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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Greatest: Tampa Bay’s Tom Brady threw three touchdown passes last night winning his seventh Super Bowl and confirming at age 43 that he’s the greatest quarterback of all time.   Tampa Bay beat Kansas City 31-9.   Kansas City hobbled itself with …

Econ 101: President Biden used a tepid January jobs report to call for quick action on his $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill.   “I believe the American people are looking right now to their government for help to do our job, to …