Why Are Progressive Pundits Unhappy that Trump Has Been Indicted? — Progressives seem never to be happy with good news. Back when the Biden/Harris ticket won the presidency, we were inundated with articles bemoaning the President’s and the Vice President’s alleged shortcomings. Now we’re hearing how unhappy progressives are with the case brought against Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin…

Republican race-baiting and gay-baiting reach new lows — Lying is the right wing’s default mode We know that dishonest narratives are the currency of Republicans. We see it in portraying the January 6 mob of right-wing terrorists as “tourists.” We see it in the claims that the East Palestine railway disaster was Pete Buttigieg’s fault. Now, we see it again, as the right-wing claims that…

My state has become the Arkansas of the Great Lakes — Ohio was once thought to be a bellwether state with respect to presidential elections. “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.” The implication was that Ohio was a moderate state whose voters were middle of the road, as likely to vote for one party as the other. Just over sixteen…

You're missing my point. Whatever Scripture says, Christians clearly aren't paying any attention to it. The cruelest, most horrid atrocities are committed by religious zealots, all convinced that they're doing "God's work". Christians in the US once went to worship services, then walked straight to a lynching of a black…

It’s worse than that — In June, 2018 William Barr sent an unsolicited, 20-page memo to the Department of Justice deriding the special counsel’s investigation into Donald Trump’s many efforts to work with Russian operatives so as to rig an election. At that moment, Trump knew he had his man to replace Jeff Sessions as…

And how to respond to them — “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” (But people with guns kill lots more people than do people without guns.) “Blaming guns for shooting deaths is like blaming Rosie O’ Donnell’s spoon because she’s fat.” (I use a spoon the same way Rosie O’ Donnell does but I’m not fat…

We were good back when…not any longer — Several years ago, back during the Obama administration, I got into the habit of tangling with local right-wing nitwits and numbskulls in the comments under various articles in my local paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. My wife and son told me that I shouldn’t, but it was fun, so I’d…

His fellow conservatives are even making John Roberts angry — When Justices go so far right that they anger a Chief Justice who has shown himself to be willing to toss the Constitution aside for partisan purposes, we know things are getting out of hand. What is The “Shadow Docket”? The Court’s use of the “shadow docket” has been controversial. The shadow docket is the…

When the ratings are low, the media go lower — Think back, for a moment, and try to recall the policy advances made by the Republicans during the two years that they controlled all three policy-making branches of the federal government. There was the tax bill. There was a failed effort to repeal the ACA. There was that wall that…