Former vice-president Mike Pence’s contemporaneous notes of meetings with Donald Trump in January 2023 may prove to be the final nail in the boxcar which carries the former president to prison. They are highlighted in Jack Smith’s 45-page indictment and are likely to be front and center during the obstruction and conspiracy trial. Pence’s turnaround … Read more
In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you. Donald J. Trump/Dalton, Georgia/June 10, 2023 If George W. Bush was the self-proclaimed “decider,” the twice impeached, now twice indicted (as of this morning) ex-president has anointed himself the “retributioner.” To use what many pundits consider a very narrow platform on which to … Read more
Perhaps the most significant paradox in the founding of our constitutional democracy is the electoral college. The rationale for this Rube Goldberg inspired system of choosing the nation’s chief executive violates a bedrock principle etched in the founding documents. An extension of the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence is … Read more
Yesterday, Peter Francis Stager was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison for the beating of police officer Blake Miller at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. In one of the most disturbing videos taken during the insurrection, the 44 year-old Conway, Arkansas man is seen repeatedly beating Miller with a flag pole while, … Read more
I am considering asking the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University for a refund for selling a defective product. In the course of earning three degrees in political science at these two institutions, I was taught America is a democracy where policies and programs were based on the will of the majority. In elections, … Read more