Michael Bokar

What this guy did was laudable, but he claims to have white privilege with respect to ICE. The fates of Renee Good and Alex Pretti suggest there is no such privilege.

This grossly offensive post from a morally obtuse VP is a demented example of a loaded question. In its insensitivity to human life and truth, it far exceeds the bounds of acceptability set by classic (and typically comic) questions such as, Have you stopped cheating on your tests?

The assertion that ICE lacks authority to require people in this country to provide proof of citizenship is true only in part.

The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes ICE “to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States.”

Journalists weren’t always this way.

As Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses in her new book The Bully Pulpit, when progressive presidents Taft and Roosevelt (Teddy) were fighting monopolies and corrupt politicians in the early 1900s, reporters and editors were instrumental in helping to take them down.

When evaluating if someone is in the country illegally, Kavanaugh wrote:

“To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s
case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors.”

As she confronted her premature fate, Tatiana didn’t hide her anger at her cousin RFK, Jr. Her brother “had been speaking out against his lies for months,” and Tatiana “watched Bobby cut nearly half a billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines” which “could be used against certain cancers.”

I suspect it wouldn’t take very long for, say, a President Harris or a President Newsom to regain that trust.

This isn’t entirely accurate. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum negotiated by the U.S. and several other countries, by which Ukraine agreed to abandon its nuclear arsenal, “refers to assurances, but unlike guarantees it does not impose a legal obligation of military assistance on its parties.”

Prime Minister Carney’s comment that the Canada/U.S. economic relationship “will never be the same as it was,” and Peaceful Warrior’s similar message, are puzzling.

Do they assume that no future American president will restore the two countries’ longstanding close alliance that persisted pre-Trump?

Reminder: The 2019 movie version of this inspiring story is coming to Netflix on January 1 (2026).

This poignant story of the transformation of a hard-core KKK leader carries a lesson for all those on social media and elsewhere who say they have given up on the millions of people who voted for Trump.

Conservative columnist Bret Stephens wrote this about Trump:

Proving that the GOP hellhole has no visible bottom, Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin said this about Trump’s comments on Rob Reiner’s murder:

The Constitution empowers the president to pardon “Offenses against the United States.” Trump’s DOJ is making a novel argument that “United States” includes the 50 states.

The argument is hogwash, because the founders routinely used the terms United States and federal government interchangeably.

It’s true that blacks continually vote Democratic in much higher percentages than whites.

But as I suggested to Earl in the post below, this doesn’t mean that everyone who voted for Trump—white, black or otherwise—must be a racist or a villain.

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I detest Trump as a person and as the leader of his country and party no less than you. But I think it’s wrong to assume that everyone who voted for him must ipso facto be racist or morally bankrupt, although some—perhaps many—surely are.

Making broad judgments about people’s moral character based on their race, as seen here, is just another form of racism.

Are all the millions of people who voted for Trump because, for instance, they couldn’t afford the price of groceries or were fed up with mass illegal immigration racist or evil?

The fate of the ACA subsidies is a crucial part of the tale of the eight renegade Democrats, but not the only part.

Millions were struggling to feed their families. Federal employees weren’t being paid. Flying was difficult and dangerous. And there was no indication that Republicans would cave.

Michelle is wrong. It sounds like she’s creating phony covers for not wanting to run.

Hillary’s three-million vote margin over Trump in 2016 shows that a woman could indeed win the presidency. And the two victories by Michelle’s husband are proof that skin color is no barrier to success.

The law isn’t quite as stated in the post:

Section 287(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes ICE agents to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States.” This authority “applies in all areas of the country.”

I wonder whether the thousands of posts every day blasting Trump and his GOP flunkeys are having a real world effect.

Meaningful change will happen, I suspect, only when enough Trump supporters feel in their heart and gut the grave harm he is inflicting on them, their loved ones, and the country.

Trump and his minions deserve condemnation for advocating the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the cancellation of Stephen Colbert.

But a strong case can be made that primary anger should be directed at ABC and CBS for caving to the wishes of tyrants disguised as government officials.

You DO need constitutional amendments to change the existing qualifications for the presidency or the maximum time in office of members of Congress.

There must be something in the air in South Carolina that produces jurists like Judge Gosnell and legislators like these:

The term “political violence” is meaningless. No one can know for sure what really motivates acts of violence, be it mental illness, hatred of mankind, or something else.

The proper description for this is, simply, violence. And it’s wrong no matter which political party the offender sides with.

It seems a bit hyperbolic to say SCOTUS “lifted the ban on racial profiling” in its immigration detention order. Here’s Justice Kavanaugh’s explanation of the Court’s ruling:

Trump is doing exactly what you suggest, releasing evidence that exonerates him.

The only problem is that the evidence he is releasing—the Ghislaine Maxwell tapes for example—is selective, self-serving and false.

Rhonda and all the others who voted for Trump in 2024 had eight long years to learn what kind of president and person he is.

They deserve no sympathy for any regrets they now have.

@dearlstephens is right when he says in the post below that it’s wrong to keep treating Trump outrages as “distractions” from other Trump outrages.

Aside from the fact that there’s no way to really know if one thing is a distraction from another, each indignity stands on its own (de)merits.

Many of us despise Trump as much as you do, Sarah.

But my reaction to Mark Cuban’s far-fetched hypothetical is that I would gladly lie and compliment Trump for the wonderful things he’s done if the consequence of the falsehood would be a Democratic sweep of Congress.