The House on Tuesday will try — and fail — to overturn President Donald Trump’s veto of a congressional resolution killing his national wall emergency, because followers of the personality cult of Donald Trump are more loyal to their cult leader than the Constitution and their oath of office. House set for failure on vote … Read more
Democrats need to be mindful of the fringes on both the right and the left as they navigate a course to capture more local and state offices, maintain their control of the House, retake the Senate, and win the Presidency. Combatting the right-wing fringe right is easy because they are mostly nativist xenophobic white supremacists … Read more
I have seen and heard occasional references this year to a 50th anniversary of Woodstock this summer, so I did a quick Google research, and sure enough, there really is a Woodstock 50 Festival this summer. The official Woodstock 50 is a three day festival of music on August 16, 17 and 18 in Watkins … Read more
Curious. Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed his long-awaited report on a Friday at the close of business — the proverbial Friday night news dump — when much of the nation was transfixed with the NCAA mens basketball tournament, aka March Madness. Curiouser still, the Department of Justice announced that Mueller won’t recommend further Russia probe … Read more
Update to Abolish the Electoral College and make our democracy truly democratic. And another thing … Efforts to eliminate the electoral college date back 50 years: With at least one presidential candidate calling for the elimination of the Electoral College, CNN’s John Avlon delivered a fact check that showed that the idea is hardly radical: … Read more