Author: yastreblyansky

According to today’s editorial in the New York Times, By any measure, the nearly-six-year tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has been one of the most consequential in United States history…. It is hard to...

Promoted by Steven D. I think yastreblyansky has a valid point, but unfortunately, when Dem voters are suppressed by gerrymandering and ID voter laws, or don’t turn out in midterm elections, this may be an effective...

Promoted by Steven D. I think Booman would agree with you about our dear Uncle Bobo. Shorter David Brooks, “Snap Out of It”, New York Times, September 23, 2014: I don’t know why everybody’s so upset....

Had to share this–it seems that in 1987 the mayor of Burlington, VT, a guy from New York City named Bernard Sanders,  you may have heard of him more recently, recorded a folk-rock album, with the assistance of a local...

Saturday’s freeing of the 49 Turkish hostages held by ISIS may have been by a military rescue operation according to the Turkish government, or maybe by the serene clemency of his caliphic majesty Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...