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…  [more]

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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…  [more]

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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…  [more]

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Feb 14 2019

Going down the road

Why Get Donkey?

By Ben “Swamp Donkey” Brenner, Sunday, November 11, 2018   It’s not even a road, see. No signs, no arrows. Just trees that part briefly, and then a narrow dirt track going low and slow away…  [more]

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Feb 04 2019

Recent observations

 

Our porous border

Dear editor: How does anyone in the current political environment believe that our country will survive the partisan bickering and name calling to ensure the so-called “domestic tranquility?” I think these words were lost long ago…  [more]

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Feb 03 2019

Trump’s post-truth presidency

Trump’s attack on his own intelligence services was both extraordinary and expected

By Hussein Ibish in The National, Feb 2, 2019   This week starkly illustrated a remarkable feature of Donald Trump’s administration: this president does not do policy;…  [more]

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Jan 25 2019

What we should be talking about

  Seems a mea culpa – Latin for “Oops!” – is in order. Who knew our prodigal practitioner could issue a challenge and then dictate rules of engagement for any who dared?  My last ramble apparently strayed far afield from…  [more]

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