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Rejoining Paris, News from Mars

Saturday, February 20, 2021

We’ll Always Have Paris: In his continuing effort to undo four years of Donald Trump, President Joe Biden formally rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and declared that the days of “America First” diplomacy are over.  Unlike Trump, Biden believes climate change …

Mars Landing Miracle, Texas Crisis

Friday, February 19, 2021

Planetary Perseverance: NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed  on Mars yesterday for a mission to further explore whether there was ever life on the red planet.    Mars is 128 million miles from Earth. The control room in Pasadena broke into high fives and …

Texas in the Dark, Bank Error

Thursday, February 18, 2021

The Mess in Texas: As Texas struggles to turn the heat and lights back on, another winter storm is on the way. A quarter of Texas residents are under a boil water order because the water systems are down. Some are …

Trump Attacks McConnell, The Right Thing

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Dour and Sullen: Donald Trump ripped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Saturday speech denouncing  the just-acquitted former president.   Widening the growing rifts in the Republican Party, Trump said, “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican …

January 6 Commission, Family Politics

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Post Mortem: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for an “independent” commission to investigate the 6th January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.   The commission would have to be established by law.   In a letter to members of …

The Schoolboy Defense

Saturday, February 13, 2021

False Equivalence: Trump defense lawyer Michael van der Veen opened his arguments saying Donald Trump did nothing to incite the Capitol riot and “Like every other politically motivated witch hunt the left has engaged in over the past four years, this impeachment …

Answering Trump’s Call

Friday, February 12, 2021

Common Sense: House managers drew a logical line between statements made by the President Trump and Capitol Hill rioters who believed they were doing his bidding and said so.   “They truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president’s orders …

The Case Against Trump

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Inciter in Chief: House impeachment managers yesterday made a compelling case that in the weeks preceding the Capitol insurrection, President Donald Trump riled up his base with groundless claims of election fraud culminating with his fiery January 6th speech and  a mob assaulting …

Trump On Trial, Lost In Clouds

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Go to the Video: The Senate voted 56-44 yesterday to determine that trying Donald Trump after he’s out of office is constitutional and the trial will proceed. The vote was a strong signal for how it will go on the question …

He Didn’t Mean It, British Strain

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Fighting Words: As former President Trump’s impeachment trial formally opens today, his lawyers plan to argue that nothing he said in his speech of January 6th incited the Capitol insurrection and that Congress has no authority to put him on trial while …