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  Today has been a flurry of political punditry as analysts enamored with the sound of their own brilliance swamp the cable news channels to chat incessantly about tomorrow’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee by spurned FBI Director James Comey. As sad as it is to state, there are lefties out there in Political Spectator Land who have convinced themselves that tomorrow’s testimony is going to end with video of donald trump being led out of the White House in handcuffs. I hate to be the one to break this to any of those lefties who might have stumbled upon this page by accidentRead More →

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  In 1905, Albert Einstein published his first theory of relativity. He was aware at the time that his theory allowed for the massive release of energy from small amounts of matter, based on Marie Curie’s discovery that a single ounce of radium releases 4,000 calories of energy per hour. In 1933, Albert Einstein emigrated to the United States after coming to believe he was no longer safe in nazi Germany. Shortly afterward, Germany officially declared Einstein to be a traitor, and his name was banned from public utterance, but Einstein was not the only brilliant European mind to see the writing on the wallRead More →

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  I have to use an image here, because the actual late-night tweet has been deleted: Here is what the president tweeted shortly after midnight on May 31: By now, everyone knows what it says. In reply to a Fox & Friends tweet about Jared Kushner and an anonymous source, the president tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” Now, any reader will tell you, using context clues, that what the president almost certainly meant to type was coverage. It seems like an honest late-night, sleepy typo, and during normal times, a president or some vigilant staffer would have edited the tweet immediately, but weRead More →

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  I’ve been away for about a week, and while I haven’t been posted anything, I have been giving a lot of thought to what I want to cover next. The election of the reporter-assaulting congressperson from Montana who has to swear to defend the constitution just after he choke-slammed a reporter to the ground for the offense of being asked a question about the Republicans’ health care bill? The revelation that Jared Kushner sought a way to communicate with the Russians without anyone being able to find out? The murder of 2 Good Samaritans by a trump supporter after three men stood up toRead More →

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  President Barack Obama visited the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem during his visit to Israel in 2013. This was the message he left in the Center’s guest book: Nothing equals the wrenching power of this sacred place. If you come here a thousand times, each time our hearts will break. For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing.Read More →

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  The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific. If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, ‘leadership’ of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our state. -Karl Oliver (R), State Representative, Mississippi This was a Facebook post made by a Mississippi state lawmaker Saturday night, May 20. In it, he clearly demonstrates his displeasure with New Orleans mayorRead More →

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One of the effects of the trump administration is how it risks skewing our perception of Republicans. As trump goes about the business of destroying our gauge of rationality, certain Republicans may take advantage of the opening to present themselves as a reasonable alternative. We begin to see places like MSNBC regularly host people like Jennifer Rubin, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Steele, et al. as they weigh in on just how terrible trump is, and how rational they are in comparison, but that’s like saying H.H. Holmes was so much more polite in society than Charles Manson was. Holmes killed far more people. Not that I’mRead More →

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Back in 1985, Depeche Mode released a compilation album called Catching Up with Depeche Mode. It was a way for new fans of the band to hear some of the singles the band had released in the previous 4 years. But what does Depeche Mode have to do with donald trump? Curiously enough, super racist-slash-aspiring-real-nazi Richard Spencer claimed, back in March, that Depeche Mode was the “official” band of the alt-right. Depeche Mode immediately rejected the claim and did everything they could to make it known they wanted absolutely nothing to do with the “c**ts” in the neo-nazi movement. The band told Billboard magazine, “ThisRead More →

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A reporter for the Public News Service was arrested in the West Virginia state capitol yesterday for shouting questions to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. This received little attention in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, and I find this a bit troubling that reporters seemed content to mostly ignore this as they were fixated on the Comey story. This is not to say that the Comey story isn’t huge, but in an age of 24-hour news, one would think that the evening “news” shows could have devoted some time to analyze the story of one of their ownRead More →

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On October 20, 1973, then-president Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal. On September 11, 2001, then-president George Bush met with his cabinet where his vice president insisted that the government use the attacks to justify an invasion of Iraq. Today, May 9, 2017,  the current president fired James Comey, the director of the FBI, days after the public learned that grand juries were being convened regarding the Russian Hacking scandal. The president must have cause to fire the director of the FBI, and so the cause the White House used was some flaccid revelation that Comey’s statements aboutRead More →