Elon Musk’s charged ahead out to cut spending – then an odd thing happened. Trump put a billionaire friend of Musk’s, who flew in outer space twice on Musk’s SpaceX rockets, in charge of NASA. Musk’s friend’s mission: To land astronauts on Mars. It’s odd. Like watching two boys in high school parading, saying they’re…
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Pouring gas on fires, living off division, the news media’s full of melodrama – headlines like: Trump, Roberts on collision course. (Loved by some, loathed by others, no one gets people’s attention like Trump – to boost their ratings Fox, CNN, MSNBC are all full of Trump stories.) Here’s another: Trump allies out to make…
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Trump boasted that the White House Easter Egg Roll this year will feature 30,000 real eggs. Which brings up the biggest broken promise in the history of politics. Last August, then-candidate Trump stood beside a table stacked with groceries: cereal, bacon, fruit, butter, bread and – yes, eggs. He promised: “When I win, I will…
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White-haired, old-school Democrat, Daniel dropped a newspaper on the table beside Dillon, sat down. Young, cocky, brash, Trump Republican, Dillon pointed at the newspaper headline, baited Daniel. ‘Trump’s right. We’re getting shafted. Tariffs put a stop to rip-offs.’ Leaning back I asked: ‘Hitting China with tariffs sounds fine – but what about Canada? They’ve been…
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Striding onto stage, waving both arms, wearing a Wisconsin Green Bay Packers cheese hat, grinning, Elon Musk looked odd. Musk flew to Italy. Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs. Musk disagreed. On Fox News, the brain behind Trump’s tariffs Peter Navarro mocked Musk, added Musk buys batteries from China to build his Teslas. Musk shot back, called…
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Governor Josh Stein’s way could be Democrats’ way back to the White House in 2028. In his first 100 days, the Governor has led with calm, confidence and competence. It’s a welcome contrast to Trump’s chaos, conflict and confusion. Trump wages all-out war all the time with an endless list of enemies. Stein believes in…
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Senator Thom Tillis wants to have it both ways. He wants MAGA Republicans to think he’s a loyal Trump foot soldier. He wants swing voters to think he’s an effective, independent voice. But, no matter what he does, he can’t escape Trump. His political fate in 2026 is lashed to Trump’s like Ahab to the…
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Trump railed about radical left judges taking away his power, usurping his presidency, fumed one judge – James Boasberg – tried to stop him deporting ‘murderers, drug lords, and rapists.’ Next demanded the Supreme Court step in and stop that foolishness – and called Boasberg ‘a grandstander looking for publicity.’ That last part didn’t ring…
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Lips pursed, standing at the front of her elementary school classroom, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, conducting a drill my teacher told students to crouch beneath our desks – I crouched wondering how on earth a wooden desk was going to save me from a nuclear missile. Times changed. After the Cold War ended we…
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