Recent Comments

1. about 13 hours ago on Jen Sorensen

   Oh, I don’t know. Clarence Thomas would lay claim to worst justice ever. Hopefully, if/when the Dems retain the White House and expand their majority in the Senate, Thomas and/or Alito will fall ill or retire and Biden can appoint replacements for them and we can start rebalancing the SCOTUS.

2. about 13 hours ago on Clay Bennett

   I am holding out hope that Trump will be convicted in the hush money case. If so, he will likely get probation or house arrest (as opposed to jail time) and his lawyers would no doubt appeal the verdict. So, his oversized ego would likely keep him in the race. Independent swing voters (who really do the deciding in general elections) may be reluctant to vote for a convicted felon. But at any rate they might deliver the final verdict to DJT on Election Day. Of course, if/when Trump is defeated, he would also have to answer for the GA election interference case and the FL documents case (when they finally get rolling). But hopefully, he will be ensconced at Mar a Lago by then.

3. 1 day ago on Mike Lester

   Mike, in many parts of the country it’s highly difficult (if not impossible) to raise a family on one paycheck. I never had kids, but both of my nieces have young children and they are working and raising their kids. If a mother who can afford to stay home with the kids wants to be a stay at home mom (the ultimate oxymoron), she should go ahead. But most women with children are working outside the home by choice and/or necessity. Those Flintstones episodes you see on TV are reruns, and have been for quite some time. Most women aren’t home braising the Brontosaurus anymore!

4. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   One could say the same thing about Mickey Mouse. Although he remained Disney’s flagship character, he was soon overshadowed in the cartoons by the more colorful Goofy and Donald Duck (who would appear in more Disney cartoons than any other character for the studio) and in the comics by Donald and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie (not to mention Uncle Scrooge)!

5. 5 days ago on Gary Varvel

   With luck, Trump may get convicted in his NYC hush money case before the Sept. debates. Of course, his lawyers will file for appeal and DJT will get probation as opposed to jail time. Wonder how he’ll spin being a convicted felon at the Sept. debates, That should play well to independent swing voters, I’m sure. At any rate, they’ll be no audiences at the debates. Meaning Trump’s MAGA faithful won’t be in attendance. Should be interesting. BTW, Gary, the gag order is for the hush money case not the debates in June and Sept. respectively.

6. 5 days ago on Joe Heller

   I might tune in to the debates just to see how Trump handles himself without his MAGA faithful in the audience (they’ll be no audience at the debates) or with the microphones being shut off when either Trump or Biden start talking too much. Trump might be convicted of the NYC hush money case by the September debates, but his lawyers would no doubt appeal the verdict and DJT will get probation. Wonder how he’ll spin that at the debate.

7. 5 days ago on Clay Bennett

   From your mouth to God’s ear, Clay.

8. 7 days ago on Gary Varvel

   Like that Trump rally in NJ recently? Where Trump ranted about “Crooked Joe Biden” or praised “The late, great, Hannibal Lecter”? You hear an awful lot from the GOP about how Democrats are destroying the country but not on how to fix our problems. Like how the House leadership deep sixed the bipartisan border bill because Trump didn’t like it?

9. 7 days ago on Gary Varvel

   Cohen, in the 2016 election, lied multiple times on Trump’s behalf. He was ultimately found guilty of lying and sent to jail. Now, he is being asked to tell the truth under oath in his old boss’s hush money trial. Cohen knows full well that he can’t commit perjury on the stand (and I, for one, believe him). In 2016, Cohen thought lying for DJT would benefit him but Cohen ultimately went to jail. Now he is testifying against his former boss, who I wouldn’t even believe if he swore he was lying!

10. 7 days ago on Joe Heller

    No one under 50 has landlines these days (except maybe in very rural areas) or answer an “unknown caller” on their mobile phone. So polls these days are suspect at best. Even without changing times, most poll responders say what they think others want to hear, or what they think they should say. Democrats have been outpacing expectations based on polling in every election since 2018. Remember when everyone was talking about a massive “red wave” in the 2022 midterms? But that wave turned out to be more of a ripple? Or, more recently, the special election in Alabama’s 10th district. The polls predicted that the Republican candidate (Teddy Powell) would win, instead the Democratic candidate (Marilyn Lands) won by a comfortable margin. This does not mean we get complacent, though. We still need to show up in November.