Zombie Politics

Yesterday Donald Trump incited one of his followers to attack the FBI office in Cincinnati. This was the poor sap's last post on Trump...

Back in the day the Republican Party supported abortion rights. But in the 1980 presidential election Reagan's campaign operatives reali...

I have in the past blasted the entire notion of a "generation:" the conceit that everyone born between an arbitrary set of dates s...

I wrote this story in the 1990s, after a spate of murders and bombings by "pro-life" fanatics at women's clinics across the co...

Sports betting is apparently making big inroads in the United States, with several states legalizing it and more eager to get in on the scam...

 

With the announcement of a bipartisan bill to address gun violence , a crack in the wall of intransigence built on the blood of our nation...

Now Clarence Thomas is whining that people don't respect institutions anymore. It's not that the public doesn't respect institut...

Elon Musk has screwed with the SEC before, when he tried to manipulate Tesla stock prices in 2018 .  He's doing it again. He's putti...

Conservatives like to opine about the left and their feelings. But take a look at this press release from Governor Ron DeSantis.  This leg...

Remember when I said that the real reason Donald Trump imposed tariffs was to extort campaign contributions ? Trump plans to use the tariffs...

 

Since the war in Ukraine started there's been a lot of grumbling about the price of gas going up. It's about $4.11 dollars a gallon ...

 

 And I would start with Kevin Baker and his blog commenters' guns...:)

The “elite collectivists vs. freedom-loving individualists” lie pushed by conservatives must be erased from our culture. It’s the core imped...

If a divided US is to come together again, the first step (the ONLY first step) must be for conservatives to start behaving like civilized a...

Elon Musk, the guy who started Tesla and SpaceX, is a genius. He built the world's most reliable and cheapest system of getting cargo an...