Maybe the next time, God forbid there is a next time, that Joe Biden does a pratfall on the steps of Air Force One, Republicans won't pounce like vultures. (She said rhetorically; you know that they will.) There are few...
Political columnist Charles P. Pierce recently opined that somebody should get Donald Trump a Civics coloring book so that he can learn the basics of government. Trump was huffing and puffing about doing the State of the Union address...
President Donald Trump stepped up, put his big-boy pants on, and took the mantle of leadership. “I’ll take responsibility for shutting it down, I won’t blame you for it,” he famously told Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office. “I’ll...
One of Indiana’s largest employers, Eli Lilly and Company Pharmaceuticals, has announced that Indiana’s restrictive new abortion ban will force the company to seek opportunities for future growth outside of the state. Dumb laws have consequences. Business Insider “Eli Lilly and Company...
I just realized this when I was looking at some poll cross tabs the other day. The GOP is in a whole lot worse trouble than I thought they were, which means that they're in a shit load more...
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and somebody absolutely corrupt to begin with who gets power suddenly becomes a madman. All in all, we are lucky that the guardrails of democracy and the rule of law held as well...
It goes without saying that Trump is completely oblivious to what the hell he’s doing with this government shutdown. He has no concept of the nature and extent of the wheels that he has put in motion so that...
While Donald Trump is holed up in the White House tweeting about “presidential harassment” his slogan de jour, the president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International, representing 61,000 pilots, wrote a candid letter to his nibs, breaking down the reality...
The newest wrinkle in the political fabric is that none other than Fox News, specifically Sean Hannity's program, is lobbying to make Jim Jordan Speaker Of The House. Seriously. The Hannity Show has sent out an inquiry and the...
Treason is a serious accusation. Donald Trump throws it around like a Frisbee, accusing Barack Obama of treason for no good and defensible reason. And we all know that when Trump accuses someone of something, it's almost certainly because he's...

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