Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, made headlines last week for dissing the GOP attempt to overthrow te election on Jan. 6, saying it will “go down like a shot dog.” Almost immediately, Trump called on South Dakota’s governor, Kristi Noem, an extr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Reugnants’
Election company employee sues conspiracy peddlers
“An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures and outlets,” Talking Points Memo reported on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Read their story he[...]
November 13th, 2020 - 9:54 pm § in Politics
Newly elected Senator knows less than a 7th grader about government and history
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November 10th, 2020 - 6:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How prevalent is voting fraud?
Four years ago, PolitiFact said, “The Washington Post reported … there were a total of four confirmed cases of voter fraud nationwide in the 2016 election … out of about 135 million votes cast.” (Read story here.) Look, Trump is a pathological liar. Four years ago, he claimed[...]
November 8th, 2020 - 10:19 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Rudy Giuliani’s hilarious screwup
Er, I think he intended to book the Four Seasons Hotel, not the Four Seasons Total Landscaping Co.’s parking lot located “between a sex shop and a crematorium.” Read story here. For more on this story, go here. Inset photo: Fox personality Laura Ingraham laughing her *** off. Retur[...]
“The single most important quality a president must have”
By David Gergen [Editor’s note: Gergen is one of Washington D.C.’s most senior and respected journalists and political observers. He’s written something here that’s so true, and makes so much sense, that it’s worth calling attention to. This op-ed, originally pu[...]
September 21st, 2020 - 10:05 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
If Trump seized power, would the military back him?
This article contains news with liberal commentary. “The Pentagon’s two most senior figures were so angry about President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on senior military leadership earlier this month that they got on the phone with the White House chief of staff,” CNN [...]
September 21st, 2020 - 6:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
What Democrats should do if they win
This article is a liberal op-ed. These are my own ideas, and this is a first draft, so it’s bound to be incomplete and may contain some errors. I can edit my postings on this blog, and frequently do, so the contents of my essays can (and often do) evolve over time. This essay assumes […[...]
Barr threatens rioters with “sedition”
This article is liberal commentary. ” … [S]ome federal prosecutors were taken aback last week when the attorney general brought up the possibility of charging violent protesters with sedition,” CNN reported on Wednesday, September 16, 2020. (Read story here.) Rioting and sedition [...]
Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s cautionary tale ahead of the 2020 presidential election
by Mark Krasovic, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University Newark 8/10/2020 That November, voters in several cities saw posters at polling places printed in bright red letters. “WARNING,” they read. “This area is being patrolled by the National Ballot Security[...]