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...
Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line
And never was that more true than ion the 50 years since the Roe v Wade decision from the SCOTUS. The GOP's most rabid, most motivated, single issue voting bloc was the far right...
There were two things that I saw in the news this week that I felt were worth mentioning and commenting upon. One was a poll that had nothing to do with specific individual candidate popularity in the Democratic primaries,...
This is actually a combination of two new stories that just go together naturally. In the first story, Mitch McConnell has made the GOP Senate 2022 platform official, We're not for that. That's it. They're against everything. And why not?...
Once again, the laws of political physics have been suspended. Think of waking up in the morning and finding yourself floating. You then turn on the TV, itself floating, and the announcer tells you that the law of gravity...
Earlier today I wrote an article in which I stated that billionaire Tom Steyer was being less than forthright in the way he portrayed public sentiment in the Democratic base on the subject of impeachment. But that topic rouches...
Now this is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end. This is the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill
No Winnie, actually this is the beginning of the end. One way or the other. July 17, 2019. 9:00...
Biden spent his entire campaign talking about restoring bipartisanship to our process. Because bipartisanship is an inherently political word, everybody keeps looking at it politically.
But that's not what Biden is necessarily talking about. If you listen to him speak,...
It's fairly rare that I read a straight news story that reduces me to tears, but this one did. Greg Gianforte, the Republican governor of Montana, is a cold hearted, vicious prick. You can tell him I said so....
We are seeing something that has never happened in our lifetimes -- unidentified "Federal" "law enforcement officials" stalking the streets of a major American cities, kidnapping innocent civilians, shoving them into unmarked vehicles, and making them disappear for hours...
