Did you watch the President’s first news conference?

Treat yourself.

Both the tone and the substance gave me such hope.

Calm, dignified, normal, thoughtful, earnest, honest, determined . . .

Imagine: putting millions to work at good jobs revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure.

Imagine: increased investment in science to keep us competitive and improve/extend our […]

Ted Cruz:  “What happens after every mass shooting is Democrats propose taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.”

That’s a lie.

Almost no one — and certainly not the two bills the House has passed in the wake of the latest mass murders — proposes that.

As Cruz well knows.

Has he no shame?

(Actually […]

Trump’s lawyer argues she’s not liable for slander because no reasonable person could possibly have believed her crazy claims on Trump’s behalf.

Or something like that.

How did our country ever become such a — temporary, let us pray — clown show?

And since prayer alone may not do the trick, click here.

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But first . . .

I went to bed Sunday night with SPRT at $2.14 (which is sort of like $1.14 for those of us who bought it long enough ago to have gotten the non-taxable $1 return of capital) . . . and woke up to see that I could sell it for $8, […]

As noted this past Thursday and Friday, not everyone wants that.

Some Republicans would even make it illegal to offer your grandmother water or a snack as she waits in line for hours to vote — lines, as Senator Warnock notes, Republicans have purposely made longer.

Read abut HR1 and see what you […]

You’ve probably seen Raphael Warnock’s maiden Senate speech by now.

If you haven’t, treat yourself.  It is America at its best.

Reverend Warnock is senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pulpit.

He  did his predecessor proud.

Chip Ellis: “Here’s an idea: Keep the filibuster . . . […]

That was once a patriotic cry with wide appeal.

It didn’t apply to women for more than half our history or to blacks until 1965 (unless they could guess the number of jellybeans in a jar) but gradually over the years we were moving ever closer to giving every citizen a vote — until Chief […]

An oft-failed promoter recently predicted stock market disaster if Biden won . . . yet somehow the market keeps hitting new highs.  The Dow is up about 14% since the election.

(You can see here how the market’s done under each recent president: up 228% under Clinton, down 26% under George W. Bush, up […]

Trump’s Strategy for Returning To Power Is Already Clear — by Masha Gessen.

(Can New York District Attorney Cy Vance Nail Him? — by Jane Mayer.)

Britain may be in even worse shape — by Umair Haque.

The Brits haven’t had the massive shift in governing philosophy (from Trump/McConnell to Biden/Schumer) that […]

Saves time.

Have a great weekend.