GOP Immigration Playbook: Intentionally Break the System and Call it a Humanitarian Crisis

I’ve seen Arizona Congress-critters Biggs and Schweikert recently taking to the House floor to complain that the mean old Dems are ignoring a humanitarian crisis on the Mexican border. They both bemoan that the facilities of ICE are overflowing with asylum seekers and seek to lay the blame on Democrats for ignoring the crisis. Well, … Read more

Bill and Wilbur’s excellent adventure: census scandal (Updated)

The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over documents about the administration’s decision to a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. House panel votes to hold attorney general, commerce secretary in contempt over census probe, the next … Read more

The New York Times is helping the Dark Side of Politics by doing away with its Editorial Cartoons

As people in Arizona know from seeing the editorial cartoons of artists like Steve Benson and David Wayne Fitzsimmons, their caricatures (mostly humorous in tone) have tremendous historical and critical value. Others have as well. For example, the below cartoon from David Low at the outbreak of World War Two in Europe shows Hitler and … Read more