Points for trying

It’ll probably get killed in the Senate or vetoed by Trump, but the Justice in Policing Act has a lot of good ideas. House Democrats’ sprawling bill provides a good start toward police reform – The Washington Post: It would impose new restrictions on...

Trump and the Bible

The President as prayerful and contemplative as you’d would expect. Trump attempts to hold bible. He literally had peaceful protestors tear gassed so he could walk over to St. John’s Episcopal for this photo op. (DC Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: “I...

Judging Joe Biden

The coming election is a referendum on Donald Trump, but it’d be nice to feel good about the alternative. I do. Joe Biden was not my first, second, or third choice for the Democratic nomination. No matter. With the exception of rightwing apologist Tulsi Gabbard,...

America’s decline

The Financial Times(!) telling it like it is. Not exactly a left-wing hippy rag. The destruction of American worldwide influence is as bad as you might imagine. We used to be heroes with our humanitarian efforts ranging from the Marshall Plan to the Peace Corp. Trump...