Many of us spend too much time depressed about the seemingly never-ending list of things that President Donald J. Trump gets away with. But we need to refamiliarize ourselves with the well-known dangers of what the military tends to call “mission creep,” applied in a slightly different context, no l…
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Every reader here understands it is hard to overstate the importance of November’s midterm elections. The GOP controls every branch in our Constitutional framework, and the vast majority of Americans agree that the nation is in crisis, providing Democrats with fertile ground on which to harvest winn…
I am hearing terrible things about Raw Story. Just terrible. People are telling me — very smart people, the smartest people — that some of you are not giving this column your complete and undivided attention. That’s bad. Very, very bad. Frankly, it’s a disgrace.You think I don’t notice? You think I …
The canvas of Kansas is painted with fields of golden wheat, sometimes as far as the eyes can see.Children who have chosen paths in life that have taken them away from their rural upbringings return to help with the harvest. While the pace is hectic, there is a peacefulness that prevails as we reali…
America greets our 250th birthday not as the last, best hope of Earth, but under a noxious cloud of broken promises, betrayed ideals, hateful discourse, public corruption, and petulant, petty public leaders peddling horrendous lies without shame.A great bulk of everyday people are sinking in a quick…
Donald Trump’s deliberate vandalization of DC, along with our democracy, has reached a tipping point where even his most loyal cultists are questioning his motives. Just not enough of them…yet. Senate Republicans are starting to break ties with Trump over his full capitulation to Iran in Versailles….
The headlines out of the Supreme Court came at us in waves Thursday morning, like a barrage of punches to the gut:Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at BorderSupreme Court Allows Trump to End Deportation Protections for Haitians and SyriansSupreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii Gun Restri…
After musician after musician pulled out from Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert, he was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a couple of military bands, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend. The anthem that made Greenwood a star, “God Bless the USA,” was written in 1985 during the height of the Cold War. It …
Disgusting, vile, repugnant, supremacists.I can think of more attributes along these lines to describe the six conservative justices, who handed down three rulings today that, taken together, reveal the naked, ugly face of what this court has become – disgusting, vile, repugnant supremacists. All we…
Mitch McConnell isn’t voting this week. His office isn’t saying much about why, just that he’s been hospitalized. Curt answers, no timeline, no details.I worked in PR for more than 30 years, and one thing you learn is that when the news is scant, the situation usually isn’t good. The less said, the …