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Episode 56: And, in Tucker Carlson and Lara Logan, This Wizard of Trumpism Is Just Creating New Monsters… Related commentaries: Murdoch… Trumpism… Listen.
It seems everyone in Washington was alarmed at the way arguments on Mississippi’s anti-abortion law played out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. This, because the Republican-appointed justices kept signaling their intent to betray legal precedent, even common sense, to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that granted abortion rights. Nicole Wallace was communications… Read more.
Over the past week, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent more time on TV trying to “rescue” Republicans from self-destruction than Dr. Anthony Fauci spent trying to save Americans from the latest Covid variant. Of course, the health of American democracy would improve tremendously if Christie’s pleading resonated. This, just as surely as the… Read more.
The Hitz Report cleared the CIA of injecting crack cocaine into cities across America. Well, suspicions abound that big pharma CEOs are manufacturing Covid variants to sell vaccines. And it might take another congressional report to clear them. Pharma CEOs Pushing Covid Vaccines A colleague vented this suspicion about big pharma during a Zoom on Tuesday. Everyone on… Read more.
Russia used “little green men” in Ukraine. China used predatory loans in Uganda. But the effect was the same in both countries: Extraterritorial control! First a little context: You should all have a friend like my old college roommate … One of the many reasons why is that he texted me on Saturday to invite… Read more.
Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty… And so it went, as the judge read 9 of 9 guilty verdicts for Travis McMichael, the first, and clearly most guilty, of three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. But I suspect many Blacks (and, to be fair, many whites) were so relieved after hearing that first guilty verdict, they probably… Read more.
Donald Trump is a pathological liar. But no court has found that he’s a perjurer, yet. Meghan Markle is a pathological liar. But a court has now found that she’s a perjurer, too. Which means she trumps Trump as the most notorious liar in public life. Meghan Markle is a perjurer Meghan Markle apologised to the Court of Appeal… Read more.
Episode 55: Many Recipients Were Unworthy; Many Worthy Candidates Never Received… Related commentaries: famine… Suu Kyi… Democracy Matron… Listen.
