LOS ANGELES (oc)/--Democrats on the House Oversight committee released Ghislaine Maxwell emails to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Espstein obtained by subpoena from Esptein’s estate.  Democrats reviewing the emails say that President Donald Trump was mentioned numerous times over the last 15 years, though Epstein has been dead by suicide in the New York Correctional facility in 2019.  Most the email exchanges were before Trump was president.  One email by Epstein claims that Trump spent considerable time with a women the...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--When the Republican House returns to Washington tomorrow to sign onto the Senate’s Nov. 9 bill to reopen the federal government, Democrats won’t be happy, hoping to get the House to sign onto the Senate bill and end the stalemate that began Oct. 1.  Democrats refused to sign onto a usual continuing budget resolution [CR], the usual way Republicans and Democrats resolve budget disputes.  Democrats refused to sign onto the Republican CR because they did not restore $1.5 trillion in Medicaid and Obamacare...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Sen. John Fetterman paid a friendly visit to ABC’s “The View” today and was promptly ambushed over his vote to join Republicans to reopen the government.  View host Sunny Hostins called Fetterman out for caving in to Republican demands when Democrats had the clout to continue advancing its political narrative heading into the 2026 Midterm election.  Fresh off victories in the Nov. 4 off-year election, Hostin lambasted Fetterman for giving into Republicans at a time when Democrats clearly had the...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump gave his approval to the 60-vote Senate bill that reopens the federal government after a 40-day shutdown that watched Democrats and Republicans play a dangerous game of chicken, refusing to blink first.  But for all the bravado on both sides, Democrats didn’t hesitate to take the knives out on the eight Democrats who agreed with Republicans that it was time to end the shutdown.  Calls for Senate Chuck Schumer ‘s (D-N.Y) head rang through the chamber, even though he wasn’t one of...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Eight independently-minded Democrats joined Republicans in the U.S. Senate to end the 30-day government shutdown started Oct. 1 when Democrats stood up to Republicans after months of Republican rule in the House and Senate.  Democrats looked for their cause célèbre  and found one in saving Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies,, affecting some 95 million Americans.  How ironic that Democrats are calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) head when he was the one, with House Minority Leader...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Showing its fake news credentials for all to see, the Hill newspaper defended Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) saying he’s the victim of a Department of Justice [DOJ] witch hunt all part of President Donald Trump’s retribution tour.  How can any objective newspaper report as story about a possible indictment of Schiff as DOJ weaponization, all because Schiff did everything possible in Trump’s first term to discredit his presidency, accusing him of colluding with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential...

LOS ANGELES (OC0.--President Donald Trump showed how out-of-step with Senate Republicans, urging them in the strongest possible terms to end the filibuster or the supermajority 60 vote majority to pass any legislation.  Republicans know if Democrats get power after the 2026 Midterm election, they don’t want to face Democrats in power without the filibuster.  Trump’s shortsighted is related to the fact that he’s a one-term president, so he doesn’t have to worry about what comes next.  Last week’s off-year election showed...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Since the government shut down Oct. 1, Congress, under its Article One powers, seems utterly paralyzed to stop what’s become the most self-destructive government act in U.S. history. Democrats, the minority party in the House and Senate, haven’t done enough to end the paralysis, wreaking havoc on the nation, shutting down the air-traffic control system and cutting the cash needed to provide food to poor Americans, 42 million are on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program [SNAP] once known as Food...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Fallout from the Oct. 1 government shutdown continues to wreak havoc around the country, exposing for all to see the 42 million or 12% of Amerricans dependent on government largess in what’s known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program [SNAP] once known as food stamps.  For anyone watching from outside the country, it exposes for all to see that the country isn’t as rich as it seems, with 12 % of the population requiring government food assistance to survive.  :Once the government shutdown...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump doesn’t know what hit him with an off-year election that saw California Gov. Gavin Newsom win Prop 50 redistricting practically guaranteeing that Republicans will lose control of the House next year.  Whatever Trump says to tout his economy the Democrat and media narrative undermine’s his message.  “We are the ones that have done a great on affordability, not the Democrats,” Trump said.  “But we just lost an election, they said., based on affordability. Trump’s credibility has been...