Author: Lloyd Lofthouse

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I fear we are becoming insensitive to shock in the Trump era. And the very concept of “government ethics” seems to be an oxymoron in this era. Here are two shocking reports by Teresa Hanafin, who writes the Fast Forward commentary of the Boston Globe: Trump holds another campaign rally tonight, this time in…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Today in the Washington Post,  Eric Holder criticized Bill Barr for his aggressive, partisan support of Trump. Holder was Obama’s Attorney General. Barr is Trump’s Roy Cohn. Barr has professed his belief that the president’s powers have no limits; Congress must bow to the president. He has joined the “culture wars” by attacking “liberals,”…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the blessings we enjoy: our freedom, our family, our friends, and our good fortune to live in a democracy where we are all responsible for making it better for our brothers and sisters. I…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected.   On Friday, the president of the United States called in to the daily festival of idiocy that is “Fox & Friends,” where he blathered and rambled for an entire…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand. Please stop using the Latin phrase “quid pro quo” regarding the impeachment inquiry. Most people don’t understand what it means, and in any case it doesn’t…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Ron Chernow, author of Hamilton, wrote in the Washington Post that Trump is the populist demagogue that Alexander Hamilton feared and warned about in The Federalist Papers. He wrote: There seems little doubt, given his writings on the presidency, that Hamilton would have been aghast at Trump’s behavior and appalled by his invitation to…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Teresa Hanafin writes the daily Fast Forward for the Boston Globe. ? As he did with the Vietnam War, Trump has decided to sit out the House impeachment inquiry, using what constitutional experts say are bone spurs spurious arguments to claim that Democratic House leaders are conducting an illegitimate inquiry. He not only is…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:   James Hohmann of the Washington Post yesterday  described Trump’s defense when his hand was caught in cookie jar in broad daylight: The president is running the smashmouth playbook he learned from Roy Cohn, his mentor and Joe McCarthy’s hatchet man. It’s worked repeatedly for Trump, from fighting the Justice Department’s investigation of racial…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? George Conway III and Neal Catyal are lawyers. Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway; Catyal is a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States. This article appeared in the Washington Post.  Among the most delicate choices the framers made in drafting the Constitution was how to deal with a president who puts…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jack Hassard Taught science education for many years. He used to write a blog called “The Art of Teaching Science,” but became so upset about current events that he renamed his blog “Jack Hassard’s Blog.” In this post, he excoriates Trump’s war on science. He begins: Science was under assault last week by an…