Year: 2016

Since I posted here on Election night that Clinton won I owe some explanation. It was sent during a canvass near the VT border in NH – I got a couple of texts from Floridians from Hillsborough and Broward from former legal...

Is Jennifer Rubin correct that Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan will “clip the wings of the Freedom Caucus”? In some ways, it appears unavoidable. Trump wants to immediately do away with the Defense...

In 2005, I started to blog at Martin’s pond because he was a heck of a writer with excellent progressive views about politics and the Democratic party. It became easier to find residence at the Pond because Daily Kos...

Given the following, I guess we’re going to have to talk about Pete Hoekstra: Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, an ex-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that he would accept the job of CIA director if it...

Forty Short Post-Election Theses: Where We Stand Now and Where We Go From Here This is a great article from Counterpunch by Anis Shivani, a Houston-based, Harvard-educated writer. Read it, please. It is the only one that I have...