It is clear to most informed readers that no real justice was done in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2006 federal case. In that case, given to the FBI when Palm Beach police became convinced that state prosecutors were soft-peddling Epstein’s activities, Epstein was accused of...
Our U.S. Attorney General has become the Attorney in Particular. The particular? Bill Barr is now clearly loyal to one person, and not to the people of the United States, or even the U.S. Constitution....
by Don Mayer March 23, 2019 Republicans are in attack mode against some Democratic candidates for election in 2020. By calling them “socialist,” they hope to brand them as less-than-fully-American, not “freedom loving” enough, and thus unelectable. But...
by Don Mayer As a Presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump promised to “drain the swamp” –– an ambiguously appealing pledge that meant different things to different people. But it sounded good. (The weather in DC is notoriously swamp-like in summer; and, as the...
We often ask, “Why can’t Congress get anything done?” Part of the answer is that in the U.S., there have usually been only two parties, and bi-partisanship seems to have ebbed since the three decades after World War II. We’ll return to that by and by, but...
