Mars Is a Hellhole
Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity. New Real Estate on Mars There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which…
USA Today: “A just monument to the Trump presidency: Bury the 500,000 COVID dead at Mar-a-Lago”
Robert E. Lee's home, now Arlington National Cemetery, became a final resting place for Union soldiers in 1864. We should follow the Union example. Opinion columnist Jason Sattler has an…
The Five Trump Amendments to the Constitution…if he succeeded in altering our system of government.
A precedent; "something done or said to serve as a rule or example." Presidents have been the authors of informal constitutional amendments due to actions considered a precedent and later…
Don’t buy into the recent anti-Trump hype – corporate sedition still endangers America
For years, big corporations have been assaulting democracy with big money, drowning out the voices and needs of ordinary Americans and fueling much of the anger and cynicism that opened…
Trump leaves America at its most divided since Civil War
Donald Trump ends his tumultuous presidency with the nation confronting the greatest strain to its fundamental cohesion since the Civil War. The January 6 assault on the US Capitol capped four years in which…
From Ben Sasse in the Atlantic: QAnon is Destroying the Republican Party
In an opinion piece in The Atlantic titled "QAnon is Destroying the GOP From Within," Republican Senator Ben Sasse is calling on his Republican Party to "repudiate the nonsense that…
Trump’s last days and the echo of one specific Hitler analogy
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by a fervent mob hoping to overturn Trump’s electoral defeat, a litany of commentators invoked one notorious incident surrounding the rise of Nazi leader…
Op-Ed: I taught Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz in law school. Clearly they didn’t pay attention
With their phony legal arguments and pandering to Trump's baseless claims, Cruz and Hawley's bad behavior sets a bad precedent. Sen. Ted Cruz, left, and Sen. Josh Hawley, right. Photo:…
Fiona Hill: Yes, It Was a Coup. Here’s Why.
Fiona Hill describes herself as an American by choice. Born in England, she is a foreign affairs specialist and academic, former National Security Council official, and witness at the November…
Donnie could face charges for inciting the Capitol riot, perhaps even for inciting the murder of a Capitol Police Officer.
The federal criminal code (18 USC 373) makes it a crime to solicit, command, induce or “endeavor to persuade” another person to commit a felony that includes the threat or…
GOP Representative Was There, Says Republicans Must Face Reality, a Reckoning
https://twitter.com/RepMeijer/status/1347305882355462147?s=20 "Before the assault, Trump had addressed the crowd and urged his loyalists to march on the Capitol, “to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones … give them the pride…
This week made it tragically obvious that Trump is disgusted by his supporters
The attack on the Capitol made so many of the ugliest parts of Donald Trump obvious even to people who pretended they didn't exist. Of all of these personality "flaws"…
Stop Calling the Pro-Trump Mob That Stormed the Capitol “Protesters”
Violent extremists who charged the Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump described as "very special" patriots "who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long." Capitol police officers were seen taking…
Vaccines Are Safe, No Matter What Bobby Kennedy Jr Says
"I love my uncle. But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong" Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, internal medicine resident physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Robert Kennedy at a…
Who Would You Choose as Person of the Year for 2020?
What person or group of people do you think best represents 2020? Do you agree with Time magazine’s selection of President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as…
The Science of Addiction and Trump
Donald Trump has seemingly made grievances a feature and not a bug of his life, including his presi-duncy. One might consider that he has an addiction to victimhood. A researcher…
The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress
Let's review two pieces of news from the last week. First, the American coronavirus pandemic is entering its worst stage yet, with cases and deaths skyrocketing across the country. Last…
Column: How to Detrumpify America
President Trump, shown in June, once offered this constitutional interpretation: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want.” His four years in office…
The Conspiracy Theory That Could Hand Joe Biden the Senate
Lin Wood and Sidney Powell: " Don't vote. . . ". There is no evidence that Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are secretly working for the Democratic National Committee, but…
Here’s the dumbest argument on 2020 vote fraud yet
In the wake of Attorney General William Barr's admission of the obvious on Tuesday -- "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different…
Americans revive spirit of first Thanksgiving by carrying disease to new areas
Across the United States, millions of people pointedly spurning CDC advice as they celebrated Thanksgiving during a time of increased covid-19 community spread were excited to hearken back to the…
John Delaney: Pay Americans to be Vaccinated
John Delaney, former Congressman from Maryland and 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate, has an idea to pay Americans to take a COVID-19 vaccine. With several vaccines soon ready for distribution, Delaney…
Should Trump Be Prosecuted?
Being president should mean you are more accountable, not less, to the rule of law. Demonstrators protested against President Trump in Chicago when he visited there in October 2019.Credit...Joshua Lott/Getty…
Trump, GOP’s ridiculous, flailing coup isn’t a joke. It’s a crime. There must be consequences
OK, so you haven’t seen so many slam dunks since the USA “Dream Team” won the 1992 Olympics, as Team Trump’s ace legal department actually embraces My Cousin Vinny while racking up a…
Voting has a violent history in the U.S. There’s a reason we’re talking about it so openly now.
State conservation agents, wielding nightsticks, watch as civil rights marchers arrive at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., in 1965. If you read the news these days, there's a…
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