Senator Rand Paul has had a rough couple of years of it. He was present but not injured when Steve Scalise was almost murdered on the baseball field by a Republican-hating shooter. And Paul had his very own incident of … Continue reading →
Eric Holder, who used to be the Attorney General of the United States not so long ago, said this recently: Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. No. When they go low, we kick them. … Continue reading →
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. Men are trying to protect themselves against false accusations in the workplace and on business trips. They observe that these days the woman doesn’t have to offer much or any evidence of sexual … Continue reading →
This sort of thing is why Lindsey Graham felt so betrayed at the Kavanaugh attacks. It’s Graham’s statement in 2010, explaining his vote for Elana Kagan: We lost. President Obama won. I’ve got a lot of opportunity to disagree, but … Continue reading →
There are quite a few interesting things about this incident. The first is that there are still Republican students and a Republican Club at Stanford these days. The second is that involves a male college student filing assault charges against … Continue reading →
But they did it.
Continue reading →Now that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, there’s a lot of analysis of going on about the nature of the process we actually witnessed. While the battle was still ongoing, Christine Ford was treated by the GOP as … Continue reading →
I’ve previously written at some length about Bolsonaro (“Brazil’s Trump”) here. Bolsonaro has now advanced to a run-off against left-wing Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad. Neither managed to get the 50% total needed to have won outright in this first … Continue reading →
A lot seems to be going on between this administration and China: On Thursday, Pence delivered one of the most hawkish speeches by a senior U.S. official since the two countries restored ties four decades ago. Pence assailed China as … Continue reading →
Nikkii Haley was one of the best UN ambassadors ever, so I’m sorry to see that she’s leaving the post. That said, her job was a largely thankless task in terms of any change being effected in that body. The … Continue reading →
There was another bot crawler attack last night, unfortunately. My apologies to all of you who might have gotten “error” messages for a while when you tried to access the blog. The good news is that it seems to have … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.] There, did I cover enough bases? Did I get it right (I mean left)? Like many things, Columbus Day has evolved. And here’s a discussion of the postmodern Columbus Day (from … Continue reading →