There have been a few presidential impeachments. They all failed and backfired. Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln’s running mate in 1864, Lincoln’s second term, succeeding Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. Lincoln and his new Republican Party were associated with advocating an…
Who is Amy Coney Barrett? According to our discussion so far of her SCOTUS nomination, we may need to ask which one. For there seems to be two in our public discourse: the cultural symbol — the “Notorious ACB,” and…
What can they do — whine? Threaten to pack the Court? Impeach President Trump for acting under his constitutional duty and with his constitutional authority? They already have been whining for four years. Nothing new there. Hillary Clinton still tells…
James Harris was born in Senatobia, Mississippi, in 1950, to parents who owned a furniture store. But when James was four, his father was shot dead in an altercation involving a dice game. The comfort of his early youth thus…
Washington Where did Sleepy Joe go wrong? Remember what a champion of women or at least of Democratic women he was? Remember the role he played in the Violence Against Women Act? Recall, if you will, how he kissed the…
Washington It was utterly delusional for House Democrats to think that compelling former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before two House committees would change minds about impeaching President Donald Trump. Democrats told themselves that because most Americans did not…
Presidential contender Joe Biden is under attack from fellow Democrats for how he treated Anita Hill in 1991, after she accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. #MeToo advocates are warning that Biden had better apologize if he…
Dear Self-Appointed Female Representatives,
Please stop calling me your woman. We may share biology but we do not share beliefs. Treating me that way by constantly assuming that I and millions of other women are part of the #WomensWave set to “sweep the world forward”
The Brett Kavanaugh affair was just amazing. The extreme partisanship and antics accompanying his nomination to the Supreme Court rightly alarmed much of the nation’s responsive political center. Yet on CNN the following week, Hillary Clinton told Christiane Amanpour that “you cannot…
