Paul Sullivan, BWR Team The other day, the outgoing administration made a most unusual statement. It was titled, “Proclamation on 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket.” Becket, for the uninitiated, was a Catholic saint who was murdered by followers of King Henry II in the year 1170…

Jon, BWR Team During the past four years, perhaps the one slogan Republicans have embraced more than “Make America Great Again”, “America First”, “Build that wall”, “Drain the swamp”, or other Trump rally background noise, is “Do as I say, not as I do.” This mantra came to define them…

Paul Sullivan, BWR Team On November 24th, exactly three weeks after election day, President Trump was still holed up in the White House, refusing to accept that he had lost and launching conspiracy-laden tirades on Twitter. President-elect Biden, meanwhile, was forging ahead, preparing for the long and difficult task of…

Biden War Room Historically, pollsters could ask voters about their views about issues and predict with some success how they would vote. Now, voters right, left, and center have somehow found their way into a centrifuge. …

Nader Hussein, BWR Press Secretary The Grim Reaper, Moscow Mitch, Massacre Mitch. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has earned and self-appointed many nicknames going into what will be his seventh term in the U.S. Senate. Of the ones listed, the last two were given to him by his rivals and…

The glimmer of leadership has begun to emerge in America, like the sun poking up from the horizon. We did it. We excised the tumor that is Donald Trump, but there’s a lot of scar tissue. That scar tissue unfortunately still pervades the body politic. Many Biden voters are surprised…

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham famously mused on May 3, 2016, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” Surprisingly, this tweet is still live on Graham’s Twitter feed, the only remnant of an earlier version of the man who once appealed to late Senator and…

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” This expression is associated most with the celebrity artist Andy Warhol, and the attribution feels right even though he probably didn’t originate the quote. If you have never heard of Andy Warhol, well, then, he was probably right. If you…

Which voter were you in 2020, the one who would walk across broken glass to vote for Joe Biden (or anyone on a ballot who isn’t Donald Trump), or the sort of voter who can generally take or leave politics, and maybe even voting? In every election, there are voters…