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New Mexico Governor Orders National Guard Troops Back from Border
The jig is hurtling toward the sun. Deriding the “charade of border fear-mongering by Donald Trump, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the majority of National Guard troops deployed at the state’s southern border to withdraw. “I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Lujan…
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Democrats Call Trump's Bluff 12 Hours After Investigation Threat
Trump wants it to be one way. He may soon learn it’s the other way. Less than 12 hours after Trump debuted his rhyming threat, ripped from the dialogue of a straight-to-television mob movie, Democrats have asked Trump to walk it like he recently talked it. “If there is going to be peace and legislation,…
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There's No Use in Taking Trump's State of the Union Seriously
Everything is worse in the wake of Trump’s latest State of the Union Address. I once dated a functioning alcoholic. What began as a functioning facade gave way to wobbly excuses, thinly-veiled threats and destructive behavior. At first, the tearful apologies came so infrequently that each felt like a breakthrough of some sort, new ground…
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Covington Catholic's Nick Sandmann Gearing Up For Potential Libel Battle
Media organizations, celebrities and politicians have received letters from lawyers representing Nick Sandmann, the student from Covington Catholic High School who was seen standing in front of Native American Vietnam Veteran Nathan Phillips at a demonstration in Washington, D.C. Alyssa Milano, the New York Times, Jim Carrey, the Washington Post and the diocese of Covington…
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Elizabeth Warren Apologizes to Cherokee Nation for DNA Stunt
Well, that didn’t take long at all. Days after all but announcing her bid for president, nearly four months after releasing DNA testing results that pointed to a Native American ancestor, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has issued an apology to the Cherokee Nation, according to a spokesperson for largest federally recognized tribe. Neither Warren’s office…
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Undocumented Former Trump Employee to Attend State of the Union Address
Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan woman who spent years working for the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. before revealing her status as an undocumented worker to the New York Times in December, has accepted an invitation to attend Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week. Morales, who was terminated from her job…
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Smollett Family Issues First Statement Since Racist, Homophobic Attack
Early Monday morning, Empire star Jussie Smollett was allegedly attacked by two masked white men in Chicago who beat and berated the 36-year-old actor while yelling racist and homophobic slurs and putting his head in a noose, pouring an unknown chemical on him before fleeing on foot. Smollett, who told police the two men yelled…
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Presidential Hopeful Elizabeth Warren Announces Major Announcement
After more than a year of open speculation from supporters, pundits and democratic party insiders alike, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is expected to formally announce her bid for the 2020 election in the coming week, according to Politico. The announcement, teased in an Instagram post by the Senator’s official account, told supporters to ready themselves…
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Super Bowl LIII to Feature Male Cheerleaders for the First Time
Professional sports rosters, hockey and baseball excluded, tend to feature a steady diet of black players at every position. But while the outsized presence of young, gifted and black athletes on championship podiums has become so ubiquitous as to be reduced to an afterthought for most sports fans, black men have been largely absent from…
