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...
Maybe it's better this way, with no more fig leaves and blushing, and the GOP giving lip service to not being racist when the fact is everybody knows who's who and what's what. Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken up...
Awww, poor Traitor Tot. He is in a place he's never been in his life. Legally he's up shit creek. The House Ways and Means Committee is burning out House break room microwaves to make enough popcorn to last...
Poor Kevin McCarthy. Think of him as the derelict's Indiana Jones. Years ago, Donald Trump moved a great rock away from a cave marked Hate and all manner of Evil was unleashed into the world. McCarthy has since tried...
This is what happens when a bunch of flaming racists get so drunk on their power, and feel so secure in their gerrymandered seats that they just don't give-a-fat-rats-azz anymore. And they're going to keep right on doing it,...
When 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley sat down with Moms For Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, he wanted to know why the group, considered an anti-government group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is trying to determine...
I never thought anybody could make Sarah Palin sound like Margaret Thatcher, but I was wrong. Lauren Boebert is capable of that. Since Boebert blew the lid off of any possibility of resolution of the fracas with Ilhan Omar...
I've been rich, and I've been poor, and believe me, rich is better   Sophie Tucker You all know that I've been following politics with more avidity than the Cubs box scores for some 50 years now. And politics ebbs and...
I’ve noticed, as I’m sure you have, that the onslaught of dreadful and deadly news of late has served, inadvertently one hopes, to shove Black Lives Matter news and stories to one side. Understandable on one level—the daily news...
This is a good day. A few months ago, when the composition of the Ahmaud Arbery jury was announced, I despaired. The fact that there were three defendants allowed the defense to get three times as many peremptory challenges...

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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.

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