- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Indiana in The Statehouse File where John Krull dissects the lies in Donald Trump’s attack on war hero John McCain.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post sees a pattern in the number of Trump villains who are American heroes.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives has a few words of friendly advice to his Republican friends about the temptation to join President Trump in casting Democrats as anti-Jewish.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit finds an immigration scandal about anchor babies that our President is not likely to find objectionable.
- Dana Bash at CNN is awestruck by how Kellyanne Conway has managed to prevail in the male-dominated world of Trump politics. driftglass goes to history books to find a fitting parallel.
- A host of critics have been saying that the White House is currently filled with evil minded, unqualified, simpletons. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors confesses that staffers like Ivanka, Jared, and others are are proving us haters wrong. Okay, so there is a touch of sarcasm at work.
- News Corpse reports on rumblings within Fox News offering the faint possibility that the network might stop functioning as Trump’s private Pravda.
- Jonathan Bernstein explains why a possible promise by Joe Biden to serve only a single term would be a sure loser.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil may have found a distant relative of Beto. Well, everyone is related to Adam, right? Maybe Republicans will find a way to use this free oppo-research.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony educates us on what socialism meant in the 1950s.
- I’m getting to the age where I can relate more and more to correspondence between elderly folk. At Margaret and Helen, Helen Philpot writes to her friend Margaret with some profane and furious wit about the way conservative Republicans think, speak, and vote on abortion rights.
- In Wisconsin, Republicans lost the election for governor, so a lame duck Republican session was convened to strip powers from the incoming governor. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson sympathetically covers Republican anger as that session is ruled to have been illegal, since it was convened in violation of the Wisconsin Constitution. James also covers, again with sympathy, a campaign for a Wisconsin Supreme Court judge who will preserve the state constitution from rampant liberals. I suppose it’s my demented left-wing bias, but I think I perceive a possible inconsistency.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara tries once more to defend the electoral college with arguments that contemporary documentation tells us did not play a part in the Constitutional Convention debate, at least that part on how to choose the President. It was all about preserving slavery. At least Mr. LaFerrara did not misrepresent James Madison as some have done.
- Dave Dubya points out that the violent threat of ISIS is not even close to its end, since it has taken the form of white nationalism.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests that, of everyone who embraces, rejects, derides, or ignores Christianity, white evangelicals form the the one group that does not get Jesus at all.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes has a dream about a woman or ghost or something or someone surrendering herself to an undefined whatever. She morphs into Theresa May trying to deal with Brexit. As lucid an analysis of whatever the hell is happening as any, I suppose.
- In research not at all intended to relate to Brexit, The Journal of Improbable Research takes a look at an actual study involving random folks asked to back way up to take a photo to see if they would look back to keep from tripping.
- Vagabond Scholar celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a bevey of songs from Ireland.
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