America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways By Major Danny Sjursen, March 21, 2019 I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness of the 1980s. The U.S. had a celebrity …
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Mar 13 2019
A worrisome weasel affectation affliction
Socialist bandwagon Dear editor: Where is that little Hollywood elitist weasel Sean Penn? A few years ago he was making news palling around with his communist buddies in Cuba and Venezuela and now that millions have fled and millions are starving where is the little socialist communist weasel along with some of his other Hollywood …
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Mar 12 2019
Full response
What Did Ilhan Omar Say? Here’s the Full Transcript of Her Response to a Question about Anti-Semitism Institute for Policy Studies, March 6, 2019 This is the transcript of the Rep. Ilhan Omar’s full response to the question about anti-Semitism from the Busboys & Poets event. Her response begins around 1:00:00: Andy Shallal: [ …
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Mar 07 2019
Titans of journalism
Trump is trying to pay his way to an annihilation of Palestinian statehood, and an erasure of Israel’s crimes By Robert Fisk, March 7 2019 CE “Palestine” has been compared to many things. The world’s longest colonial war, a “hell-disaster” – Churchill’s memorable epithet – and the site of Israel’s “war on terror”, a …
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Mar 06 2019
AIPAC bares its arse
The Long Life of a Racist Smear By Ashley Reese, March 5, 2019 CE Cleanliness is next to godliness, and in the imaginations of racists, it is also next to whiteness—the next best thing or maybe even the same thing. In its absence, so the racist lie goes, you will find everyone else: black …
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Mar 05 2019
I don’t like cheese
We are better than this By Bennie Ivory, March 5, 2019 CE News flash for Mark Meadows: If you are going to play the race card, own it. Don’t try to run away from it. That’s exactly what the Republican congressman from North Carolina tried to do during the House’s Feb. 26 Michael Cohen …
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Feb 28 2019
He is their emperor, and they are his political Praetorian Guard
Republicans Sink Further Into Trump’s Cesspool By Peter Wehner, Feb. 27, 2019 Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday revealed as much about the Republican Party as it did about President Trump and his former lawyer. In the aftermath of Mr. Cohen’s damning testimony, several things stand out. The first is that unlike John …
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