Month: January 2019

There is no historical record of the popular vote in our country’s first nine presidential elections. We only have that data beginning with the 1824 contest between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Since that time,...

Charles Homans has a feature piece on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the New York Times, and he has a nice way of expressing how McConnell has fared during President Trump’s first two years in office. When...

From Counterpunch. We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth, by Edward Curtin As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country...

If you’ve been reading Political Animal, it probably seems like the New York Times is pretty late to the party in finally explaining what it means that Donald Trump spent all of the 2016 campaign in pursuit of a mammoth...

In a comment on my recent post More Beto On the ‘Medium” Website. It’s Gonna Happen. Watch (http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2019/1/19/123838/716) The Voice In The Wilderness wrote: He talks...