In the wake of the George Floyd Protests over racial equality, Florida passed one of the nation’s most draconian, anti first amendment laws I have ever seen.
And I lived through the Trump administration!
Slickly branded as an “anti-riot” measure, the law included the controversial provision of making it legal…
I was writing quite a bit in the lead up to last year’s election.
My numbers were juiced. The political environment was so fertile for interest that even mediocre writing or a deep dive into an esoteric topic put numbers on the board.
The election came and went, and something…
“Texas and Florida gain seats while California and New York lose them,” is how an instagram account for a right wing news site decided to interpret the census data.
Every ten years, the census counts the population (among other things). …
On a conference call a few days ago, George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, acknowledged that Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates.”
Backtracking immediately, he tried to explain that he was attempting to increase vaccine efficiency. But his initial statement…
Let me start off with something controversial — I find Tucker interesting. While I often find myself disagreeing with him, I will at least give him credit that he is talking about ideas (mostly).
Unlike Hannity and Ingraham, who immerse themselves in the daily drab of blue team vs red…
Joe Biden, heading into a tough election, cautioned American voters that the “GOP fever will break after the election.”
Except the year wasn’t 2020, it was 2012. I guess the fever never broke. Despite pushing broadly popular programs, President Biden has been met with near uniform resistance from Republican lawmakers.
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“Vita sine litteris mors est” — Life without learning is death. The authenticity of Seneca’s words, despite being written almost 2,000 years ago, is easily apparent. …
You know the Trump era is over when Democrats and Republicans are yapping over issues like the federal debt and the annual deficit.
Welcome back! If Biden’s unofficial campaign slogan was Make Politics Boring Again, he was successful.
Debt and deficit talk is once again all the rage in America…
The New York Times released a bombshell report detailing how the struggling Trump campaign deceived its donors, resulting in unprecedented amount of refunds and fraud complaints.
The Trump campaign quietly set the default donation option to recurring, forcing donors to “wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box…
If you haven’t read the Georgia voting law, you can do so here.
I wanted to wait a bit before weighing in. Allow some time for my thoughts to marinate, if you will.
Here are five quick thoughts:
“No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by any means…
