Does the Dems' Early Voting Lead Blunt the Danger of Trump Exploiting...
Two things stand juxtaposed— one being a threat Democrats have worried about, the other being good news for Democrats. I’m wondering if the second provides good protection against the first.1) The...
View ArticleThe "Apple" of American Conservatism Has Fallen Very Far from the Tree of Its...
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06). This piece, like most of my weekly op/eds, is intended to challenge the conservative...
View ArticleMore of the Shameless Hypocrisy of Trump's "Roy Cohn"-- i.e. the Current U.S....
The Washington Post reports — in its “Daily 202” email— about some bold statements from Trump’s Roy Cohn, meaning from the current holder of the office of Attorney General of the United States, William...
View ArticleWhat, If Anything, Can Be Done about AG Barr?
I’m going to assume that the readers here don’t need anyone to recount all the accumulating and escalating ways that this Attorney General of the United States is assaulting the foundations of our...
View ArticleHow to Save This Supreme Court Seat: Two Thoughts
People should stop talking about blocking the Republicans from filling the seat before the Election. What matters is keeping the seat open until after the Inauguration.(I say that because I’ve heard...
View ArticleIs Jeffrey Toobin Right that the Democrats "Don't Have the Guts" to Pack the...
An End to “Unilateral Disarmament”?It didn’t even take a day after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the battle lines to be drawn, including that Trump and McConnell would drive to fill her...
View ArticleMy Latest Challenge to the Conservatives: "A Kind of Craziness"
This piece will be appearing this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************No Americans in their right minds in, say, 1980, or 1990, would have chosen for the...
View ArticleIf You Ram Through Your SCOTUS Theft, We'll Ram Through Stripping You of Your...
I’m looking for words for the Democrats to use to prepare the way for the strong measures the Democrats have talked about pushing through, if they get the Presidency and the Senate, like: 1) adding...
View ArticleThe Rs' Scotus Theft and Trump's Threat to Peaceful Transfer of Power Are...
On the line right now is whether we are a nation of laws or one in which only power matters.At stake right now is whether we will be a democracy or become an authoritarian regime.When it comes to the...
View ArticleA President Who Attacks Our Constitutional Order Shouldn't Be Naming Justices...
The Trump/Trump-Party push to ram through a Supreme Court appointment as a presidential election is just around the corner has been attacked on various grounds. Here’s one more that can and should be...
View ArticlePentagon "Resignations" Aren't Good Enough in the Face of an Attempted Coup
A New York Times story reports that Trump’s recent statements and actions have “caused deep anxiety among senior military and Defense Department leaders, who insist they will do all they can to keep...
View ArticleTrump Demands Biden Drug Test; Biden Should Respond, "Sure, If You'll Release...
Who has something to hide?Trump’s trumped up notion of Biden needing to take a drug test prior to the debate provides an opening for Biden to highlight the lengths that Trump has gone to to hide his...
View ArticleWhat Scenario is Best -- for the Nation -- Regarding Trump's Covid Illness?
When word came out that Donald Trump had tested positive for Covid-19, his opponent — Joe Biden — responded in the right way: “We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and...
View ArticleHow to Explain a Germaphobe Like Trump Being So Careless with the Covid-19...
Donald Trump is famous for being a germaphobe. He even has so described himself. Yet here he is in the hospital, with a virus that is life-threatening, after behaving for months in ways that make one...
View ArticleTrump Shows Us -- Nakedly -- Exactly Who He Is (My Latest Challenge to the...
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**********************Over the past week or two, as we’ve witnessed this President...
View ArticleUsing America's Crises to Expose Americans' Stark Choices in this Election
The following will be appearing as an op/ed — before Election Day -- in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). In the original version, I had presented a fourth crisis: the crisis...
View ArticleBiden Can Handle the Court-Packing Issue Better. Here's How:
When Joe Biden responds to inquiries about his position on the idea of the Democrats’ packing the Supreme Court when they get the power to do so by saying that the people “will know my opinion on...
View ArticleIs AG Barr Jumping from the Sinking Trump Ship?
Since William Barr became Attorney General, I’ve written (I believe) three pieces calling for Barr to be impeached. The ways that Barr has disqualified himself are numerous:What Barr did to protect...
View ArticleI'm Thinking, "Maybe Barrett Isn't So Smart"
I confess, I haven’t been following the hearings too closely— this whole theft of the Supreme Court, by these Republican sociopaths, is just too painful to take in but in very small doses.But I am...
View ArticleMy (Newspaper Op/Ed) Challenge to Trump Supporters Regarding "Political...
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06), under the title, “Political Lawlessness and the Wider Community.”**********************As...
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