Good morning, kids. Monday and winter officially begins today, while we seemingly continue to plunge headlong into a rhetorical nuclear winter of our discontent, and worse. A number of stories are in the lead and as is usually the case, are interrelated with implications reflecting my opening metaphor. First up, the President’s legal team is headed…
Author: J.J. Sefton
The Morning Report 12/18/20
ood morning, kids. Friday and the weekend is here as well as the 45-day deadline for DNI John Ratcliffe to present his report on foreign election interference. Yesterday afternoon, Weasel Zippers teased a Tweet from Heshmat Alavi, a journalist who covers the Iranian dissident and Middle East beats wherein he reported that CBS’ Catherine Herridge was…
The Morning Report 12/17/20
Good morning, kids. Thursday and the big story is the impending report from DNI John Ratcliffe as well as its implications for President Trump’s final gambit – Congressional Republicans discarding the Democrat electors in the six swing states (plus New Mexico), recognizing the GOP alternates and thereby voting to restore his legitimate victory for another…
The Morning Report 12/16/20
Good morning, kids. Wednesday and the beat (-down) goes on. I don’t have the energy to be either hopeful or depressed by whatever the latest news may be in terms of Trump and all of us overcoming the overthrow of the legitimate government of the United States by a treasonous domestic enemy, no doubt aided…
The Morning Report 12/15/20
Good morning, kids. Tuesday and while hope always springs eternal, I’d be lying to you if I said the glimmer wasn’t getting fainter by the hour. On the depressing side, the Electoral College voted yesterday to give Polident-elect Biden the “win” with 306 electoral votes, oddly enough the same margin that President Trump defeated Clinton…
The Morning Report 12/14/20
Good morning, kids. Monday and today is the day that the Electoral College is supposed to convene and elect the next president. While what SCOTUS did on Friday in refusing to even hear the case (as the two justices who voted in favor of hearing the case, Alito and Thomas, have so far remained silent as…
The Morning Report 12/11/20
Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and the big story is “The Big One” keeps getting bigger. The Texas-led lawsuit against the PaGaMiWi now includes six more states – Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah – as well as 106 House Republicans who have filed an amicus brief joining the suit. That…
The Morning Report 12/10/20
Good morning, kids. Thursday and of course the big story is the Texas lawsuit against the four states where the Democrats stole the election. There are now 18 states that have joined Texas in the suit, which due to the nature of it being one or more states suing others means it goes straight to the…
The Morning Report 12/9/20
Good morning, kids. Wednesday and yet again, our guts are being taken for a ride as we go from promising news to disappointing and/or bad news about the ultimate outcome of the theft of the election. Let’s not beat around the bush here. That is exactly what happened, via a combination engineered plot to wreck…
The Morning Report 12/8/20
Good morning, kids. Tuesday and the news broke early this morning that legendary American aviator Chuck Yeager has passed away at the age of 97. For those who do not know, Yeager, a fighter pilot in World War 2, became the first man to break the sound barrier in October of 1947. As piston and…









