The Utah Republican Party convention was held this past weekend. Despite Mitt Romney’s failure to secure 60 percent of the vote to avoid a primary run-off, an ongoing disagreement about a new rule that allows candidates to bypass the convention…
Following the Supreme Court decision earlier this week where Neil Gorsuch sided with the four progressive justices on the court to overturn a law that allowed for the deportation of immigrants convicted of violent crimes, I wrote an article about…
When Trump and the GOP passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the bill only provided temporary tax relief for individuals—they expire or “sunset” in 2025 in compliance with Senate rules—while making the corporate tax cuts permanent. Putting Senate rules…
When Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created when Antonin Scalia passed away, he told America that the nomination was the fulfillment of his campaign promise to nominate “the very best judge in the country”—a…
After Trump launched a series of airstrikes against Syria without the Constitutionally required authorization from Congress—just as he did a year ago after his “advisor” Ivanka told him to do so—he sent a self-congratulatory tweet to his adoring followers and…
When GOP-controlled Washington abandoned every semblance of fiscal responsibility by adding trillions of dollars to the federal debt with excessive tax cuts and the Omnibus spending deal, the doom of the Republican party was sealed. Complete with funding for nearly…
In response to a plan by a small band of so-called conservatives to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House back in 2015, I became a proud activist in the “Dump Boehner” movement. Needless to say, when the Democrat’s…
