When the Republicans grab power, they make comforting the already comfortable one of their top priorities. They always cut taxes for the rich and throw some crumbs to the middle class to help them market their give away to the GOP donor base. Governor Jim Pillen and the thirty two…

Last week was a bad week for the Republican party on Capitol Hill. A Republican House member accused Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidney. Over on the Senate side, Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) tried to start a physical altercation with a witness at a hearing. You can’t make…

The “liberal” mainstream media has been predicting Democratic electoral disaster since Joe Biden was elected president three years ago. The media tells the public that Biden can’t do anything right and that the economy is terrible. After that deeply flawed coverage, the media run polls that sometimes (but not always)…

The entire political world and media are freaking out about a flawed NY Times/Siena Poll that claims that Biden is trailing Trump in 5 out of 6 battleground states. (Interestingly enough, buried in the story is data that indicates that Trump will lose badly once he is convicted of a…

Some Democrats have filed suit in Colorado and Minnesota to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot in those states. The legal challenges are based upon the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states that no one can hold office if, having previously done so…

We received some good news on the economy last week that will make the MAGA Republicans very angry. United States GDP soared to a blockbuster 4.9% in the the third quarter of 2023. That’s the highest since the end of 2021 and a big increase from 2.1% growth in the…

Representative Mike Flood’s (R-NE) Twitter account is a flood of disinformation. It reflects the dishonest talking points that we frequently hear from the Congressional Republicans. They all take direction from the RNC and Fox “News.” It’s incumbent upon us Democrats to rebut the zombie lies from the GOP. Republican propaganda…

TO: The 1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers I have lived in Lincoln most of my life and have been an ardent Nebraska football fan since 1969. I’m also a semi-retired attorney who has practiced law in the Lincoln area since 1986. In that capacity, I have gotten to know Dan Thayer and…

The Republicans have long been a failure on national security. George W. Bush ignored clear warnings of an Al Qaeda attack before 9/11 and Donald Rumsfeld let Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in December 2001. Subsequently, Bush invaded Iraq on false pretenses and got the U.S. bogged down…