Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage received a stay from impeachment charges that were expected to be introduced against him in Augusta today. But the delay is not expected to last long. Reps. Jeff Evangelos and Ben Chipman, who are co-sponsoring the longshot effort to impeach LePage, told the Bangor Daily… Read More
Democratic official refuses to be sworn into office
A Democrat who won a seat on a Pennsylvania township’s board of supervisors declined to be sworn in to replace the Republican incumbent she defeated. Colleen Unroe said she doesn’t have time for the job in Ferguson Township, and she now concedes she wasn’t eligible to take office anyway because… Read More
New Navy chief: Get me more nukes!
In his blueprint for a stronger Navy, the sea service’s new top boss, Adm. John M. Richardson, is blunt about what he thinks matters most: nuclear punch. Battling terrorists is today’s problem, but in looking toward a farther horizon, Richardson wants a Navy built to counter unpredictable future threats from… Read More
Trump: Damn right I’ll keep out Muslims
Love him or hate him — but you’d better start taking billionaire GOP hopeful Donald Trump at his word. Trump’s first television commercials have begun to hit the air this week, and pundits who were expecting to see a softer, more toned-down side of Trump are going to be sorely… Read More
Obama broke law with latest move on guns
President Barack Obama is talking tough about a new series of executive orders that are designed to curb gun ownership and trample Americans’ Second Amendment rights. But his latest measures likely don’t have much of a chance of ever surviving a judicial review. Obama will provide the full details today… Read More
Jeb Bush caught lying about NRA award
With polling numbers in the single digits and donors becoming increasingly nervous, the last thing Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s campaign could afford was more controversy. But now his campaign is scrambling to explain why Bush has repeatedly fabricated a story about receiving a major award from the National Rifle… Read More
Socialist Sanders planning to gut America’s banks
Democratic presidential candidate and socialist Bernie Sanders will pledge to break up the country’s largest financial institutions within the first year of his administration should he win the White House next November. He plans to make that pledge in a speech in New York on Tuesday afternoon. In a rare policy… Read More
Alert: Obama to launch attack on guns today
President Barack Obama is slated today to begin his latest assault on Americans’ Second Amendment rights, with a plan to bypass Congress with unilateral executive actions on gun ownership. And the anticipated move already has members of Congress and GOP presidential candidates fuming. At a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director… Read More
Plan to scrap Obamacare heading to president’s desk
The U.S. House of Representatives returns to session this week. And its first scheduled order of business for the new year? Repealing Obamacare. The House is expected to take up the measure, which also scraps Planned Parenthood funding, this week. The bill already passed the Senate under special rules protecting it… Read More
Two of Carson’s top advisers resign
Two of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s top paid advisers are leaving the campaign with only a month to go before Iowa’s leadoff caucuses. That’s according to Carson’s Iowa director, Ryan Rhodes. He says Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett and senior campaign spokesman Doug Watts are “out” as of Thursday…. Read More