If you haven’t followed the recent antics of our once-esteemed Governor Doug Ducey, Tim Stellar has written a nice explainer. In brief, Trump just made Gov. Ducey his bitch. First, Trump threatened to shut down the Mexican border. So Ducey did the rational thing, and the right thing for the State: he said “That’s nuts! … Read more
I covered this earlier this year, ‘Follow the Money’ – Congress needs to see Trump tax returns, but now House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) has finalized his demand letter under Code sec. 6103(f)): Upon written request by either the Chairman of either the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate … Read more
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers and investigators were remarkably disciplined during his investigation. They were never the source of any leaks to the press. When asked for comment, Mueller’s media spokesperson, in almost every instance, responded with ‘no comment” (refuting a Buzzfeed report was the rare exception). But now that the Mueller investigation … Read more
Last fall I missed a talk by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s outreach director Lecia Brooks in Sahuarita. But recently at a Theology Uncorked meeting on migrants at the border, I found a SPLC brochure on Active Hate Groups in the U.S. Here’s the link, stating that there were 1020 such groups in the U.S. … Read more