We won't dump the electoral college, and I don't even think we should. Do...
(See update note before discussion begins re House size.)I know the arguments against the Electoral College and they all start with an accurate statement: It has skewed election results from the...
View ArticleWhat I sent my freshman GOP US Rep re Clarence Thomas
Scott Franklin won his seat running against Republican financial impropriety, but I’m going to imagine I’m only falsely optimistic he is going to be open to the logic below. He voted not to certify...
View ArticleAlways remember: John Cornyn acted like a a racist as Texas Attorney General
Imagine for a minute you sit on the Senate Commmittee on the Judiciary as Texas’s senior senator. Imagine for a minute you turn a blind eye to flagrant racism. But, I repeat myself.Always, always...
View ArticleI want to know more about the Florida role in the fake electors plot.
Of course, the individuals involved might be lying, but I noticed in yesterday’s hearing the mention that the plan to move both winning and losing presidential electors to Congress was based on a plan...
View ArticleNormally, we wait to hear what SCOTUS does. Things to consider instead re...
Let me start out with the obvious. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not always the most disciplined of thinkers, and I improvise here. I know there are flaws in each of the things I'm about to suggest and don't...
View ArticleRon DeSantis channels his inner Tim McVeigh, joins seditious plot to kill Fauci
Two months after a West Virginia man pleaded guilty to violating federal laws against threatening the life of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has...
View ArticleQuestions I want answered about the DeSantis Express
1. Did I pay for this? If I heard WUSF-FM, my NPR affiliate correctly, the legislature provided DeSantis with the funds to charter the two planes. Does that mean it was tax money?2. Who is Perla? I...
View ArticleThe toll road from irrelevance for the Florida Democratic Party has one lane...
I haven’t deeply followed the leadership changes in the Florida Democratic Party because I lost my heart for it. That happened in early 2020 when the state party asked all of its county executive...
View ArticleWhat I wrote my Republican US representative about Clarence Thomas
Scott Franklin was a Lakeland city councilman, someone I actually spoke in disagreement with in 2020 when the city commission was debating whether to adopt a mask mandate. He is proud of his...
View ArticleLet's get this straight: Impeachment I was not about digging up dirt any more...
I have heard several newsbreak NPR items on aid to Ukraine that have repeated that Trump’s first impeachment was about the Trump admin/campaign wanting to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for...
View ArticleThe Vice President is a president in a pinch.
When a presidential nominee chooses an emergency president, someone who could take over the federal government in a pinch and run it, the candidate usually wins. This is definitely true since...
View ArticlePete Rose
He was correctly banned for life, and as his life is now over I don't have a problem with inducting him. I was a fan as a kid, less so when what seemed fun to me seemed malignant in the 1970 All-Star...
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