bipartisan deal to help stabilize ObamaCare, reversing comments he made one day earlier. Trump wrote on Twitter that he was “supportive” of the deal’s architect, Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), as well as the Senate process, but said he would “never support bailing out” insurance companies, saying they “have made a fortune” under ObamaCare. Trump […]

 by: Mike Adams  |   Natural News (Natural News) We have truly reached the point in American history where criminal indictments need to be immediately leveled against James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Robert Mueller and a dozen other high-ranking officials who are now known to have been complicit in one of the most treasonous criminal cover-ups in American […]

During my morning Trap Line run for news items I have all these thoughts that go thru my mind.  This morning (much to my surprise because I could care less about all these professional sports and their antics) I kept having this thought that I need to comment about all these so called *professional* players promoting the art of PROTEST […]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average pierced the 23,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday, before edging back and closing just below it. The Dow got a lift from strong earnings from UnitedHealth and Johnson & Johnson that sent their stocks surging. The blue-chip index has gained 2.6 percent this month and logged three previous 1,000-point milestones already in 2017. […]

Top U.S. health insurer to look at Trump ObamaCare alternatives (Bloomberg) UnitedHealth Group Inc., the U.S.’s biggest health insurer, said it’s excited about the the chance to sell health plans President Donald Trump is promoting as alternatives to Obamacare. Last week, Trump signed an executive order promoting short-term health insurance plans, “association health plans” for business owners who could band together, and […]

Legislation introduced by two GOP senators would exempt certain people from ObamaCare’s requirement that everyone must purchase health insurance or pay a fine. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the law’s individual mandate “cruel” and said they want to exempt working class Americans from the requirement. The legislation would exempt anyone who earns less than the national median household income; lives […]

Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to add a government-run “public option” plan to ObamaCare, modeled on Medicare. The plan, part of a long-running debate in the Democratic Party about how far to go in expanding government-run health insurance, would move ObamaCare to the left but does not go as far as Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) “Medicare for all” […]

The chairman of the powerful House Freedom Caucus said more work needs to be done to get conservatives to support a bipartisan Senate deal to extend critical ObamaCare payments to insurers, but he called it a starting point. “There are elements in the Alexander-Murray plan that we can build on, but much more work needs to be done,” Rep. Mark […]

President Trump on Tuesday appeared to signal support for a bipartisan deal to help stabilize ObamaCare.  Trump called the proposal “a short-term solution so that we don’t have this very dangerous little period” for insurance companies. The president spoke minutes after Senate Health Committee Chairman Lama Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced he and ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) had reached an agreement to aid insurers. “They are working […]

Theft at the highest level Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Tuesday that he and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) have reached a bipartisan deal that would extend payments to insurers under ObamaCare that President Trump said he was ending last week. The deal would extend the payments to insurers for two years and give states more flexibility to change ObamaCare rules. The negotiations had been […]

BY KIM SMITH   |    Conservative Tribune  It turns out there may be some truth to the Russia collusion story, but it happened on former President Barack Obama’s watch, and it has former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints all over it. According to a report Tuesday in The Hill, a controversial Obama administration decision in 2010 to approve a deal that gave […]

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt is cracking down on settlements with environmental groups. Pruitt rolled out a new policy Monday meant to add transparency and stakeholder input in the settlement process. He accused the Obama administration of using settlements on regulatory matters to collude with environmentalists and obligate the agency to write rules, thus thwarting the usual regulatory […]

President Trump on Monday defended his delay in responding to the recent Army Green Beret deaths in Niger — and also claimed that former President Obama and other past presidents didn’t call the families of fallen soldiers. Trump made the remark at an impromptu press conference in the White House Rose Garden after being asked why he had not yet […]

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, October 17, 2017. A few discerning readers noticed that the two events I cited in yesterday’s note (the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and an 1823 letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson) actually occurred on today’s date, not October 16. Forgive me of that lapse. I was in San Francisco for the 1989 “Bay Bridge” World […]