Where is Mitch McConnell? What is his physical condition? Why has he not been seen in public in three weeks? Since June 14, the former Republican Senate Leader and man most responsible for the current configuration of the Supreme Court, that judicial body’s rulings on Reproductive Freedom and Campaign Finance Reform, and the return of … Read more
Kentucky Republicans would like to reward former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for his service to the state and the country with a statue in his honor. The questions that are probably on most political observers’ minds on hearing that proposal, after heaving out their latest meal at the prospect of giving the Political Prince … Read more
Article Five of the N.A.T.O. charter, the clause that authorizes alliance members to come to the defense of another member who has been attacked, has been triggered only once since the organization’s founding in 1949. That was in 2001 after the Al-Queda attacks on the United States on 9/11. Now, in 2026, Article Five may … Read more
In a closed door meeting among frantic Senate Republicans like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis, who expressed worry about what Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans Big and Beautiful Economic bill would do to their electoral prospects when the people they suckered into voting for them realized by the decrease in the money going … Read more
One of the contributing factors to the first Russian Revolution in February/March 1917 (depending on which calendar one follows) was the influence of the monk Rasputin on the Romanov Royal Family. Brought in to help the Tsar and Tsarina’s son cope with his hemophilia, the monk’s success in helping “treat” the boy allowed him to … Read more