Tracey Meares is wicked smart. She was the top student of her high school class, then earned a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. After college and law school, she clerked for a federal appellate judge, worked as a federal trial[...]
Archive for April, 2022
Why you’ve gotta read candidate biographies
“Trucker Randy” Bishop is well-known in northern Michigan politics. The ex-felon hosts a rightwing radio show, is an outspoken promoter of gun rights (for ex-felons, too?), and was kicked off Facebook, a badge of honor in his circles (details here). Now he’s running for state sena[...]
April 24th, 2022 - 2:44 pm § in Politics
Trucker convoy drives into ambush
I’m against political violence in any form, even egg throwing, but as a Vietnam veteran I gotta say their point man is incompetent. Led ’em straight into a trap. He should’ve known they’d get a Ukrainian Welcome in Oakland. But, Raw Story says, “According to CB radio ca[...]
Arthur A. Allen is the deep state
Writer Michael Lewis (profile here) describes what he does: “[W]e had our government shutdown in December 2018 and … I asked for a list of people who’d been sent home …. It was not a random sample of federal employees. It was federal employees who’d been nominated for one of th[...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 10:12 pm § in Politics
GOP county chair tried to get access to voting machines
A North Carolina GOP county chair pursuing a false election conspiracy theory “threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment,” Reuters reported (see story here). William Keith Senter was “aggressive[...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 4:00 pm § in Law and Courts
Revoke his driver’s license for life
Noah Galle, 17, was an aspiring TikTok star. He tried to make a name for himself by driving fast on Florida highways. Galle (photo, left), now 18, was doing 151 mph in a BMW when he rear-ended an SUV carrying 6 farmworkers, aged 29 to 77, on January 27, 2022. All of them were killed […][...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 3:05 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Could tribes go into the abortion business?
If the Supreme Court lets states outlaw abortion, could abortion clinics still operate on Native American reservations in those states? In theory, the answer appears to be “yes,” because reservations are federal land, and states can’t legislate what happens there. It’s actual[...]
Why Florida’s attack on Disney is monstrous
Florida’s legislature, which is controlled by Republicans (specifics here), passed a bill requested by GOP Gov. DeSantis, which he signed, that repeals the special taxing district established in 1967 for Disney’s Florida theme parks (details here) to retaliate against Disney for criticiz[...]
April 21st, 2022 - 8:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Followers, not leaders
They talked tough after the Capitol riot. McCarthy “privately said he would tell Trump to resign,” and McConnell “said he believed Trump’s behavior warranted impeachment.” (Read story here.) But nothing came of it. That was the last thing GOP voters wanted. So when t[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 5:39 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Fire these cops!
Cops with no respect for the law or citizens’ rights shouldn’t be cops. Some cops have adopted a new tactic to prevent citizens from legally recording their activities, and then posting the videos online: Playing copyrighted music. Their purpose: To thwart citizens from doing what they [...]