| Mar 9, 2016 | Rights / DemocracySenators, constitutional scholars may tell you, must “advise and consent” on the president’s Supreme Court nominees. But apparently the official GOP policy is to “refuse and obstruct.” They’ve vowed not even to give President Obama’s nominees a...
| | Rights / DemocracyA man who proclaims he’d like to punch a protester in the face — as Donald Trump did recently in Nevada — isn’t fit to serve as the president of the United States. That’s the first thing that must be said. Fit to be führer of Germany in 1933, yes. But not president of...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen Donald Trump announced he was running for president, I mocked him. “Of the United States?” I asked. (I got a C- in Mockery when I was in college, unfortunately.) When he jumped into the lead almost immediately, I laughed. “The higher the climb, the harder the...
| | Rights / DemocracyHelp! We political wordsmiths are in urgent need of assistance from lexicologists. The Republican presidential primary has gone so far out, so beyond accepted boundaries of civic and civil behavior, that we’ve run out of words to describe the extreme weirdness....
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| Mar 8, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyWhy should you and I have to keep paying Mitch McConnell’s salary? The Kentucky Republican is the Senate majority leader, but he doesn’t lead much. In fact, he really doesn’t do much of anything. McConnell says “no” to every task at hand. Repair and...
