Ever since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to "reform" Israel's Supreme Court (reform as in strip it of power) there have been widespread and large protests.  For a while it seemed to have worked as he "suspended"...
According to this report a former U.S. Secret Service Agent with White House detail experience claims the small baggie of cocaine found in that "cubby bin" at the WH was planted.  Deliberately put there.  So that it would be...
By the time I finish writing this a Senate hearing not getting enough notice will have started.  However, Senator Blumenthal's opening remarks got leaked and he's not pulling any punches.  To use a golf pun, he's "teeing off" on...
As I write this I'd love nothing more than to be able to glance up at the best women golfers in the world in it's top event, the (Women's) United States Open Golf Tournament which for the first time...
I don't doubt for a second that Clarence Thomas experienced racism and significant discrimination.  Both while growing up and as he moved into adulthood.  I also don't doubt for a second that despite all the insults to his intellect...
The impact on non-whites of SCOTUS overturning precedent and gutting affirmative action is huge news today.  It should be.  Chief Justice John Roberts famously, in my view petulantly wrote in his decision gutting the Voting Rights Act that the...
(UPDATE: I knew better than to watch the video.  Just seeing the headline made my stomach turn but the subject of this article had the unmitigated, clueless GALL to say to some reporter with a camera "I have my...
Yevgeny Prigozhin became famous for being "Putin's Chef."  Somehow the former convict got into the right places at the right time and known to Putin.  He got rich beyond dreams with a batch of Kremlin contracts - for food. ...
I don't know about you, but it seems to me in the past week there is an increasing tendency in the news to minimize Mike Pence having classified documents at home.  If not ignore it altogether.  To which I...
Florida Republican State Rep. Rick Roth is also a farmer who speaks to other farmers about the deleterious effect Ron DeSantis’ recently passed anti-immigrant bill is having on their community, causing migrant farm workers to flee the state and...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead