Politics

Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic blog,

Empires get stupider and more corrupt as they age..

Earlier this week, we speculated that a shift in Russia-related Democratic talking points could be a sign that Congressional investigators, and possibly even special counsel Robert Mueller, might soon confirm what many have long suspected: that there is no evidence of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.

With much of America clicking furiously all day Thursday on the website of the National Archives, hoping to be among the first to catch the release of thousands of previously unseen JFK Assassination records, the U.S. government was in danger of missing the deadline to release the trove of previously classified records from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, "adding an unexpected twist to a saga already rife with rumors and conspiracies" according to NBC.

Submitted by Joseph Jankowski of PlanetFreeWill

President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, has floated the idea of raising the current federal gasoline tax next year to fund the administrations $1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan aimed at improving U.S. roads, bridges, and other public work. The idea was proposed during a meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers dubbed the Problem Solvers Caucus on Wednesday, reports Bloomberg.

Shortly after House Speaker Paul Ryan finished extolling his triumph over a group of 20 intransigent blue-state Republicans who opposed a budget bill passed by the House on Thursday, the Republican leader dropped a surprising revelation about the House Intelligence Committee’s push to subpoena the FBI for records pertaining to the infamous “Trump dossier.”