Politics

“Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity and it is already causing devastating harm. Extreme weather disasters like hurricanes will devastate communities and cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars.”

"I fail to understand why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful."

It is a mistake to brush off a primary with huge significance.

You’d think today’s majority, rebuffed twice in 16 years with two wingnut, minority presidents, would rage against the non-democratic, distortion-laden Electoral College. You’d think that hapless, vision-less Democrats would crusade against what put dim Dubya, then crazed, scatter-gun Trump in power.

The merciless attacks on low-income health care programs effectively condemn thousands of people to an early death.

“To have a fighting chance to combat catastrophic climate change, we must phase out fossil fuels.”

A shadowy group stoking U.S. hostility with Iran and the evidence that it is funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The good, if grim news about Trump and Gianforte is how readily exposed are their moral, legal and leadership defects – already instant late-night laughing stocks for having acted scandalously without penalty (so far).

This freeze is a bad idea, but there will be more where this came from.

Smith: “Mr. Woolsey, with great respect, it's very early to make this a political matter.”