Menacing Spirit: Despite devastating testimony that he tried to illegally overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump in a speech yesterday railed against the House January 6th committee and denounced his former vice president Mike Pence for not overthrowing the election on Trump’s demand. …

Treacherous Plan: Donald Trump and his allies and supporters present a “clear and present danger” to American democracy, former federal appeals judge Michael Luttig said yesterday before the House January 6th investigating committee.   Luttig said the threat is not because of what …

Primary News: South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, who voted to certify the 2020 election, fought off a pro-Trump challenger in yesterday’s state primaries, but overall, election deniers and people who want to control elections for the Republican vote are making advances.  …

The Shooting Gallery: Twenty Democratic and Republican senators announced that they have reached a bipartisan deal on gun control that would create some minimal new hoops to jump for owning a gun.   The agreement provides time to check the juvenile and …

Attempted Coup: In two hours of hearings live on television last night, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney outlined the case for how President Donald Trump pushed false claims of election fraud, plotted to overturn the 2020 election, and inspired the crowd …

The Shooting Gallery: After a day of emotional testimony, House Democrats yesterday pushed through a bill to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 and ban the sale of large-capacity magazines. It has no chance of …

Econ 101: The World Bank issued a grim forecast for economic growth trimmed 2.9 percent this year, down from 5.7 percent in 2021. The world economic growth prediction is even lower than the pessimistic 3.6 percent forecast issued by the International Monetary Fund in …

Be Not Proud: Five members of the right wing Proud Boys, including former chairman Enrique Tarrio, were indicted yesterday for seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6th capitol insurrection, the most serious criminal charges to be brought so far in the violent …

The Shooting Gallery: Three people are dead and 14 wounded, during a shooting incident at 2 am yesterday in Chattanooga. Two people died of gunshot wounds and a third died after being hit by a car escaping the melee.   The city’s …

The Shooting Gallery: Digging into the Uvalde, Texas school massacre, The NY Times reports that the chief of the school police who was the commander at the scene arrived without a police radio and proceeded to operate with a cellphone. It’s …