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Nancy Pelosi Can't Win for Losing on Impeachment. So She's Going to Do the Damn Thing.
WASHINGTON—The Speaker’s Balcony in the U.S. Capitol is not in any way a balcony. It is more of a hallway, just off the rotunda. But, if you line up some flags at one end and park a rostrum in the middle, you can make it look like a balcony, if a balcony is what’s called for. That was the settin…
You Can Pick Out All Your Favorite Wingnuts as They Commit a Dangerous Breach of National Security
Here's the video, courtesy of Scott Thurman on the electric Twitter machine. You can pick out your favorite wingnuts if you have your Bingo card handy. That Gaetz (R-Breathalyzer) is at the head of this foolishness, of course, is no surprise. And reports indicate that Louie Gohmert, perhaps sens…
15,000 Americans Died So Republican Governors Could Stick It to Obama
On June 28, 2012, the day that the Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, the sighs of relief were so loud that they drowned out one part of the Court's decision that has come to haunt the lives of millions of poor people around the country, and that also has come to represent the…
The White House Can 'Instruct' All It Wants. If Subpoenaed, Hope Hicks Must Testify. Or Go to Jail.
There is no legal principle under which Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson can be "instructed" not to comply with congressional subpoenas either for documents or for their own selves. There is no constitutional root cellar in which they can be hidden. Go start hauling people off, please. From the Wa…
The Supreme Court's 5-4 Ruling on Indefinite Detention of Noncitizens Is Appalling
It is profoundly wrong to believe that, just because the president* is a vulgar talking yam, his policies are not succeeding in several important places. (Most of these policies, it should be noted, differ only in how crude they are from policies that would have been pursued by most Republican p…
Rudy Giuliani Just Laid Out Trumpism's Entire Attitude Towards the Truth in Two Lines
Rudy is doing his best to muddy the waters around Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
Omarosa Is Just Another Clown Leaping Out of the Car
This is someone who shouldn't ever have been in the White House except as part of a tour.
Gilda Radner Was One of <em>SNL</em>'s Best. Now She Gets the Documentary She Deserves.
"Love, Gilda" shines a light on the legendary performer's lasting influence on comedy.