What happens when party loyalty and a cult of personality trumps our loyalty to the checks and balances built into the United States Constitution? We have a Constitutional crisis like the one we are currently experiencing. Here is Robert Kagan […]
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Biden wins Arizona…again.
According to “Cyber Ninjas,” the Florida firm hired by Trump supporters to conduct the Maricopa County audit, Joe Biden won the state by ninety-nine more votes than we originally thought he did. Here is The Washington Post; A Republican-commissioned review […]
Joe Manchin’s massive ego
Here is Will Bunch’s piece at The Philadelphia Inquirer on the West Virginia Senator who, along with Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, is standing in the way of Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “social infrastructure” bill. As the summer of 2021 comes to […]
What happens when an entire political party “takes leave of reality”
I’ll just let Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank explain. Here is a taste of his piece, “This is how a Republican lie is born“: This is what happens when an entire political party takes leave of reality. On Tuesday morning, […]
Josh Hawley, the most ambitious man in the Senate, pulls another political stunt
Josh Hawley, the evangelical Christian Senator from Missouri, has really made a name for himself in 2021. In January, he fed the conspiracy theories about the illegitimacy of the 2020 presidential election by refusing to vote to certify the results. […]
“Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their opinions.” The latest from megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs
If you want to see just about everything that is wrong with American evangelicalism today watch this clip (below) from Jack Hibbs‘s Sunday sermon at Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills. Hibbs is not leading a Sunday morning worship service here, he is […]
Joe Biden: Please stop using the Bible in political speeches
After a busy first week of classes I am finally getting around to this story. In the past I have been very critical of politicians who use the Bible to advance political ends. In the last administration I was particularly […]
Rothkopf: “Biden deserves credit, not blame for Afghanistan”
David Rothkopf‘s piece at The Atlantic is helpful. He argues that “Americans should feel proud of what the U.S. government and military have accomplished in these past two weeks.” A taste: They all conveniently forgot that they were responsible for […]
Kazin: Biden must tell the truth about Afghanistan to save his presidency
Georgetown University historian and Current contributor Michael Kazin compares Biden to LBJ. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: For days now, the news media has likened the chaotic end of our misadventure in Afghanistan, and the […]
Donald Trump on the “right” way to leave Afghanistan
Either Trump doesn’t realize that a lot of Afghans are American allies or he does know this and just doesn’t care. What a fool.
“To charge President Biden with ‘losing’ Afghanistan makes no more sense than tagging President Gerald Ford with ‘losing’ Vietnam”
Historian Andrew Bacevich, in an op-ed at the New York Daily News, writes, “The war in Vietnam was effectively lost well before Ford even took office. The same judgment applies to Biden and Afghanistan.” Here is a more extended taste […]
Trump on Afghanistan: Then and now
Here is former president Trump on April 18, 2021: I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons. First, we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is […]
Biden botches the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Christian Right pounces.
The Christian Right response to the Afghanistan situation should remind us that it is primarily a political movement. Charlie Kirk, the founder of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center, knows what is really going on here. It’s all about Biden […]
Biden speaks to the nation on Afghanistan
I appreciate Biden’s defense of the withdrawal last night. This is a very presidential speech. The buck stops with Biden and he comes across as a leader of conviction. As Current writer and historian John Haas wrote yesterday on my […]
Josh Hawley said “folks should look and see what’s in this [bipartisan infrastructure] bill.” So I did.
Tomorrow morning the Senate will pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. Not everyone is happy about it. Some GOP senators, including Mike Lee (UT), Rick Scott (FL), Ron Johnson (WI), Josh Hawley (MO), have denounced it. They will lose […]
Joe Biden and The New York Times to Andrew Cuomo: It’s time to resign
After New York state Attorney General Letitia James released an official report that found Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually assaulted eleven women, both the President of the United States and The New York Times called upon the governor to resign. Cuomo […]
Vaccinations required
Yesterday Joe Biden announced that federal employees need to be vaccinated or “face new testing, masking, and distancing rules.” Several companies are also insisting that their employees get vaccinated, including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Morgan Stanley, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Washington […]
Trump supporter Tom Brady jokes with Biden: “4o percent of people still don’t think we won”… the Super Bowl
When you lose Tom Brady: Jonathan Chait tells us what this means here.
President Joe Biden responds to the DACA decision
Yesterday a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, or DACA, is illegal. DACA is Barack Obama’s 2012 program that protects the so-called “Dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as […]
The Democrats announce a $3.5 trillion “go-it-alone” infrastructure plan to supplement the bipartisan deal
While Joe Biden waits for his bipartisan infrastructure plan to get through Congress, Senate Democrats have announced another infrastructure plan that will provide funds for everything that did not make it into the bipartisan plan. This would include funding for […]