Politics
Trump and the Acquittal of a Criminal
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 will be marked in history as the day the U.S. Senate acquitted a criminal president. President Donald J. Trump was found “not guilty” on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He is guilty of both. Sen. Marco Rubio found him guilty of impeachable
Speaker Pelosi Let ‘er Rip!
By Sunny Dell It started with a handshake snub. It ended on a tear. Some have compared the antics of Tuesday’s State of the Union address to a playground fight between 10-year-olds. Fair enough, sort of. There’s some room for argument that we need at least one adult left in
The Masses vs. Michael Bloomberg’s Monorail
By Ian Firstenberg In a rare moment of political honesty, Michael Bloomberg’s book reveals how deeply full of shit he really is. Michael Bloomberg’s thinks we are big dumb suckers. For him, we are whiney hogs who must be kept at bay and firmly scolded into submission; not listened to
The Deep Historical Roots of America’s Opioid Crisis
by Charles Irwell During the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor, I happened to be at my mother’s house. We watched a news report that detailed the extent of Jackson’s pharmaceutical drug addiction. My mother, a proud NHS nurse of 40 years, shook her head in incredulity at the drugs Jackson’s physician
Democrats Need to Suck It Up and Stop Eating Their Young
By Sunny Dell Let’s first acknowledge every current candidate running in the Democratic presidential primary is faulty is some way or another. They’re all plagued with mistakes and missteps, old and new. Their characters, demeanors and perspectives are either too archaic, too naive or too bombastic. They make promises that
Why Does the GOP Want a Second Civil War So Badly?
A decade ago, CNBC’s Rick Santelli launched the Tea Party movement with a cry of “Can you hear me now, Mr. President?” from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. That was the era of tri-corner hats, contrived 18th-century verbiage, occasional Obama-hanging-in-effigy displays, and deep concerns about the national debt
Hakeem Jeffries Dropped the Mic on the Impeachment Trial
The official start of the Senate impeachment trial against Donald J. Trump kicked off Tuesday with a marathon 13-hour “debate” session. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had just hours before laid out the ground rules for the process, which effectively made it impossible to call this thing anything other than
California’s $220 Billion Budget is Doing What Trump Refuses to Do
As recently as 2009, California was virtually broke. Facing a $24 billion deficit on a budget of approximately $100 million, the state furloughed employees, paid I.O.U.’s instead of tax refunds, and used every type of financial chicanery to move stuff around. At one point, the deficit was feared to be