Amid the sturm und drang of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is almost possible to forget that we are in a crucially important election year. But… Read More »Blog No. 256(b). Amy Klobuchar for Vice President
Amid the sturm und drang of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is almost possible to forget that we are in a crucially important election year. But… Read More »Blog No. 256. Amy Klobuchar for Vice President
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
In August, the Business Roundtable issued a “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” signed by 180 CEOs. It provided in part that: While each… Read More »Blog No. 233. Corporations: The Business Roundtable and Senator Warren
Blog No. 188 observed that RINOs and other disaffected Republicans should wish for, and give their support to, a Democratic victory in the House of… Read More »Blog No. 189. A Few Words For Democrats in 2018 and 2020
The Ninth Circuit Ruling On Thursday afternoon, the motions panel of the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion that kept in place the Temporary Restraining Order… Read More »Blog No. 128 In the Ninth Circuit a Ruling and in Washington the Theatre of the Absurd
On Sunday and Monday, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio announced their candidacies for president. In the nature of such things, neither announcement came as a surprise. (The Economist had quipped shortly before the Clinton announcement that “For most Americans this will be as surprising as the news that Cinco de Mayo will once again be on May 5th.”) Similarly, both announcements offered little in the way of substance. Indeed, Clinton’s may have broken all previous records for airiness, consisting almost entirely of brief videos of a predictably diverse and uniformly attractive collection of citizens. Read More »Special Bulletin. More Announcements: Clinton and Rubio