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The Uncle Jimmy and Byrd show

A. James Manchin, whose nephew, the senior lawmaker from West Virginia, is all over the news as the key Senate vote on a variety of topics (from infrastructure to voting rights), never shied away from the spotlight and, as a lifetime Democrat, worked for a Republican governor in the Mountain ...

False certainty and wallowing in rumor

Life-lessons come in many forms: some from experience, some from parents, relatives, friends, some from osmosis – itĢƵ in the air, baby! Some lessons are drawn from books. These are book-lessons drawn from real life.To begin:Sometime toward the end of the madcap decade of the 1920s, the ...

The GOP war on Republicans

Alert to the fact that Donald Trump loves to riff, some party operatives are bracing for off-the-cuff zingers directed at Republican Party Trump dissidents, when the former president speaks this weekend in North Carolina.“HeĢƵ going to spray friendly fire on other Republicans and settle ...

Here’s one way Joe can be like FDR

In the fall of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, the emphasis was on speed – speed in putting men and women to work and in getting back to some semblance of normality, after three horrible years – years of mounting unemployment and public and personal dislocations.The Great ...

A windfall that could change government

This is not Dick NixonĢƵ New Federalism. This is New Federalism on steroids.In 1972, the Nixon administration began distributing federal dollars under the rubric of the New Federalism directly to state and local governments. The program was terminated in 1986, during the Reagan years.In ...

Liz Cheney’s stand and what it means

Liz Cheney, representative from Wyoming, spoke last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, hours before she was booted from her leadership position by House Republicans.Her words speak for themselves.“... Tonight I rise to discuss freedom and our constitutional duty to protect it. ...