Open Thread

The problem with arguing from facts is that you have to take the time to gather them. So now we have a study that reaches the same conclusion Delawareans reached…

A lot of otherwise right-thinking people seem to think that the Trump controversies involving Russia on the one hand and porn stars on the other are distractions from the real…

If you're having a race to the bottom, you shouldn't invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America's most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump…

To everyone else, "refuse to lose" is a sales-motivational cliche. To Republicans, it's an operating system. So even if you're Roy Moore, and you lost not just the election but…

Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf's routine Saturday night at the White House…

The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the…

Pundits are still buzzing over Trump's disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday's "Fox & Friends," which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne…

The pressure's definitely getting to Cheetohlini. This morning Trump called in to his top advisers, Fox & Friends, and got so unhinged they had to cut him off before he…

An Axios article looking at ballot security in the run-up to the midterms notes that Delaware is one of only 5 U.S. states that lacks any paper trail of voting…

I've seen enough crime movies to know every criminal outfit has to have a guy nicknamed "The Brain." The question is, who would possibly qualify for that sobriquet in Trumpworld?…

I'm of the firm belief that money is not the sole, or even the most important, factor in winning elections. Still, it's telling that Democrats are thumping Republicans in fund-raising…