An obvious characteristic of a kakistocrat is inserting unqualified loyalists into positions of power. Nepotism and kakistocracy go...

Not In These Hyper-Polarized Times When I was growing up, Republican senators like Jacob Javits (NY), Mark Hatfield (OR), Charlies...

Trump's VP Sweepstakes She’s something of an unstable crackpot, but RFK Jr chose fellow anti-vaxxer Nicole Shanahan to be his running...

Tuesday— Trump screeching and whining that he’s “copying him’— Meatball Ron broke with the Old GOP Establishment which has seen him as...

I haven’t wanted to write much about Florida this cycle— too depressing. The GOP swept the field, won every statewide office (by a lot)...

In this interview (above) with Rachel Maddow about healthcare over a decade ago, Alan Grayson told her that Democrats have been fooled...

My grandfather was still a teenager when his family fled from Czarist Russia and came to New York. They were Jews from beyond the Pale--...

Trump just can't keep his fat trap shut; as many of the people who had the misfortune of having worked for him say, he has very little...

Chile's presidential runoff is in 10 days, pitting a solid progressive, Gabriel Boric, against a slime-bag Nazi, José Antonio Kast. The...

Many Big Business interests have stopped giving money to a Republican Party that has re-oriented itself into a more right-populist,...

A new Quinnipiac poll was released today. You can read the whole thing here if you want to. I just want to bring up a couple of points...

Honestly, expect every Democrat running for office to be hit with an ad like this by their Republican opponent, not just Democrats where...

Gov Ned Lamont (D-CT) signed a bill Monday phasing out the use of PFAS-- "forever chemicals" like firefighting foam and food packaging...

Watching my country devolve into authoritarianism, if not fascism, has been gut-wrenching. When Nixon was first elected president I left...

Everyone knows the story of Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska's defense of Nixon failed Supreme Court nominee, racist G. Harrold Carswell in...

Yesterday, in a scathing editorial, a pillar of the Florida conservative (and Republican) establishment, the Orlando Sentinel, got...

As you probably know by now, former Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson is planning to run for the Florida U.S. Senate being wasted on Marco...

This morning, CBS News reported that well-connected Republican Party activist Josh Duggar was arrested in Arkansas for possessing child...

Former Orlando congressman, Alan Grayson, officially launched an exploratory committee today for a U.S. Senate run. If he gets through...

Schumer's last anti-progressive Florida Senate candidate, Patrick Murphy, was an absolute zero... utterly worthless and with, as Schumer...