Dec 29, 2020 | Politics
I’ve written often about the need for accountability when it comes to pundits making predictions, whether it’s about politics, sports, or the stock market. Well, Politico has put together a list of some of the biggest prognostications made in 2020 —...
Dec 11, 2020 | Politics
Over a hundred Republican members of the US House of Representatives (that’s more than half of them) have signed an amicus brief for a Trump-backed lawsuit from Texas to overturn the outcome of the election because of some ridiculous claims about voting in four...
Dec 9, 2020 | Politics
Remember when Trump acted as if naming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court would give him such an overwhelming conservative majority that she and the other Justices would ensure that he remains president for another term? Turn out, not so much, after the SCOTUS...
Nov 24, 2020 | Politics
I must once again assume the role of Mr. Perspective, this time with a rear-view-mirror look at the many prognostications about the 2020 presidential election that never came to be. Sure, we’ve had to endure a couple of weeks in which the Liar-In-Chief threw...
Nov 16, 2020 | Politics
Hamilton Nolan’s observations after witnessing the Million MAGA March in DC this weekend: These were the shitkickers of America, and those that worshiped them. Nothing about them is hard to understand. If you have seen a high school bully and his crew of...
Nov 16, 2020 | Politics
The so-called Million MAGA March in Washington this weekend drew only four or five thousand Trumpsters, which on a math basis means attendance was off by a factor of at least 200 from the stated goal. It was yet another symbol of the desperation of a candidate (and...
