The one thing that has struck me most about the Kavanaugh hearings was not that the good ol' boys club backed him up (since we knew that was coming, didn't we?) but that the headlines weren't plastered with the...
From all reports, Theodore Suess Geisel was a gentle and witty man. So I tend to think that the brou ha ha over his copyrights and all the residual silliness on Fox News would blow him away. I also...
The other shoe has dropped. The past few days have been filled with Lauren Boebert's egregious conduct of entertaining her constituents with an animated story about Ilhan Omar, the punchline of which is to infer that Omar is a...
The Republican Jewish Coalition are not happy campers. The 501(c)(4)Â political lobbying group describes itself as "striving to build a "strong, effective and respected" voice of Jewish Republicans that can influence activities, policies and ideas in Washington and across the...
This was taken directly from the column of the master satirist, Andy Borowitz, in the New Yorker. Â We've all had a hell of a week watching the Kavanaugh train wreck unfold and sometimes it helps to see some humor...
The internecine squabbling in the GOP is now reaching soap opera proportions, as the not so subtle bomb that Marjorie Taylor Greene dropped Friday, with the announcement of her "Anglo Saxon political traditions caucus" comes under intense fire from...
The lid is now flying off Pandora's box in the wake of the Boebert/Omar showdown. What you will see in the days ahead is an open confrontation over the central issue here, which is this: Is racism and extremism...
We may be looking at the end days of Kevin McCarthy, while he's looking to his ascension to power. This picture is a trifle out of focus, don't you agree? McCarthy has made a lot of enemies. That's normal...
On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate Chamber and repeatedly struck Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over the head with a cane. That occurred after Sumner had called Stephen Douglas, to his face, a "noise-some, squat,...
At last we get a clear picture of what has happened to Lindsey Graham the past few years, since he ringingly denounced Donald Trump in 2015, and then became his BFF and golfing buddy: it's Stockholm Syndrome. Graham has...
