Chesley “Sully” Sulenberger, the pilot who safely landed a plane in the Hudson River and all onboard survived, headlined the latest ad for the Lincoln Project (and VoteVets) “Our Moment.” Saying leadership is “about knowing what you’re doing, taking responsibility for it, being prepared, ready, able to handle anything that might come your way,…and serving … Read more
Last week the conservative media entertainment complex were all “catapulting the propaganda” of the Trump campaign that mail-in early ballots are rife with fraud, based upon a story manufactured by Donald Trump’s consigliere and fixer, William “Coverup” Barr, the most corrupt attorney general in American history. In the end, this was much-ado about nothing. But … Read more
I will get to the judicial temperament and record of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court nominee imposed on Donald Trump by the Federalist Society and Judicial Action Network, in another post. Right now I want to focus on process. Let’s be clear: no president, and no political party, has ever sought to nominate … Read more
Back in June when Donald Trump and his henchman Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr called out the National Guard to patrol Washington, D.C., in response to Black Lives Matter protests in a show of military force intended as a preview of what Trump intends to do around election day in “Democrat cities,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper … Read more
Let’s vow to make this the very last election under our anti-democratic Electoral College. After what we are going to witness in the coming months, there is going to be renewed demands to rid ourselves of this anti-democratic anomaly in order to save American democracy. Barton Gellman in a lengthy analysis explains at The Atlantic how … Read more