I Didn’t Want to Care About Doug Jones

by Martin Longman December 12, 2017January 9, 2022

I wanted to avoid any emotional investment in the Alabama special election, but now I’ll be very disappointed if Doug Jones doesn’t win.

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Will Anyone Really Be Surprised if Roy Moore Wins?

by D.R. Tucker December 11, 2017January 9, 2022

In an infamously bloody scene in The Untouchables (1987), Robert De Niro declared, “I get nowhere unless the team wins.” Three decades later, De Niro’s line is, in effect, Donald Trump’s motto–and if that motto is shared by a majority of the Alabama electorate, then Roy Moore is guaranteed to win the state’s special US […]

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McConnell’s New Motto: The Moore, the Merrier

by D.R. Tucker December 3, 2017January 9, 2022

Well, it’s not like he had any principles, anyway. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who once pretended to be outraged about the perceived perversity of Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore, made it clear today that he doesn’t think the alleged dirty old man is all that dirty: Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, who […]

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Technical Foul: Trump Goes There Again

by D.R. Tucker November 19, 2017January 9, 2022

It’s as though demonstrating class would cause him physical pain. President Donald Trump directed a message at LaVar Ball on Twitter on Sunday, less than 24 hours after Ball downplayed the President’s role in helping Ball’s son, LiAngelo, and two other UCLA basketball players return to the United States safely after they were arrested in […]

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Moore’s the Pity: The Moral Horror of Alabama’s GOP Senate Nominee

by D.R. Tucker November 18, 2017January 9, 2022

C’mon. Despite the revelations of this past week, despite the polls showing his Democratic opponent ahead (remember those polls last November showing Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump?), you might as well start calling him Senator Moore right now. It seemingly still has not dawned upon rational and logical Americans just how deep the rabbit […]

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Trump Said He Would Tell His Attorney General to Appoint a Special Counsel

by Nancy LeTourneau November 14, 2017January 9, 2022

This president showed himself to be the kind of person who would abuse his power to punish his political opponents.

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Sour Home Alabama: Roy Moore Remains the Odds-on Favorite to Be the State’s Next Senator

by D.R. Tucker November 13, 2017January 9, 2022

It doesn’t matter how many women come forward. It doesn’t matter how many Republicans say he should pull out of the race. It doesn’t matter how horrified the country as a whole is over the allegations. Roy Moore will not drop out of the special US Senate election scheduled to take place on December 12 […]