Despite the Donald’s proclamation that election night was a victory for Republicans, the arc of the next two years will be limned by the hand of House subpoenas. Everyone stained by Trump will now be forced to lawyer bigly up as Democrats dig into … [Continue reading]
The polity has no doubt become inured - predicting a 500-year flood every two years does have a way of drowning itself out - to candidates depicting this as the most exigent election of our lifetimes. But it is troubling, is it not, that the … [Continue reading]
The politics of victimization (in practice, buying votes with handouts) has long been perceived to be the cornerstone of the Democratic Party. Yet the reality is that Donald Trump was elected in the main by uneducated whites who felt threatened by a … [Continue reading]
When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) avowed that Brett Kavanaugh was no Bill Cosby, I haughtily preened, knowing full well he read my prior missive which, it is widely acknowledged, first offered the analogy. Sadly, my ardor was short-lived; only days … [Continue reading]
That we’ve been at war in Afghanistan for 17 years is probably lost on most Americans. Devoid of the conflagrated selective service cards and violent college protests that marked the debacle of Vietnam, it’s been relegated to the dusky horizon of … [Continue reading]