There was a terrifying incident of random violence at an elementary school in North Carolina last year. Seven young children sustained horrible and painful injuries. Hundreds more children in the school will share with them the mental and emotional trauma of this unforeseen attack. Flesh was torn and blood was spilled. Hearts pumped fear and... Continue Reading →
Most Americans do not spend much time thinking about the Supreme Court. It is in the news occasionally but for many of us it is only a little more interesting than the war in Afghanistan, but significantly less interesting than the latest Twitter attack launched by the unhinged White House occupant. This is why the... Continue Reading →
With the news getting crazier by the day, major American media outlets are in desperate need of a check-up from the neck-up. Democratic operatives would be wise to take note as well since they so often craft their message for media approval rather than for the voters who will deliver victories for them. While the... Continue Reading →
It has been evident for the last ten years that the American political system is collapsing. Most informed and engaged citizens believed it was because one of the two major parties has devolved into pure partisanship and power-lust. Of course that party is the GOP which has abandoned even the pretense of working to serve... Continue Reading →
Be careful if you ever notice the political pundit class settling on a big, broad-sweeping media consensus- regardless of the subject. If they do, you can bet your last money that they will all be proven dead wrong. In case you need a very painful reminder, the last time there was such a big, broad-sweeping... Continue Reading →
If you are actively engaged in political discourse you have to know what is being said by the opposition opinion makers in the media. So even though it hurts, that requires some consumption of right-wing talk radio. And don't get caught up in the hype around Sean Hannity's influence; there is no more powerful voice... Continue Reading →
Democrats should have been more honest in 2016. A lot of us bought into the limp-d*ck loser mentality of letting the opponent dictate the rules of the fight. Looking back on it we were probably beaten before the bell rang for the first round and didn't even know it. Somewhere along the way we... Continue Reading →
I am reaching out from the 6th Congressional District of Georgia with a warning for all Democratic voters in America. About a week ago I attended a Town Hall meeting with Congresswoman Lucy McBath. I discovered that the Georgia 6th is Ground Zero for the 2020 election and what goes on here is likely a... Continue Reading →
Let me get this straight: the most openly racist president since Andrew Johnson is running for re-election in 2020 and suddenly- in the middle of 2019- a debate about slavery reparations breaks out? Let's add a little bit more spice to this stew: the most racist president in the last 150 years is also the... Continue Reading →
Barack Obama was fond of reminding his talented, young and idealistic staff members that "Better is good." He made a habit of doing so because quite often the incremental solutions that the administration was able to get through the broken machinery of D.C. politics seemed far too mild to slay the beasts they were battling. ... Continue Reading →
It is time for another check-up from the neck-up on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Let's get the big take-away out of the way up front: Democratic politicians, pundits, candidates, and operatives should take NO counsel from Joe Scarborough or Mika Brzenski. If they do, they deserve to lose. Anyone inclined to take advice or gain valuable... Continue Reading →
Its hard to believe but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sworn in less than a year ago. But already, she is by far the most famous member of Congress elected in my lifetime- and I go back a while. I crashed this party way back when Richard Nixon was wandering around the White House at night in... Continue Reading →
The Hope Hicks subpoena story was big news last week but it has already evaporated into the ether of the 24 hour news cycle. But if she was sitting her narrow hips in a D.C. jail it would be the lead story on every newscast in the world. Or, in the alternative, she would have... Continue Reading →
You can never win a fight until you hit your opponent where it really hurts. Right-wing nuts in Alabama are clearly unchained right now, evidenced by their passage of a cartoonishly sinister anti-abortion law. How can women punish them for it and at the same time turn the tide? I can assure you that marching,... Continue Reading →
Joe Biden has made pardoning Trump voters a core tenet of his campaign and I hate it. But I also hated it when my father made me rewrite my homework all night long and then get up to run my wind-sprints in the morning. The lesson was that although I hated doing what I had... Continue Reading →
I intend to debunk the mythology of the Obama-Trump voter we hear about so much on MSNBC, Fox and CNN discussion panels. The oft-repeated claim that there is some significant number of people in America that fit this description is a giant hoax. The fact that all media outlets are synchronized in their perceived importance... Continue Reading →
We all know that Mark Zuckerberg is a self-made multi-billionaire tech-entrepreneur but I am not sure that we really understand what that means to the rest of us. Because Mark owns and operates Facebook, he owns and operates the platform that serves as the primary source of news information for American citizens. To quote Joe... Continue Reading →
Anybody who consumes large quantities of cable news, political podcasts or current-events comedy knows it is en vogue to make fun of the large field of Democrats running for president. It seems like no news anchor- whether they are a real one or a comedian posing as one- can mention the 2020 election without cracking... Continue Reading →
The Democratic Party leadership needs a check-up from the neck-up. I will gladly do the honors. Madame Speaker, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Nadler and Mr. Clyburne, the following message is especially for you. There are times in life when you just have to fight; when the fight itself actually carries just as much weight as the... Continue Reading →
Now that Joe Biden is in and the number of declared Democratic candidates has reached 20, it is safe to close the class. We've got all the candidates we need to makes sure that every segment of our voting body is well represented. In the event that every single one of those candidates drives home... Continue Reading →
This is beyond frustrating. The only major political party in America where rationale allegedly rules is coming up woefully short. I know it's early but if the voters who routinely support the Democratic Party were what we say we are our undisputed front-runner would be Senator Elizabeth Warren. Yet, the rank and file political actors... Continue Reading →
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