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March 30th, 2021 - 5:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics

Matt Gaetz investigated for teen sex traffickiing

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL; photo) may have violated federal law by paying for an underage girl to travel with him across state lines, The Hill and Huffington Post reported on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Read story here and here. A Department of Justice investigation, begun while Trump was president, of an [...]

March 30th, 2021 - 9:54 am § in Donald Trump, News Media, Politics

Matt Gaetz is tired of Congress

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a strident rightwing foghorn in Congress, is “seriously considering not seeking re-election” and may leave before his term ends to take a job at Newsmax, the news-summary website Axios reported on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Gaetz apparently hopes becoming a rightwin[...]

March 30th, 2021 - 12:58 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Law and Courts, News Media, Politics, Racism

How bad a president was Trump?

That’s the title of an article by Chris Cillizza, who frequently writes about politics for CNN. The article quickly descends into statistics (More Republicans than Democrats like Trump) and scholarly rankings (ranging from near-last to dead-last). If you want to wade through those details, go [...]