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Mary Chastain

Mary is the resident libertarian. She covers stories in every vertical, but her favorite thing to do is take on the media. She saw its bias against the right when she was a socialist.

Mary loves the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, tennis, cats, Oxford comma, Diet Coke, and needlework.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 08, 2019 51 Comments
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law on Monday morning that allows Congress to access President Donald Trump's state tax returns. From The New York Times:
The bill requires state tax officials to release the president’s state returns for any “specified and legitimate legislative purpose” on the request of the chair of one of three congressional committees: the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 08, 2019 79 Comments
I honestly do not know where to start with this insanity. Penelope Green at The New York Times asked in a recent article if Americans need an air conditioner. The Atlantic staff writer Taylor Lorenz jumped onto this notion by declaring air conditioning is sexist because, of course, it is.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 05, 2019 61 Comments
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) took a page out of rival Robert O'Rourke's book when he went to Mexico to speak with those sent back to Mexico after our government denied them asylum. Booker took it one step further by bringing five female asylum seekers with him back to America.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 02, 2019 31 Comments
As his campaign flounders, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Robert O'Rourke did what anyone else would do. He crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to campaign with asylum seekers. Oh, wait. That does not make sense since those people cannot vote until they become citizens.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 01, 2019 21 Comments
The photo of Óscar Martinez and his daughter, who drowned trying to reach the United States shook the world. Many have blamed President Donald Trump and American policies, but El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, elected in February, took the blame. From the BBC:
"People don't flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to," he told the BBC in the capital, San Salvador.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 28, 2019 6 Comments
President Donald Trump has raised $36 million since he announced his 2020 reelection campaign a week ago. From CNBC:
Trump’s seven-day haul is double the entire first-quarter fundraising total for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont , whose $18 million led the field of two dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 27, 2019 28 Comments
OK, so I hope tonight's debate is not as chaotic and a mess so I can provide better coverage than last night. I wonder if they'll try to out Spanish each other tonight. Anyway, tonight from 9PM ET to 11PM, ten more Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage in Miami.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 26, 2019 18 Comments
Ten of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage tonight for a debate while ten more will appear tomorrow. It was everything we knew it would be: chaotic, loud, and an overall mess.

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 26, 2019 37 Comments
On Monday, Project Veritas unveiled a new investigative video of a Google employee describing how the company wants to stop a "Trump situation" in 2020. YouTube removed the video, but Vimeo went one step further. The company chose to ban Project Veritas from its platform for uploading a video with "hateful, defamatory, or discriminatory" content.
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