In the ongoing battle to roll back the Enlightenment we have two stories that suggest that certain folks on either side of the world would really get on. So allow me to affect this meet-and-greet. In Israel a group of ultra-orthodox men have given themselves the mission to help people who are different to be … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ethical conduct is under a cloud. Aside from this knee-jerk ultra-Right judge being the most incurious of jurists (he hasn’t asked a question of a litigant in years!) he is also under suspicion of some ethical code violations which, if true, could be disqualifiers. He is suspected of having failed to … Read more
In a great Washington Post story of the other day we see the DC salami factory in full swing. Republicans who love to howl about the Obama Solyndra moment can see their own mirror image here. Solyndra, a pet corporation of George Kaiser, ultra-rich Obama supporter, was high on the list for the White House … Read more
In the crashing, burning finale to the House Radicals’ ploy to trash the compromise on the payroll tax cut and burn the country, all for the sake of ideologically-based hatred of Obama and all things government, the stand-out loser is John Boehner. Days ago his crazy Tea Party caucus was praising him to the skies, … Read more
In the space between savage, deadly mining culture and reason stands Denny Rehberg. Challenging John Tester for the Montana US Senate seat this man is a poster boy for what’s wrong with American politics. Opposed to almost every mining regulation, advocating for a scorched-earth approach to coal production, the man is flying on wings of … Read more
