Eric Black

Said Michele Bachmann on the radio: “He is highly biblical and I would say to your listeners [that] we will, in all likelihood, never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime.”

The president’s approval numbers are still “under water” (more disapprovers than approvers), but showing no durable or statistically significant movement since the early days of Trump‘s term.

Minnesota 5th District  Rep. Ilhan Omar is choosing not to shut up nor even to back down. I wouldn’t particularly blame her if she concluded that a policy of hypercaution would amount to surrender.

Fareed Zakaria had a very strong “GPS” show Sunday, from his own opening, chilling, editorial about the meaning and dark power of nationalism to a long interview with Hillary Clinton.

FactChecks’s periodic check-ins scrupulously follow a particular set of measures — obvious, basic, well-established measures like the unemployment rate, the consumer price index, the size of the federal debt, the increase or decrease in the number of Americans covered by health insurance, the stock market averages, carbon dioxide emissions and so forth.

Barr has lost some credibility by various words and actions and by a general reluctance to commit the Mueller report with only the fewest and most necessary excisions to the public (the full report with no excisions at all should be shared with key members of Congress).

Donald Trump denounced the Electoral College system in 2012 as “a disaster for a democracy … a total sham and a travesty.”