"... or of such other body as Congress may by law provide" -- Whither the 25th?
If I were to compile my list of the greatest American heroes of 2020, that list would include Stacey Abrams, Tony Fauci, and Rachael Maddow. I say that because Rachael has stood alone as the person...
View ArticleAmazon booting Parler off AWS
I am surprised nobody else has posted this. If it is a duplicate, the Mods should delete this. See a news report here:www.buzzfeednews.com/…Like many large-scale cloud apps, Parler is built on AWS...
View Article"... except in cases of impeachment."
The Presidential pardon power in the Constitution reads:… shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.Most people interpret...
View ArticleUse the Trump media strategy ... for good
Trump’s main strategy was chaos. His only goal was to dominate the news cycle every single day. Each day he would try to come up with something more outrageous than the previous day. That way, the...
View ArticleWhy does ESPN show so few highlights of the Chiefs?
I was listening to the Jen Psaki briefing today, and in 5 minutes, 3 reporters asked why Biden wasn’t being “bipartisan” as he promised. She tried patiently to explain that Biden never promised to...
View ArticleSo ... What is happening with the USPS?
OK, I know there is a lot going on. And I know Biden hasn’t finished his third week. But the postal service is still really messed up — INTENTIONALLY — and the main saboteur is still on the job and...
View ArticleJen Psaki should leave
Yes, you heard me right. She said she plans to leave next year. www.businessinsider.com/…And people on the left are having a meltdown because evidently Jen Psaki is the only person who knows how to...
View ArticleIt is time for a new Pledge of Allegiance
I won’t waste a lot of time with the history of the Pledge, other than to say it has always been a gimmick pushed by right-wingers intent on using false patriotism to accomplish their own self-serving...
View ArticleThree judges confirmed in 5 months? Seriously?
This really is outrageous, and it cannot possibly be blamed on McConnell’s obstruction. Biden and Schumer simply aren’t taking this seriously.Here’s the reality. With all the voter suppression...
View ArticleLiz Cheney: Beware the Beltway Conventional Wisdom
I posted the following as a comment to another diary, and it was suggested that idea deserves its own diary for discussion. So here it is. I am admittedly opinionated in many cases. That comes with...
View Article(Possibly) The Most Basic Point being Missed about Vaccination Mandates
Over the past week, there has been endless media jabbering about “vaccine mandates”. And in particular, there is often an assertion that businesses are actually in favor of the mandates. The reason...
View ArticleWho Died and Left Manchin in Charge?
Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but sometimes it is the simple, obvious things that are overlooked, and result in our biggest problems. It is said that in a Senate and House with such narrow...
View ArticleLooking for a Redemption of PBS
I literally have not watched the PBS News Hour for at least 20 years. That was the time when Republicans had cut off most of the public funding and implanted their own far right CEO to “straighten...
View ArticleWhy is Ukraine important?
(As the reader will see from various comments, the proper way to refer to the subject country is simply “Ukraine” and not “the Ukraine.” The headline and various other references in the article have...
View ArticleRedemption of a hero: Dan Quayle
It seems to me there is one hero in the Jan 6 story who was most unlikely and has barely been acknowledged. Dan Quayle was never a person I particularly admired. I didn’t agree with many of his...
View ArticleA radical solution to radical problems
By now, most people here are familiar with the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which says:No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any...
View ArticleVoting rights: Let's not miss the most important point in this debate
This week, the national media is looking at the battle in the Senate for passage of two voting rights bills that seem to be the only thing between democracy and tyranny by a lawless mob that have...
View ArticleLate Stage Capitalism: Trump is on course to pocket the "Truth Social" money
Much has been written and said about “Truth Social,” and 99% of that reporting is completely wrong, as it talks about the site as if it was ever intended to be a real thing. It was not. We are in...
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Gyno-Tourism: the next Multi-billion Dollar Industry
Until now, the issue of reproductive rights as been mainly an ethical, moral, philosophical one. Different people come down in different places on that.But now, this is very quickly turning into an...
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The Great Clawback is Underway
This country was never a democracy. This country never had an economic system of “capitalism” such as would be recognized by Adam Smith. This country never had a foundation of “one person, one vote”...
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