• Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: States of mind, foreign and domestic

    We begin today with George Makari and Richard A Friedman of The Atlantic surmising that the malaise the country seems to be going through is a collective denial of what the country went through during the COVID pandemic. Four years ago, the country was brought to its knees by a world-historic disaster. COVID-19 hospitalized nearly 7 million Americans and killed more than a million; it’s still killing hundreds each week. It shut down schools and forced people into social isolation. Almost...

  • Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A week of news in just a few days

    Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. Greg Sargent/The New Republic: Mike Johnson Suddenly Seems Ready to Stick a Shiv in MAGA The House speaker is open to a stand-alone vote on Ukraine aid. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t going to like that one bit. Poor Mike Johnson is in quite a bind. The House speaker simply doesn’t have a governing majority: It is borderline impossible to...

  • Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump didn't choose his supporters, his supporters chose him

    Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. Renée Graham of The Boston Globe looks not at the nasty things that the shoe salesman says but who is listening to them. Now when he derides Biden’s stutter by saying things that Biden never said — like pretending Biden stumbled over the word “democracy” in a January speech when he said it more than two dozen times without any problems —...

  • Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Marjorie Taylor Greene wants her MTV; Leader Jeffries says, 'who dat?'

    The Daily Beast: MTG Officially Launches Revolt Against Speaker Mike Johnson Due to the procedural details of the so-called motion to vacate the chair, it was unclear when exactly the vote on Johnson’s fate would be held—or if it would be held at all. Greene did not notice the resolution as privileged, which would force a vote, but she can appear in the well of the chamber anytime to give her resolution that designation. If the Georgia Republican makes that move, it would give House...

  • Prep Roundup: Aberdeen splits against two-defending state champs in Auburn

    Also: Montesano blasts Tenino 8-0 in boys soccer rout

  • Prep Softball Roundup: Defending-champion Montesano falls in season opener

    Also: Aberdeen dominates in rout of Hoquiam; Ocosta’s Gilbert no-hits Onalaska in five innings

  • Mike Roman, Co-Defendant in Trump RICO Case, Subpoenaed in Arizona Investigation

    "Brutal" Brittany Sheehan is a Las Vegas based mother, policy advocate and grassroots leader. From her roots in California's medical freedom movement, she worked to defeat vaccine legislation in Nevada. Brittany was strong and early opposition to CA's AB5, co-authoring an Assembly ethics complaint and going on to write an economic bill for independent contractors in Nevada. Brittany organized one of the first pandemic shutdown protests in the nation on Easter Sunday 2020 and was instrumental in...

  • Democracy or Epismocracy?

    Democracy refers to a government in which people rule directly or through their elected representatives. It is, in other words, what President Lincoln referred to in his Gettysburg address as a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” but which Plato warned is a chimera. Indeed, the ancient Greek philosopher thought a government elected More

  • Barron Trump Has a Surprising Defender

    Barron Trump, the youngest child of former President Donald Trump, was defended Friday by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of ex-President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after he was the subject of viral online conversation this week.Barron Trump, the only child from Melania Trump's marriage to the ex-president, turned 18 on Wednesday. He has stayed relatively out of the spotlight as his father again campaigns for president. While Donald Trump and his adult children from...

  • Decked out in totality: an eclipse merch roundup

    Look, there are throngs of visitors coming to our state for the solar eclipse on April 8 and somehow the weather prognostications have eclipsed the "what are we wearing" question. Embarrassing! Here are a few sartorial accompaniments we've spotted around town and online as the moon rolls out its shadow over The Natural State.

  • Today in Denmark: A roundup of the news on Wednesday

    Prime Minister comments on fake video, possible new registration for people from Taiwan, Copenhagen fashion week drops wild animal skin and more news from Denmark this Wednesday.

  • DENR defends LLDA on lake sharing

    The Department of Environment and Natural Resources defended yesterday the decision of the Laguna Lake Development Authority to increase the share of commercial operators in Laguna de Bay, saying it was the local government units who recommended to President Marcos the modification in the sharing agreement as small fisherfolk could not meet the required supply of fish.