State of the Union shows us reality, surreality, of American politics in 2023
OK, like a few million of you, I watched it. The 2023 State of the Union. Yes, for me it took a large glass of grapefruit juice and tequila, but I made it.
OK, like a few million of you, I watched it. The 2023 State of the Union. Yes, for me it took a large glass of grapefruit juice and tequila, but I made it.
The Gulf and Iraq wars are still, oddly, ongoing, because Congress hasn’t voted to formally end them.
Rural voters overwhelmingly vote Republican, and it isn’t because voting Republican does them a lick of good.
After 16 years on the board, Kathe Maneval was not re-elected in November. She was the longest serving board member since 2006.
Glenn Youngkin used the backlog at the Virginia Employment Commission in acting on appeals on unemployment claims under the Northam administration as a political issue.
Republicans want to make it harder to vote, but they don’t want to admit that that’s the goal, which is understandable, given how underhanded the goal is.
The third Monday of January is celebrated as a national holiday to honor the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The filibuster has proved more pernicious to democracy than any other procedural rule of Congress. It’s time for it to go.
We have the First Amendment; anyone can quote Dr. King, the devil can quote the Bible, and the public discourse can be obscured by gaslight.
WWE is moving in the direction of a sale, with CNBC reporting Friday that the company has retained JPMorgan to help it navigate that process.
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