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Potomac Fever Still Infects the Senate Oct. 04, 2023
The past week or two, I've been thinking about two senators in particular — the late Sen. Dian... Read More
John Fetterman's Slovenliness and the Demise of Objective Social Standards Sep. 22, 2023
The United States Senate, once known as the "world's greatest deliberative body," will now permit it... Read More
Scuttling Senate Dress Code Diminishes Decorum When Our Politics Needs It Most Sep. 21, 2023
Congress is bickering as usual. A potential federal shutdown is looming. Public respect for the elec... Read More
Romney and Others Speak Out, but Too Little, Too Late To Be Forgiven Sep. 20, 2023
At least a few Republican politicians and officeholders have fessed up to the role of their party an... Read More
A Ham-Handed Bill Attacks the First Amendment in the Name of Protecting Minors From Online Harm: The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous 'Duty of Care' That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Conten Aug. 11, 2023
Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word "ki... Read More
A Ham-Handed Bill Attacks the First Amendment in the Name of Protecting Minors From Online Harm: The Kids Online Safety Act Imposes an Amorphous 'Duty of Care' That Would Compromise Anonymous Speech and Restrict Access to Constitutionally Protected Conten Aug. 09, 2023
Late last month, a Senate committee considered a 50-page bill with a name that includes the word "ki... Read More
Schumer Lets Federal Pension Money Go to Communist China Aug. 09, 2023
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines sat before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligenc... Read More
Mitch McConnell: Is There a Bright Side? Aug. 02, 2023
I could swear Sen. Mitch McConnell smiled at me just before he froze like a statue at the Tuesday pa... Read More
Burlison's Skepticism of UFO Testimony Was Appropriate. Then There's Hawley. Aug. 02, 2023
Last week's remarkable congressional hearing on what the military now calls "unidentified anomalous ... Read More
Memes About McConnell's Troubling Pause Show How Dark Our Discourse Has Become Aug. 01, 2023
Did you hear the one about the 81-year-old man who froze up and looked confused and terrified during... Read More
Biden Knows Section 702 Is Unconstitutional, yet His Administration Still Defends It Jul. 10, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Fifteen years ago this week, then-Sen. Joe Biden voted no on the FISA Amendments Act, whic... Read More
Trump Campaigning for Get Out of Jail Free Card Jun. 28, 2023
The prospect of a trial by jury in the Southern District of Florida looms over Donald Trump. He has ... Read More
Don't Let Hunter's Plea Deal Distract From the Real Biden Problem: Ukraine Jun. 23, 2023
In today's America, it sure is nice to be a Biden. Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden's transpar... Read More
Impeach the President? Enough Grandstanding Jun. 22, 2023
As a report in Colorado Politics pointed out last week, Colorado's 3rd Congressional District Republ... Read More
Indicted for Obstruction of Justice When out of Office, Trump Got Away With It When in Office Jun. 21, 2023
Even after a 37-count indictment against him was handed down two weeks ago, the Justice Department c... Read More
President Biden's and My 40-Year-Old Fingerprints Are All Over Trump Indictment Jun. 14, 2023
Did President Joe Biden indeed set things in motion for the indictment of his predecessor? Yes, he d... Read More
Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, Cori Bush Declined To Be Grownups on Debt Ceiling Jun. 06, 2023
The good news is that last week's debt-ceiling deal established there are still some grownups in Con... Read More
End American Gerontocracy Jun. 02, 2023
President Joe Biden's viscerally jarring fall on Thursday in Colorado Springs, while on stage dispen... Read More
The Debt Disaster May. 31, 2023
Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — both of whom are ... Read More
Biden's Age Paid Off in Debt Limit Crisis May. 31, 2023
Ain't no way to run a railroad, Congress, facing a debt limit crisis. The United States Treasury ca... Read More
