Via alicublog, here's Jonah Goldberg claiming the real problem with our politics today is...Stephen Colbert's potty-mouth. Suffice it to say that if you want to condemn a president for his incivility, you squander some credibility...
One defense of that ridiculous Gillibrand hatchet job is to argue that it shows that Gillibrand is acting out of "impure motives." Not only is this transaparently silly -- it.
Dan observes below that "this is far from the first, and likely far from the last, defining moment for Republican elected officials." Mitch McConnell is staying well within his self-definition:.
For a host of reasons, I was pretty skeptical of calls to impeach Trump. For one, it's highly unlikely to happen—even advocating it seems like a distraction from more productive political activism. For another, I think it hard to understate the risks of impeachment in an...
The black fly in America's chardonnay is that Trump's stated reasons for firing Comey, which had nothing to do with why Comey was fired, were perfectly sound: President Trump's sudden.
Bob Owens (known to long-time readers as TIDOS Yankee) has passed away: Bob Owens, editor of the popular pro-gun blog BearingArms.com, died Monday in what authorities have ruled a suicide. Officials.
On May 10, 1837, New York City banks announced they were suspending specie payments. This began the Panic of 1837, the first of the nation's many major periodic economic collapses that would culminate in the Great Depression nearly a century later. The economic crisis of the...
[caption id="attachment_91292" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Cue endless screaming[/caption] The President of the United States has fired FBI Director James Comey. The FBI has been investigating the allegations of the Trump administration's.
My friend has a theory, and it's an interesting one. One variant of Trump's Razor holds that all of his behavior is ultimately rooted in his narcissism. As has been.
Back in the 1990s I used to have lunch with Archibald Cox regularly in the CU faculty lounge (For many years he spent his summers in Boulder). Archie, as he was known, was a gentleman in the old style: it might be 90 degrees in July,...
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While no contamination was released by today's tunnel collapse at Hanford, it's very much worth noting that the infrastructure that is supposedly keeping our the radioactive legacy of our nuclear.