As Anita Kumar says, Trump can’t help himself when it comes to Putin: Every time the president has a chance to cast aside doubts about his relationship with the Russian leader, he does the opposite. Putin’s puppet reported for his annual employee performance review at the G-20 Summit, and he did not disappoint his boss. … Read more
Above image: The Fall of Rome. I made the point in an earlier post that The problem is we cannot impeach the Republican Party along with their ‘Dear Leader’ (excerpt): As I have argued, “What we have right now is the entire Republican Party in lock-step with the Trump crime family. It is acting as … Read more
On Thursday Donald Trump crossed the Rubicon — the event in 49 B.C. that precipitated the Roman Civil War, which ultimately led to Caesar becoming dictator for life and the rise of the imperial era of Rome — when he gave his incredibly corrupt Attorney General William P. Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a … Read more
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post recently made an astute observation about impeachment, Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster: Democrats have also suggested that an impeachment inquiry should be avoided until Republicans grow convinced that removal is merited, because without that an inquiry would divide the country or isn’t worth doing … Read more
The landmark civil rights U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was handed down on May 17, 1954, 65 years ago this week. The Court’s unanimous opinion holding that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” and therefore violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment … Read more