It occurs to me that our current president has engaged in a rather large number of actions that are unprecedented by any other president, a...

 We have all thought so, with no income and nothing backing it, and it went zooming from nearly nothing to over $19,000, only to fall back h...

Michigan certified its vote results for Biden, and now crucially Emily Murphey at the GSA has agreed and now recognized officially that at l...

 I have long been a great fan of hers as well as knowing her and her husband, George Akerlof, personally.  Back in 2009 I was the first pers...

 OK, I thought that the collapse of Trump's lawsuits and the flight of his top lawyers was going to do in his coup attempt.  But we now ...

 OK, I confess I am mystified.  An article in The Guardian by Musa al-Gharbi looks at the data now available on voting patterns in the US pr...

Congratulations to Brad Setser for being selected to be the Agency Review Team for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. I’...

 Officially Trump continues to hold a hard line of denying he has lost, with most GOP officeholders continuing to support his denials public...

The Washington Post has a story about the Erie, Pennsylvania postal worker who claimed to not have not recanted his fantasy about overhearin...

 I realize that Joe Biden just held a press conference where he basically dismissed the refusal of Trump and a lot of other Republicans to c...

 The New York Times today has a story about a new study that claims Alexander Hamilton owned slaves right up to the end of his life.  There...

 Really, it was not planned with politics in mind.  In Harrisonburg, VA we are an hour drive from Charlottesville, VA, and we have in the pa...

 Crickets. UPDATE:  George W. Bush : “I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. I extended my warm congratulatio...

 As I write this the outcome of the presidential election remains uncertain, although the trends seem to be heading steadily in Biden's ...

 I am about to turn in and let the vote counting continue without me.  It will be a troubled sleep, since the election was mostly a disaster...