September 24, 2020An Atlantic article rings the fire bell.
September 18, 2020Olivia Troye, the former top homeland security aide to Vice President Mike Pence
September 3, 2020Why is Trump so hell-bent on reelection? He has made it clear he doesn’t particularly like the job.
September 2, 2020And, Michael Flynn doesn't get a "get out of jail free card"
August 30, 2020The pandemic, street protests, Russian meddling, election security?
August 22, 2020August 21, 2020 After the cascade of news in the past several days and the Democratic National Convention, today was a relatively calm day… at least in politics. There are, though, some important stories. The first is getting less play than it should: the nation has lately been hit by a series of environmental catastrophes. California is in the midst of a brutal heat wave, and has been hit by 560 fires, many of them sparked by lightning. ...
August 12, 2020Kamala Harris is perceived as solidly in the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. A former DA, she can battle the GOP on issues of law and order. Harris is the first Democratic nominee for the top of the ticket who has ever hailed from California, and one of the first from the far West. The right took aim at her selection immediately. In other news, Russia and Ukraine are back on the top ...
August 8, 2020America’s top news continues to touch on the upcoming election. The Friday night news dump was about the United States Postal Service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump loyalist, has recently created new rules for the agency that have dramatically slowed the delivery of mail just as mail-in voting for 2020 has begun. Today, DeJoy overhauled the USPS, releasing a new organizational chart that displaces postal executives with decades of experience and concentrates power in DeJoy ...
August 7, 2020Millions missing and a Russian spy.
July 30, 2020For all that Trump seems eager to win reelection, he appears to have little interest in governing.
