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with a GOP “victory,” there are many dubious benchmarks surrounding the electoral probity of Handel’s defeat of Ossof. Where paper ballots were used, Ossof was ahead. Where completely unverifiable black box voting machines were used, Handel trumped him–indeed. At Alternet, … Continue reading →

What in the world were they thinking? Peter Dreier at Common Dreams believe they owe us an apology.

Indispensable: Paul Jackson’s three-volume series on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. I’ve read Vol 1 & Vol 3 — am halfway through Vol 2. (You know I prefer not strict linear progression.)

The aging frat boy, freshman Senator from Nebraska is just back from the Kochs hate-in floating a zombie resurrection of an outlier barometer of how the United States can descend into bedlam. Repeal Obamacare instantly–or give it one more year’s … Continue reading →

is Trump’s remark about Mika Brzenzski and Lindsay Graham’s potshots at Nancy Pelosi’s nips and tucks in 2015?

One of them is a completely immoral weasel. In a filthy editorial Mulvaney wrote, which I don’t want to link to because it might soil you, Mulvaney uses the Southern Strategy of pretending that only The Other receives Medicaid. In … Continue reading →

Following White House Inc’s Orwellian rhetorical strategies, maliscious idiot Halley tweets the boast–boast, mind you–that we’ve cut a billion dollars from the U.N. peacekeeping force.

Gosh, Fox “News” seems to have an endless supply of perky, vicious and fatuous dittoheads to mock reality as well as the American people–doesn’t it? Imagine how perky Ms. Kennedy Montgomery would be if Fox got stingy with her own … Continue reading →

Well, you could say that Trump and all his Cabinet represent a horribly stunted form of psychological and ethical development, but Scott Pruitt is mounting a full-frontal attack on organic development as well. After meeting with the Dow CEO, EPA … Continue reading →

Sasse is an up-and-coming monster, a monster to watch out for.  He was there at the Koch retreat last week. Was Sen. Sasse preaching his gospel of self-reliance to the American oligarchs gathered, one of the greediest, most infantile, cossetted … Continue reading →