And Now For a Little Comic Relief
The conservative dirty tricksters who tried to frame Robert Mueller went ahead with their news conference at the ultra-swanky Roslyn, Va., Holiday Inn even though -- surprise! -- the woman…
Nov. 1 Open Thread: Donnie Two Scoops Melts Down
The dishiest Beltway reporter these days is definitely Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, who reports that Trump's mood is grim and has been ever since Cesar Sayoc's arrest. Sherman also hears…
Oct. 31 Open Thread: President Pariah
Something unprecedented in American history happened yesterday -- a sitting president was universally shunned when he tried to stage a photo op pay his respects at the Pittsburgh synagogue where…
Oct. 30 Open Thread: Domestic Terrorists 13, Foreigners 0
Trump is upset that some of his biggest fans are killing people -- not because he doesn't like them killing people, but he just doesn't like it happening when he's…
We Have Descended to a Lower Circle of Hell, Built by Trump
I get the sense we have crossed another once-inviolable barrier in the Ballad of Donald Trump. Three horrifying hate crimes in five days, like four 500-year floods in a decade,…
Oct. 26 Open Thread: The GOP’s Tiny Violin Orchestra
Blog patron saint Sir William of Ockham is best remembered for a simple rule to apply when choosing among possible solutions to an unknown -- the simplest explanation is most…
Another Justification for Civility Bites the Dust
We've all heard it countless times -- Democrats must be careful about how they behave for fear of how Republicans will react. People went too far protesting Brett Kavanaugh. We…
Oct. 25 Open Thread: You Can’t Fool Republicans. Democrats Are Sending Those Bombs to Themselves
The campaign of sending crude homemade bombs to various Democrats and liberal icons reached Delaware today when authorities intercepted a suspicious package addressed to Joe Biden (as is typical in…
Oct. 24 Open Thread: Boom! Goes the Mailbox
The same genius behind the Soros Mailbox Bomb seems to be a busy little beaver. Similar devices were also mailed to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama and…
Oct. 23 Open Thread: When Immigrants Attack
If you're a conservative, you've probably heard by now that a Caravan of tens of thousands of MS-13 rapists and murderers is headed for the American border, planning to storm…
Oct. 19 Open Thread: Can I Still Get a Saudi Assassin Costume for Halloween?
It's well documented that more people respond to stories of one person's misfortune than to stories about mass suffering; that's why those late-night TV ads talk about a single starving…
Oct. 18 Open Thread: The Ghost of James Bayard
Esquire's Charles Pierce connects the dots from Jamal Khashoggi's murder by the Saudis to the Constitution's emoluments clause, and does so with the help of a quote from storied Delaware…
Oct. 17 Open Thread: Horseface Pushes McTurtle Out of Headlines
Yesterday's news cycle was dominated by Trump inaccurately calling Stormy Daniels "horseface," an insult that simply doesn't fit her. This was seen as an attempt to distract from Trump's murderous…