As we celebrate Yankee Elimination Day -- saving us from the ALCS from the fiery depths of hell is the second-best thing the state of Florida can do for us this year -- we should mourn a couple of giants. First, Bob Gibson, and the fact...
Trying to act casual: As President Donald Trump stood on a White House balcony Saturday — spewing mistruths about his opponent's plan for policing and claiming the coronavirus is "disappearing" while hundreds of people watched from below —.
This is the grave of Isaac Hull. Born in 1773 in Derby, Connecticut, Hull grew up on the water. His father was a ship captain trading in the West Indies.
Let's have a little stroll back to the mists of early November 2016: With just days until the election, some Senate Republicans are suggesting that when it comes to the Supreme Court, eight is enough. Eight justices, that is.For the first time, some Senate Republicans are...
Yet another NYT tax return story, this time laying out the massive web of pay-to-play influence peddling that has gone on in Donald Trump's swamp: As president-elect, he had pledged.
Senate Republicans are convincing themselves that doing popular things that would materially help voters are in fact bad politics: Incumbent GOP senators and House Democrats are eager for a deal.
In the latest in their series on Trump's tax returns, the Times finds that Trump was able to get a critical last-minute infusion of campaign funds from an agreement with his partner in his unprofitable Vegas hotel to engage in some of his trademark tax-evading looting:...
Acceptable cookies. Nica Cn - Unsplash Sometimes I wonder what it like to live a life so free of real concerns or risks to myself or others, and to be.
This is the grave of William Duane, Jr. Born in 1780 in Clonmel County, Ireland, Duane immigrated with his parents to Philadelphia in 1796. His father, the radical Jeffersonian newspaper.
The cast of BBC America's The Watch. From left to right: Cheery, Angua, Lady Sybil (YES), Vimes, Detritus, Carrot. BBC America has released a trailer for its upcoming series The Watch, nominally based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, specifically the ones set in Ankh Morpork and...
Strange that a judge being nominated to the Supreme Court inter alia to take healthcare away from 30 million people shows a reckless indifference to human life: A private school.
itaneyr001p1 I've seen people claiming more than once that Republicans lived with the Warren Court without manipulating the size of the courts so Democrats should be willing to as well..