Bice: Milwaukee law firm ‘concerned’ by attorney's role in Trump call trying to upend Georgia election results  —  A Milwaukee-based law firm is distancing itself from one of the attorneys involved in President Donald Trump's disturbing call trying to overturn the results of the Georgia election.

Business leaders urge Congress to certify Biden win  —  Almost 200 of the country's top business leaders urged Congress to certify the electoral results for President-elect Joe Biden in a letter Monday, arguing that “attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy.”

BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for North Georgia resigns, effective immediately  —  U.S. Attorney Byung J.  “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.In October 2017, Pak was sworn into office after being appointed …

An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office  —  President Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's relentless effort to overturn …

Worse Than Treason  —  “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”  Republicans in Congress are pretending to be seditionists—and so they have become, in fact, seditionists.

Donald Trump could be planning Turnberry trip as Scots airport told to expect a high-flyer the day before Joe Biden's inauguration … © Robert Perry/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock  —  US President Donald Trump could be planning a trip to Scotland to avoid attending his successor Joe Biden's inauguration, according to aviation sources.

The Made-Up Conspiracy  —  A Republican bid to deny Biden's victory is another worrying Trumpist disinformation ploy  —  When Republican senators attempt to block congressional confirmation of Joe Biden's presidential victory this week, they will not succeed in reversing the outcome of the election.

The Wall Street Journal Epitomizes the Failure of Elite Conservatism  —  Once the paper of record for conservative opinion-makers, the Journal's editorial page has betrayed its readers.  —  The Wall Street Journal editorial page is probably the most influential elite conservative outlet in the country.

Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age  —  For many years now, an important segment of the Republican electorate has been increasingly frustrated with the elites who lead our core institutions.  The political outlook of these voters has come to be defined by that frustration …

Urging calm, DC mayor calls in National Guard for protests  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C.'s mayor urged calm Monday as some 340 National Guard troops were being activated while the city prepared for potentially violent protests surrounding Congress' expected vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

D.C. Police to contact GOP Rep. Boebert about plans to bring Glock to work  —  “That Congresswoman will be subjected to the same penalties as anyone else that's caught on the D.C. streets carrying a firearm,” said police chief Robert Contee III.  —  GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert smiles …

Jon Ossoff, D-Palo Alto  —  Democrat Jon Ossoff, in his race for a Georgia Senate seat, has raised more money from California than from Georgia.  While his Republican opponent's top two sources of funds are Georgia's top two private employers, Ossoff's top sources of money are Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook.

Israel is vaccinating so fast it's running out of vaccine  —  JERUSALEM — Israel, which has inoculated a higher proportion of its population against the coronavirus than any other country, is delivering shots so quickly that it is outstripping its supply of vaccine.

Cotton Statement on Joint Session of Congress  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 734-0430  —  Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the joint session of Congress later this week:

FBI Questioned a Michigan Senate Staffer After Zoom Call About Banning Tear Gas … Two officers with an FBI task force showed up at the home of a Michigan state senator's chief of staff and aggressively questioned her about a draft bill she had discussed on a private legislative Zoom call.

The story of the great Republican crackup  —  GOP Senators call for audit of election results … - C.S. Lewis, “On living in an atomic age,” 1948.  —  It's amazing to write, but the biggest political story in Georgia today is not about Tuesday's white-knuckle, two-seat runoff election with control of the Senate on the line.

The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one.  But what if ...? … What happened was fairly simple, I've come to believe.  It was an accident.  A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out.