4-1-16 Quick Morning News
Victoria Jones created and edits Quick Morning News. She is chief White House correspondent with Washington DC-based Talk Media News, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. Breaking: Donald Trump suspends campaign amid hair plugs rumor (check today's date...) Quick NewsUS, China: Work together re North KoreaTrump makes nice with RNCMarch jobs today: What to watchGOP rep warns: Voter discrimination loomsFCC approves internet subsidies for poorChris Christie: M&M meltdown US, China: Work Together re North Korea (BBC, me)• The U.S. and China will work together to try and prevent [...]
2-5-16 Quick Morning News
Victoria Jones created and edits Quick Morning News. She is chief White House correspondent with Washington DC-based Talk Media News, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. Quick NewsDems: Down & dirty debateGOP candidates' cornerJanuary jobs: 4 things to watchPharma bro finally shuts upEnergy bill blocked over Flint aidObama to propose $10-a-barrel fee on oil Dems: Down & Dirty Debate (NYT, Politico, Politico, AP, AP, me)• Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders finally took the gloves off in an MSNBC Democratic debate at the University of New Hampshire Thursday night. Clinton [...]
12-4-15 News Notes
TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally.News NowFBI: San Bernardino shooting possible terrorismVictims: Some profilesMass shootings: Guns vs prayersNovember jobs report: Things to watchPentagon: Women to serve in combatHighway bill: DoneHouse passes Obamacare repeal billGOP 2016ers woo Jewish Republicans FBI: San Bernardino Shooting Possible Terrorism (NYT, me)• The FBI is treating the Wednesday San Bernardino shooting as a [...]
11-6-15 News Notes
TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally.News NowPlane crash: Investigators believe bombGOP debate: Christie, Huckabee to kiddie tableFounding Fathers: Ben Carson said WHAT now?October jobs: 4 things to watchUS warplanes shot staff fleeing Afghan hospitalUS offended at comments by Netanyahu's "new" spoxTPP: Countdown begins - "exclusions up the wazoo"Defense spending bill / Guantanamo Plane Crash: Investigators Believe Bomb [...]
10-2-15 News Notes
TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally.Flooding from Hurricane Joaquin will impact 65 million people and areas from South Carolina to Massachusetts, even though the storm is unlikely to make landfall in the US (Accuweather) Vatican: Pope Francis' meeting with Kim Davis not a form of support for her position News NowOregon shooting at Umpqua college kills [...]
2-6-15 News Notes
TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. In the News Obama's national security strategy Netanyahu speech: 3 Dems won't go January jobs report: the weird one Ukraine: Euro leaders confront Putin Brian Williams: Hole deepens Homeland Security: GOP/GOP squabble Anthem data breach: Lax security? Benghazi committee: Democrats revolt Jordan jets strike ISIS Obama/Romney 2012 concession call [...]
The Bernie Beat @RadioOrNot
Bernie finally got his opportunity to introduce the bill to overturn Citizens United today, five years following the decision […]
The Weed Scene: Going Green in 2014
It's a peculiar hypothetical, but how illuminating it would be to have a close friend come out of a coma that he'd been in since 2004 ... November 2014 rolls around, and he awakes to a country he barely recognizes. There's a confusingly unpopular but otherwise impressive black man in the White House, more than half the states in the country have legalized gay marriage and for a capper(?) -- two states have already legalized and taxed weed, and Holy Willie Nelson, more states have medical and recreational marijuana in mind and on the midterm ballot. That news almost makes [...]
Weekly jobless claims fall… yet again. Lowest since 2006. #BlameObama
Yes, it's true. Fox is reporting upbeat economic news again, and it goes a little something like this: The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell last week to 287,000 from an upwardly revised 288,000. Wall Street expected claims to rise to 294,000 from an initially reported 287,000. I think we can all agree that this is getting out of hand. How dare Fox spotlight anything that could possibly put President Obama in a favorable light? Are they nuts?! Well if they are, so is the Star Tribune: "With the pace of firings exceptionally low, and surveys signaling [...]