Reading Time: 2 minutes There are people who believe that Donald Trump is a “Clinton plant.” According to their theory, Trump was supposed to shake up the GOP race and hurt the eventual nominee so much that Hillary Clinton could defeat him more easily. Chances are that the selection of Steven Mnuchin as his campaign’s national finance chairman did Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes WhoWhatWhy has pointed to the ineffectiveness and downright dysfunction of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over and over and over and over again this election cycle. Two campaign finance watchdogs have finally had enough. After watching the FEC dismiss five complaints that asked the agency to investigate donors who violated the “straw donor” provision of Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes On the day of the New York primary, WhoWhatWhy warned voters that they should expect delays and irregularities. The Empire State’s officials finally caught on that there were serious problems with the vote. Eric Schneiderman, the state’s attorney general, announced he is launching an investigation, and said he was “deeply troubled by the volume and Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Barack Obama visits with Saudi officials today, he can give them the secret handshake or wink or do whatever US presidents do to let them know that their secrets are safe. At issue is legislation that would allow the families of 9/11 victims (or 7/11 victims, as Donald Trump calls them) to sue foreign Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bernie Sanders believes that Americans deserve some answers about what exactly is in those 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission report. Just prior to the crucial primary in New York, in which Sanders hopes to upset Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, the Vermont senator called on President Barack Obama to declassify that secret section of Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Saturday, both the Huffington Post and the Drudge Report – two giants in the online news world – led with the same item. That in itself is a rarity, as the Huffington Post leans left and the Drudge Report right (to put it mildly). The story in question was also interesting. According to a Read More
Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. District Court judge who presided over the trial of convicted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seems to have forgotten crucial details about the jury pool he interviewed during voir dire. Why do I seem to remember more about this aspect of the trial than the presiding judge?When I heard that Judge George O’Toole Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute What do the FBI, the Archdiocese of Washington, the Japanese Embassy and the Coast Guard have in common? According to the lawyer of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the infamous DC Madam who ran a prostitution ring in the nation’s capital, calls to his former client were made from all of these places. Montgomery Blair Sibley, who Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes All along, experts had predicted that Donald Trump’s lack of a strong ground game would hurt him in some states. That lack of organization was never more apparent than in Colorado this past weekend – and it cost Trump dearly. While the Centennial State selects its delegates in one of the most confusing processes, a Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a crazy election cycle, here is another storyline that seemed rather surprising at first glance: The employees of the largest defense contractors have given a lot more money to the Democrats running for president than the Republicans left in the race. A closer look shows, however, that this storyline is quite misleading. According to Read More