Month: March 2017

[Update – eleven candidates have qualified and will appear on the ballot. see below for the list.] While I’ve been following it since my last diary on February 1, developments since then haven’t been...

The ongoing anti-Trump media “Drip, drip, drip” has slowed down somewhat today…probably because all of the little drippers either didn’t come to work because of the storm or left early in their Audis to...

It seems like criticizing the Affordable Care Act is a liberal pastime but it’s often forgotten just how close the effort came to failing, or that it was lack of Democratic unity (and uniform Republican opposition) that...

On Friday, forty-six “United States attorneys appointed by President Barack Obama [were] asked to resign — and to immediately clean out their offices.” This was normal in one sense and abnormal in another. It’s...

Francois Fillon, the candidate of Les Republicains, who campaign has been self-destructing as Fillon is mired in scandals, has had to publicly apologize for some genius in his party who tweeted an anti-Semitic caricature of...