GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ – The Iraqi forces have declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, as AFP declares victory for Obama: The Iraqi military’s hard-fought […]
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The Problem from Hell
Some 14 years ago, Samantha Power, the then Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, wrote a weighty and important […]
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For all the prezes I loved before
The President is gone, long live the President. The past eight years is history – a bad history – and the next four or eight […]
Continue reading »POTUS AND THE BEAST – American retailer JCPenney is coping some flak on social media because the Beauty doll it sells looks more like Justin Bieber […]
Continue reading »THE ONLY JOURNALIST TO LOSE JOB OVER BIAS THIS ELECTION WAS FIRED BY FOX. FOR PRAISING TRUMP. IN PRIVATE – Wrap your head around that. […]
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Grand New Party – how Trump is transforming Republicans
The 2016 presidential election result was bad news for the Democrats, not just because they lost against the supposedly most beatable Republican candidate, but just […]
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Happy Character Counts Week!
By virtue of the authority vested in his by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, President Barack Obama did hereby proclaim October […]
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Forecast: cloudy with a chance of mushrooms
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, says that the American-Russian relations are at the worst point in more than 40 years, since around […]
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While America slept (with itself, and then bragged about it)…
…Vladimir “Ras†Putin has been grabbing America by the p**** (see a rare photo above). He doesn’t need an open mic to talk about it either […]
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The left bashes Trump for believing conspiracy theories perpetuated by the left
You don’t see me too often defending Donald Trump, but what’s fair is fair. The left keeps slamming Trump (rightly) for being a conspiracy monger, […]
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If hurricanes were named after politicians
August is the peak hurricane season over the Atlantic. As I’m writing these words, Weather.com reports that “Tropical Storm Earl Strengthens in the Caribbean; Hurricane […]
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From Iran With Love, or Much Moolah for the Mullahs
“The Wall Street Journal†reports that President Obama paid $400 million to Tehran, in cash – “wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other […]
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Herstory made
Being just your average middle-class middle aged straight white male of right-wing persuasion I must be congenitally incapable of getting excited about various symbolic milestones […]
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Ten signs the American political system is broken and we’re all going to hell
1)The Democrats have succeeded in stopping a Socialist who has never been a Democrat from becoming a Democrat presidential nominee. The Republicans have not succeeded […]
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The Audacity of Melania Trump (UPDATED)
Update: And now this: Original post: A […]
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Glocks easier to get than books? Depends what you mean by “easier”
Rightly or wrongly, the most talked about bit of President Obama’s speech at the memorial service in Dallas is his observation “We flood communities with […]
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Democrats – the parallel universe, in 5 easy headlines
There are the known unknowns and the unknown knowns, and then there is the Democratic Party reality.
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Take all your messiahs and give us back politicians
Remember when politicians were just politicians and not semi-divine beings? Ah, the good old days. Roughly pre-2008. So technically not all that long ago, yet […]
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