President Trump’s Impeachment Legal Team Taking Shape
President Trump’s legal team for the impeachment trial has some very familiar names on it, including one of the biggest names from the last time we as a country did this.
Category: Politics
What the Houston Astros Teach Democrats About 2020
So what it will take for Trump’s fans to abandon him? The same thing it took for people to care about baseball cheating – make it affect them.
Speaker Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers, Will Hand Articles Over to Senate
Naming managers and transmitting articles, after a few weeks wait the Senate will finally get on with the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump
About Last Night: Fifty Shades of Fearful Beige in Democratic Debate
Joe Biden in the front, with others thinking, wishing, and hoping it wasn’t so, but no one in the Democratic field actually doing anything about it.
She Said He Said: Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren Take Off The Gloves
Ultimately, this will not matter. This is another Twitter spat that will not move a single vote, no matter what the truth behind it. What’s more interesting is what it reveals.
One of Three, But Should Be Many
Thinking we are better off without such people as Najib Ahmad Bakhtari in our nation is lunacy.
Cory Booker Bows Out
Cory Booker announces that he will be returning to his day job as Senator from New Jersey.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi To Get On With It. Impeachment, That Is…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she will be forwarding the Articles of Impeachment and name the Impeachment Managers next week.
Notorious but Cancer-Free RBG Returns
The ghoulish ritual of wielding the health & mortality of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg around as a political cudgel can be suspended, at least for now.
The Inexplicable Origins of World War III
Fears about World War III, when they are not jokes, mostly revolve around an outdated view of how wars begin in the modern world.
Multiculturalism: Can We Talk?
Multiculturalism can be a good thing. Multiculturalism can be a bad thing. These statements are not mutually exclusive, though most people assume they are. At least in the United States, attitudes toward multiculturalism exist...
“I’m Against…” vs. “I’m For…” And a Lesson in Signaling Sharp Contrasts
Discussing Berny Belvedere’s piece on how “I’m against…” is often winning out over “I’m for…” and candidates that don’t adjust get left behind.
Soleimani: Cooler Heads, Measured Takes, and Abject Panic
Because nothing is ever black and white, I’ve learned not to take cues from the hyperbolic.
Prologue To Election 2020
Before we begin months of poll watching let’s look back on how we got to this moment in history…
U.S. Airstrike Kills Qasem Suleimani, Others
This killing of Suleimani has the potential to be a very big moment in 40+ years of American-Iranian tensions
New Terms for Old Libertarians in the New Year
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen starts off the new year by proffering two new terms involving classical liberalism and libertarianism
A Panel Discussion Worth Discussing
Over on CNN, Jake Tapper had on Bari Wiess and Jane Coaston to discuss anti-Semitism and the reaction to the latest attacks on Jews. What say you?
Attacks on Jews in New York. Again.
But regardless of which political tribe we pin this on, it’s a scary moment. Anti-semitism is never dead and never very far from us. The events of recent weeks are a stark reminder of that.
Tobacco Age Limit Raised Under Smokescreen of $1.4T Spending Bill
The FDA has announced the raised age limit to purchase tobacco products, signed into law by the President along with the latest spending package, is now in effect.
United States House of Representatives [Public domain][/caption]Naming managers and transmitting articles, after a few weeks wait the Senate will finally get on with the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump
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