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Washington is all atwitter this week over the latest leaked audio recordings. These feature Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plotting to finally rid the Republican Party and the country of the clear and present danger former President Donald Trump always represented. Of course, the reason for the buzz is that McCarthy gives new meaning to the… Read more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made US history this morning. He became the first world leader to address a joint session of Congress virtually. As the Post reported, he zoomed into Washington to plead for increased aid to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s genocidal invasion: ________ Zelensky renewed his plea for air support to protect the… Read more.
You might think all Republicans value loyalty to Donald Trump over loyalty to the country. However, a few Republicans like Bill Barr and John Bolton want you to know that they value loyalty to party above all. Except that this is the very definition of the triumph of tribalism over patriotism. Frankly, it’s stupefying that… Read more.
Trust me, Ketanji Brown Jackson is far more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than Amy Coney Barrett. And Blacks everywhere should be proud and encouraged in equal measure that she is even more suited for this pioneering role, as the first Black woman, than Thurgood Marshall was, as the first Black man, when… Read more.
There seems no denying that, the more Donald Trump humiliates Republican men, the more they seem to want to kiss his ass. This has been the most stupefying feature of American politics since 2016. Senator Ted Cruz infamously put a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry in this regard that is just too perverse for words. Of… Read more.
Pence projecting disappointment Vice President Mike Pence says Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives. ‘Look, we have great respect for the institution of the Supreme Court of the United States,’ [Vice President Mike] Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on Wednesday. ‘But Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment… Read more.
Trumpian newspeak President Trump issued his “most essential command” on Tuesday during a speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He commanded, Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening. (CNN, July 25, 2018) In other words, we all… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the brazen, pathological and pervasive nature of the ‘corruption crime spree’ alleged against Illinois’s sitting governor, Rod Blagojevich, that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald felt moved to describe it as ‘staggering’. In fact, in presenting the Justice Department’s 76-page complaint, Fitzgerald claimed that, because a clearly delusional and venal Governor Blagojevich was… Read more.
