"Hell, you see more black people at a hockey game."
That’s the quote from an usher at a Trump rally, Fred Grimm’s terrific piece, Basic flavor of Donald Trump rally was angry old vanilla.Grimm went to a Trump rally in South Florida. As he counted the...
View ArticleRight now CNN has a "Panel" with
Bill Kristol and Corey Lewandowski. That’s the whole panel. Seriously.
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More "Damn Clinton! (for doing nothing wrong)"
Donald Trump is turning the Ku Klux Klan mainstream and using contributed campaign funds to line the pockets of his own companies, but Clinton is the bad guy, not for actually doing anything wrong, but...
View ArticleYou want to talk false equivalence?
This is a new Washington Post headline:Here are the juiciest Colin Powell comments about Trump and Clinton from his hacked emailsBut wait, there’s more.This is the lede:In new emails leaked by a...
View ArticleInstead of debates, can the candidates
Play games, with established rules, which allow them to test their rhetoric?Instead of an international relations debate, let them play Risk. Let Trump try his “attack everybody and take over the...
View ArticlePosting as a diary, as requested - Fixing the Criminal Justice System: A view...
I wrote this diary a while ago and it got a few comments. Today, I posted it as a comment in Chitown Kev's diary, I ask the question again of "moderate" whites" What would you have black people to do,...
View ArticleClinton gaining in Indiana
There’s a new WTHR/Howey Politics Indiana poll out, and it shows Clinton within 5 of Trump, at 43-38, down from a 7 point spread pre-debate. Right now the race in Indiana, according to the poll,...
View ArticleTrump cancels ads in smaller Ohio and Florida markets
I think this is what the kids these days call “a very big deal.”From the Columbus Dispatch, Donald Trump cancels TV ads in Ohio, Florida, other key states.Republican Donald Trump has canceled TV ads in...
View ArticleLatin Builders Association backs Clinton - Human sacrifice, dogs and cats...
If you’ve spent any time in Miami, you know about the Latin Builders Association. It is the Cuban Power Players Club, and it is Republican Republican Republican. The Bay of Pigs will come up in the...
View ArticleDog-whistling again - "international banks" and "global financial powers"
Trump, today:Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends, and her...
View ArticleUse and Abuse of Daily Kos
A certain front-page on Daily Kos has been using this forum to repeatedly post stories with original content linked, not to the original creator, but to his own website, which is grossly over-laden...
View ArticleReagan appointee comments during naturalization ceremony
And I couldn’t be prouder that she’s a judge in my district, one I’ve had the honor to work with on professional panels, and appear before in Court.From the New Yorker, A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS A MESSAGE...
View ArticleThere can be no more question about Trump's anti-Semitism
Whether he feels it himself or just knows it’s convenient, he won’t utter a syllable in criticism of anti-Semitism. He didn’t mention the word “Jew” on Holocaust Remembrance Day. When asked about...
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Fox SQUIRREL!! News
My iPhone has a news app that collects top stories of the day. One part of the app lists the top four stories from selected websites. I noticed an interesting trend. After 8 years of wall-to-wall Obama...
View ArticleYesterday in Indiana (hate crimes and anti-Semitism)
Yesterday the Indiana legislature shot down a hate crimes law, leaving the Hoosier State one of just five states without one. The law would have allowed judges to impose tougher sentences for crimes...
View ArticleBut he's just running for Mayor...
One of the push back arguments we’ve seen about Heath Mello is that he’s just running for Mayor, so his pro-life point of view is irrelevant. May I introduce you to a little case called Poelker v....
View ArticleBill O'Reilly defamed me - In Memoriam
Most of you won’t remember this. It happened in the days of yore, when we had 5-digit user numbers or lower, Keith Olbermann was on MSNBC every night, and Bill O’Reilly was the undisputed king of cable...
View ArticleA few comments about copyrights
There was a very interesting diary the other day, A Comment from the Distant Past, by siab. It linked a comment from 2004, when I first joined Daily Kos, about posting photographs and other copyrighted...
View ArticleConyers' Medicare for All Act
Just running through it, with comments. Before I begin, a bit of background. No, I’m not a doctor. But I’m a lawyer, and a pretty well-known one when it comes to healthcare, and particularly Medicare....
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