Was ever a politician more aptly and descriptively named than Jeff Flake? This title used to belong to former California Gov. Gray Davis, who was about as gray as one can be and still have a pulse. But now our…
The evening begins with a brief clip of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. He was a great patriot. Next a clip from the late Rep. Barbara Jordan. But not this clip: For immigration to continue to serve our…
Winston Churchill once said that a fanatic was someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. That definition certainly fits the main players in the four-year farce aimed at preventing Donald Trump’s election, interfering in his transition,…
“We have a big exclusive for you. Email exchanges we got our hands on from State Department officials that could drastically alter the course of President Trump’s impeachment.” Indeed. Laura Ingraham had a scoop for sure on Wednesday night’s The…
Continued from Part One PROLOGUE: So this guy is struggling to breathe in the middle of the hot dry desert, all alone, parched unbearably. Miraculously, he sees a concession stand ahead of him, right smack in the wide…
Sunday night Judah Friedman, my genius pal, and I are driving back from Rancho Mirage to Beverly Hills. We’re digesting a fine meal of fettucine and maple sugar ravioli. I know it sounds strange, but when you add baby back…
The impeachment hearings buried the lede. The scandal involves Donald Trump not withholding aid to Ukraine but releasing it. Why does the United States give any money, let alone billions, to a kleptocracy? In a hearing hearing thousands of questions,…
Wednesday, seven weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the “official impeachment inquiry” into alleged misdeeds committed by President Trump, the Democrats leading that probe finally emerged from the bowels of the Capitol building to convene a hearing in the…
In his fine book Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide (2017), Harvard Law School Professor Cass R. Sunstein, a prominent Democrat who served in the Obama White House, stresses a key point about impeachment: grounds for impeachment should be neutral in the sense…
