Can Biden Be the Churchill for this Midterm Battle Against Fascism?
While everyone who has sworn an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution” has an obligation to denounce the “Trump Party’s” ongoing lawlessness, no one is so well positioned to raise the necessary...
View ArticleA Series of Ads the Democrats Should Run
The series almost writes itself.It starts with videos that show dramatically some big problem we face:A video that captures the nightmare of America’s plague of mass-killings because we are unique...
View ArticleMy Wish for What WON'T Happen with the 1/6 Committee Presentation
I feel confident that the presentation of the 1/6 Committee will be an outstanding piece of work. Some of the members of that Committee are brilliant people, well trained in the presentation of cases...
View ArticleCriminal or Crazy-- Either Way (and it's one and/or the other) Trump's...
The legal beagles are saying these days that prosecutors can prove that Trump knew that he lost— because so many people told him so. And that, they say, means that prosecutors can prove he had the...
View ArticleProsecute Trump a "Tough Decision"? Not At All! No One Has Ever Been More...
“Despite Overwhelming Evidence of Guilt,” ran the title of a recent piece here on Daily Kos, “the DOJ has a tough decision around prosecuting Trump.” And the piece quotes various legal experts...
View ArticleThe Hearings: Great Job on Trump's Criminality. How About All the GOP...
The job that the 1/6 Committee is doing in exposing Trump’s unspeakable awfulness — not only crimes, but utter human monstrousness. And that’s important.So many people are hungering for him to be held...
View ArticleAbortion and the Constitution (Running this weekend in newspapers in my very...
The Constitution doesn’t say anything about abortion. But the Constitution does say that, when it comes to the religious views of American citizens, each person has the right to live in accordance with...
View ArticleA "Dred Scot" Decision for Our Times
I don’t want to overstate this, but yesterday’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe reminds me in many ways of the Dred Scot decision of 1857. That’s the decision in which a bunch of Supreme Court...
View ArticleBrilliant Strategic Ideas for Biden from Bill McKibben
Never before now, in hundreds of postings here, have I presented someone else’s work. But this proposed political strategy for President Biden — articulated in the newsletter of world-renowned climate...
View ArticleThe 1/6 Hearings Demonstrate that the Phrase "Conspiracy Theory" is Being...
For quite a while, people in the media have been using the phrase “conspiracy theory” to mean some crazy, false belief. Think Qanon. Or Jewish lasers behind the California wildfires. Or Hugo Chavez...
View ArticleThe Question is, Does Cipollone WANT to Tell What He Knows
The news is that Trump’s last White House Counsel has agreed to give transcribed testimony. The New York Times article reporting this says that Cipollone’s testimony might be limited by claims of...
View ArticleHere's the Real -- Elemental -- Reason for Biden's Low Poll Numbers
OK. I don’t really know that I’m right in my assertion that I’m onto the real reason, and that it’s something not widely recognized.But it is my strong intuition— and it is being offered up by one with...
View ArticleWhat I HOPE Has Been AG Garland's Strategy Regarding the Prosecution of...
Like some of my legal heroes of these days — like Lawrence Tribe and Neal Katyal — I’ve been very uneasy about how the Attorney General has apparently been dealing with Trump’s evident criminality— the...
View ArticleThis is the Division Among Democrats that Matters Most Now
A friend of mine thinks the most important division among Democrats are between moderates and progressives. I disagree.I see the most important division being between those whose voices address our...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Be Trumpeting this Demonstration of the Republicans' Enmity...
There’s no need to get into the merits of the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Trump’s home. Nobody but a handful of people in the DOJ/FBI and a federal judge really know what all that’s about....
View ArticleMajorities, Minorities and the Oncoming Midterm Election
This piece appears this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).********************I. The Republican Base is Pushing Away from the American CenterOverall, in the primaries...
View ArticleLiz Cheney Should Declare (When the Time is Right): "If... Then I Will Run as...
Liz Cheney has said she puts her allegiance to the nation and the Constitution ahead of that to her Party. Accordingly, she has pledged to do everything in her power to see that Donald Trump doesn’t...
View Article“Threats to Democracy” is Voters’ Top Concern: How to Make Political Use of That
I am glad that the threat to American democracy has moved into the top place among issues of concern to the American electorate. 21% putting it there is an improvement.But I’m stuck on the idea that --...
View ArticleWhat Biden Should Say: WashPost's Jennifer Rubin Has It Right
I generally post my own writings here. But today’s piece by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post columnist, and former Republican) is so good I feel I must do what I can to help it find a wide...
View ArticleDon't Fear Prosecuting Trump, Welcome It. It Offers the Best of Ground for...
The continuing hand-wringing over the “dangers” of prosecuting the criminal former President — and I’ve heard the anxieties expressed several times in recent days -- exasperates me. That fear of a...
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