Another fed worker tells me he spends his days pacing the marble corridors of his office like an absolute madman. The Lana del Rey lyric “I don’t wanna do this anymore” plays on loops in his head in Lana’s exact fey, languid voice. The post Right and Left appeared first on The Point Magazine. Source linkRead More

What I’m about to say is going to seem like a bad joke: the trouble with the left is its egalitarianism. The post Beyond Equality appeared first on The Point Magazine. Source linkRead More

I once found the spirit of democracy at a church that met in a movie theater. The post Perfecting Democracy appeared first on The Point Magazine. Source linkRead More

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today secured a Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — originally included in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). The amendment would use those savings to reverse Medicaid cuts in the OBBB, preventing 700,000 Americans from losing their health…Read More

There can be no doubt about this one. The federal arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a Minneapolis protest represent a prima facie violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press. Without that guarantee, journalists are in danger anytime they produce anything the government doesn’t like. Without that guarantee, we are one…Read More

Last night, reports indicated that President Trump, his family, and private businesses are suing the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion. This lawsuit follows a troubling pattern in which Trump and his ideological allies file massive lawsuits against the media and federal government with little chance of success in the courtroom, only to settle out of court for millions because…Read More

Sometimes they take the law into their own hands! At the age of 7, Blaska became the editor and publisher of The Blaskie Paper, the leading journal of BugTown. A map of the imaginary country resembled the platbook’s rectangular delineation of our farm east of Sun Prairie WI.  The publication took its name from the […] Source linkRead More

I got a lot of feedback about my last post about Thom Tillis. Both in replies and in personal emails, people took me to task. But I am going to stand by what I wrote.Most of the criticism implies that I’ve been taken in by Tillis. Many warned, “See how he votes.” I don’t expect Tillis to vote the way…Read More