Month: August 2018

I am going to quote this Politico piece on the Republicans’ plan to ram Brett Kavanaugh down our throats at length because I think condensing it would lessen the impact. Senate Republicans are pressing ahead on confirming...

Whether consciously or unconsciously, it does sometimes appear like President Trump is deliberately sabotaging the congressional Republicans’ chances of holding onto their majorities. Walter Shapiro makes that...

(I started this piece in response to Booman’s recent post “Bipartisan Coalition May Elect Next Speaker.”[<http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/8/1/163826/4222>] It grew, and in deference to our own...

The British Conservatives in a coalition with the American Republican party and the Israel lobby have set their agenda and won the political propaganda battle in a pull to the right. First Brexit and a few months later the upset...

I don’t think too many people are thinking about this yet, but there’s an outcome to the midterm elections we can already assume. At least, we can assume it with much more confidence than we can predict whether the...