AG slams WH meddling in Stone sentencing “Public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the co[...]
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A Republican Asks Whether I Favor Bernie
Chris Vance, former chair of the Washington State Republican Party, is now a strong part of the anti Trump movement. Unfortunately, Chris sees our 2020 election as some sort of Manichean conflict between extreme rightism of Trump and extreme leftism of a faction of the Democrats. Chris asked me[...]
February 9th, 2020 - 2:38 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
About that “lying dog-faced pony soldier” remark …
At a New Hampshire campaign event on Sunday, Joe Biden jokingly referred to a young woman who asked about his Iowa loss as a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier.” Slate explains Biden took the line from a movie and has used it in jest before. Conservatives, of course, are piling on him as though he w[...]
Revive the Union Party … Time to Rebrand!
After Gettysburg, Republicans running in the South needed a name that distinguished them from the “radical” Republicans. They called themselves the UNION party![...]
February 5th, 2020 - 9:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
OK boomer.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) acquitted Trump, then retooled her rationalization. On Tuesday, she said she would vote to acquit him because “he had learned a lesson” from being impeached. On Wednesday, after the vote, “Collins told a reporter from Maine outlet WGME-TV that she used the[...]
February 2nd, 2020 - 3:32 pm § in Politics
GOP Sen. Ernst: If Biden is elected, we’ll impeach him for Ukraine
Read story here. I don’t see how they plan to do that. Rewrite the Senate rules, so they can write their own articles of impeachment? Or take an impeachment vote without any articles? We’ve just seen them make a mockery of the Constitution, so anything is possible. But however they inten[...]
January 18th, 2020 - 12:14 pm § in Politics
Why post anonymously?
It’s very common for people posting social and political commentary online to do so under a screen name. The purpose is to hide their real identities from strangers. Quite a few blogs protect the identities of their users, and may treat efforts to “out” the identity of an anonymous[...]
January 18th, 2020 - 12:21 am § in Politics
That Nunes letter
Last month, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) (photo below) insinuated Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) (photo left) may have conspired with Giuliani associate Lev Parnas to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. In short order, Rep. Lieu received a letter from Nunes’ lawyer threatening him with a defamation lawsui[...]
An Impressive Argument for Single Payer
This is very worth reading. The authors, while coming from a well-known supporter of the Sanders and Warren Medicare for All plans, have now published an objective analysis that is convincing. It is not a full study. Himmelstein deals only with administrative overhead. I can also fault it for [...]
January 6th, 2020 - 1:06 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Jews, Politics, Saudi Arabia
Soleimeni Biography
FROM WIKIPEDIA AND OTHER SOURCES: Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, pronounced [ɢɒːˌsem(e) solejmɒːˈniː] The gory image of Iran’s hero comes from three sources .., Sunni Arabs, Israelis, and Americans. Sunni arabs today live in chaos. Where there is order, it [...]