Politics

Via Disobedient Media

James Clapper is known for many things:

"I take responsibiltiy for every decsion that i make, but that's not why I lost."

 That is the soundbite du jour so far from Hillary Clinton, who previously blamed both Wikileaks and James Comey for losing the election, and who is speaking at Recode's CodeCon conference (free for everyone, no need to shell out $250,000 this time), where Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg pick the brain of the 2016 presidential candidate, who also just uttered the following memorable line: "Q: why did u speak with Goldman? A: They paid me."

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

Is it fair to compare Congress to a toilet? If there is one institution that embodies the corruption that permeates Washington D.C., it is the United States Congress.

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic had grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh.

In a Munich beer hall Sunday, Angela Merkel confirmed it.

Europe must begin to look out for itself, she said, “take our fate into our own hands. … The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over.”

The showdown between Donald Trump and James Comey will be televised after all.

According to CNN, the former FBI director plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump "did push Comey to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia."