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Darline Graham’s spectacular national-security flub drew boos and ridicule. But in fairness to Graham, she admitted what Donald Trump never will. She knows what she doesn’t know. But iPINIONS argues that her humiliation also exposes a larger Trump pathology. The dumber and more sycophantic the people around him, the smarter and stronger he feels. Read… Read more.
In Trump Republicans trust Trump voters are more likely to believe the former president is telling them the truth than their friends and family or religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. (Axios, August 21, 2023) That, of course, is the very definition of cult worship. After all, nobody in their right mind… Read more.
Ginni Thomas is complicit Last March, the Washington Post published text messages between Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, and Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Those messages revealed she was involved up to her neck in the MAGA plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. So any suggestion that her husband wasn’t complicit defies common… Read more.
By congressional practice, the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson gave senators an opportunity to examine her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court. But Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seized it to peddle conspiracies and pander to the MAGA kooks who now compose the base of their party. Jackson wrote over 570 opinions during… Read more.
Justices Republican presidents [nominate] invariably vote on the side of issues that affirms conservative ideology; whereas those Democratic presidents [nominate] invariably vote on the side that affirms liberal ideology. (“Supreme Court Rules Voter ID Laws OK,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 18, 2014) These days, every nominee to the Supreme Court testifies that judges should serve… Read more.
