Donald Trump is going to Mount Rushmore today for an Independence Day eve campaign rally and fireworks show (a decade after fireworks were banned amid concerns about wildfires and groundwater pollution). President Trump pushed for the revival of the fireworks display, so naturally this red state complied with his whims. The local Argus Leader reports, Fire expert: Mount … Read more
Rep Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a $10 million winner in Publisher’s Clearinghouse sweepstakes in 1993, (video of Biggs receiving congratulations from Dick Clark and Ed McMahon), wants to gamble with your health and safety now. Steve Benen reports, An Arizona rep wants the WH Coronavirus Taskforce ‘disbanded’? In recent weeks, few states have struggled more with the … Read more
H/T Graphic: Buzzflash.com On the very day that “52,000 new cases were reported in the United States, the highest total since the start of the pandemic” and “record-shattering numbers of new cases were reported Wednesday in six states — California, Georgia, Texas, Alaska, North Carolina and Arizona” — in 45 states, seven-day averages of new … Read more
Coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci issued a stark warning on Tuesday to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, telling them he wouldn’t be surprised if the US sees new cases of coronavirus rising to a level of 100,000 a day. Fauci warns Congress that new US coronavirus cases could rise to 100,000 a day: “We … Read more
The last president of the Confederacy, Donald J. Trump, is threatening to veto the Defense Authorization Act to defend long-dead Confederate traitors who committed treason against the United States: When it was reported that high-ranking Army officials are open to stripping the names of Confederate generals from military posts such as Fort Bragg, Fort Benning … Read more