Democracy Under Attack! We Can Fight Back!
The final nail in the coffin of voting rights bills in the US Senate came, ironically, just after Martin Luther King's birthday, but its demise was predictable long before then....
Could Trump Be Found Guilty of Sedition?
Stewart Rhodes and Eleven Other Co-Conspirators Are Charged with Seditious Conspiracy Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged along...
GOP Lipstick on Their Insurrection Pig
The January 6th House Committee wants to talk with Sean Hannity. It has long been known that Sean Hannity was one of Trump's unofficial advisors at Fox News. Text messages...
What’s Coming Next? The Divided States of America
I think we could be headed for an era of hyper partisan states rights where the state you live in will make a huge difference in the life you and...
Our New Normal: Science vs Republicans
On December 15th I visited my 32 year old daughter at her apartment after she returned from a trip to Ireland where she attended a wedding 10 days before. The...
War Against Democracy in the Shadows
There is a shadow war going on to kill off our democracy and the killers are inside the house. It's like those horror movies with the blind woman protagonist in...
Supreme Court: The Stench of Political Hacks
On December 1st, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the tipping point case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health, that will either severely curtail the right to abortion or decisively overturn...
Why the Arbery Jury Reached the Right Result
Ahmaud Arbery was an unarmed black man who had occasionally visited a residence under construction in a changing white neighborhood, which might be a technical trespass, but is something many...
Why the Rittenhouse Verdict Was Predictable
When I worked as an Assistant States Attorney in Philadelphia and Chicago there were cases that we called "dogs". "Dogs" were cases that were really hard to win because of...