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Former President Bill Clinton Named in Unsealed Epstein Court Documents

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  Former President Bill Clinton is among several high-profile names identified in nearly 1,000 pages of unsealed court documents stemming from a defamation lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein. The documents released out of the Southern District Court of New York Wednesday evening, were filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s close associate and partner. The documents reveal a damning relationship between Clinton and Epstein. In a shocking deposition, Johanna Sjoberg, recruited to work as a “massage therapist” for the accused pedophile, said Epstein claimed, “Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.” In the documents, Maxwell denied Clinton ever visited Epstein’s private Caribbean Island while confirming the former president dined on Epstein’s private jet while traveling around the world. “The allegation that Clinton had a meal on Jeffrey’s Island is 100 percent false,” Maxwell testified. She could not indicate how many times Clinto

U.S. Senate Adopts Bipartisan Bill to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent

“Congress created Daylight Saving decades ago as a wartime effort, now it is well past time to lock the clock and end this experiment.” - U.S. Sen. James Lankford The U.S. Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023. Lawmakers unanimously adopted the Sunshine Protection Act, which advocates say will boost economic activity. The measure must pass the U.S. House of Representatives before going to President Joe Biden for consideration. The Sunshine Protection Act The bill,  S.623 , would apply to those states who participate in daylight saving time. Most states observe daylight saving time for eight months each year. The Sunshine Protection Act would do away with changing clocks twice a year. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not participate in Daylight Saving Time. U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-FL, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, sponsored the measure. “Resetting the clocks may soon be a thing of the past,” Whitehouse said in a state

Bill McCoshen Not Running for Wisconsin Governor

Scratch one candidate off the list of potential gubernatorial candidates in Wisconsin. Bill McCoshen on Wednesday said he is not running. McCoshen said he and his family decided not to be a candidate. Who is Bill McCoshen? Bill McCoshen is a former Tommy Thompson staffer, and was one of the top names on the list of possible Republican candidates. McCoshen this week finalized the sale of his lobbying firm, Capitol Consultants, to the lobbying arm of Milwaukee law firm Michael Best & Friedrich. “I know what it takes to win statewide,” McCoshen said in a statement. “To run the type of positive, issue-oriented grassroots campaign we wanted to run required time and money. You need both to raise name ID statewide. While I’m confident we could have raised the money, the reality was we lost too much precious time trying to close on the sale of our primary business.” Bill McCoshen’s decision not to run certainly benefits Rebecca Kleefisch the most. McCoshen will be joining