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September 2025

Knowing He’s Set to Lose Next Year’s Mid-Term Elections, Trump Fiddles with the Goal-Posts
Fiddling is perhaps too tame a word, but it’s a known fact that if you torture statistics sufficiently, they will confess to anything, and our current…
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Jim Freeman
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
I’m an American citizen living abroad in Prague during the last three decades, and have held a passport for over fifty years.
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When I Wasn’t Looking, All Media Became Fox News
Stephen Colbert’s show has been cancelled as of March (I think it’s March) of next year, and Jimmy Kimmel just got the indefinite axe for Charlie Kirk…
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Qatar Gave Trump a $400 Million “Palace in the Sky” Jumbo Jet and a major Branding deal. What Did They Expect in Return?
To begin with, Trump wants the plane because, when his presidency ends, the aircraft will be handed over to his presidential library foundation.
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Jim Freeman
Having Been Unable to Strengthen Justice, We Have Justified Strength.
If you think ‘there is nothing new under the sun,’ this statement supports you, having come to us 402-years-ago from a quote from French mathematician…
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With Premiums Set to Rise, a Reminder: Medicare for All Would Save $650 Billion Annually
The liberal voices were out in concert.
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Jim Freeman
Why the Magic of the Epstein Tapes?
We have a convicted felon as a president.
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Jim Freeman
Sorry ’bout That, Donald, but US Manufacturing Ain’t Comin’ Back
Tariffs were never the problem.
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University Demonstrations Against Genocide Are Not Anti-Semitic, nor Should They Be Construed as Supporting a Terrorist Organization
Let's limit this conversation to university campuses, because it's their students who are being dismissed, losing their graduation certificates, or…
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Capitalism's Total Loss of Control. Another Chop-Shop, Private Equity
For those unfamiliar with the term, a chop-shop is where stolen cars are taken to be chopped into pieces for profit.
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At a Time of Crisis, Congress Ran like Rabbits. Now They’re Back and We’re No Longer Safe.
Rather than face the uproar over Trump's Jeffrey Epstein crisis, the Speaker of the House adjourned Congress early for their annual August break.
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