Lindsey Graham has spoken the truth, though I’m quite sure he isn’t aware of how much truth he has told. In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday night, Senator Graham made it clear that without Donald Trump the Republican Party is literally nothing. “I would just say Read more…
The next two years will be a reckoning for the United States. Our justice system has been reinvented with the appointment of credible people that are not part of a criminal cover up but rather are seeking to reveal unlawful activity and punish it. This seems like a radical new Read more…
A national census is a nuisance, right? Once every ten years you have to tell the government information about yourself and your family that doesn’t seem like it’s any of their business and is another inconvenience to look forward to, like paying taxes once a year. What a pain! But Read more…
Why should anyone remain progressive as they get toward the later chapters of their story? I thought about that this week, and I came up with three that seem compelling to me. I’m going to lay out my case here. See how much of it you share, and let me Read more…
Though there was a great deal of resistance to The Compromise, in the end the priority was getting the boot of taxation off the necks of the people that were paying them, and those people were the wealthy.
The Republican Party is kind of like the bully at school. He might have a few friends, but he is definitely in the minority and is completely dependent on threat and actual violence to get his way. The rules are always against him so they have to be bypassed and Read more…
Where civil rights go, so goes our great experiment. Two stories are converging right now that will serve to either recover a democracy on the ropes or send it to the dust bin of history. “The Big Lie” of voter fraud being impactful in the 2020 Presidential election has led Read more…
I think it is telling that the word filibuster is derived from the Dutch word “vribuyter” meaning “pirate”. That is exactly the function of the filibuster, the taking of something that doesn’t belong to you by force.
There is nothing left of the Republican Party but fear. They peddle fear as their singular policy agenda, a regressive strategy to oppose any progress for the working people of this country while convincing those same working people that it is in their best interests to live in fear as Read more…
The celebration is over. Don’t get me wrong. It was well deserved, the defeat of Donald J. Trump an important milestone in the rescue of democracy in the United States. The dream hung in the balance, ready to topple with just a few more votes cast for an autocrat. Just Read more…