What if Ukraine wins big? What if Russia loses big? Two simple, yet profound questions.  Questions we all should be thinking about, and which I hope others with actual power and influence have been thinking about for a long time...
Joy Ann Reid just reported that the Russian stock market lost almost 50% of its total value, one of the largest losses in a single day in history. Then she went on to report that Putin and his oligarchs combined account...
Intraparty controversy is a bad idea at any time, but particularly two weeks before a crucial election. The letter which the Progressive Caucus sent to Joe Biden on Monday, encouraging him to seek a "diplomatic" solution to the war...
Whether heroes are made and not born like the Olympian gods, will continue to be a topic of discussion, but unquestionably Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes the cut. He has not only united his people, he is uniting the countries of...
I get knocked down but I get back up again, you're never gonna keep me down   Chumbawamba I want to start with a separate aside. Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former stand up comic, and comedy series television host,...
Rudy Giuliani is most frequently depicted as a buffoon and mocked, and nobody loves to do that more than I do, because he sets himself up for it like nobody else in public life. Giuliani's non stop compendium of...
We've had an awful lot going on in the news here at home and we're all bracing for a literal onslaught in the next week or two.  However, the U.S. isn't the only place on this earth where important,...
Will the last one leaving Russia please turn off the lights and let the cat out? You know, if you buy the popular culture line about the KGB, it's like joining the old American Mafia. You walk in on your feet,...
Vladimir Putin has decided to put his own people in a vise. He lies to them that he is "freeing" their neighboring sister state, "liberating" it from Nazis and fascists and that the people of Ukraine welcome his help....
"He that bothereth in his own house shall inherit the wind." -- Proverbs 11:29 A couple of ground rules you need to understand. First, it is no coincidence that the number one rated cable talk show host in America, Tucker...

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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