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Let’s take a look at what’s been in the news. On X, a Trump post included a photo of a billboard with his picture on it beside five words: Trump was right about EVERYTHING. DHHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy issued a report telling us how to improve our healthcare – but there was a problem: The…
Read MoreAmericans Against Fascism
There’s a big difference between Trump’s America and 1930s Germany: Americans are fighting back. As in Germany, jackbooted, helmeted government thugs are rounding up people the Leader deems undesirable. Trump’s Goebbels, Stephen Miller (photo), warns darkly of “insurrection.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vows, “Under President Trump, violence and destruction against federal agents and federal facilities…
Read MoreWhen Monsters Fight
Trump and Musk are right about each other. Musk is right that Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would bankrupt America, like Trump has bankrupted everything he’s ever done. Trump is right that Musk is deranged. It takes one to know one. This reminds me of those old movies where Godzilla and Mothra squared off. I…
Read MoreRecant or You’re Fired
Back in 1988, Floyd Brown’s Citizens United superpac ran an ad attacking Michael Dukakas for pardoning Willie Horton. The ad helped George H. W. Bush but Brown got a lot of heat for it. Fast forward forty-seven years: After Trump took over The Kennedy Center, Brown agreed to go to work at the center raising…
Read MoreTrumps and Bidens
Once-upon-a-time, not all that long ago, there were people in both parties who’d vote against a politician who tried to fool them by telling lies – and there were people in both parties who’d argue with someone on the other side, say, about taxes, and still call him their friend. Those days are all but…
Read MoreDems Aren’t Dead
Democrats shouldn’t minimize our problems. Nor should we exaggerate them. The New York Times, in an article headlined “Six Months Later, Democrats Are Still Searching for the Path Forward,” said the party’s standing “has plunged to startling new lows — 27 percent approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to…
Read MoreWho Is This?
At 16 he was arrested using marijuana. As a teenager he got kicked out of two boarding schools. When he was 29 he got arrested for heroin possession. Driving through upstate New York he saw a dead bear by the side of the road, stopped, loaded the bear in his van, drove on to New…
Read MoreHealing Wounds
Instead of going to college Joe Kent joined the army at 18; a Ranger, Green Beret, did 11 combat tours. Stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia he met Shannon Smith, also a soldier – they married, had two children. Five years later on a street in Syria an Isis terrorist walked toward four soldiers, ignited a…
Read MoreSigns of Wisdom
This, Trump posted, is what Burj Khalifa looks like. He showed a photo of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai lit up at night by red, white, and blue lights, like a flag. Knowing the queasiness Trump felt when sheiks flew in grander jets than presidents, Qatar gave him a gift – a new $400…
Read MoreDonald of Arabia
Trump took an entourage of super-rich Americans to visit super-rich Arabs to do deals that will make them all richer. Back in Washington, congressional Republicans drew up a budget that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will cause more than four million people to lose health insurance and 8.6 million people to lose Medicaid coverage.…
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