by jpitney | Jan 20, 2023 | Civility, Violence
Grace Eliza Goodwin at Business Insider: A GOP candidate accused of hiring gunmen to shoot up Democratic officials’ homes once called for ‘civility’ between the political parties. Solomon Pena — a 39-year-old Republican politician who lost his run...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives
Peter King at NYT: For a member of Congress to be effective, be it through legislation or committee work or deal-making or favor-trading or helping out a constituent, you have to have relationships. It’s very hard to get anything done alone. Meaningful achievement...
by jpitney | Jan 17, 2023 | Civility, House of Representatives
Former Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) passed away late last year. Journalist Blake Morlock remembers: Kolbe was a reliable Republican soldier on the big issues. He checked the right Republican boxes for the Bush tax cuts, the war in Iraq, the confirmation of conservative...
by jpitney | Jan 16, 2023 | African American, Civil Rights, Uncategorized
Daniel Stid: We have to avoid the temptation to domesticate Martin Luther King Jr. It is comforting to see him only as the aspirational dreamer of a color-blind society, a vision especially reassuring to white Americans, and leave things at that. But there was a...
