In a move that should have surprised absolutely no one, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his campaign yesterday and announced his support for Donald Trump. Well, okay, the exact timing of Kennedy ending his failing campaign- he was down to about 5% support in polling averages- was anybody's guess. But the fact he ( Read more... )

After the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump on Saturday almost everyone wanted to know, "Whodunnit?" It wasn't just to ensure that the perpetrator(s) were identified and further risks could be countered but to understand what inspired the attack. Satirist Jon Stewart described it aptly in a monologue this week as "reverse ( Read more... )

A jury in Manhattan surprisingly returned a verdict late this afternoon in the case against Donald Trump for falsifying business records. Prosecutors charged that the former president paid hush money to porn actress Story Daniels to cover up an alleged affair, then lied about those payments in his business records to cover up the coverup. After ( Read more... )

One of the cool things about vote-by-mail in California is that I can track the progress of my ballot through the counting system. This isn't unique to California; at least a few other states that do widespread vote-by-mail have it, but it's different in states that have been taken over by the vote-by-mail-is-a-fraud liars and the fools and ( Read more... )

It's time for me to comment on US Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey. Actually it's well past time. I've been meaning to do it for months but haven't gotten around to it. The situation with Sen. Menendez is that he's facing federal charges for conspiring to act as an agent for foreign governments, specifically Egypt and Qatar. ( Read more... )

George Santos was expelled from Congress on Friday. On Saturday, Saturday Night Live satirized it in its cold open. I just got around to watching it yesterday, and boy, is it funny.

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On Friday the US Congress voted to expel representative George Santos. The Congressman's constant and outrageous lies, about everything from his family history and educational achievements, to how he spent campaign contributions on personal clearly expenses, were ultimately too much even for his fellow Republicans in the House. The vote passed 311 ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago the Republican majority in Congress elected "MAGA Mike" Johnson as Speaker of the House. That sobriquet isn't my invention, by the way. It was used first by fellow Republican (and attention-seeking clown) Matt Gaetz in praising his colleague's strong Trumpist credentials in the hours after he was elected speaker. Since then it's been ( Read more... )

I wrote yesterday about Representative George Santos getting in deeper trouble from his ongoing lying and cheating. There's more news about him, of course. This past week the House of Representatives held a vote to expel him from Congress. Two house speakers now have waffled on doing such a thing. ...Actually, no, they haven't waffled; they've ( Read more... )

I haven't blogged much this week. After averaging over 2 posts/day across October (and higher in September) I've posted only 4 blogs in the past 5 days. Part of that is my ongoing travel dry spell- this is our sixth weekend at home- which takes away one of my usual topics of writing. The other part of it is that what's been in the news the past few ( Read more... )