Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) Yesterday, the Senate Leadership Fund pulled funding for the North Carolina Senate race.  This was not en...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Political watchers, if they watch long enough, are constantly haunted by losing certain races.  In the same way th...

State Rep. Angie Nixon (D-FL) I am getting back from a long vacation (my hope is to have an article about it in the next week), but in the m...

I never know whether to call myself a "crier" or not when someone asks.  I think I cry relatively regularly, but not excessively.  What I am...

I have made a concerted effort in the past year to genuinely reduce the amount of time I spend on my phone.  This has been a mixed bag.  Par...

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) This past week, two House Republicans involved in massive political scandals have (thus far) seen very different outc...

Every few years, I make a point of updating my favorite Film, TV, and Song lists as a time capsule of how I felt at the time.  What stayed, ...

Senate President Troy Jackson (D-ME) This past weekend, in Maine, it appears that the race to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nomin...

Senators Darline and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) I've been so out-of-practice in writing political articles in recent memory that I have largely b...

Well, I did not expect to get two political articles out in two days after a relatively long drought for them, but that's the way the politi...

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-MI) Yesterday, State Sen. Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign in the US Senate primary in Michigan.  This...

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) On Tuesday, Rep. Diana DeGette lost her primary bid for reelection, becoming already the fifth incumbent Democrati...

This blog is old (if you look far enough back, you'll find posts that go back over 20 years), but I only started writing regularly on it in ...

Denise Powell (D-NE) This past week, in something of an upset, political consultant and Democratic activist Denise Powell pulled off a win o...

(This contains spoilers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, so proceed with caution ) This past week, I saw for the very first time Harry ...

A list of 24 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Planet Earth II (2016), Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019), Planet Earth III (2023), Planet Earth (2006) and Frozen Planet II (2022).

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) & Mike Lee (R-UT) In a midterm election year, one where the president has a trifecta in his party, it has become a comm...