by Eric Miller | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
CANONSBURG, Pa. —House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrat Conor Lamb’s narrow win in Pennsylvania’s special election is “a tremendous victory” and said Lamb’s repeated statements that he would not vote for Pelosi as the party’s House...
by Eric Miller | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb are facing off Tuesday to represent Pennsylvania’s 18th district, a place where no Democrats even bothered to run in the last two cycles and President Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Polls show the two...
by Eric Miller | Mar 12, 2018 | Politics
WAYNESBURG, Pa. – Two days before the Tuesday special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district, Conor Lamb, the first Democrat to run for Congress here since 2012, was all smiles. Speaking before a crowd of coal miners in rural Greene County,...
by Eric Miller | Mar 12, 2018 | National Security, Politics
ARLINGTON, VA – Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort pled not guilty on Thursday to charges of tax and bank fraud as part of the Russia investigation. The charges were the latest brought by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in the wide-ranging probe of possible...
by Eric Miller | Mar 11, 2018 | Featured, Politics
MOON TOWNSHIP, PENN. – President Donald Trump touted steel tariffs and his upcoming talks with North Korea as he urged western Pennsylvania Republicans to vote for Rick Saccone in a Saturday night campaign rally leading up to a tight special election against Democrat...
by Eric Miller | Mar 7, 2018 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Guantanamo Bay’s first and most notorious prison camp for terrorist suspects will be destroyed, the Department of Justice announced. Critics complained Tuesday the move is a government attempt to “erase the history” of...
by Eric Miller | Mar 7, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Last month, reporters revealed that Jared Kushner and numerous senior White House officials were working without permanent security clearances. They’re not alone. At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers addressed the backlog of...
by Eric Miller | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Politics
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – For 50 years they’ve been adversaries separated by a fence line. But for a few days last week, soldiers from the U.S. and Cuba fought on the same side, battling a massive wildfire that threatened Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The blaze set off...
by Eric Miller | Feb 20, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has directed the Justice Department to explore a ban of bump stocks and other devices that can effectively turn a gun into a fully automatic weapon. Bump stocks gained national attention after one was...
by Eric Miller | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –President Trump vowed on Twitter last month that “no more” would Pakistan provide safe haven to terrorists. Shortly thereafter, the administration announced it would suspend nearly a billion dollars in security aid to Pakistan. This followed years of...
by Eric Miller | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The same failures of leadership that bogged down the U.S. in Vietnam are happening today in Iraq and Afghanistan, a panel of military experts warned Wednesday. According to Bing West, former Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan,...
by Eric Miller | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, Politics, SOTU2018
Members of Congress Stage Unprecedented Boycott of the State of the Union More than a dozen lawmakers staged an unprecedented boycott of President Trump’s State of the Union Tuesday night. Included in that list were Civil Rights leader Rep. John Lewis of Georgia,...
