Against the Grain

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Defending Chuck Grassley
The MAGAverse is attacking the US Senate's President Pro Tempore and Chair of the Judiciary Committee for honoring the institution's "blue slip" process…
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A Homily
My youngest son married this weekend. I officiated. I thought you might enjoy the homily.
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District of Criminals (DC)
Half a lifetime in Washington taught me one thing. Criminals get VIP treatment, and victims get in line.
Published on John Heubusch's Substack • 
Most Americans Don’t Know How Social Security Works—And It Affects Their Reform Perceptions
The results of Cato’s Social Security survey are in
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Vietnam Statistics Continued
This is a continuation of last week's post.
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Why the Texas gerrymander was overdue
Proportional representation what-ifs, the Mothership vortex, my op-ed on Apple's threat to polling, why Dems hate their party, polling young voters is…
Published on The Intersection • 
Proportional Representation: An Answer to Gerrymandering?
If people want to feel represented in Congress, where they choose their representatives, rather than politicians picking their constituents…
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Jim Acosta Sees Dead People
If the champ of Fake News didn't know his media career was over, it should be clear now after the fakiest news broadcast ever.
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Irony on Steroids
Texas Democrats nosedive into an ocean of irony by fleeing to Illinois in protest over GOP congressional mid-decade reapportionment. Republicans still…
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Political Arms Race: Gerrymandering
But Republicans didn't start the gerrymandering fire. That honor belongs to the late Democratic US Congressman Philip Burton of California. And then…
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