“Susan Collins Was A Fool & A Sucker Day” Washington Post, June 2, 2022: “If this … is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” said the statement the senator released … Continue reading The Other Name for June 24: Susan Collins . . .
“Money,” truthfully spake the legendary California pol Jesse Unruh, “is the mother’s milk of politics.” And if money, rather than love, is All You Need (as spake, or crooned, the legendary Beatles), Democrats & their worried (“terrified” is more accurate) and beleaguered progressives ought to be breathing easier today, despite the fate of Roe. The … Continue reading Democracy In Peril: Progressive Billionaires to the Rescue?? (Well, Maybe . . .)
NOTE: On a day off from the January 6 Committee hearings, it’s a suitable time to ponder the Ukraine war, and how it has scrambled long-held beliefs & positions for many people. Here are two perspectives: first, that of an internationally-noted public scholar, and the other from a writer who interviewed & wrote about many … Continue reading Think Pieces: Peaceniks Still Struggle With Ukraine War Support
AP News: Drag queen blasts GOP candidate for Arizona governor BY JONATHAN J. COOPER — June 20, 2022 PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, the frontrunner in the Republican primary for Arizona governor, condemned the growing cultural clout of drag queens, jumping into the latest social grievance taking hold on the right. But her comments … Continue reading Drag Queen – MAGA Smackdown In Arizona
As abortion ruling nears, U.S. Supreme Court erects barricades to the public By Lawrence Hurley – June 17, 2022 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Encircled by an ominous security fence and off-limits to the public since March 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised in the coming weeks to issue a major ruling that could dramatically curtail … Continue reading Supreme Court Takes Itself Hostage