Marjorie Taylor Greene

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lamented her life as a lawmaker in a recent episode of her podcast.

"The nature of this job — it keeps members of congress and senators in Washington so much of the time, too much of the time to be honest with you, that we don't get to go home and spend more time with our families, our friends, you know, all in our district, or maybe just be regular people because this job is so demanding, and it's turned into practically year-round," Greene said. "And for those of us in the House of Representatives, we have to run for Congress every two years. So you're practically campaigning nearly the entire time that you're here serving as a representative. So that's just a couple of examples that I can give you that I believe is a recipe for disaster, and that's how people just fall into this social club. I would call it a social club here in Washington, D.C."

Gun manufacturer Sig Sauer was fined a $19,000 "civil penalty" by the Federal Election Commission for an illegal 2020 donation to Gun Owners Action Fund, a pro-gun industry super PAC that spent in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat current Georgia Democratic Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Although the fine was for the 2020 election, it was handed down by the Federal Election Commission in April and just made public in January.

As the 2024 presidential election campaign season hits its stride, the changing dynamic of the race in both parties is obvious, according to a New York Times report -- former President Donald Trump has scared away many potential opponents and the Democratic party has fallen in line to support President Joe Biden.

Four leading potential Democratic candidates to challenge Biden, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, have all gone dormant about a potential run for the nomination.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called on regular citizens to shoot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon that is currently drifting across the central United States in a tweet on Friday.

"Literally every regular person I know is talking about how to shoot down the Chinese Spy Balloon," wrote Greene, a controversial lawmaker famous for her promotion of the QAnon conspiracy theory. "It would be great if an average Joe shot it down because China Joe won’t. Regular Americans can do everything better than the government and actually care about our country."

An anti-abortion doctor in Kansas is drawing fire after he recently encouraged his fellow abortion opponents to find inspiration from the al-Qaeda hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Dr. Scott Stringfield, medical director of the Choices Medical Clinic, told a recent March for Life rally that the Islamist 9/11 hijackers were "principled" and that they should be seen as an example despite committing what Stringfield acknowledged was a "heinous" act that killed 3,000 Americans.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin had hoped he could sign a bill restricting abortion rights in his state, but that dream died last year when Democrats won a special election that gained them control of the state senate.

Now local news station WRIC reports that Youngkin's own party is quietly shelving the legislation and doesn't even plan to give it a vote in the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Representatives.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained this week that there are no lobbyists in America who are fighting for "the average white male" when they are denied career opportunities because of their race and gender, with an immediate and derisive backlash, reported Newsweek.

"In a video shared by Twitter account PatriotTakes, which monitors right-wing extremism online, Greene complained that lobbyists in the U.S. are just fighting 'for big corporations and industries' and no one is taking care of 'regular Mr and Mrs American, like mom and pops shops, the single moms trying to make it, the guy,'" reported Giulia Carbonaro. "The MAGA Republican lamented that 'there's not people fighting for regular Americans,' such as 'the average white male trying to climb the corporate ladder when his problem is being white and male.'"

New York Times reporter Charlie Savage was on the team of reporters that broke the recent report that special counsel John Durham and Attorney General Bill Barr were corruptly using the Justice Department in an attempt to discredit Robert Mueller's investigation. The effort failed, but only after nearly four years and $6.5 million in taxpayer dollars.

Two former prosecutors, now serving in Congress, have asked the inspector general at the DOJ to begin a probe into the conspiracy, but there's another entity under the department that could also be jockeying for the investigation: OPR - the Office of Professional Responsibility. OPR was started after Watergate in an effort to ensure the ethical standards of lawyers working under the DOJ.

A man who told Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) he'd pay somebody $500 to "take a baseball bat and crack your skull" has pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls.

Joseph Morelli, 51, from upstate New York, admitted making several calls to Greene's Washington, D.C., office in March 2022, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York said in a statement.

In February 2022, words like “pathetic” and “groveling” were used to describe Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina when she praised former President Donald Trump’s policies in a video made in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan. The conservative GOP congresswoman, facing an aggressive primary challenge from far-right Katie Arrington, was hoping to get back in Trump’s good graces after criticizing him for the January 6, 2021 insurrection. And The Bulwark’s Bill Kristol was among the Never Trump conservatives who called out the video as “pathetic.”

Trump and other MAGA Republicans have repeatedly attacked Mace as a RINO (Republican In Name Only). Regardless, Mace defeated Arrington by 8 percent in that GOP primary and went on to defeat Democrat Annie Andrews by 14 percent in the general election.

A potential mass shooting in Hollywood may have just been prevented by Los Angeles police, reported The Daily Beast on Thursday.

"Several neighbors flagged mental health concerns to cops after 25-year-old Braxton Johnson threatened them outside the Lumina Hollywood, a large apartment block," reported Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling. "After obtaining a search warrant, officers say they found several high-powered rifles, shotguns and handguns on the 18th floor of the complex, leading to Johnson’s arrest. The LAPD said they believe he was in the motions of plotting a mass shooting."

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) confirmed on Thursday that the decision to remove Rep. Ilham Omar (D-MN) from a committee was "tit-for-tat" retribution after two Republicans were punished in an earlier Congress.

Following his vote to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, Gaetz told viewers of his Firebrand podcast that it had not been a good feeling.