Will the Orphan Voters Show Up in Midterms?

“Orphan Voters” once routinely supported a political party, but have since abandoned any party allegiance, thereby rendering themselves non-partisan orphan voters. They differ from the ‘Independents’ who enjoy the flexibility of drifting with the wind to avoid alignment with any one political party.  Independents often self-identify as non-ideological thinkers. They enjoy being courted, and proudly …

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Here Are the Republicans Who Could Potentially Vote Yea for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced on Friday that he will vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. “I met with Judge Jackson and evaluated her qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before …

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So, who failed here?

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record of sentencing child pornography case offenders to below the minimum in federal sentencing guidelines looks like something that even Joe Biden wouldn’t have been stupid enough to ignore before nominating her to the Supreme Court, if he knew about it, so the obvious question becomes: who in the Administration failed …

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Putin is Committing War Crimes; What Can We Do About It?

Historically total war included attack against civilians to stop their support of the enemy. That’s the way wars were fought through millennia. However, that changed in the Western world after the fall of the Roman Empire in Europe. The idea was that warriors should always protect the weak and innocent (chivalric code). In modern times, the world reverted back to total war during WW1 and WW2.