Trump has cruised along this election season with around 30-35 percent of the R primary voters. In the currently divided field, that is all he has needed. In NH, Trump… Read more What would South Carolina Have Looked Like–If It Had Been a Three-Person Race??? →
Over the last few months I have read Anthony Beevor’s Ardenne 1944, an acclaimed military historian’s book on The Battle of the Bulge. The famous Malmedy Massacre of over… Read more The Wereth 11 Are One Reason Why We Need Black History Month →
HRC: Bernie, it is not what you say, but what you do that defines you as a politician. Why don’t you and I, and our supporters, quit quibbling about definitions.… Read more Advice for HRC on the Progressive vs. Moderate Non-Issue →
I watched the FBI taping of the Oregon shooting. It was both sad and sordid. The man killed, Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, was neither a hero nor a martyr. He was a Mormon with… Read more Death in Oregon: Robert Finicum and the Ballad of Pancho and Lefty →
This is another episode in David Waldman’s “GunFAIL” Daily Kos postings. What is really incredible is the very small number of times the entries indicate police action—arrests, charging, etc,… Read more More “Good Folks” With Guns Being “Normally Stupid” →
Well, it is winter and seasonal affective disorder has hit a bunch of our right wing whack jobs pretty badly. They are, however, fighting off those winter blues… Read more Ya’ll Qaeda in Oregon: Confrontation or No? →
These are the guys who are going to keep us safe from Obama, if they can keep themselves safe from each other. What a bunch of cartridge-brains. Read… Read more Two guns, one gun, or no guns? →
“Then, on July 6, [1940–after victories in Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France] Hitler, Himmler, and the others arrived by train to Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin to an… Read more Memories of Previous Eras and the Adulation of Fascistic Demagogues →