by Tim Donner | Feb 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
It has become crystal clear at this juncture in the Republican presidential primary that Nikki Haley is hanging on for reasons other than the presently slim likelihood she will become the GOP nominee. As Nevada Republicans prepare to award Donald Trump their 26...
by Mark Angelides | Feb 6, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
In the 1985 smash hit film Brewster’s Millions, Richard Pryor, as the eponymous Montgomery Brewster, has to spend $30 million in 30 days to receive his ultimate inheritance – the caveat being he can have no assets to show for it. As his efforts progress, he begins a...
by Tim Donner | Nov 7, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
If Republicans could have picked the exact time they would choose to face the voters in the year before a presidential election, they might have chosen today, Nov. 7, which happens to be Election Day 2023, lest you failed to notice. After all, almost any political...
by Tim Donner | Oct 26, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The first question most people might ask about newly minted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is, who the heck is this guy? Even many political observers had barely heard of him, unlike former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), or his lieutenants, Reps. Steve Scalise...
by Graham J Noble | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Tom Emmer, the House Majority Whip, basked in the glory of being the Republican Speaker-designate for even less time than Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH). Nominated to be the next House Speaker after five rounds of voting on Tuesday morning, Oct. 24,...