This morning, the morning after President Donald John Trump gave the constitutionally-mandated State of the Union address, not since the Civil War has the state of our Union been in so much peril. Trump has repeatedly ignored the fact that America is a nation of immigrants and has repeatedly supportedContinue Reading
Sorry for being rather late on this one; I don’t write here much anymore. The reaction was ever so predictable. After the New York Times’ report that Clinton shielded campaign adviser Burns Strider after he made inappropriate advances on another staffer, against the wishes of her campaign manager who wantedContinue Reading
I actually think a lot of men are having a nervous breakdown over the #metoo. But really, this should not be in the New York Times (or really my idealized version of the New York Times which is now down the rabbit hole). Today’s Brooks column is on the Jordan PetersonContinue Reading
This last weekend, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, visited the shanty towns, makeshift shelters, tents and sleeping bags of the otherwise homeless in third world countries experiencing severe economic instability San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, CA. Within shouting distance of the offices of some of theContinue Reading
Republicans will win this. For sure. Democrat politicians in trouble. The Mitch McConnell. He’s a sly one that Mitch. Did you see him speak? Democrats better do what he says, he’s a sly one. Sure there were thousands of housewives marching over the weekend, but yawn. But there are aContinue Reading
Less than a week into the new year, the Trump administration kicked off 2018 with one of the most cynical and craven acts of political favoritism in recent American history. On January 4, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke unveiled the Draft Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.Continue Reading
On the day Homeland Security announced planning for a major immigration raid in the Bay Area in response to sanctuary city laws… U.S. immigration officials have begun preparing for a major sweep in San Francisco and other Northern California cities in which federal officers would look to arrest more thanContinue Reading
If nothing else, Republicans over the past few weeks have delivered an important civics lesson to the American people in general—and Democrats in particular. Facing a growing mountain of irrefutable evidence that the incompetent, out-of-his-depth GOP president of the United States has been enmeshed in a network of ties toContinue Reading
I’ve been wracking my brain. Has this ever happened before? A false alarm nuclear attack. I may be wrong but I can’t remember such an incident. I am close to sixty. I called other relatives who lived through the heart of the Cold War. They can’t remember. May we areContinue Reading
x BREAKING: #DACA recipients can start applying for renewals. Follow @NILC_org for guidance soon! #ProtectDreamers https://t.co/eRiDWsF1tw — Marielena Hincapié (@MarielenaNILC) January 14, 2018 Jan. 13, 2018, Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA. Until further notice,Continue Reading
With media mogul Oprah Winfrey reportedly considering a run for the Democratic presidential nomination and a large section of the Democratic establishment being at least interested in supporting her candidacy for the Democratic nomination, it’s time for me to talk about reasons why I wouldn’t support Oprah unless she winsContinue Reading
“If you had gone into a chemical laboratory to concoct a politician whose background and manner would sound liberal alarms,” Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief and Bill Kristol son-in-law Matthew Continetti pondered in 2009, “You probably would have come up with someone like Sarah Palin.” While the Quitta from Wasilla madeContinue Reading
I was watching CNN and MSNBC last night and I noticed for the first time in maybe my lifetime (and I’m old) the shows were dominated by Democratic politicians. I figured they could not find anybody to defend Trump. Then this morning I turn on CNN and they found somebodyContinue Reading
It still amazes me that it took me so long to hear about this project (having just learned of it shortly before Christmas when news of them getting conditional approval on the land broke). But there’s something very interesting underway in Reykjavík which I hope to see a lot moreContinue Reading
