“Just how stupid is Lindsey Graham, anyway? He has completely misread Harris’ remarks, principally because he made no effort to learn about the organization to which Harris referred potential donors: it is an organization that, should Graham himself be unable to meet bail so as to avoid spending any …”
- JAMES F
“This goes well beyond obtaining Congressional approval. It points directly at problems inherent in the AUMF. Trump has, through his flawed and extremist reading of Article II and the AUMF, justified his unilateral decision to assassinate a government official of Iran, thereby making us all potential…”
- JAMES F
“I am torn over this.
One part of me says: we need to just butt out. We contributed to the current situation there, and not in a productive way. Our failure to understand the situation ‘on the ground’ was exacerbated by the desire to exploit Libyan oil reserves (doesn’t it always come down to oil?)…”
- JAMES F
“This was out-and-out state sanctioned assassination of a government official. It was *not* termination of a stateless actor. The analogy that comes to mind is: how would the US react were some foreign power to violate our state sovereignty to assassinate a Cabinet Secretary or a Senior Military Offi…”
- JAMES F
“The government has NO DAMN BUSINESS being involved in anyone’s healthcare decisions. And, no matter how the Republicans or the Religious Right or the “Pro-Life” contingent (which is rife with hypocrites) try to spin it, it really does come down to PERSONAL healthcare decisions.
This is a matter of…”
- JAMES F
“So now we have to deal with Ludd(l)ites over lighting?!?!? Why don’t these latter-day troglodytes just crawl back to their caves and freeze in the dark? We get better lighting for less money in the long run AND it takes less power to get that result. Then again, maybe that is the problem: all of the…”
- JAMES F
“While I do not expect McConnell to care one whit about public opinion concerning his clearly stated (and in my mind oath violating) position with respect to the Senate trial of Trump on his Impeachment (Yes, he really was Impeached!), I do feel it is WRONG and (potentially) 'treasonous' (in terms of…”
- JAMES F
“How on earth can a ‘trial’ be held and have ANY credibility if there are no witnesses called, no evidence examined?
Let me put that another way: why, if such witnesses are (supposedly) able to ‘exonerate’ Trump, are (a) these witnesses being ordered *not* to testify, (b) the Senate refusing to call…”
- JAMES F
“We have an unrestrained, unhinged idiot occupying The People’s House. We have become the laughing stock of the entire world, most especially with those ‘dictators’ Li’l Lord Dampnut(z) claims support and praise his policies (https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-dictators-praise-amazing-performance-…”
- JAMES F