The Editorial Board.

I’m usually writing the day’s edition at this time of the day, but I couldn’t help sharing this footage from last night in Portland. The president appears to believe images like these make him look good to a slice of America desirous of a king-president. The backlash is already mounting, it’s already fierce and it…

Hi! If you’re reading this, that means you’re signed up for the free editions of the Editorial Board. You’re supporting my work, but you’re not supporting it. See what I mean? I am currently making the Editorial Board open to all during a pandemic that continues to infect and kill our fellow citizens. But if…

Nothing but crickets from so-called conservatives.

The Oregonian is the state’s newspaper of record. It reported Monday that, according to court documents, federal agents deployed by the president to “protect” federal property have been spying on and infiltrating demonstrators in Portland, Oregon. Some of this might be legit for local cops, but not federal authorities criminalizing politics. I’ll post a few…

Talk about it and don’t stop till Election Day.

I have been listening to “conservatives” blast government tyranny since I was an 8-year-old boy watching the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.” Every time liberals want to use government to address a problem, from enforcing civil rights laws, to protecting the environment to lifting the burden of expensive health insurance, “conservatives” have found a…

It’s been a long time since bigotry worked in a Democrat’s favor.

The point of this column is being wrong.

I used the word “goombah” to describe Roger Stone in Monday’s and Tuesday’s editions of the Editorial Board. I should not have done that. That’s an offensive word. I believe I have hurt some readers. I apologize without qualification for using that word. I have struck the word out of those pieces. And I pledge…