Posts By: Jim Courtovich

President Trump warned that a “big price” would be paid for a chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 42 and injured hundreds, just a week after the president said the U.S. would be pulling out of Syria. In a tweet, Trump hurled blame in two directions:  at Vladimir Putin, one of the few times… Continue reading →

Good morning! Congress is out of town this week, and the Supreme Court is relatively quiet, which leaves much of the attention in Washington focused just where a certain person likes it – on President Trump. The president came out swinging over the weekend, in fact, warning of “caravans” of immigrants flowing over Mexico’s southern… Continue reading →

Whew! What a week! No doubt there are many in the Trump Administration who consider themselves lucky to still have a job. The recently departed include Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, and National Economic Council Head Gary Cohn. Not to mention Trump lawyer John Dowd, who left saying the president routinely… Continue reading →

Good morning! We’ve written about pending government shutdowns so often that it would seem more of a surprise if Congress went a month without a threatened closure. But here we are again: The government will shut down Friday without a budget resolution. Neither the House nor the Senate has passed a bill to fund the… Continue reading →

• To the polls! In yet-another foreshadowing that something significant will (or won’t) be happening come the fall midterms, Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District on Tuesday conducts a special election to fill its seat in Congress. The Republican candidate, State Legislator Rick Saccone, appears poised to beat the Democrat challenger, Conor Lamb, not least because Republicans… Continue reading →