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Pollster: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez most likely 2028 Democratic presidential nominee

| April 19, 2025 | 44 Comments
Pollster: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez most likely 2028 Democratic presidential nominee

Pollster Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight founder, claimed that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has the best chance of being the next Democratic presidential nominee. Galen Druke, a podcaster, listed individuals who could potentially be the nominee, but settled on Cortez. Silver agreed with him. Cortez appears to have broad appeal throughout the Democratic Party. From Fox News: “So that […]

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Saturday shorts

| April 19, 2025 | 9 Comments
Saturday shorts

I was going to lead off with a Happy Easter Saturday – till I read that Easter Saturday is used colloquially  for both the Saturday before Easter and the Saturday 6 days after Easter.  May you all have a joyful (and thoughtful) weekend. Saw the update on Dakota Meyer – here’s a few others. Thomas […]

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Wednesday Weirdness

| April 16, 2025 | 56 Comments
Wednesday Weirdness

Never thought I would ever say this – but I found myself agreeing with the Squad briefly. Damn, feel like I should wash my mouth out after saying that. AOC is up first on the list. Yeah, little donkey-toothed Sandy managed to slip a decent statement between those tombstone teeth of hers. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]

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Updates, Tax Day style

| April 15, 2025 | 4 Comments
Updates, Tax Day style

Have a few updates for the TAH world. Remember Zachary Young? He is the Navy vet who was excoriated on CNN for ‘running a black-market smuggling operation and gouging poor Afghan refugees’. That little bit of journalistic, shall we say impromptuism (okay, they bent the truth far past its breaking point), caused them to settle […]

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House passes bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship

| April 11, 2025 | 21 Comments
House passes bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship

The House passed a bill mostly along party lines that would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. This would be applicable to federal elections. Almost all Democrats voted against the bill while some joined the Republicans. The Democrats argued that this bill would disenfranchise voters. The Republicans argued that this measure would […]

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The lighter side of 3300 points

| April 4, 2025 | 64 Comments
The lighter side of 3300 points

  Seems to be a pattern in the current administration…of not thinking things through very well. It started with Cabinet nominations… we noted months ago that with a tiny majority in the House and Senate, taking too many candidates from the – yep, House and Senate – might come back to bite ’em in that […]

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Tuesday tomfoolery

| April 1, 2025 | 30 Comments
Tuesday tomfoolery

Seems the hits just keep coming. As we look forward to the 80th anniversary of  the battle of Iwo Jima, remember the name of John Ullyot. He’s a Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary  who commented on the fact that due to Ira Hayes being a Pima Indian (hence part of a DEI initiative? Really?) the classic […]

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Saturday shorts

| March 29, 2025 | 21 Comments
Saturday shorts

A few quick items to start off the day. In a stunning exhibition of the glaringly obvious, National Public Radio’s (MPR) Katherine Maher says they should have covered the Hunter Biden laptop story “more aggressively or sooner.” The mea culpa by NPR’s chief executive Katherine Maher came during intense questioning from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene […]

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