The Texas Progressive Alliance urges readers to stay cool
and hope for rain as drought intensifies across the state. In the meantime,
here’s this week’s roundup.
Socratic
Gadfly offers his detailed thoughts on
Mueller's indictment of the GRU
12 and what it does and does not say.
David Bruce Collins says don’t water the tree of liberty with
hyperbole or false dichotomy in overusing the word “treason.”
Off the
Kuff rounds up Democratic Congressional
candidates' finance reports from Q2.
Neil at We Must Act Right Now posted
about confrontation and civility in our politics and society.
Somervell County Salon points out the
hypocrisy of John Bolton.
The Texas GOP is using a somewhat dubious poll by Markos
about the Cruz-O’Rourke Senate race to
pump up the faithful.
The Texas fetal remains civil case wrapped up testimony,
with written closing arguments due soon. Here’s
what the judge is thinking.
Somervell County Salon points out the
hypocrisy of John Bolton.
The black sweat labor that helped give Sugar Land its name comes
to light.
Claudia
Feldman eulogizes space architect Constance Adams.
At the Dallas Observer, Jim
Schutze says he’ll take the First Amendment over Mark Zuckerberg and
Facebook.
The Kinder
Institute wants us to rethink disaster recovery and mitigation
funding after Harvey.
Outgoing State Rep. Jason
Villaba calls for impeaching Donald Trump.
Juanita
finds the connection between Russian spy Maria Butina and Rep. Louie Gohmert.
Doyin
Oyeniyi warns us of the peril of spontaneously combusting tortilla
chips.
ReplyDeleteTreason is defined in the constitution and can occur outside the context of a declared war. Thus Trump can't be charged with treason legally even though is behavior resembles it.
The Rosenberg's were charged with espionage because the USSR was an ally not an enemy and remained so on paper.
I imagine an appropriate charge can be found when Trump is brought to heel. He can certainly be impeached. Maybe Putin will give him asylum.