Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Ole Joe Biden’s lived and breathed in the swamp for 50 years; adroit, clever, making deals handed him power, power led to fame and, after his son and brother became lobbyists, led to family money. Clever, but in a different way, standing in the spotlight, as a showman Trump’s in a league of his own.…

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The Pier that Broke Apart

Facing pro-Palestinian protests, purring compassion Biden spent $320 million building a pier on the Gaza coast to get supplies ashore. The pier was completed on May 17. Eight days later broke apart, floating away, fell into pieces. The supplies Biden had sent into Gaza were looted by Hamas. Compassion didn’t end well without competence. That’s…

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A Fumble

Pointing to the courthouse where Trump was on trial Biden’s press spokesman told reporters with a straight face, ‘We’re not here to talk about the trial’ – then movie star Robert de Niro stepped to the microphone and said everybody knew Trump was guilty. Protestors howled at De Niro, he yelled back, Trump’s ‘a clown.’…

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The Witness Who Didn’t Show Up

Trump’s trial ended. And the media – CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Newsnation – is on fire. Michael Cohen testified he and Trump met – after Trump won the election – and agreed on how to repay him back for hush money he paid Stormy Daniels. Trump says that’s pure blarney. It never happened. But would Cohen…

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The Adult in the Room

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s daughter, writing a column, remembered watching the Kennedy-Nixon debate with her father, said Kennedy and Nixon ‘probably didn’t like each other’ but were ‘unfailingly polite in their disagreements,’ concluded that’s how adults were ‘supposed to behave’ back then. She talked next about Jimmy Carter’s debate with her father – about Carter…

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Gag Orders

Trump’s gone from sitting in court getting sued to suing. At the Cannes Film Festival a filmmaker played his movie, The Apprentice, a biography  about Trump as a young man building his real estate empire in Manhattan, his first marriage to Ivana, his friendship with Roy Cohn. Who knows how much was true. But it…

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The Circus is Back

Taunting Trump, Biden quipped, ‘He’s not a good loser – but he is a loser.’ Taunting again, mocking Trump saying ‘injecting bleach’ might stop coronavirus, quipped, ‘I think that’s what he did. That’s why he’s so screwy.’ Biden also said when he took office inflation was 9% – even CNN couldn’t shallow that one, pointed…

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The Drama Queen Strikes Again

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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Anger Rules

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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The Past Returns

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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