ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I was going to title this post "For the bookworms," but what I recommend in this post are not books.  So what would the online eq...

The brave new world of Trumpcare must wait a while, because the master of the Art of the Deal failed to get a deal.  Sad!* The reasons fo...

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say*.  This one is about today's meeting between our Dear Leader and the so-called Freedom Ca...

The approach conservatives of all stripes take when it comes to having children is extremely weird, and I do mean extremely.  They interpre...

They should not have taken place at all, given that Merrick Garland was appointed by a lawfully elected president and never got a hearing....

This matters: It's hard to think of another explanation for the different treatment of the Republican and Democratic emails exc...

Of lobbyists, which our Dear Leader promised to do: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), a Trump adviser, said the president nee...

1.  Jane Mayer has written an excellent and important piece about the longer-term consequences of the Citizens United Supreme Court decisi...

What kind of posts would you like more of on this here blog?  The Trump era creates an abundance of possibilities, and I find it hard to k...

This is deliciously funny:  Our Dear Leader had to sit down with a female leader, a woman not picked to be near her merely based on her lo...

I followed the Trump campaigns and rallies fairly closely last fall, but I never saw the coming of the Breitbart reign or the direct influe...

Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, speaks like a manly man's man :* “It is not a soft-power budget,” Mulvaney explained. “...

Now this budget is fun if you are a sadist.  It drowns the military in money so as to enable it to kill more people and it also withdraws m...

The one thing Republican politicians like about the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) assessment of their replacement plan for the A...

All the fuss over whether it's 24 million people who will lose their health insurance under (T)Rumpcare or 26 million!  I know that o...

An additional cost the Trump Reich has placed on us is that it sucks all the air and energy out of the coverage of any other topic.  Democr...

One evening this week my blog received 80,000 hits from Romania.  In one hour.  I'm not a celebrity in Romania (yet), and those hits h...

1.  I had a post written on what gifts Trump and the Republican Congress are giving to some in their base when it comes to the repeal and r...

I love this idiocy, I love it .  My earlier explanation for the many reasons why insurance makes us pay for all sorts of stuff we ourselve...

It's the International Women's Day which some are rapidly turning into an alternative Mothers' Day (you get flowers!  you g...