Memorial Day My publisher called with good news – my memoir, about 50 years of politics, from Reagan to Trump, is going to be published in August. As we talked I asked, What do you read these days for news? He mentioned The Free Press. So, I went to their website, signed up, and today…
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You couldn’t make this stuff up. Trump posted on Truth Social that Biden’s Justice Department: ‘AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE’ when it searched his home at Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents. When she read Trump’s post Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eyes popped – minutes later she took to Twitter: ‘The DOJ and FBI were…
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After 70 years, North Carolina’s school segregationists are nearing their cherished goal: destroying the public schools and replacing them with racially segregated private schools. And you, the taxpayer, are paying for it. On May 17, 1954, 70 years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional. Across the South, and…
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Pompous, mean tongued, to abolish slavery – in 1856 – Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner tore into two senators who owned slaves, calling one ‘a noise-some, squat, nameless animal,’ saying the other had a mistress, ‘the harlot, slavery.’ Sitting at his desk in the empty Senate chamber two days later, head bent, leaning down writing, Sumner…
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A Hollywood star growled Trump’s like ‘Hitler’ on TV. Trump roared Biden’s a ‘total moron’ at a rally. There’s not much kindness left in this election. ‘The past isn’t dead it’s not even past’ is an old truth. Reading dry tomes, diaries, following threads, Erik Larson just wrote a book about the firing on Fort…
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Today’s blog, which responds to Carter’s post “Deceit and Betrayal,” was written by a thoughtful reader who prefers not to be named. I agree with their opinion, and I can’t say it any better. Carter, you have written a column accusing President Biden of “deceit and betrayal,” reporting that he had “refused to send Israel…
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Trump slammed Kennedy. Biden slammed Kennedy. Kennedy told how a worm ate a piece of his brain, added he’d recovered. So we’ve got a porn-star testifying against Trump… Biden telling Israel ‘no more bombs,’ stop bombing Gaza – after Hamas slaughtered Israelis… Kennedy with a dead worm in his brain… And one is going to…
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This one stands out – even in the never-ending flood of Donald Trump’s sins, crimes and scandals. But the national media hasn’t given it the same time and space as, say, President Biden’s age or swing-state polls. At Mar-a-Lago last month, The Washington Post reported, Trump told Big Oil executives that if they raised $1…
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Hamas invaded Israel, slaughtered 1200 Israelis. War started. Israel struck back. Biden said his commitment to Israel was ‘ironclad.’ Israel bombed Gaza. People wailed about civilians dying. Biden told Israel, Stop. Refused to send Israel anymore bombs. He promised one thing. Then turned around and did the opposite. Deceit… followed by betrayal. We’re watching ancient…
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