Category Archives: Politics

Should President Trump be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts to procure a lasting peace plan between Israel and Hamas? The question is no longer quite the joke that it would have been a few months … Continue reading →

For this latest shutdown you can thank Newt Gingrich. He was the guy who invented the “who will blink first” game of chicken back in 1995 in the pair of shutdowns against Bill Clinton. That’s when Gingrich wanted significant cuts … Continue reading →

On September 22, in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Trump filed an executive order intended to designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Like so many of Trump’s other executive orders, this one is likely to be … Continue reading →

When I started this post Jimmy Kimmel had just been suspended. Since then he has been (mostly) reinstated after some serious blowback from the viewing public. (The Sinclair Group still has him off the air.) In any case, let’s review … Continue reading →

Well, it’s very interesting to watch the Republicans tie themselves into knots trying to blame the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Democrats. At the outset it should be noted that agree with him or disagree with him — and I … Continue reading →

What’s going on with the current Texas redistricting is crazy. And you can thank the Supreme Court for that. In what may be the 3rd worst modern decision behind Citizen’s United v. FEC and Trump v. United States we have … Continue reading →

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill — and of course it passed this Cickenshit Congress, even if by a narrow margin — should really be called the One Big Cruel Bill. This is where we’re at in the United States of … Continue reading →

The question arises, why is it so much worse for Iran to have nuclear weapons than it is for India and Pakistan to have them? And the answer is that the reasons are not obvious. There are arguments to be … Continue reading →

I thought President Trump, right at the beginning of his Presidency, was going to solve the war between Russia and Ukraine and was going to bring to an end the war between Israel and Hamas. Isn’t that what he had … Continue reading →

With Elon Musk’s recent departure from DOGE and his status as a special government employee, I don’t think any sane person is sad to see him go. Musk will, of course, be forever remembered as the person who completely ruined … Continue reading →