Although most congressional Republicans are fighting hard to kill a proposal for a bipartisan commission to study the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, a prominent conservative columnist wants the events of that day "burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11."

Republicans and supporters of Donald Trump regularly complain that the "mainstream media" is biased against them and in the pocket of the Democratic Party. Not true, says journalist and Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr.

The Biden administration has instituted a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This new TPS designation enables Haitian nationals -- and individuals without nationality who last resided in Haiti --currently residing in the United States as of May 21, to file initial applications for TPS, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.

With hundreds dead, thousands wounded and some 34,000 Palestinians estimated to have been displaced as a result of the new fighting, Biden must step in personally, bring the leadership of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas to the United States and put all of that foreign policy acumen to work as an honest broker to establish a lasting solution based in peace -- and justice.

Even after her GOP colleagues stripped her of her perch in House leadership, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney remained unbowed and defiant.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's leadership is lacking in a Republican Party in which grievance and an eternal culture war has replaced genuine policy and responsible governance, according to an outspoken "Never Trumper" Republican congressman.

Rep Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming who's third-ranking in House Republican leadership, continues to experience blowback from most of her GOP colleagues for her vote to impeach Donald Trump.

At least Santorum had the honesty to admit that Republican white nationalism and racism isn't limited to Black Americans and immigrants coming across the southern border. Apparently, according to Santorum, there's no limit to the brown or Black people Republicans will revile.

By historical rights, Republicans should be hearing up for a big election in 2022. But some are afraid that loonies like Marjorie Taylor Greene will help snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

While President Biden and its other allies won't give up on granting Washington DC statehood, at least one political observer believes that the political momentum is there to bring in both DC and Puerto Rico as the newest US states by the end of the decade.