If 4.9 percent economic growth isn’t good enough news for you (China would kill for that). If inflation’s downturn doesn’t boost your spirits (3.2 percent – enough now to end the Fed’s tight-money push). If various economic indicators (notice gasoline prices lately?) don’t temper your worries as the forces of right-wing zeal ready their battering…
This is Penny Lane’s second Thanksgiving. I expect her below-the-dinner-table behavior to be exquisite. Penny is a sweet-as-frosting rescue who’s almost a dog. “Almost,” I said. And, no; this isn’t a “not yet” thing. When I say “almost,” it means, “We’re still speculating.” We thought we had a dog when we brought her tiny-ness home…
In the winter of 2017, an earnest panel of newsgathering pros convened to discuss one question: Was it journalistically ethical to call the new president a liar? More specifically, the debate was whether what Donald Trump seemed to say with every other breath could be called a “lie.” Or should news organizations find a way to…
So, how’s that red wave going? Mumble, grumble, fumble. And the quest to give state lawmakers and Congress power over women’s bodies. How is that going? Gnashing, grimacing, throat-clearing. The red wave forecast for the 2022 election didn’t happen. And what has happened in 2023? We have a pushback wave tied to abortion rights. Republicans…
Don’t worry, folks. There are enough liars in Ken Buck’s sprawling district to fill his vacancy. In Colorado’s most red-tinted congressional district, the 4th, the five-term Republican congressman has decided lying isn’t the job he signed up for. The former Colorado GOP chairman won’t be running for re-election. His rationale was blunt: The Party of…