Haley’s education and experience exceed the tenth grade in Depression era Mississippi reached by my racist father, but she is acting just as influenced by the ways of the old South. Her wizened, conservative, little heart has been unable to surrender the icons and values of Dixie.

"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness." -George Washington, January 9, 1790 (Hold your breath George, we might have to shelve this quote).

Trump's advisors have a plan to free us from socialists by controlling everything.

When you don't just shoot yourself in the foot, but take an M-16 to it.

We'll clear some stuff up, but you'll need to pay attention.

If evil lasts for a long time, it will become a tradition. (Igbo Proverb, southeast Nigeria)

No one in U.S. history has ever done what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is about to undertake, and he must see his odds of failure as almost non-existent. Otherwise, why try? Bragg is on neither a fishing expedition nor a witch hunt. The fish has been landed and about to be filleted.

Simmer down, folks. He doesn't see jail time...for this one anyway.

Wherein I find myself agreeing with a lunatic.

There are interesting parallels between the violent 60's radicals and the January 6 insurrectionists. In particular, I’m interested in what it takes to turn from a passionate protestor to one willing to engage in violent acts, even murder.

The 1990s, were bad news for voodoo economics. Conservatives predicted disaster after Bill Clinton’s 1993 tax hike. But what happened was a boom that surpassed the Reagan expansion in every dimension: GDP, jobs and wages. But old entrenched beliefs die hard. Just ask Civil War reenactors.

When I watch Boebert and Cortez, I’m reminded of something Churchill once said of US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “He is the only bull who brings his own china shop with him.”