Month: February 2019

The Billionaires Waited Too Long to Panic

The billionaires have been looking around for someone with the credentials of a Douglas MacArthur or a Dwight Eisenhower because, just as the Republican Party of 1952 was about as useful as teets on a bull, the contemporary...

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The Democrats Have All the Leverage

It’s beginning to look more and more like we might be headed toward another partial government shutdown on Friday, as congressional negotiators are at an impasse. The Democrats are offering a pittance of extra funding ($2...

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An American Spring? Let Us Pray.

I started this post as an answer to yet another set of diatribes by the entity centerfielddj in response to my recent post The Democratic Party Is Rapidly Moving to the Left. NeoLibs Will Be Left Behind....

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A Good But Timid Profile of Michael Cohen

You can read about the May 4, 1985 murder of Russian-American mob boss Evsei Agron here. He was gunned down as he waited for the elevator in his own apartment building by “a man wearing a jogging suit and sunglasses [who]...

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