The panjandrums of Silicon Valley see a future, largely of their creation, that prompts this warning: If you want to get rich, you'd better be… Read More »
If it wasn’t apparent already after the killing of the two ship[wrecked survivors in the Caribbean, it is clear… Read More »
The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel in an outright suppression of free speech culminated a week of Republicans campaigning to vilify… Read More »
Over the last decade or so, the younger generations have expressed increasing resentment that Social Security will not be there… Read More »
Almost three years on, as many as two-thirds of Republicans still believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election and that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.
In spite of that, in the first Republican debate just concluded, the question wasn't even asked whether the candidates agree or disagree. Fox News, which conducted the debate, was protecting them from having to… Read More »
A growing movement with evangelicals at the forefront says that America was founded by and for white Christians and accordingly our government should follow policies that adhere to Christian doctrine. An outlook that has always been conservative has shifted to one of "dominion", a theology that says Christians should move… Read More »
FiveThirtyEight, the statistical website that tracks politics and elections, canvassed the country to find that nearly every state has candidates for office in this fall's election who agree with Donald Trump that the 2020 election was stolen from him (see their graphic below). They directly asked every Republican nominee for… Read More »
That Donald Trump and the circle around him plotted to abort the constitutional transfer of power to steal the election from Joe Biden and give Trump another term as president is indisputable. Less certain is to what extent indictments 
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From the election to the insurrection, more revelations
Without even touching on the troubles with Biden's economic plan, the border crisis, the debt celing, it has been a whirlwind couple of weeks with…
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Safe harbor day seemed to slam the door shut on Donald Trump's hope for overthrow. It was the day — December 8th this year — when, by an act of Congress in 1867, the states Read More »
They seemed like paranoia, the editorials and op-ed pieces that predicted Donald Trump would refuse to leave, ours as well, but his every move since Election Day has borne out… Read More »
Well before midnight on November 3rd, Donald J. Trump will declare victory. Votes from the high percentage of Republicans who went to the polls will have put the president in the lead at that hour. Votes by Democrats, a high… Read More »
He had already made it clear that he intends to fire Attorney General Sessions after the midterm elections, when The New York Times handed President Trump justification for an immediate act of retribution: the report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had last year, two weeks into the… Read More »
A mere two days after his confirmation as Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent stunningly handed the keys of the… Read More »
As the zero hour of January 6th approached, Trump lieutenants booked a suite of rooms at the luxurious Willard Hotel a block from the White House to make final plans for disrupting the certification of Joe Biden 
as the nation's 46th president. Led by…
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As if further confirmation was needed, the plan in December of a Justice Department official to press states to review the 2020 election, and Trump's badgering Acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen to publicly say the election was corrupt, finally made… Read More »
Defenders of Donald Trump advance the belief that the president on January 6 did not have a coup in mind, notwithstanding his objective to have still Vice President Mike Pence overturn state elections in Congress that day, because hadn't he… Read More »
Six Republicans were not enough when ten were needed to prevent a Republican filibuster from putting an end to any commission to investigate the causes of the worst attack… Read More »
Safe harbor day seemed to slam the door shut on Donald Trump's hope for overthrow. It is the day — December 8th in 2020 — when, by an act of Congress in 1867, the states Read More »
Donald Trump's campaign to reverse his loss to Joe Biden is without precedent in U.S. history.
The President had been working all summer to implant in the minds of his… Read More »
President Trump's relentless assault on the American democratic process, his insistence that he won the election, that it was stolen from him, has stirred rage among his loyalists who… Read More »
The Trump administration has entered the propaganda phase that characterizes fascist governments. Government websites and advertisements are using phrasing derived… Read More »
After Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of staggering “reciprocal” tariffs triggered days of steep stock market plunges, the President painted… Read More »
After the 2020 election, Donald Trump won the media's attention with incendiary claims that the election had been stolen, ultimately rousing his base to riot when Congress met to certify that Joe Biden was to be the new president. We covered that route to January 6th in Part One.
Occurring in… Read More »
To examine the "facts and causes" of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a commission like that which investigated the 9/11 attacks. House members on the…
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77% of Republicans believe there was widespread fraud in the presidential election says a Quinnipiac poll. A Reuters poll says about half of all Republicans believe President Donald Trump “rightfully won” the election but that it was stolen from… Read More »