MSNBC Congressional Correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell joined Hallie Jackson Reports and the namesake host on Wednesday to discuss President Biden’s first set of judicial nominees to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. According to Caldwell, “The Trump Administration really remade the federal judiciary appointing more than a quarter of judges, making the judiciary more white, more male, more conservative, and younger.” But things are

I’m looking forward to tonight’s State of the Union Address more than any sane or decent person should, but only because it’s snowing here on the Front Range so I’ll be breaking out one of the better scotches for tonight’s drunkblog. It ought to be lots of fun and I hope you’ll join me for

Rodney Scott, chief of the United States Border Patrol, pushed back against the Biden administration’s vocabulary changes related to immigration in a recent memo, citing contradictions with U.S. law and the impact such politically motivated changes would have on his officers. What is the background? The Biden administration last week ordered Customs and Border Protection

Seattle police officers were refused service at a chocolate shop in town, the Post Millennial reported, citing sources in the department as well as an officer who reportedly contacted the outlet after initial publication of the story. What are the details? Sources in the department with knowledge of the event told the Post Millennial that

Leave it to a punk rocker to be contrarian, but Johnny Rotten thinks woke lefties are “Pretty Vacant.” The legendary front man for The Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited isn’t having any of the virtue signaling and cancel culture sweeping America and Britain. According to the New York Post, Johnny Lydon (Rotten’s real name)

Former President Donald Trump issued another acidic missive against Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in a statement released on Tuesday. “Liz Cheney is polling sooo low in Wyoming, and has sooo little support, even from the Wyoming Republican Party, that she is looking for a way out of her Congressional race. Based on all

PolitiFact published a completely inaccurate fact check on Tuesday, accusing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) of making a false statement about Democrats’ court-packing initiative. But once it hit social media, observers informed the purportedly non-partisan organization that it was guilty of a “pants on fire” analysis. What are the details? During a press conference in front

When Democrats get caught in a political pickle, they can count on the borrowed authority of “journalists and fact-checkers” to bail them out. Take failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams pressuring corporations to put a financial squeeze on Georgia. In a March 31 op-ed in USA Today, her article began “Boycotts work. The focused power

A reporter said that she resigned from the New York Post after she was “forced” to write the “incorrect” story about Vice President Kamala Harris’s book being given to migrant children. Laura Italiano tweeted about the story and her resignation on Tuesday, a day after the article was retracted and clarified by several news outlets.

A former White House adviser to President Barack Obama has been arrested and charged with embezzling $218,000 from a charter school network he founded. What are the details? WNBC-TV reported that Seth Andrew, 42, has been charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and making a false statement to a bank after prosecutors say he stole

With a doctorate in racial and political gaslighting, MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid tag-teamed on Tuesday with progressive charlatans Joan Walsh of The Nation and Charlie Sykes of The Bulwark to lambaste the American right as braindead racists who’ve shunned the coronavirus vaccine, live to be perpetually angry, oppose Obama-era policies because they’re racists, and

I made a rookie mistake. There’s no excuse for it. A few weeks ago I wrote this ridiculously optimistic article about the new marijuana laws in New York written and passed by Democrats. I complimented them, and at the time I thought to myself, “Self, why are you doing this? You know Democrats never act

USA Today admitted that they allowed an edit to an op-ed written by Stacey Abrams be made without citing the change, and that op-ed was erroneously used by Politifact to defend her from her critics. The piece was published at USA Today on March 31, just days before Major League Baseball pulled their game from

Loved ones and strangers are mourning the death of NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos, a beloved husband and father of two young children who died in the early hours of Tuesday morning after being hit by an allegedly drunk driver while directing traffic. What are the details? The New York Times reported that Tsakos, 43, was

Ahead of President Biden’s address to Congress tomorrow, NBC Nightly News spent part of its Tuesday newscast gaslighting the American people about the President’s foreign policy successes in his first 100 days and trying to memory hole former President Trump’s seismic moves around the globe. At one point, they pushed the lie that Trump had

I made a rookie mistake. There’s no excuse for it. A few weeks ago I wrote this ridiculously optimistic article about the new marijuana laws in New York written and passed by Democrats. I complimented them and at the time I thought to myself, “Self, why are you doing this? You know Democrats never act