Crooks and Liars

On this day, July 15th, in 1983 Big Country's debut album The Crossing was released. By the fall of that year, it was pretty hard to escape hearing the lead off single "In A Big Country" and people commenting "Ooh, the guitars sound like bagpipes" everywhere I went.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Collusion between Fox News and the Trump family continues, of course. And look, here's Don Jr's girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle looking at the camera with a straight face as if she didn't spend the early summer watching him take hits off a hookah pipe in the South of France.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday went to great lengths to avoid denying that the Russian government is in possession of “compromising material” on President Donald Trump.

The so-called president is Putin's puppet in front of the whole world. As John Amato said to me this morning, he's full-on Charlottesville with blaming BOTH the US *AND* Russia for election interference?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The party of fiscal responsibility. A Pence spokesperson called this story “a years old issue” that the vice president has addressed before.

CNN's John Berman didn't mince words with Rick Santorum this morning.
"The president said hours before the relationship with Russia has been bad because of the U.S. The Rick Santorum that I know would find that deplorable, would demolish him for saying that on foreign soil," he said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Thanks to everyone (and there were a lot of you) who suggested this for tonight's open thread. Source unknown, it's been tweeted and retweeted too often to count.

During Saturday's interview with CBS Evening News, Trump appeared clueless when asked about the twelve Russians recently indicted by Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.
Host Jeff Glor asked if Putin should be asked to send them back to the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Donald Trump is on third leg of his disastrous overseas trip and he is clearly trying to score high marks on his annual review with his boss, Russian president Vladimir Putin.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Trump's BFFs on state-run TV were thrilled to death to get the last 'Trump-Putin Helsinki 2018' hat during their coverage of his