Together again. Will the show of unity last? Will they manage to pass any important legislation? Or will the split GOP, with its barely-there, small, shaky majority, end up deadlocked again? Just to repeat: A fifty-two vote majority isn’t much … Continue reading →
It’s a trend: Angela Merkel’s misguided migration policy ”” which allowed nearly 1 million people from Africa and the Middle East to enter Germany in 2015 ”” has claimed another political victim. Her centrist Christian Democratic government lost a great … Continue reading →
…without an MSM article on this sort of theme: “Inside the ”˜adult day-care center’: How aides try to control and coerce Trump”? There’s a steady stream that never flags. They all seem more or less the same to me. Some … Continue reading →
The gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court is one of those things I’ve been meaning to research in depth but haven’t had the time to do yet. My gut feeling has been that gerrymandering is bad, but it’s done by … Continue reading →
Commenter “physicsguy” remarks: I read yesterday that the GOP reps are getting very annoyed with their brethren in the Senate. And, I think they’re correct. Look at where it has all broken down”¦in the Senate. And in particular we can … Continue reading →
Reuters has noticed something: Over his first nine months, Trump has used an aggressive series of regulatory rollbacks, executive orders and changes in enforcement guidelines to rewrite the rules for industries from energy to airlines, and on issues from campus … Continue reading →
Being as old as I am, the bended-knees of the NFL immediately brought this incident to mind: For those of you who weren’t around back then or who’ve forgotten, here’s what it was all about. History doesn’t repeat itself, but … Continue reading →
Roy Moore has won the GOP Senate primary in Alabama. There’s lots of coverage of the result that characterizes it as a defeat for Trump, who backed Moore’s opponent, Strange. And on that level, it is a defeat for Trump. … Continue reading →
The short version is: I could hardly care less about football. As a child, I used to glance at the TV when my father and brother were watching football, and I had no trouble walking on. Football games looked like … Continue reading →
While we are being distracted by such things as the NFL’s knees and Weiner’s weiner, life goes on abroad with some elections. Germany has re-elected Angela Merkel, for example. But the celebration was somewhat muted for Merkel: Merkel’s Pyrrhic victory … Continue reading →
Mark Lilla wrote a book called The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics that caused a bit of a stir among his fellow-liberals because it said that in order to win elections the Democrats should abandon identity politics. As … Continue reading →
Apparently the folks who participate in the Emmys have come to feel that their mission is to put down Trump and his supporters, which is approximately half of the country. I wouldn’t think that this would be good for ratings—or … Continue reading →