Month: October 2016

Must California bring Wells Fargo to justice?

State prosecutors in California are investigating Wells Fargo on allegations of criminal identity theft and false impersonation, opening up another front in the scandal over faked accounts at the bank. … In an affidavit,...

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Casual Observation

Given the choices, I can enthusiastically vote for Hillary Clinton. But she’s probably going to listen to these idiots and it’s going to come with a heavy price. I’ll predict right now that if she only serves...

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What Kind of Dem Party Ahead?

If Republican immigration completes the transformation of the Dems into a Blue Dog party–socially liberal, economically neoliberal–can a socially liberal, economically New Deal Left attract enough voters to be...

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How Trump Keeps the Party

Markos Moulitsas has a post up that discusses the coming civil war in the Republican Party. His take is somewhat different from mine, but he’s identified something that I’ve been hitting on. Paul Ryan is in no way...

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Trump Was Bad, the Punditry Was Worse

Okay, I have nothing but contempt for any effort, as Byron York makes this morning, to build a debate response piece around how Frank Luntz’s “focus group” spun their dials. Let me explain why. If you watched...

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