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Removal would be insane
It's easy to forget what the Senate impeachment trial is supposed to be about.
It's not a fight over whether the Senate will call a couple of witnesses that the House couldn't, or didn't bother to, obtain on its own.
The underlying question is whether the United States Senate will impose the most severe sanction it has ever inflicted on any ...Read more
Mitch Mcconnell Is the master of the Senate
Every hostile nickname that Mitch McConnell gets is further confirmation of his effectiveness.
The latest is "Midnight Mitch," a reaction to his resolution setting out the road map for the Senate impeachment trial. The measure stipulated that House impeachment managers could make their case over two days of 12-hour sessions, possibly pushing ...Read more
The Botched Democratic Case For Witnesses
The fate of the republic, we are now supposed to believe, hinges on whether there are witnesses at a Senate impeachment trial.
Upon the long-anticipated transmittal of the articles of impeachment to the Senate, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said if the upper chamber doesn't obtain the witnesses and documents the House impeachment ...Read more
Trump is neither neocon nor isolationist
Donald Trump isn't George W. Bush. That should be obvious to everyone by now, but his critics and even some of his supporters immediately acted as if it were 2003 on the cusp of the Iraq War when Trump took out Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.
Suddenly, the neocons had cachet again (Vox warned that "the Iraq War hawks are back"), and we were...Read more
Kaepernick's commentary on the killing of Solemani is especially idiotic
In the torrent of idiotic commentary unleashed by the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Colin Kaepernick's deserves a place of honor.
The NFL washout and Nike persona who makes sure the company doesn't produce any overly patriotic sneakers tweeted, "There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the ...Read more
Historians roast New York Time's feature on slavery in the U.S.
The reviews of the 1619 Project are in. It is "a very unbalanced, one-sided account." It is "wrong in so many ways." It is "not only ahistorical," but "actually anti-historical." It is "a tendentious and partial reading of American history."
This is what top historians have said of the splashy New York Times feature on slavery in the U.S. that ...Read more
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