NFL week 12 open thread, the Kaepernick Alert edition
Ed: I'm on vacation this week, but after going 7-0 last week, moving my season record to 46-31, it's tough for me to stay away. I had a better week than Myles Garrett, Mason Rudolph, and 31 other...
View ArticleWaPo reporter: We're hearing behind the scenes that more House Dems are...
I'll take the opportunity up front to double down on this post from Friday. I'd bet my life savings plus several internal organs that Pelosi will have 218 to impeach. That's based on the simple reality...
View ArticleDe Niro: Buttigieg could be the one to beat that piece of s**t Trump
One way for an aging actor to keep his name in headlines is to bash the President of the United States, the cruder the better. Robert De Niro has taken this route. He finds himself in his waning years...
View ArticleTrump: "I want a trial"
While there are obviously some people who think that House Democrats will fail in their efforts to schedule a vote on impeachment, the smart money seems to be on the idea that they've got the votes and...
View ArticleIt seems no one wants a Mike Bloomberg candidacy
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is running for president. Yay?Bloomberg's dalliance with national political office is nothing new, after all, rumors of a presidential run have circulated...
View ArticleSchiff not planning any more hearings...yet
We may have to wait a bit for another edition of Ukraine Theatre on Capitol Hill.California Congressman Adam Schiff told CNN's State of the Union this morning he saw no reason to call in more witnesses...
View ArticleReversal: Secretary of the Navy out over Gallagher review
When we looked at the situation involving the Secretary of the Navy and the pending hearings for Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher yesterday, it appeared to have settled into a comfortable resolution....
View ArticleBiden tags four women who could be his VP
Joe Biden may be putting the cart a bit ahead of the horse here, but he fielded a question during a town hall on Friday night as to who he might choose as his running mate. The veepstakes issue is...
View ArticleHong Kong election a big win for democracy candidates
Democracy advocates enjoyed major victories on Sunday after sweeping 17 of the 18 district council elections in Hong Kong. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong...
View ArticleSarah Huckabee Sanders: “I don’t like being called a liar”
Will Sarah Huckabee Sanders be the next Governor of Arkansas? It's a question that has been asked since she left the Trump White House less than six months ago and moved back to her home state. There...
View ArticleInterview: The scientists trying to catch UFOs
To bludgeon a quote from Mark Twain into a 2019 setting, UFOs are starting to seem like the weather. Everyone is talking about them these days, but nobody seems to be doing anything about them, or at...
View ArticleRick Perry: I told Trump that he was chosen by God -- just like Obama was
Perry's getting a bad rap on these comments this morning from the media, much of which is omitting the "Obama" part of what he said in their coverage of it. He's not claiming that Trump was chosen by...
View ArticlePolitico: Democrats ignoring ideas for identity politics
The Democratic presidential primary is becoming more and more about identity politics instead of whose ideas are better for the country. POLITICO reported this morning that candidates are becoming more...
View ArticleChinese reeducation camps are 'Cultural Revolution on steroids' (Update)
Earlier this month the NY Times published a story on leaked Chinese documents detailing the creation and administration of re-education camps designed to brainwash Islamic citizens. Sunday, NBC News...
View ArticleSheriff under fire for Kanye West's "church services" in local jails
Kanye West is bringing the gospel to the masses these days and that includes ministering to the incarcerated. You may have seen stories on West's latest career venture. His latest release, "Jesus Is...
View Article"Ethanol has forsaken us"
I realize that boring old governmental policy stories have taken something of a back seat to the impeachment follies this month, but there is one ongoing issue that shouldn't drop entirely off the...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg was released from the hospital Sunday and 'Democrats are...
Justice Ginsburg took a day off from oral arguments at the Supreme Court earlier this month. She was said to have a stomach bug and witnesses had noticed she appeared "shaky" the day before her...
View ArticleABC: Schiff's committee has photos, audio, video recordings from Rudy...
How many false alarms have we had already during the Trump era about recordings that were supposedly going to bring down the president? There were the reports after he fired Comey that Trump himself...
View ArticleReview/Preview: Hellier
The following is a review of the documentary series "Hellier" from Planet Weird Productions, with as few spoilers as possible, though some minor spoilers may be unavoidable....
View ArticleLindsey Graham responds to Biden: I'm not going to let our friendship stop me...
He's 99 percent right and I said so on Saturday in writing about Biden's whiny critique of him. Of all the shots Grandpa Joe could take at Graham, complaining that he's a bad friend because he won't...
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