There are so many news outlets these days, from print, news networks and internet sources, that you might expect that a subject such as how a political party’s nominating convention works might be clearly explained.  You would be wrong.  The 24-hour news cycle purveyors treat this subject exactly like any other news story, like a […]

This has been a momentous week for our politics.  Politicians on both sides like to give lip service to platitudes about how we have free elections in America and peaceful transfers of power no matter who is victorious.  Very high-minded rhetoric.  The problem is that on Friday night last, the false veil of civility was […]