At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the pioneering physical presence behind the creation of Occupy Wall Street is dead. The movement that it spawned is very much well and alive, but the locus of it… Read More ›
gun control
No More Bullets: Is This The End of The Line For Senate Gun Control?
Despite the best efforts of Alanis Morissette and an entire generation of literarily-challenged youth who grew up believing that a dangling participle was a position in Kama Sutra involving a sex swing and large medicine ball, irony and coincidence are… Read More ›
A Mitch For All Seasons
As difficult as it may be to imagine in this age characterized by the sound and fury of Congress’ self-seeking fiction, there was once a time when our elected officials spoke with a passion tempered by experience and governed by… Read More ›
Wholesome Heidi Heitkamp’s Wild West Show
Heidi Heitkamp desperately wants you to know that she’s just a good ole gal from the prairies of North Dakota who doesn’t put much truck in all of this Washington DC doubletalk and wonk-speak. She’s a straight-shootin’, Midwest values havin’,… Read More ›
Amending the 2nd Amendment
The 2nd amendment is a lawyer’s wet dream, devoid of anything approaching clarity and subject to the interpretation of whatever august chamber happens to be deliberating on its meaning. It is a Rorshach Test that helps to determine where we… Read More ›
I’ll Get Angry Tomorrow
In the White House press briefing room this afternoon, a mutedly distraught President Obama addressed the nation in the wake of the unfathomable tragedy that was taking place in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. From behind his dais, the President… Read More ›
