Inspector General: Trump Travel Ban Chaotic, Disastrous, Illegal
President Trump’s original travel ban was disastrously implemented, the Homeland Security inspector general said in a new memo to Congress Monday that concluded department employees illegally tried to prevent some people from the affected countries from even getting on planes to reach the U.S., despite court orders to the contrary.
Chicago, An American War Zone, Passes Grim Milestone
Chicago has now seen more than 600 homicides for the second year in a row, an awful milestone indeed. As of Monday, there had been at least 609 homicides; by this time last year, that number was 711, but the number by this point in years prior was much lower: 443 in 2015 and 400 in 2014.
Can We Teach Common Decency To Those Who Grew Up Without It?
Sooner or later it will run its course and the monkeys will stop shrieking and flinging and go back to doing what monkeys do – at least until the cage is rattled again or some monkey news network comes up with something else lucrative. But while we’re raging about this outrage and ignoring the others, it does seem that it’s not only priests going after boys, but politicians.
Tom Steyer Brings Huge “Impeach Trump” Billboard to Times Square
If they look up into the bright lights, the more than 350,000 people who traverse New York City’s Times Square every day will be greeted with a new message among the throngs of advertisements: Impeach President Donald Trump. Environmentalist and Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer announced Monday that his growing $20 million campaign to remove Trump from office is moving to the heart of the country’s most populous city at its busiest time of year.