It had rained heavily earlier in the day, but the evening shaped up beautifully by the time of the first whistle on the covered outdoor rink of Franciscan Health Pavillion at Bulldog Park in Crown Point, Indiana, on Saturday night, June 25. There was some concern among the officials and…

We have all been waiting, because we all saw it coming. The Supreme Court announced its decision overturning federal protection of abortion rights under Roe v Wade on Friday afternoon, June 24, 2022. At stake is a woman’s bodily autonomy. At stake is the liberty for every woman of child-bearing…

The Republican narrative insists of its grievances over “election integrity.” But the evidence being produced and displayed by Rep. …

Once upon a time, Trump administration senior adviser Kellyanne Conway defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s mendacious characterization of Trump’s inauguration crowd as “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.” Conway told the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck…

The GQP is an un-American fascist death cult, and the conservative majority of the US Supreme Court that it built is about to reward decades of domestic religious fundamentalist terrorism in the form of bombings, arson and murder. But how are they polling…? While it is tough to get a…

Waking up the morning after the latest white power terrorist attack, this time at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the political line is as clearly drawn for the state of our Union as it was in Paris at the French National Assembly in 1789 when the caucus for the…

On the night of Cinco de Mayo, police placed an eight-foot “nonscalable” fence around the Supreme Court building and reinforced it with concrete barriers. Some of us may remember when the Supreme Court back in 2014 struck down a Massachusetts law mandating a 35-foot buffer zone around women’s health clinics…

Republicans hate America so much they gotta wave American flags with some Reality TV asshole’s face all over them. Seriously, no joke, this is some sick shit. “The Republican Party today is basically a coalition of grievances united by one thing: hatred,” wrote Reagan-Bush era policy wonk Bruce Bartlett. “Hatred…

Gluttons for news, culture and politics don’t have to be Robert K. Merton in order to learn alot these days about the limitations and uncertainties of public policy. From (potentially) fresh Twitter owner-operator Elon Musk to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, examples of unforeseen consequences from the deliberate actions of even…