In his latest campaign upchuck, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is working hard to out-trump trump in the battle for the bottom. But DeSantis is hardly alone in his downward spiraling crusade. And the result is that the political landscape is getting even more ominous. Here are some of the…

It would be foolishly simplistic to just dismiss the latest ignorant, hate-filled comments about anti-Semitism by the bigoted, far right, nut job, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Boebert has a national stage to mouth off and many people on the right listen to her. Boebert, however, didn’t aim her hateful comments…

The Republican Party is ignominiously unraveling. The treasurer of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), resigned, citing financial and personnel mismanagement by the CPAC chairman, Matt Schlapp, who is himself a target of a civil suit claiming he made sexual advances to a male staffer. Texas lawmakers, including Republicans, issued 20…

“You may burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas those books contain have passed through millions of channels and will go on.” The year was 1933, the writer was author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer Helen Keller; the situation was the…

I have one word for Lauren Boebert, Bri Teresi, Kid Rock, Ron DeSantis, Rita Panahi, Matt Walsh, Chrissie Mayr, Megyn Kelly, Tomi Lahren, Oli London and others too numerous to mention. Get a life. OK, that was three words, sorry. The aforementioned guardians of all that is right and good are on…

I am reminded of the 1965 celebration of “National Brotherhood Week” by songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer. There really was an optimistic time when Americans celebrated the week of spreading welcoming to all Americans, although the commemoration died in a wave of cynicism in the early 2000s. Lehrer wrote: Oh, the white…

Republicans are notorious for living in an alternate, parallel universe where black is white, up is down, yes means no and a finding of no new indictments in the investigation into former president trump’s ties to Russia is good news. Special Counsel John Durham was named by trump to investigate the…

White supremacy is metastasizing in the nation, while trump and other Republicans cozy up to hate groups and inexplicably, a handful of African American politicians and other personalities continue to genuflect before trump and the Republican Party. It’s no less mystifying why gay lawmakers, the so-called “Log Cabin Republicans,” would still…

The ReAwaken America tour is an ongoing, Christian nationalist, far right nightmare and it rolled into the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Miami, Fla., last week for two days of moral flatulence. The May 12–13 tour was all about trump, with various far right speakers and oddball trump-backing pastors who…