Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians…
America Has Come To A Fork In The Road. Will The Supreme Court Choose The Path That Saves Or Ruins The Democracy
The sitting justices face a once-in-a-lifetime crisis of legitimacy that could determine the future of the US Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Author: Gary Gerstle Common sense suggests that America ought to…
Friday Serenade: Exhausted, Frustrated, But Not Lost
A participating member at DemocraticUnderground.com posted a truthful, and, yes, haunting essay on his frustration with the current state of affairs in the United States. He asks the question: Anyone else just utterly exhausted,…
With Honours – 11. 11. 2021. A Good Soldier, A Strong Man
“I would like to be remembered as a strong man and a good soldier” Lawrence Brooks, aged 112, smiled as his daughter, Vanessa, tenderly placed his new garrison cap on his head in the…
Veterans For Peace: Reclaim November 11 As Day For Peace
The best way to honor the service of those in the military is to work for Peace” "As veterans we know that a day that celebrates peace, not war, is the best way to…
Wednesday WayBack: Protests, Boos and Fossil Fuels, Oh My
New COP26 Drafted Ripped For Climate Action Amid Existential Crisis "This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it's an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for…
Max Cleland. RIP
Max Cleland, who lost three limbs to a Vietnam War hand grenade blast yet went on to serve as a U.S. senator from Georgia, died on Tuesday at his home in Atlanta from congestive…
Reminder: The Past Becoming Our Present
But There's Still A Chance To Alter Our Course, It Must Be With Every Move We Make This is sick behavior from Rep. Paul Gosar. He tweeted out the video showing him killing…
Monday Ménage: Edition People, Corporations, and The Isms
Useem. Wolfe. Mills. The political concerns of members of the corporate elite are affected by three competing principles. These principles have fundamentally different implications for the ways in which business managers participate in policy…
Women In Trousers. What a Concept
Ted 'I Don't Wet The Bed' Cruz: Hey, We Have a Paris,Too On 7 November 1800, a law was enacted in Paris, France, that made it illegal for women to wear trousers/pants without first…
A Happy Guy
Happy UnHappy President Joe Biden was a happy guy when the House late Friday night passed his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The bill now is waiting for his signature. The bill passed with help…
Friday Serenade: Lotta Lotta Lotta Lotta Work To Do
Who CARES? They Did! Billionaires Received Taxpayer-Funded Stimulus Checks During the Pandemic In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with rare speed,…
Is This a Trick Question?
Is There a Republican Alive Who Still Believes in Democracy? Republican state governments are currently passing laws to restrict Democrats from voting in the future, while taking care not to suppress the Republican vote.…
Wednesday WayBack: Promises Broken. Elections Lost!
It Is What It Is On Tuesday, Republican Glenn Youngkin, a career private equity executive running his first campaign, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in not even a close race for Governor in Virginia. Youngkin…
Voter Fraud! Voter Fraud! Voter Fraud! Oh, Never Mind, The Republican Won
Hypocrites Hucksters and Hacks Over a month ago, Republicans were planning their end-of-the-cycle strategy for the Virginia election for governor. It was simple. Not new, but simple. As election day got closer right-wingers…
Dem Rep. Cori Bush Takes Down That Phony Little Joey
Democratic Representative Cori Bush of Missouri did not hold back (she rarely does) when on Monday she told the country just what she thought about Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and his…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power and Impotency
Rousseau. Hegel. Hall. As soon as the act of association becomes reality, it substitutes for the person of each of the contracting parties a moral and collective body made up of as many…
When A Image Tells The Whole Sad Story: Part Infinity
Top Democrats Spend Weekend Talking Amongst Themselves While Mitch McConnell And Top Republicans Wait In The Bushes, Ready To Pounce, Ready To Eat Dems' Lunch. Again! (more…)
I’m Not Sure, But Doesn’t It Sound Familiar?
Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson of North Carolina said he's almost certain he will run for governor in 2024. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina is a Christian nationalist. On Friday, at a…
Friday Serenade: Same Old D-Crap
Can't Step Out of The Fantasy Many campaign promises fail to make the Biden BBB framework as Democrats coming to terms with shrinking agenda The new $1.75 trillion framework and Biden’s morning…
Da Dems…
Prescription Drug Reforms Are Out Of The Spending Deal, At Least For Now No reforms would be a major setback for Democrats, a big victory for the drug industry — and a loss for…
An Image of Our Very Near Future
Biden/Manchin HC Compromise Joe Biden, who received over 81 million American votes giving him that seat in the Oval Office, and the senator from West Virginia who makes millions from coal, Joe Manchin, came…
Wednesday WayBack: Choices, Still. But For How Long
Early Thoughts On the American Coup of 2024 A warning about the very possible nightmare yet to come Background: Message from the Manila Hotel The message for democracy offered from the Manila Hotel…
Shrinking Into Nothingness
In an opinion piece on Tuesday at The Guardian, Robert Reich poses a familiar, and some may say inevitable, Democratic Party policy outcome: Is Biden's entire agenda about to shrink into nothingness? While Dr.…
Monday Ménage: Joke Is On Us
Carlin. Mauro. Marx. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
Similarities? Undeniable!
School Board Protests Are Not Grassroots Movement, Are Not Spontaneous Conservatives are disrupting school board meetings by shouting, using Nazi salutes, and even physically assaulting anyone they disagree with. But these attacks are anything…
Mr President, Whattaya Gonna Do
'No issue is more important than voting rights'. Agreed! “Let’s be clear: Obstructing the Freedom to Vote Act was as subversive as state voter-suppression actions to roll back access to the vote, as…













