Posts by Alby

While Democrats cast lots to see which justice warrior is pure enough to deserve Al Franken's Senate seat, Republicans are in pitched battle over Roy Moore's candidacy. At least Moore has…

The liberal hand-flapping over Al Franken has for the most part died down, in part because Republicans can't very well pile on. Donald Trump himself found that out when he…

Republicans took their first step toward removing the jackboot of fair taxation from the necks of America's billionaires today when the House of Representatives voted 227-205 in favor of the House…

There's been one name conspicuously absent from the current anti-sexual-predator uprisings in Hollywood, Washington and state capitals around the country. And no, I'm not talking about Trump. One-time "liberal" icon…

See if you can tell the difference, because I can't: Death row prisoner Alva Campbell, 69, will be executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, on Wednesday…

The laughably anti-Semitic robocall* from "Washington Post reporter Bernie Bernstein" offering "$5,000 to $7,000" for stories about Roy Moore that would not be checked for legitimacy might seem like an…

When You've Lost Hannity...: Sean Hannity has seen the light, in the form of a yearbook signature. He gave Roy Moore 24 hours to get his story straight or he's…

Consider this an early New Year's present: On Jan. 9, Henry Holt will publish Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which Axios says has set off…

The news bombs are dropping fast and furious on both the Roy Moore and Russian collusion fronts. The Atlantic rocked the Russian collusion story by printing the secret email correspondence…

Jonathan Chait analyzes why Trump talks about Putin as if Putin's his boss. The upshot: kompromat. He makes an unprovable but decent case. California passed a law forcing "crisis pregnancy…

Remember those White Lives Matter rallies in Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, the ones that notably lacked the violence of the Charlottesville fiasco? There was a reason for that,…