Rob the blogger

History rarely repeats itself exactly, but it often echoes. Neither World War I nor World War II began because a single nation suddenly decided to plunge the world into conflict. Both wars emerged from years of mounting tensions, rigid alliances, nationalism, economic pressures, ideological rivalries, and leaders who increasingly viewed compromise as weakness. Today's conflict between the United States and Iran exists in a very different geopolitical environment, yet several of the warning...

Election day is coming in 142 days, and at this writing the Democrats have roughly a 70% chance of taking the House of Representatives. There’s also a 45% chance they’ll win the Senate. Sounds awesome, right? Only with Toady-in-Chief Mike Johnson arguably set to lose control of the Speakership, it seems safe to conclude he’ll call the House back into a lame duck session before the 120th Congress begins on January 3, 2027. Lame duck sessions offer potentially high-impact, low-accountability...

Thanks (most recently) to Trump’s profanity-laced post on Easter Sunday, an increasingly bipartisan group is agreeing that he’s lost what little of his mind was left and it’s time to get his finger off the nuclear button. After all, when Bernie Sanders, J.B. Pritzker, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene all agree on something, it’s pretty obvious the world has been turned on its head.