Sassafras Mama

I’m an early riser and my Friday started with the news that Trump sycophant Roger Stone was also an early riser that day, this tim...

I have always taught my students that the trick of understanding representative democracy is to understand that in system governed by the c...

Just after the election, I promised a post about the state of politics in light of the Obama presidential victory.  Back then, I had hopes t...

I have asked my government students to identify the big issues of 2013.  By big issues, I mean the issues that they believe our national lea...

There's an old joke about Congress which compares lawmaking to the production of sausage and argues of both that it's best not to se...

Though you would be hard-pressed to know this if all you consumed was a steady diet of Tea Party political rhetoric, the American Congress w...

I am fond of making jokes at the expense of sensible midwesterners.  In fact, I like to believe that I've turned it into something of an...

Last fall, a bunch of Republicans ran for Congress and state legislatures on a platform promising fiscal diligence and attention to the unem...

Will they or won't they shut down the government tonight?  This last week, as Congress has done its level best to drive the ship of stat...

I've been troubled by U.S. immigration policy for most of my political life.  In 2006, my very first post for this blog was a discussio...