Month: August 2016

Olympic Headwinds for Trump

A lot of Americans are watching the Olympics these days. The content and commentary–and even the commercials–convey a message of embraced diversity, interpersonal respect, the quest for inter-cultural understanding,...

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Trumpism is What’s for Dinner

You may have seen that dozens of prominent Republicans are circulating a petition calling on the Republican National Committee to cut funding for Donald Trump’s campaign and divert it to saving increasingly vulnerable...

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Casual Observation

Larry Sabato is bearish on the Democrats taking the House, but others are bullish. I haven’t looked at it, yet. It’s probably the most important question in politics today, so I want to know what I’m talking...

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Rescheduling Marijuana

Part of me thinks that the Obama administration could reschedule marijuana as something less than a Schedule I drug if they wanted to, and perhaps they don’t want to during an election season. That’s the cynic in me....

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