We vote against people and groups, rarely for a political leader in whom we believe. Research and polling suggest negative partisanship now guides most voting…
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A constant annoyance on social media is the constant, and generally unprovoked, attacks on “libertarians” who apparently belong to a cabal ready to destroy the…
How can anyone, conservative, libertarian, liberal, progressive, or whatever, reflect on the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court associate justice and be pleased…
Long ago, Congress surrendered its legislative authority to regulators, because that was easier than developing and passing clearly written laws. There was a somewhat reasonable…
The Senate offers a Supreme Court nominations table, which reveals that throughout most of the history of the United States justices were nominated and confirmed…
Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. It won’t happen, but it should. Everything Michael Cohen said in court, and much of what his lawyer…
I’m not a fan of the European summer vacation, with everyone trying to take the same time away from work. I had to deal with…
American voters don’t understand each other; they really do live in (at least) two separate worlds — and that’s just the Democrats and Republicans. The United…
It’s an old “meme” on social media, but one that continues to annoy me viscerally: “If you love driving on roads, having fire departments, and…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed to the Supreme Court 96-to-3 in August of 1993 (New York Times, 1993: Senate vote 96-3, easily affirms Ginsburg as…