The death rattle of the GOP

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gop-a-conspiracy-of-dunces Call me old fashioned, but I remember when working hand-in-hand with a hostile foreign government to undermine American institutions was called “treason.”

A nation devolves

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-americaOver the course of 2017, both in Congress and in the executive branch, we have watched the task of government devolve into the full-scale looting of America.Come 2020, the Democrats are...

Republicans finish polishing the turd

The GOP tax bill, written in haste and with no public input other than what special interests and wealthy donors can buy, is an awful piece of legislation. It subverts if not destroys the Affordable Care Act and costs between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion over 10...

Security Theater, revisited

https://apple.news/AXtb-ziCfSUW-XMMBEie45wLatest investigation results were not disclosed, but it sounds like a rehash of 2015:In 2015, the then-acting head of the TSA, Melvin Carraway, was reassigned after an internal investigation by the Department of Homeland...

Meet the Deplorables

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800They don’t mind his intemperate tweets. They don’t mind the specter of scandal, which they dismiss as trifling nonsense. They don’t mind his nuclear...