Federal judges are political appointees, so in federal courts some ideological lean has to be expected. But when ambitious Trump appointees cast eyes on bigger prizes, the rule of law goes completely out the window. We saw that with rogue district court judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who has sucked[...]
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October 28th, 2024 - 9:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Sycophant judges audition for the Supreme Court
Trading barbs ahead of Walz vs. Vance debate
A day before the 2024 vice presidential debate, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins moderated a heated exchange between Van Jones, a Democrat, and Lee Zeldin, a Republican, in the video below. Predictably, Zeldin does two things you expect of a Republican: He lies and defends a despicable candidate. Zeldin r[...]
Republicans can’t have it both ways on guns
Austin Theriault, a Maine GOP legislator running for a U.S. House seat “as a champion of the Second Amendment,” called the sheriff in January 2023 because he saw a man carry an AR-15 rifle into his house, Huffington Post reported on Monday, September 9, 2024 (read story here). The police[...]
Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Not surprisingly, the 20-year-old white male who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, was known as an odd duck. High school classmates remember him as a friendly but quiet loner who kept to himself, dressed oddly in hunting clothes, and was mercilessly bullied. He was intelligent and [...]
July 2nd, 2024 - 10:56 pm § in Law and Courts
Dishonest cop piled up DUI false arrests
A Fort Collins, Colorado, cop made so many DUI arrests his department designated him their “DUI enforcement officer.” But there was a problem: Officer Jason Haferman was arresting people who hadn’t been drinking — at least 17 of them over an 18-month period. Read about some o[...]
Now NOT to win friends and influence people
How to Win Friends and Influence People is the title of a famous and still-popular book (get it here) by the late self-improvement guru Dale Carnegie (profile here). I haven’t read it, but the Amazon blurb says it’s about ways to make people like you, win them over to your way of thinkin[...]
Flags of our fathers
Jay Collins (photo, right) is an American hero. A career Army sergeant and Green Beret, he returned to duty after losing a leg in combat (see his bio here). Collins, a Republican, was elected to Florida’s state senate in the state’s 2022 “red wave.” The first-termer is among [...]
December 29th, 2022 - 2:40 am § in Politics
Can George Santos serve in Congress from prison?
Yes! If newly-elected Rep. George Santos (R-NY) goes to prison — which is a possibility, see story here — he could still serve in Congress, but presumably would vote remotely, and participate in committees via Zoom. Arrangements could be made to wire his cell for videoconferences, so he [...]
I’m used to racist/sexist GOP candidates, but a lobotomized one?
Disclaimer: Just because I’m used to them, doesn’t mean I vote for them. Blake Masters, 36, is the 2022 Arizona GOP nominee for U.S. senator. He wasn’t born stupid, as he has B.A. and J.D. degrees from Stanford, so his cerebral cortex must have been pithed at some point, perhaps as[...]
August 8th, 2022 - 5:34 pm § in Politics
What’s next, fourth trimester abortions?
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) thinks so. In a fundraising email to supporters on Monday, August 8, 2022, he warned, “If we don’t take back the Senate, Dems will pack the courts, give DC statehood, grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again.” See that and several othe[...]