The recently concluded hearings before the House Intelligence Committee established two things. First, it is clear that Donald Trump engaged in conduct that is eminently… Read More »Blog No. 242 Impeachment: Craven Republicans and Impatient Democrats
I have joined four other residents of Ojai, California in forming a Bipartisan Committee to elect Amy Klobuchar. As most readers know, I am a… Read More »Blog No. 241. For Amy Klobuchar
Since the resolution by the House of Representatives formally initiating an impeachment investigation, the process has begun to accelerate noticeably. How it will actually play… Read More »Blog No. 240. Trump Impeachment: The Counter-Narratives
In his notorious telephone call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky on July 25, President Trump asked “a favor” of Zelensky: I would like you to do… Read More »Blog No. 239. What the Heck Is CrowdStrike?
Garrison Keillor liked to begin his tales from the Minnesota prairie by saying “It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegon.” Last week in Washington,… Read More »Blog No. 238. The Week that Was: Giuliani Exposed, Mulvaney and the Toothpaste, the Turkish Disaster, and the Doral Emoluments (repost)
Donald Trump likes to portray himself as a figure of strength, and in some venues he carries it off: his loud and vulgar blustering can… Read More »Blog No. 237. Betrayal: Turkey, the Kurds and The Weakness of Donald Trump
The peculiar and depressing genius of the Trump administration is that each new outrage tends to erase or blur memories of its predecessors. That has… Read More »Trump New Lows Tracker. Bulletin No. 3 (New Lows Nos. 6- 10)
Last week, the determination of Democrats in the House of Representatives to impeach President Trump was given new impetus. It came from the twin disclosures… Read More »Blog No. 236. Trump, Ukraine and Impeachment
The manner of Donald Trump’s dismissal of John Bolton as National Security Adviser was characteristically ungracious. Trump and Bolton have differing accounts of exactly how… Read More »Blog No. 235. Bolton, R.I.P. – What Now?
My friend, John Broesamle, is a distinguished political historian and previous contributor to RINOcracy.com. My recent reference to the terms progressive and liberal sparked a… Read More »Guest Blog: From “Progressive” to “Liberal” and Back Again