TR__p appears to be scrambling in any direction he can to deter any review of the Epstein files which Pam Bondi says his name appears there. Crime in Washington appears to be one avenue. After all, one of the DOGE guys met up with a bunch of young teens who took him to task. It […]
“Five Questions with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows,” Civil Discourse Shenna Bellows is Maine’s 50th Secretary of State and the first woman to serve in that role. She’s led implementation of reforms like automatic voter registration and online voter registration in her state and has taken strong stands against Donald Trump—she ruled that he wasn’t […]
In selecting Supreme Court clerks, much has changed over the past 25 years—but one thing has not. The U.S. Supreme Court currently stands in recess, but that doesn’t mean nothing’s happening at One First Street. Although the justices generally aren’t in the building, as they typically travel or teach over the summer, July is an […]
One of the icons of right-wing fairytale economics is the Laffer Curve. It purported to show that if taxes were raised too high, the tax income would fall. Casual inspection revealed that there were no labels on the ordinate or abscissa, so it was impossible to say at what level of taxation “too high” occurred. […]
I too would call this a history lesson. Read on, it is interesting how these events were perceived. I was around then watching all of this unflod. Civil Discourse The Voting Rights Act Turns 60 Alabama, June 11, 1963. An American president deployed federalized National Guardsmen to help implement Brown v. Board, the desegregation case. […]
Just an abbreviated version of an article about an appointment and how Bondi gets it wrong. In one of the more stupid episodes in an already stupid run of them, Pam Bondi gushed to social media the Trump administration would stand up to “politically minded” judges . . . and then fire Desiree Leigh Grace. […]
My last year in the Marne Corps, I was given the task of chasing prisoners. And taking them to the Brig, to the Commissary, to Disbursing, etc. There was not much of a threat from these guys as revenge would have been extracted in the Brig. Attacking an NCO was not a smart idea either. […]
A long report by Joyce Vance today. It covers quite a bit of territory including Epstein. Maybe disagreeing courts on this one. One temp was let go . . . no loss there. Court’s ruling on Garcia. He could be deported again. Redistricting taken up and probably gerrymandered, Courts and Trump disagreeing. It is pretty […]
If you have not noticed, the present administration has come all out for the upper income citizens. It was the low-and middle-income citizens which put our president in office either by voting or not voting. My point? Yes, the present administration will eventually be out of office. Then we have the House and the Senate […]
Louis Brandeis says it all. Or did he? by Steve Roth Originally posted at Wealth Economics I do so love diligent lifelong scholars (“experts,” in today’s deprecatory usage) sharing with us their excruciatingly detailed research into areas in which I have a deeply curious interest, but where I lack the wherewithal or energy to properly […]