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Monthly Archives: May 2021

Oh Ye of Too Much Faith

Thursday, May 27, 2021

There may be something to the “Ivory Tower” thing: Dozens of legal scholars have come together for a new letter to congressional leaders detailing why "there is no constitutional barrier" to D.C. statehood legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last month and federal lawmakers should not avoid establishing a 51st state "because of […]

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Nice Work if you can get it

Monday, May 24, 2021

Gordon Sondland is suing Mike Pompeo for 1.8 million dollars: Gordon Sondland, the former U.S. ambassador to the European Union who was fired by Donald Trump after his explosive impeachment inquiry testimony against the then-president, is reportedly suing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for $1.8 million in unpaid legal costs from that probe. The […]

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To Mask or not to Mask

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Over at Press Run Eric Boehlert documents a new media obsession, yet another right wing whining point. Why, they ask, does Biden, a fully vaccinated person, continue to wear a mask. For that matter, why should any vaccinated person where a mask. He observes: It’s slightly jarring that in the wake of the Trump presidency, […]

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Hard Times at the Times?

Friday, May 7, 2021

I have noticed over the last couple of days that the New York Times has run short of euphemisms. I don’t know if it’s because they used so many during the Trump years that they can’t come up with any more, but lately they’ve been running some euphemistic free articles in which Trump’s lies are […]

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Running out of demons

Monday, May 3, 2021

The Republican Party has been the party of hate since the late 60’s, when Nixon and his ilk decided they could win by pandering to Southern racists. It has worked for a while. The rules at first were that it was against the rules to be explicitly racist, but the dog whistles were clear enough. […]

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