The military gear, helmets and facemasks of the American Schutzstaffel are not there to protect these thugs from harm, but to prevent identification. There are many reasons for this: They can’t be doxxed. They can’t be prosecuted. These first two points protect them. It’s not clear who they’re working for…

Republicans have been working hard, for forty years, to demolish the federal government. In Trump, they found a wrecking ball to accomplish their dreams. The lack of any effective federal response to the pandemic is one inevitable and entirely foreseeable result. See, feudal lords don’t care what happens to peasants. …

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Juvenal Loosely translated, it means, “Who watches the watchmen?” For three years, the media has failed to keep up with the unprecedented avalanche of malfeasance and criminality that is the Trump Administration. In our system of government, the Three Branches are supposed to police each…

We will never get back to what we think of as “normal.” Consider this. We made no attempt to contain the coronavirus. It is now wild in the world. We will be unable to clean every surface or identify every carrier. It will now be there forever. What does that…

(I wrote this story about twenty years ago. I’m convinced it’s unpublishable, but it’s one of my favorite stories. I hope someone reads it. I hope you like it.) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — I’m supposed to tell why…

There’s a lot of confusion about how impeachment works. Here’s a primer. There are four parts to an impeachment: 1) investigations 2) House Judiciary hearings 3) House vote 4) Senate trial We’re in Phase 1, and we’ve been there since Feb or March, when the House began to investigate Trump…

There’s a very good reason the House has not yet started impeachment hearings. Very simply, if impeachment starts now, Congress becomes powerless. It’s true, though it’s counter-intuitive. Let me explain. Put aside that the Senate won’t convict, which means any impeachment of Trump is futile, and impeachment becomes forever after…

Trump isn’t the disease. He’s no more than a symptom. Trump is the Frankenstein Monster the Republican Party has been building since at least 1968. When Nixon embraced the “Southern Strategy” to bring in racist white voters, to cash in on their anger at the Civil Rights Act and the…