We base our entire politics on the idea that we're living in a meritocracy. In other words, like the knights of old at a joust, we find out who is best through competition, a competition assumed to be both fair and honest. In the old days, the joust was assumed to be fair and honest because God was both omnipotent and just and therefore, obviously, would not allow a bad man to win.

War! The Republic is crumbling under attacks from the relentless Sith Lord Donald Trump. There are very fine people on both sides. Evil is everywhere.

It must have been sad in the last days of the Republic. War had been raging for years. A war to save the Republic. And yet that very war had let the new Chancellor gain more and more power until the Republic was destroyed anyway.

Judge Tosses Oil and Gas Leases
                  on Nearly One Million Acres of Public Lands

          A federal judge threw out oil and gas leases on nearly one million acres of public lands that are important habitat for the greater sage grouse, arguing that a Trump administration policy that curtailed public input on the leases was "arbitrary and capricious."

Yes, the results from American Samoa are in, first to report 100% on Super Tuesday, and Tulsi is on the board, with over 20% of the vote, in second place behind (surprise) Michael Bloomberg, who also earns his first delegates tonight. Biden, Sanders and Warren didn't hit the 15% viability threshold and are shut out.

I'll be updating regularly here:

A mild disaster for Sanders . . .

Winners:

Biden: Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Minnesota.

Sanders: Vermont, Colorado, Utah

Bloomberg: American Samoa

Still in play: Maine (trending Biden), California (Sanders most likely), Texas (trending Sanders but Biden is closing up).

Since the 2008 crash the economy has been propped up with artificially ultra-low interest rates.

As Bloomberg continues to freefall like a hocked loogie arched from the back of the throat of a black teenage prisoner from inside The Tombs onto the streets of downtown Manhattan, the current panicked DNC flailing that's resulted in behind the scenes pressure by the Obama Bros Inc to get as many lame milquetoast candidates to both drop out and to endorse the walking dead zombie Biden looks to be the clearest signal that we just might finally and welcomely be witnessing the Democratic Party i