Fairandunbalanced's Podcast

The root cause of the political death spiral that afflicts the Republican Party has been blamed on Trump, Nixon, and a host of minor players. We have overlooked a hidden player that has only been with us for 30 years. - More -  

There is a deep seated human need to discover justice, to see good rewarded, to see evil punished. This administration has turned that on its head. We see the worst acts rewarded. Virtue is a hanging offense. Scott Pruitt is a case in point. - More -

They appear as polar opposites. Mr. Comey is truthful, Mr. Trump dwells in alternate facts. Mr. Comey is low key, Mr. Trump bluster itself, Mr. Comey avoids personally denigrating others. Yet, in one respect, they are frighteningly similar. - More -

True conservatives, the heartless ideological sort, are mistakenly attacking the Special Counsel. They can make their wildest dreams come true, if they ignore the dyspeptic Mr. Trump and force Mueller to go much farther than he wants to go. - More -

We have entered a world we did not envision. Gangsters endanger those who enforce laws, mobsters take over governments, and criminals take away the pensions of those who investigate them. Pac-Man tactics have become a way of life. - More -

As with other tragedies, victims speak out, some with specific safety proposals. As with other tragedies, anonymous internet trolls ignore proposals and attack victims themselves, joined by a few public figures. But this time, something is different. - More -

Each clumsy firing was a joke, an example of ghastly humor, an exercise in executive cowardice. The chaos, the anxiety, the tension have become too familiar. The pattern is no longer funny. - More -  

Political advocates have always twisted facts, tossed in irrelevant prejudices to muddy rhetorical waters. But now some on the right go way past that, inventing alternate facts out of thin air. One nationally known personality becomes a case study. - More -

As we watched a campaign witness go to pieces on national television, I was reminded of the most pitiful member of French aristocracy ever to face the guillotine. - More -

Few individuals are offered an unexpected opportunity to overcome danger while saving lives. Fewer still discover enough courage hidden within to perform well in the face of danger. President Trump surprised us with his own demonstration of character. - More -

There was a reason the FBI did nothing about organized crime before 1957, or about civil rights murders in 1955. It is the same reason they would have ignored warnings about the coming high school tragedy in Parkland, Florida. They had no choice. - More -

It is especially tragic when someone who accepts danger in order to protect the rest of us, a law enforcement officer, is killed. How must we react when that death is used to attack an ethnic group? - More -

It will be an epic economic irony if our Democratic Republic, and our freedoms, are saved by the policies that have driven Kansas into the ground.   - More -

Voting rights are often debated as the conflicting rights of political parties to fair competition. Let's consider the radical idea that voting rights do not belong to political groups, but to people. And that the price paid has often been blood. - More -  

Trusted intelligence officers who give away security secrets may have many reasons. A recently arrested CIA officer was greedy. 40 years ago, Philip Agee hated capitalism. In 2016, General Flynn simply hated. Today, President Trump wants to impress.  - More -

It has not happened. We must hope it never happens. But we are uncomfortably close to discovering that "Banana Republic" can refer to something other than an upscale clothing retailer with a safari theme. - More -

Experts watch for subtle signals that could mean great danger or great opportunity for the safety of our nation. And we have a President determined to get rid of those experts. - More -

A numble President and Cabinet join in public prayer, thanking God for providing to a grateful nation a President and Cabinet as courageous and bold as themselves. - More -

Steve Bannon said he wanted to do for the GOP in Alabama what propagandist Leni Riefenstahl did for German Nazis in the 1930s. In his own way, he succeeded. - More -  

The lawyerly statement was just another example of obfuscation, denying the significance of the flipping of Flynn. The entire corrupt enterprise is now endangered by one of its highest, most corrupt members. - More -