If it feels like this election cycle is the most important of our lifetimes AGAIN for the tenth or twelfth time , it's because since 200...

What the HELL is going on here? According to the Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, Hegseth's Department of Defense is abo...

Any regular follower here knows I am not a fan of the gerrymander . I've railed about it often: how it distorts true representation , su...

Update : Io Saturnalia to Steve In Manhattan for tagging this article for Crooks & Liars' Mike's Blog Round-Up . I hope everyon...

Seriously: If Joe Biden pledges on the 2024 campaign trail that he will force Congress to hold an emergency session to pass legislation endi...

So, having completed NaNoWriMo for 2023, and trying to get back into the swing of political blogging again, is there anything out there this...

Update : Many thanks again to Batocchio for adding this blog on Crooks & Liars ' Mike's Blog Round-Up . Wish me luck on FWA'...

Well, I just wrote a few days ago about how the current Republican Congressional push to force a debt ceiling default just to make Biden...

There's a Democrat in the White House and there's Republicans in charge of one-half of Congress, so those of you who survived 2011 ...

( On a personal note , I will appear at the  Bartow (FL) Writers Block and Street Fair as a local author this Saturday May 20th from 10AM to...

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short. -- Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminal...

It took fifteen tries. Kevin McCarthy lost the Speakership vote 14 times , equaling the 0-14 futility of the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Eve...

There is an article by Jonathan Chait at New York's Intelligencer , it is behind a paywall, but it is considered already one of the best...