Aug. 24 Open Thread: Dead Elf Walking
You knew somebody was going to take the fall for the USS Trump hitting that iceberg Tuesday. If Trump were still on his game he'd turn this into reality-show fodder,…
Podcast of Kathleen Davies on the Rick Jensen Show
DL-endorsed candidate for auditor, Kathleen Davies, spent an hour on the Rick Jensen Show on WDEL answering questions about her years as second-in-command under Audtitor Tom Wagner and the controversy…
The Intercept Flays Carper With His Own Record of Serving Big Banks
It's no secret the folks at The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald's "adversarial reporting" web site, don't like Tom Carper. They've run several pieces supporting Kerri Harris and attacking Carper, including references…
Aug. 23 Open Thread: Trump Keeps Digging
What little is left of Trump's brain is in turmoil. He sat for an interview with Fox News that surpassed even his usual levels of incoherence. The best part was…
Keep an Eye on This Guy
Want to see what a natural politician looks and sounds like? Spend 4 minutes watching this video of Beto O'Rourke, Ted Cruz's opponent, responding at a town hall to a…
The Slightly Evil Weed
Reefer madness is back. In an article in The Atlantic earlier this week, headlined "America's Invisible Pot Addicts," Annie Lowery sounded the klaxon on cannabis use disorder. "Users or former…
Aug. 22 Open Thread: Witch Hunt Finds Cohen, Manafort Unable to Float
Even Donald Trump seems to understand that he's finished now that both Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen are convicted felons; his Nuremberg rally in West Virginia was more subdued than…
The News Journal Plays the Patsy Again
A week ago the News Journal ran a front-page article on a confidential report on the state Auditor's Office and the performance of Kathleen Davies, who was second-in-command to elected…
Kaboom
In a piece of timing Iraqi terrorists setting off bombs would envy, Trump's twin nemeses were both adjudicated guilty within two minutes this afternoon. Paul Manafort is guilty on eight…
Aug. 21 Open Thread: The Great Security Clearance Purge
The Great Security Clearance Purge has dominated headlines for the past couple of days, mainly because Trump is enjoying his unfettered power to punish people who displease him and it…
Aug. 20 Open Thread: The Case of the Vanishing Republicans
The underreported story of the midterms is the exodus of Republicans from elected office. Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report notes that one of every six incumbent Republicans is…
Aug. 19 Open Thread: You Can’t Corner Someone in an Oval Office
The New York Times got Trump's dander up yesterday with the story that White House counsel Don McGahn has spent something like 30 hours in interviews cooperating with to the…
Aug. 18 Open Thread: If Power Corrupts, What Does It Do to the Already Corrupt?
Michael Gerson, the Bush speechwriter turned conservative WaPo columnist, writes a "no shit, Sherlock" column for the ages: Our republic will survive Trump, he intones, but it will never be…