As Trump is stuck in sludge, Harris draws support from Republicans, who...
Kamala Harris makes it a point to attract GOP support (NY Times) As Donald Trump's campaign is hitting one snag after another, a growing horde of Republicans is jumping on the "Good Ship Kamala Harris"...
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The iconic fountain in Five Points South (AL.com) Birmingham, Alabama, the city where I gave birth to this blog 17 years ago, was the site Saturday night of a mass shooting that left 17 people injured...
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Those who did not survive (WVTM)Authorities are searching for gunmen they believe were responsible for a mass shooting that left four people dead and 17 wounded on Saturday night in Birmingham,...
View ArticleJack Smith gains victory re: oversized motion in election-interference case,...
Judge Tanya Chutkan (AP) Special Counsel Jack Smith earned a victory yesterday in his election-interference case against former President and 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to a report...
View ArticleHarris reveals 'a new way forward' for the middle class and small business,...
Kamala Harris addresses the Economic Club of Pittsburgh (NY Times)Kamala Harris, in a much-anticipated speech on the economy yesterday, said she is focusing on "a new way forward" for the middle class...
View ArticleAs Trump attacks Harris with noxious language, he proves that he has no clue...
Joyce White Vance of MSNBC When Donald Trump recently called Kamala Harris "mentally impaired," it was unusually nasty and nonsensical -- even by his standards. More importantly, it might have been the...
View ArticleHarris is poised to win all seven key swing states -- she leads in Michigan,...
Nate Silver (Getty) Vice President Kamala Harris is in position to win all seven crucial swing states over Donald Trump, according to a report at the New York Sun, citing one of the nation's most...
View ArticleTim Walz unmasks J.D. Vance in VP debate as a liar and election-denier, a...
Mary Trump on Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell Tim Walz was not expected to dazzle anyone at Tuesday night's vice presidential debate. And for most of the evening, it was clear that J.D. Vance was the...
View ArticleJack Smith's sweeping new filing in D.C. court case shines hot light on the...
Donald Trump and Steve Bannon (AP)Three days before the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump knew he was going to claim victory whether the vote tabulations showed that result or not, according to...
View ArticleAfter a deluge from Hurricane Helene, right-wing hucksters create torrents of...
Devastation in North Carolina from Hurricane Helene (AP) We are preparing a series of posts based on evidence that Donald Trump is woefully unfit to serve as president of the United States. Our first...
View ArticleCollege-educated voters, especially White ones, are flocking toward Kamala...
Kamala Harris attracts college-educated voters in record numbers (ABC)Kamala Harris is on track to to win White college graduates by the largest margin in recorded history, according to reports...
View ArticleA snarly Trump reacts with venom and a harsh critique to Bob Woodward's...
Putin and Trump share a chummy chat (AP)Former U.S. President and 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump has much closer ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin than previously was thought, according to an...
View ArticleTrump-Putin phone calls bring the Logan Act out of moth balls by raising the...
Trump and Putin: Phone buddies (Reuters)Donald Trump's phone calls with Russia's Vladimir Putin not only became a major international news story, they might also have been illegal, according to a...
View ArticleWith Trump's poll numbers and fundraising flattening out, along comes another...
Vem Miller (Mirror)Law-enforcement officials near Coachella, CA, say deputies probably prevented a third assassination attempt against Donald Trump when they arrested a man on firearms charges as Trump...
View ArticleA 17-point advantage with moderate voters helps drive Kamala Harris to a...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks out for Harris (Shapiro Campaign)Kamala Harris has taken a five-point lead nationally over Donald Trump, driven partly by a whopping 17-point margin among...
View ArticleWhen Biden was his opponent, age was Donald Trump's friend, but with Harris...
Harris vs. Trump: Could age be a difference-maker? (Guardian)The presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump probably was memorable mainly for the ease with which Harris handled Trump. A...
View ArticleA second term for Donald Trump in the White House could mean a return to the...
Donald Trump uses military force against domestic protesters (Getty) Donald Trump is calling for U.S. military personnel to be used on election day against left-leaning individuals he refers to as...
View ArticleTrump's inclination to use military force against domestic protesters...
Donald Trump uses military force in Portland (AP) America supposedly is a nation of laws, but as we have reported on this blog for 17 years (see here and here), our federal courts are a sewage dump of...
View ArticleKamala Harris holds her own -- and then some -- as she sits for a contentious...
Bret Baier and Kamala Harris square off in Fox News interview (X)Kamala Harris journeyed into enemy territory on Wednesday for her first formal interview with Fox News, and it did not take long for...
View ArticleU.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan releases almost 2,000 pages of Jack Smith's evidence...
Smith, Trump, and Chutkan (AP)A federal judge yesterday unsealed almost 2,000 pages of evidence in Donald Trump's election-interference case, which is connected to the Jan. 6 attack by Trump...
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