Former President Donald Trump was indicted on criminal charges late yesterday. We don't know what the charges are yet, as the specifics are under seal from a grand jury in New York City. We do know, though, that that grand jury was looking at details related to hush money Trump paid to prostitutes, particularly whether the way he sourced the money ( Read more... )

The best line from Tuesday's State of the Union address came not from President Biden, nor any of the clownish GOP members of Congress who jeered when he confronted them with inconvenient truths, but from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who delivered the Republican response from a TV studio afterward.

"The dividing line in America is no ( Read more... )

In my previous blog I wrote about President Joe Biden's recent State of the Union address. That blog covered the main thrust of his speech. There were also a number of... extracurricular activities... before, during, and after the speech that are worth mentioning. One, of course, was the Republican heckling during Biden's speech- and Biden's deft ( Read more... )

Representative George Santos, elected to Congress in November after lying about... basically everything... in his qualifications for office, has chosen to step down from the two committees Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy had assigned him to ( Read more... )

Last week was the first week of the new GOP majority running the House of Representatives in Congress. Fresh off selecting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on a nearly unprecedented 15th round of voting in the wee hours of Saturday morning then rushing home to salvage the remainder weekend, Republicans got to work on Monday. What did they do with Week ( Read more... )

How do you solve a problem like Maria? asks one of the memorable songs from the classic movie, The Sound of Music. Voters in Long Island, New York, and many politicians nationwide might be asking themselves right now, How do you solve a problem like George Santos?- referring to the case of Rep. George Santos who was elected to Congress on an ( Read more... )

In most jobs nowadays, if you lie about your qualifications to get the job, and it's found out, you'll be fired. There are two cases where that's not true. One, if you own the company. Two, if it's in politics. Recently elected Rep. George Santos seems to have lied his ass off about his background when running for Congress ( Read more... )

Today is January 6. It is also 2 years since January 6, 2021, a day on which a mob of thousands of supporters of then-president Donald Trump sacked the US Capitol building trying to force Congress to overturn the will of the people in the November 2020 election ( Read more... )

Crackpot politics is like the gift that keeps giving. Would-be Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy lost another 3 rounds of voting today. He's now failed to prevail in 9 rounds of voting so far this week. ( Yesterday it was only 5 6 roundsA group of 19-20 GOP representatives continue to vote against McCarthy. That's notably more than the core bloc ( Read more... )

In my previous blog about the HBO series Chernobyl I wrote about "The Cost of Lies, The Futility of Truth". Scientist Valery Legasov led the Soviet delegation at a UN IAEA conference held in Vienna in August 1986. As I noted previously Legasov shaded the truth. He not only left out of his report the fact of design flaws in the design of the Soviet ( Read more... )