To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Worse Than A Snake In The Grass
Let me be clear that I mean no disrespect to reptiles when I note that Jonathan Mitchell is a snake. An extremist right-wing Texas lawyer, Mitchell is actually creepier and altogether more diabolical that your average serpent could think of being. Mitchell slithers around the country as a self-appointed anti-abortion vigilante, terrorizing women’s advocates, health […]
Banning Gender-Affirming Treatment
After two failed efforts to pass a ban on gender-affirming treatment for minors, South Carolina Republicans announced in January that this year it would be a priority. This week, they succeeded, with the governor on Tuesday signing the bill to ban doctors, parents and children from securing medical care that they – and science – […]
The Supreme Court Vs. Democracy
The silence from the Supreme Extreme Court is deafening. News broke that a Republican member’s house flew a “Stop the Steal” American flag days after the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol. This kind of defiance, actually applauding the violent takeover of democracy, is unheard of in the annals of the Supreme Court. Justice […]
Dems Should Let MTG Be GOP’s Problem
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s nasty remark about a fellow congresswoman’s appearance was characteristically stupid. But the Georgia Republican is hoist on her own petard on such a regular basis, why would Democrats want to stop her? You may have seen the video of the House Oversight Committing hearing in which MTG said to Jasmine Crockett, […]
Don’t Ask Alito To Recuse – Tell Him To Resign
The conspiratorial antics of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, as exposed recently in the national media, have raised the gravest doubt about his bias in matters before the Supreme Court – and provoked demands that he recuse himself from any case concerning former President Donald Trump, the 2020 presidential election or the Jan. 6 insurrection. […]
