Category: politics
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What a short history of drunk driving tells us about the future of gun laws
Sit back, buckle up and let me be your designated driver in our short tour through the history of drunk driving and the mothers who were against it.
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To address shootings, acknowledge Americans are moving to gun-friendly places
Americans are moving South in a big way, and a new analysis shows that Southern cultures are the most likely to experience shootings. We look at a breakdown of gun death by cultural region from Colin Woodard’s Nationhood Lab. Death by gunshot is most likely in the Deep South and Appalachia is No. 2 on…
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The Top 10 reasons why Joe Biden should be President for life, or until the end of a second term, whichever should come first
I’m a very unusual person. I am a Joe Biden super fan. You don’t find a lot of super-enthusiastic Joe Biden people. I’m not sure why. To perk this race up, I will give you the Top 10 reasons why Joe Biden should be elected to a second term in 2024.
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NYC isn’t all-in on “Wokeism”
Why we would be seeing resistance to the dominant strain of Democratic thinking in one of the largest, most important Democratic cities in the country?
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Do democratic principles demand a “Greater Idaho?”
Idaho is OK, you say. But it could be better. How? What if we threw in Eastern Oregon with it? That is precisely the “Greater Idaho” campaign’s aim. And it is doing well, if you consider that most of these state-rejiggering plans go nowhere, and it appears to be going — somewhere. The idea is…
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Why the US has more immunity to rationality than to COVID-19
When news broke that the US Department of Energy concluded the coronavirus likely escaped from a lab, Democrats were skeptical, Republicans triumphant. Shouldn’t everybody be dispassionately interested in determining the origin of a pandemic that killed nearly 6.8 million people worldwide?
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Is asking for a National Divorce inviting a new Civil War?
When a certain representative from Georgia says we need a “national divorce,” why do people take her so seriously?
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Joe Biden pops off a State of the Union like it was a Chinese spy balloon
As a speechwriting geek, I want to talk about the state of the union. But we must also talk about the strange spherical object in the sky.
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On the Biden and Trump classified document scandals
Glorious news in national politics, folks. We have two special counsels, two prosecutors conducting open-ended investigations into two presidents at once! Remember that special counsels have brought us such hits as Oliver North and the Iran-Contra affair, the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky actual affair, and that Bob Mueller not-really-leading-to-anything affair. What is different this time? It’s…
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Kevin McCarthy’s speakership is blocked, but by where?
The Compass of Power Episode VIII Like you, I am deeply, deeply troubled by the events of this past week. There is no speaker of the United States House of Representatives yet, and I really don’t know what we’re going to do moving forward. I have started stockpiling my water. There have been many complaints…
Adam E-H Wilson 