A Second Stimulus is Good Politics
Unless the country is willing to accept perhaps 10 years of poor economic growth, a second federal stimulus package is needed. Fearful Democrats already are being cowed by Republican protests...
View ArticleHow to look up federal court cases and documents online
For those who may be interested in being able to see what's happening and download documents in a federal court case, here's how you go about it. You do have to be willing to sign up for an account...
View ArticleThis week in Trump chaos
While many thought it impossible, this week featured even more chaos than usual from the Trump administration. Still, the Trump-Russia investigations continue to snowball. That’s no thanks to Devin...
View ArticleTrump Distracts Again
The Enlightenment SalonYet again the Trump Administration manages to generate enough news in a week to overwhelm us all.On Tuesday, Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee Joaquin Castro...
View ArticleThe Enlightenment Salon: Trump Is Turning to Military Action to Distract from...
It appears that Trump liked the media diversion created by his bombing in Syria in retaliation for Assad’s use of chemical weapons on civilians. On Tuesday, April 11 the Washington Post published a...
View ArticleThe Comey Affair
It was an astonishing, unprecedented week. Trump fired FBI director Comey, initially stating he did so because of the way Comey had treated Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign. That was...
View ArticleThe Review: The Trump/Russia News Continues
Blessedly, we had a break from Trump’s tweets while he was overseas, but that did not stop further news from breaking over the Trump administration. As we remember, the New York Times reported about...
View ArticleThe Review -- The Russian Affair and Global Warming
Former FBI director James Comey, who was fired by Trump, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday in its investigation into Russian interference in the election. It should be...
View ArticleThe Review, June 11, 2017: All Comey, all the time.
Some of the drama of James Comey’s testimony on Thursday was overshadowed by his release on Wednesday of a statement covering what his upcoming testimony would be. Comey, former head of the FBI until...
View ArticleThe Review – June 18, 2017: How long will Rosenstein and Mueller Last?
Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions “testified” in open session before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. More accurately, he responded to the questions he wanted to answer but claimed...
View ArticleThe Review – June 25, 2017 – Trumpcare Looms, What Dems Need to Do, More on...
Senate Republicans finally revealed their secretly brewed Trumpcare bill to allegedly repeal and replace Obamacare. Needless to say, it’s even worse than the House bill (which is hard to accomplish),...
View ArticleThe Review -- June 1, 2017 -- Trumpcare defeated for now, huge Russia...
When the week began it wasn’t at all clear whether Trumpcare would pass the Senate or not. On Monday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its report saying that with Trumpcare 22 million...
View ArticleThe Review – July 8, 2017 – Trumpcare wilting, Trump isolated on climate...
It was a milder news week – for this administration. For any other administration, it would have been a disaster.The Senate GOP and White House apparently plan a final, urgent blitz to pass Trumpcare...
View ArticleThe Review – July 15, 2017 – Russian Bombshell Detonates; TrumpCare Bill...
For months (I know, it seems like years) the Trump administration and its supporters have yelled that there is no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump election campaign, that it is all...
View ArticleThe Review – July 22, 2017 – Trumpcare Keeps Dying; Trump Considers Pardoning...
It’s amazing how much can happen in a week under the Trump administration. The “new and improved” version of Trumpcare couldn’t muster enough approval to get to a vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch...
View ArticleThe Review – July 30, 2017 – Trumpcare Edition
Yet again, it was an amazing week. The Trumpcare zombie ambled on. On Tuesday, with an appearance by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) after cancer surgery and a tie-breaking vote case by Vice President Pence,...
View ArticleThe Review – August 5, 2017 – Some Senate Republicans Tire of Trump
It seems that some Republicans in the Senate are beginning to lose patience with Trump.In a slap at Trump, Congress passed a bill by veto-proof majorities increasing sanctions against Russia and...
View ArticleThe Review: Trump Fails Charlottesville and America, Gambles Recklessly with...
When a neo-Nazi drives a car into a crowd of counter-protestors, kills a young woman and injures 34 others, you’d think it would be easy for any President to condemn the neo-Nazi, KKK, white...
View ArticleThe Review – Trump Inadvertently Creates a Turning Point
It is often difficult to know when a turning point occurs, as frequently they are not clear until well after the event.Trump may well have created one this past week, though, based on his mercurial...
View ArticleThe Review – Trump Appeals to His Base, OK’s Violations of Law by His...
It was another astonishing week for Trump. At his rally in Phoenix, among other things he “described the people who committed violence at Charlottesville as `thugs’ then repeatedly used the same term...
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