Well, Republicans: Now you can tell the bleeding hearts at the Brennan Center for Justice how wrong they are. Named for the late Justice William Brennan, fiercely dedicated to voting rights, the center calls the modern-day wave of Republican “ballot security” and “voter ID” measures a “solution in search of a problem.” Meaning the “problem” […]
My eye test for college admissions and hiring: By John Young
A word here to paunchy Republicans dancing on the grave of affirmative action: The dancing shoe is about to be on the other foot.
Better a bad dog than a mad dog: By John Young
Commander, the first family’s young German shepherd, has been teething — on Secret Service agents. Deliverer of this news: Judicial Watch, a right-wing entity that exists to suck blood out of equal justice wherever found.
No greater crime than this: by John Young
A central ruse underlying Donald Trump’s criminal scheme is that when all was tallied and every court challenge shot to bits, he sincerely believed he won.
Red-state rulers and razor-wire envy – by John Young
“Drowning Pool” no longer is just a 1970s Paul Newman flick. It is now a homicide scene in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott is the killer. Even if we don’t know how many have drowned in the face of a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, it’s clear that Abbott set a death trap. Nets […]
A kill shot against democracy that missed : by John Young
Call it “system fail” for those who wish our system will fail. In the 1962 thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” a high-profile figure is programmed as an assassin in a bid to overthrow the U.S. government. In more recent times, someone at the dangerously power-drunk Federalist Society saw this and blurted, “Capital idea!” And so, in […]
Trump the victim? Can you count to 10?
by John Young A recent poll finds only two of 10 Republicans think Donald Trump should be charged with the crimes for which he was indicted in Florida. It’s all political, they say, all Joe Biden’s doing. They don’t dare say that a grand jury authorized it, and 31 criminal charges, as with his criminal […]
He should pay for defiling our property — by John Young
We have been remodeling our property. The ketchup stains are gone. The glass shards at the Capitol, too. The former tenant who’s given a bad name to scoundrels everywhere has been replaced by someone who honors the place with his demeanor and sense of history. We Americans can feel good about the changes on the […]
Next dire culture-war threat: wrestlers without legs
By John Young “A toast — to the Texas Legislature.” The Republican strategists lifted their cocktails high. What a session — a brutal blitzkrieg against a helplessly microscopic segment of constituents who barely have a voice: transexuals. Mass shootings? A fatally flawed electric grid? Schools gasping for funding? Texas Republicans could, in all good conscience, […]
DeSantis’ daredevil (and dumb) canyon jump
By John Young Vindictive. Vengeful. Vituperative. Vitriolic. Vainglorious. Venal. Volatile. That’s just from the V section for Ron DeSantis. Not “visionary.” Not “virtuous.” Just mean. Tragically, his style of spite sells to some in the age of Trump. As New York Times columnist (and Reagan conservative) Bret Stephens quips, “It takes a creep to beat […]
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