Two days ago I reported on the Birmingham, Alabama shooting that left 4 people dead and 17 injured.  As of today, no suspects.  Most probably a gang-related event.  100 shell casings were found.   $100,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction of those involved . On to the subject of the day:   KAMALA HARRIS WILL PREVAIL OVER DONALD TRUMP ON NOVEMBER 5 .  That is not my prediction, but that of Allan Lichtman, a historian renowned for accurately predicting 9 of the 10 most recent presidential elections.   This video actually says Lichtman's record is 10 for 10 . Who is Alan Lichtman? Born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1947.  So he is 77 years old. PhD from Harvard. Is a Democrat. Has taught at American University in DC since 1973. In the early 1980s, while a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, had a 17-episode stint on the game show Tic Tac Dough, and won $100,000. Ran for the U....

On 6 January 2001 then president Donald Trump clearly attempted to overthrow our Democracy.  The effort was inept, but still criminal.  In hindsight, after   all 10 living former Department of Defense secretaries published in the  Sunday, 3January2021, issue of the Washington Post a public letter , declaring that the U.S. presidential election was over, Trump should have realized that without the Department of Defense, there was no hope for a successful coup. The letter – signed by Dick Cheney, James Mattis, Mark Esper, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, William Perry and Ashton Carter – amounts to a remarkable show of force against Trump’s subversion efforts just days before Congress is set to count Electoral College votes . Watch William Cohen explain on CNN their motivation for this extraordinary action. Okay, that was one Republican effort to destroy our Democracy, although I would argue that the culprit was Donald Trump, not...

I regularly make fun of Republicans.  That Trump quote from   People   magazine, for example,   was false .  As you must know, the 2022 term is   gaslighting .  I'm honestly trying to do Republicans a favor today.  For my nostalgic posting, I revert to 16April2011, almost a dozen years ago: SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR REPUBLICANS Remember, this was about now, 12 years ago when then President Barack Obama's prospects for re-election did not appear bright, and as late at Labor Day in 2011 his approval rating plunged to a new low.  To quote  Brookings  ( which is a liberal think tank ): Economic growth was mediocre,  unemployment remained stubbornly high, and the public’s confidence in the future was waning. The president seemed unable to find a credible narrative to explain his plans; worse, he seemed to have lost the connection with the people that had fueled his remarkable victory in 2008.  Democrats: Characterized opponent Mitt ...