Inside the Belly of the Beltway Beast

Today more than 341,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. This is a deadly virus that has spread like wildfire throughout the world. Highly contagious it spreads through droplets emitted primarily via the nose and mouth. This is why the media has continually banged the drum on wearing face masks, surgical masks being the safest bet. It is really tragic that for about 10 months now the U.S. has seen other nations do a far better job at containing the outbreak. Our unstable and truly chaotic president has made light of this lethal virus and mocked the practice of wearing a mask. I am grateful to God he has lost his re-election bid! The current surge in the U.S. is significantly worse than the ones in April and May. Right now, on average, 1 Covid-19 patient dies every 90 seconds, according to the CDC. It has been hard to distance oneself and not see family members, but life is better than dying on a ventilator. Often those dying in hospitals are not allowed to see their loved ones the la...

The 2020 Democratic primary has narrowed down to two long-time politicians, centrist Joe Biden and progressive Bernie Sanders. Many folks on my Facebook and Twitter feed already seem to be assuming that Biden has already won, but the primary is months from its actual conclusion. Super Tuesday has come and gone, a week prior to Super Tuesday Sanders was the clear frontrunner. Now Biden is now leading in number of delegates. The media will spend a lot of time reporting on the percentages of votes candidates will earn in any given, but it truly comes down to a candidate's acquisition of delegates. That is how the eventual nominee is decided at the party's summer convention. Immediately before and a couple days after Super Tuesday candidates quickly dropped out of the race when it became clear they had no path to actually winning the nomination. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen Amy Klobuchar dropped out, consolidating the centrist lane of the race. Meanwhile enthusiasm remained wit...