Once in a federal courts class I stated that Congress should be able to shrink the judiciary at will and thereby boot judges off the bench, and half-jokingly said the only limiting principle would be if they abolished a court and reinstated it the next day. Guess what Lincoln did to my surprise?

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I worked a campaign for a friend who was running in the D primary for an assembly district this summer. It is a solid D, but more moderate, higher income, suburban district, and I cannot emphasize enough how much every person I talked to had gone full Anton Chigurh mode

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You have just described what it's like to live in a world of oligarchic media. When others have lived in oppressive regimes they did not just say, "i'm not being spoonfed so it must not exist."

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Even if you could twist some sort of "Medicaid makes poor people lazy" argument out of this, which just isn't demonstrated by the facts, how does Medicare harm seniors? Are they lazy too for wanting to, you know, retire?

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Trump is claiming that the US is running low on Tomahawk missiles because "Biden gave them all to Ukraine." The US has never given any Tomahawk missles to Ukraine. Not even one. Not ever.

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