This news is cause for celebration: Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him, ending four decades of rule by a man who turned from independence hero … Continue reading →
…and by “the Bush I type” I mean the fanny-grope during the photo-op. So now we have a new accusation against Al Franken by a woman named Lindsay Menz: According to Menz, she attended the Minnesota State Fair with her … Continue reading →
Today it’s Al Franken. The story is told by Leann Tweeden, and it dates from 2006, which in today’s abuse-accusation terms seems very very recent, comparatively speaking. It was also before Franken became a senator; at the time of the … Continue reading →
…until Congress passes a tax reform bill. But it looks as though it might happen. The House seems poised to do it. If the Senate manages to pass one, it will probably be somewhat different, and then those differences must … Continue reading →
I didn’t watch Moore’s attorney’s news conference, but here’s a report on it that mentions two things of interest: Moore’s attorney raised two issues: 1) that Roy Moore was the judge on her divorce case, and 2) demanded Nelson’s attorney, … Continue reading →
…the Trump dossier has been a very successful one so far, hasn’t it?: ‘Wall Street Journal’ columnist Kimberley Strassel makes the case to Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson that the Steele dossier, which was funded by the DNC and Clinton … Continue reading →
It has become extremely common for people running for election (or newly-appointed to a political post) to be accused at the eleventh hour of sexual offenses. The accusation may take place at the eleventh hour, but the time of the … Continue reading →
…the proliferation of comments all around the right side of the blogosphere that blame the GOPe for the accusations against Roy Moore? This is in the vein of the sort of thing I’ve written about for years: the Republican civil … Continue reading →
The accusations against Alabama’s Republican candidate Roy Moore are the talk of the day. First let me get this out of the way: I’m not a Roy Moore fan and never have been. But this story is particularly disturbing to … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Today is the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election, so I thought I’d repeat a post I wrote about Trump in August of 2015, when it was beginning to dawn on me that he was a very serious contender.] … Continue reading →
I wasn’t very concerned about yesterday’s Virginia gubernatorial election, because I figured that Northam the Democrat would win and it probably had more to do with Gillespie being a poor candidate than anything else, plus I consider Virginia a basically … Continue reading →
Here are some reminiscences by political operatives and media people about Election Night 2016 (hat tip Ace). They vary from the delighted to the devastated. The surprise and shock was enormous for Hillary supporters, as you can imagine. Here are … Continue reading →