Tag: Government
Sep. 27, 2019
History is repeating itself inside England’s Parliament
Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second as farce. Of course, that doesn’t preclude tragedy following the…
Aug. 16, 2019
The Mueller Hearings: Tragedy, Dereliction, and Farce
The Mueller hearings have come and gone, leaving us predictably no closer to a resolution of our constitutional crisis and shorn of any remaining illusion…
Aug. 16, 2019
The Race to the Moon and Fate of the Earth
Most anniversaries wear with time. Few, however, have faded as quickly as the Apollo 11 moon landing half a century ago on July 20, 1969.…
Jun. 7, 2019
The Mueller report isn’t enough to absolve or convict Trump
Last week, after two years as Special Counsel to the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and related matters, and…
May. 31, 2019
Dancing towards perdition: The Don and Nancy Show
As I’ve said before, I believe that when a president commits impeachable offenses on a regular basis, there is a Constitutional duty to call him…
May. 31, 2019
Speaker of The House, Nancy Pelosi v. President Trump
The President and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, have had a famously turbulent relationship. Last week, however, things came to a boil. Pelosi…
May. 24, 2019
Will Joe Biden succeed in the 2020 Presidential election?
Back in April, former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he was entering the race to the White House for the 2020 election. This announcement…
May. 24, 2019
America, Democracy, and the Sixth Great Extinction
Is the fate of the planet — that is, of our fate on it — tied to the fate of democracy? I think there are…
May. 10, 2019
Will the United States of America have an election in 2020?
In 2000, Vice President Al Gore conceded a disputed presidential election to George W. Bush after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended his legal challenge…
May. 10, 2019
The truth had set us free, well, until Barr was sworn in
It was the report that America and the world waited with bated breath to hear. The report that would reveal, once and for all, whether…