Donald Trump is going to be impeached.This now appears inevitable. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she said several months ago the president, apparently unconstrained by convention, law, or common sense, was on a path to impeach himself.Trump鈥檚 attempt to stick up Ukrainian ...
Today鈥檚 news sweeps gusher-like down the gutters of our lives. Each day鈥檚 news seems more astonishing than the day before. We sink or swim with the news. There is no getting away from it.News from the 18th century is another matter. Of course, it was long ago, and the leading actors are 200 ...
There鈥檚 that 1969 classic song by Harry Nilsson that goes, 鈥淓verybody鈥檚 talkin鈥� at me, I don鈥檛 hear a word they鈥檙e saying鈥︹�� - that could be applied to our country鈥檚 politics.Everybody <em>is</em> talking, but nobody can hear a thing 鈥� 鈥榗ause ...
鈥淚 like taking guns away early,鈥� the president of the United States said. 鈥淭ake guns first, go through due process later.鈥漃resident Barack Obama had a way of stating things that often went to the heart of the matter. But a call to upend the basic tenants of the American justice system - ...
The plot thickens.It can鈥檛 get much thicker, but President Trump is a plot-thickening machine.He鈥檚 not only admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to do his dirty political work for him, but he鈥檚 also asked China to perform the same skullduggery.But at the same time, he鈥檚 denying ...
In November 1832, a convention of South Carolina political activists approved a measure whereby the state might reject any law passed by the Congress in Washington.The activists鈥� immediate concern was the high protection tariff Congress had imposed four years earlier. The tariff, which ...