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Tudor once said about someone’s performance, responding to people coaxing, “Wasn’t she good?” “Yes, she was good-but not good enough.” And that’s the trouble with ballet–good is never good enough. This particular art form exists on such an outrageous plane … Continue reading →

“Since you gave yourself the biggest, beautiful tax cut in the history of the nation,” a rural Iowa resident asks Sen. Grassley at a town hall, “I would like to have you on the record, because of all the deficits … Continue reading →

This is what America looks like under Koch brothers rule: Kentucky’s governor vows to destroy Medicaid for 500,00 state residents if he’s not allowed to take it away from 100,000 of them.

to win back the Senate: remind the electorate that the GOP voted in complete unanimity to confirm Trump’s cabinet secretaries — and inform the public what Scott Pruitt is doing to curtail humans’ chances of survival. (And what they need to … Continue reading →

Why do the Democrats never see around corners?

The GOP finally found the despot they’ve been waiting for. As Josh Marshall writes at Talking Points Memo, ‘”One of the elemental features of the Trump Era is how readily Trump has been able to garner from most Republicans the … Continue reading →

His record over the past year consists of a little sideline tut-tutting about Trump’s objectionable conduct, followed by full roll-call support for Trump’s unconscionable legislation.

His hoked-up yet dangerous accusations of treason against Strzok and Page are “deeply troubling,” Robert Litt writes. “As general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, I worked with Lisa Page. I have the highest respect for … Continue reading →

And so, no, Mr. President, we don’t need any MORE of that good old global warming, do we?

Medicaid is supposed to provide medical care to American poor. It is is not supposed to be yet another way for the right wing to insert their moralistic, hypocritical snouts into the personal lives of American poor.