Month: March 2015

It’s embarrassing how terrified the Senate Republicans are of their base. They really don’t have much of a beef with the president’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, but...

A feature of the national security bedwetting after 9/11 was the National Security Letter, essentially a demand for records concerning an individual who, may or may not be under investigation .  The recipient of such a...

How often have I heard or seen this phrase, “I want my country back,” used over the years since I was born in 1956, in Raleigh, North Carolina? I can’t give you a precise number, but I can tell you that, though...

Indiana Governor Mike Pence is taking the brunt of the abuse for signing a bill that supposedly protects religious freedom, but there is a much bigger right-wing movement that is getting slapped in the face with the reality that...

Ever since I first heard that the House of Representatives was passing a bill that would eliminate the need for the doc-fix, I’ve been wondering two things. First, how in the world did this House find a bipartisan...