The Democratic primaries and caucuses are proportional, not winner takes all. If a candidate gets 30% of the vote, they get 30% of the delegates. With an important caveat. They must poll at least 15% to get delegates. Any candidate…
The first peak in tax season has started, according to experienced tax pros in the H&R Block office where I’m doing taxes now. The first peak is about 2 weeks or so and is primarily those who got their W-2s…
The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake in southern California. It gets seriously hot in the summer. How hot? Well, one area is called Hell’s Kitchen. That’s where Controlled Thermal Resources is building a highly innovative geothermal energy plant…
Microgrids were installed in ten Puerto Rico schools after Hurricane Maria. They are running and providing electricity to buildings and water pumps after the recent earthquakes. Puerto Rico could use hundreds more microgrids (as could we all!) The important thing…
Who better to convince Republicans and independents to vote Democratic than Never Trump Republicans? They know the territory, where the bodies are buried (maybe because they buried some of them), and have run pitbull ad campaigns against Democrats. Now they…
Astonishingly (and happily), massive renewable energy projects on public land are being approved by the federal government, even as Dementia Donald babbles about windmill cancer and the high cost of renewable energy. He’s wrong on both of course. Wind turbines…
“Some families are messed up while others are fineIf you think yours is crazy, well you should see mine” “Christmas in jailChristmas in jailI had a little too much to drinkI ain’t got no bailand I’m spendin’ New Year’s Eve…
The House will not send impeachment articles to the Senate until a fair trial is assured. So far, McConnell has refused to honor his oath of office and the Constitution and says he’ll kill an impeachment trial immediately. This House…
Socialist Resistance in the UK ponders the train wreck that is the Labour election results. First off, as an American, it’s nice to see class interests discussed. Here in the States we of course do not have social classes, as…
Our government under Republican and Democratic administrations lied continually about how we were winning the Afghanistan war, when the reality was it was a disaster, and they knew it. The Washington Post just published Special Inspector General For Afghanistan documents…
