Can Kennedy’s Health and Human Services get any worse?
How about if we add WV’s Mike Stuart as general counsel?
Yesterday, while HHS’s Robert Kennedy, Jr. was facing tough questioning before the U.S. Senate, Trump’s nominee for HHS general counsel, West Virginia’s Mike Stuart, was approved by the Senate Finance Committee. From Politico:
With a 14-13 vote along party lines, lawmakers approved the nomination of Gustav Chiarello as Health . . .
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What has WV2 rep, Riley Moore, been doing lately?
Representative Moore, Pope Leo XIV, and guns
If you follow WV2 Representative Riley Moore on X, you're probably aware of his numerous posts that are testimony to his Catholic faith. Moore's religious posts, however, are selective. For instance, Moore almost always ignores the U.S. Conference of Bishops preferring to cite . . .
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Keeping up with WV2's Representative Riley Moore
A fake town hall, Patrick Buchanan, and Chinese students
Sorry, Riley, but limiting attendance to Koch followers doesn’t turn a gathering into a townhall
While serving as my congressional representative, David McKinley, never held an in-person town hall. (This, despite my many posts asking him to do so!) In the last few years of his tenure, however, McKinley did have telephone . . .
Donald Trump: “Quick, we need another distraction from yesterday’s failed distraction of the Epstein list.”
So, West Virginia’s governor and #1 Trump-toady, Patrick Morrisey, quickly responds
Earlier today:
The West Virginia National Guard (WVNG) has been directed by Governor Patrick Morrisey to support President Trump’s federal takeover by deploying troops to Washington, D.C., at the request of the Trump administration. https://t.co/2Is4efaPC6
— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) August 16, 2025
Here is Morrisey’s statement:
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Old editorials published as new, no cost (and biased) news stories, and Ogden’s online future
Yes, it’s another installment of “newspapers on the cheap”
Another new/old editorial
Once again:
So what if it's biased, it doesn't cost us anything
If you’ve been reading our local papers this year, you may have noticed that the number of national and state articles from the Associated Press has been declining. Some days, our local newspapers carry only . . .
The least you could do, Shelley, would be to give back the award
West Virginia’s senior senator once again demonstrates her loyalty to the Trump Party
Last year, from West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito’s congressional website:
And yesterday, from West Virginia Watch’s Lori Kersey:
West Virginia Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, both Republicans, signed off Thursday on legislation that would claw back about $9 billion in funding previously . . .
Rocketship rides, backyard brawls and now "Grow West Virginia"
A look at the WV economy after 10+ years of Republican control
Question: at the beginning of his last year as governor, Jim Justice promised to take West Virginia’s economy on a “rocket ship ride.” Well, where did the state land? Answer: At the same place it started. Last week, CNBC, the business cable network, announced its annual analysis of “America’s Top States for Business.” As I have done with . . .
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