Michael Bryan 
This post will be updated as the IRC meeting progresses (1:13pm) The Zoom of the initial meeting of the Commission started with a brief party-line deadlock on who the temporary chairperson just for the meeting to elect the permanent chairperson. Then they immediately went into an extended executive session just to take legal advice on … Read more
‘American Abyss‘ by Yale historian of extremist violence Dr. Timothy Snyder, wrote a must-read article contextualizing the January putsch attempt by Trump and the white supremacists who led the seditious attack on Congress. This article was written in large part BEFORE January 6th, as Dr. Snyder clearly saw what was coming. You can and should … Read more
About 240 years ago, an overwhelmingly agrarian society of just 2.5 million people, consisting of a diverse group of former British colonies, perched on the edge of an largely mysterious continent, with an economy at least half-reliant on slave labor, embarked on an experiment that had not been tried on such a scale for almost … Read more
The AZGOP has proposed, but not yet passed (due to a rules violation by the floor motion), a draft censure of Cindy McCain. If it could have been passed by acclimation on the floor, it would have, and they will still be back to pass it on January 23rd. If that motion had simply read … Read more
It is widely believed by intelligence officials that the plan of the 9/11 terrorists was to ram airliners into the World Trade Center — the symbol of American financial strength — the Pentagon — the symbol of American military strength –and either the White House or the Capitol building — the symbols of American democratic strength. … Read more