BOLD like a Leopard

The following is a response point by point to a friend's statements on the Mueller investigation. His statements are in blue while mine are in black. My understanding of this argument is that you were denying any need for an investigation because you have not seen any hard evidence of a crime being committed. Now It sounds you agree that there should be an investigation, but that there is still no hard evidence of a crime and that the investigation will not solve anything. But I don’t understand, if you think it won’t solve anything, then why investigate?  Maybe you don’t understand why there are at least three ongoing investigations.  Or maybe you think it’s all a witch hunt and therefore all just for show.  So after investigating Hillary Clinton numerous times, after so many Congressional hearings, what could they find on her? But, I hear you say, if they couldn’t find the smoking gun on her (and by the way, the left-wing media that you criticize, I think unfairly...

Why #MeToo and its offshoots represents everything that drove me into the opposition to everything it stands for. Why Not Me? was a fantastic satire of the political system by Al Franken using himself as the punchline. Nowadays he has literally become the punchline and should resign from public life. The Al Franken and Roy Moore scandals have dug up old episodes from the past that were key in muddying up the political landscape for decades. Growing up in the 1990s, I remember distinctly as a 10 year old hearing reports in the news of the Paula Jones sexual harassment allegations, and of course living through the Monica Lewinsky scandal changed the way Americans as a whole related to sex and politics. I grew up with two divorced parents that agreed on nothing  apart from their deep admiration for Bill Clinton and by extension his wife Hillary. For me the Clinton sex scandals were a footnote from history for two reasons: All of my schools, whether public and parochial of wh...

Former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile's act of confession today may be one single act of decency in a career that was based on complete political cynicism. (Wiki Commons) We witnessed today a display of total commitment, but not true altruism, because first of all that does not exist and then we have to bear in mind who we're talking about. By telling her account of discovering an arrangement that effectively reduced the Democratic presidential primaries to an expensive and shameful charade, Donna Brazile has ensured that she will now be banished forever from the ranks of the Democratic elite circle. Based on the statements she made in her now viral article in Politico , she may have also thrown a match into a coal mine of Democratic Party internal politics. The idea that there would be party unity after the farcical administering of the primaries in 2016 was already laughable. With that in mind, let us break down what are the most significant issues brought to the sur...