Month: January 2017

If you we’re paying attention through the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, you probably can’t think of too many people less credible than Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, former CIA Director James Woolsey, or really...

Asshole: President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats...

I’m under the weather today or I might attempt a more robust response to this: House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an...

I’ve written about this many times over the years, but let’s go over it again. There are many reasons why the Republican Party has developed as a skeptic of federal power, but the most important is that they spent...

Better late midweek than never. This week: covers of Velvet Underground songs. That was Cat Power’s cover of I Found a Reason. The song appeared on the soundtrack of the film V for Vendetta about a decade ago. Something...