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The 2nd of May, 2016, marked five years since Navy SEALs caught up with Osama bin Laden.  That prompted a number of articles on the current state of al-Qaida.  The gist was that, though no longer preeminent, al-Qaida still is a player and is undergoing...

Somewhere around 10,000 years-ago, the last of the so-called saber-toothed cats disappeared from what would become the fossil record. Humanity breathed a collective sigh of relief. Somewhere ...

NBC poll: 50% of Republicans, 73% of young Republicans see Russia as an “ally” or “friendly” Had this poll been taken before the primaries, my guess is that Republicans overwhelmingly ...

Today, the Pope’s visit to Ground Zero featured an “interfaith” prayer service with so many religious leaders that it bordered on satire. They all assured us that religiously inspired ...

The Great Recession of 2008 was caused by the Republican devotion to unfettered freedom – for corporations.  During a decades-long retreat from prudent regulations, marked by speculation joy-rides, ad

After watching the CNN “panel” discuss the President’s Town Hall meeting on gun control, I think it is only right that CNN drop one N and, henceforth, be known as Cable Network.  But CNN is too easy a

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The man who wrote those words...

In tonight’s Republican debate, there was a prayer service featuring a liturgical petition and response.  The petition was given by the Fox Business, fair-and-balanced moderators: “Oh Reagan, thou gav

I’m going to blow right past any fine distinction between denying science and just being breathtakingly ignorant of it.  Sometimes that difference is real and matters.  But in this case, we have ...

If you recognize yourself here, www.theonion.com/... it might be time to reassess your approach to governance.

Some people dream of a cure for cancer.  Some dream of eliminating poverty.  Others dream of world peace.  The Republican Speaker of the House dreams of taking health care away from poor people.  That is modern conservatism. Once, conservatism had a...

US News reports that “a sizable number of Democrats” are ready to “defect” to Trump.  The New York Times says that Trump’s “very best voters are self-identified Republicans who nonetheless are registe

I'm tired of hearing our lazy, superficial, incompetent press talk about Donald Trump having tapped into an angry electorate spoiling for dramatic change. A mid-October, NBC News/ Wall Street ...

Maybe not fully, not yet, but  the differences, stark as they may be, are of magnitude, of potency, not of kind.  So much of what Trump has said and done shouts at us that, secretly, he would be Hitler.  So, never having paid any price for his...

Wright Patman was a Texas Democrat.  He represented Texarkana from 1929 to 1976.  That durability was due, in part, to campaign literature like a flier titled, “Here Is What Our Democratic ...

This is a rework of a post I put up last December.  This Sunday, 16 October, marks the 54 th anniversary of the event that was at the heart of that post.  That’s a long time ago; many will feel ...

The white working-class accounts for 44% of registered voters.  They also make up 33% of Democrats or those who lean Democratic.  If those numbers don’t sound right, it’s because many of us have been working with the wrong numbers since the last...

Democrats can’t fight.  I don’t know why.  I’ve not seen any explanation that rings true.  It’s just the way it is.  Democrats get steam-rollered whenever push comes to shove or debate ...

Mitch McConnell began the process of normalizing child molestation.  It didn’t take long, either.  But then, Republicans know the drill, having been through it already when normalizing the irredeemably abnormal Donald Trump.  Put this into context,...

I am old enough to know that unions once were the mainstay of the working class and the root of middle class prosperity.  I remember a Democratic Party that was the home of every man and woman who worked for a living.  But I continued to think of the...

Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when the Democratic Party separated from working men and women.  This is the sixth post in a series.  Previous posts can be found at the following links. Whatever Happened to Unions? Whatever...

Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when Democrats separated from unions.  This is the eighth post in a series.  Previous posts can be found at the following links. Whatever Happened to Unions? Whatever Happened to Unions?  An...

At some point, Democrats and working men and women went their separate ways.  I wanted to know when and how.  This is the third post in a series in which I try to work through that.  Previous posts can be found at the following links. Whatever...

I started out find when and why the Democratic Party separated from unions.  This is the tenth and final post in a series.  Previous posts can be found at the following links. Whatever Happened to Unions? Whatever Happened to Unions?...

Bobby Knight has endorsed Donald Trump, thus creating what David Zirin at “The Nation” accurately calls a Brotherhood of Bullies.  However, Trump’s behavior is anomalous for his arena.  Knight’s behavior in his arena often is held up as the character...

I’ve been trying to figure out why House Republicans, in a closed meeting, on the evening of a federal holiday, against the advice of their own leadership, would gut the Office of Congressional ...

This may be a little late: I suspect most of us have been reveling in checked facts for more than 24 hours, and I haven’t paid enough attention to know all of those that might have been discussed ...