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Why the Magic of the Epstein Tapes?

Sorry ’bout That, Donald, but US Manufacturing Ain’t Comin’ Back

University Demonstrations Against Genocide Are Not Anti-Semitic, nor Should They Be Construed as Supporting a Terrorist Organization

Capitalism's Total Loss of Control. Another Chop-Shop, Private Equity

At a Time of Crisis, Congress Ran like Rabbits. Now They’re Back and We’re No Longer Safe.

Too Many Plot Twists for a Believable Novel

Born in 1935, I’ve Just Been Told I’m Exceptionally Rare.

The Conundrum of Trump and Elon’s Downsizing

Too Late to Blame Chief Justice John Roberts, After America’s Regard for the Law Has Failed

My Problem with Autonomous Driving and, in Particular, the Robo Taxi

Government by Executive Order

The United Nations Hosts a Laughable ‘Emergency Meeting’

If You Want to Save the World Then the First Step Is to Stop Destroying It. In Other Words: Don’t Be a Dick.

The Old ‘Not Taking It Lightly’ Routine

If you read nothing else about trump, during his presidency, read this Guardian article by Arjun Appadurai

Screaming at the Storm, or a Quiet Port in the Tempest

“A Number of Complex Issues” That Are Not Very Complex

Let’s Change the Political Conversation

The ICE Goon Patrols, Who the Hell Are These People?

The Interesting History of Democrat Fecklessness

It Is Error Only, and Not Truth, That Shrinks from Inquiry –

While Elon Was Busy Elsewhere, Finland Invented a Sand Battery

Not Giving a Damn, but with a Smile

I’m Outraged, Two Days in a Row, on Our President’s One Big Beautiful Bill. Forgive me for that, I do not take outrage lightly, and avoid it as often as possible, because it seldom changes minds.

On the Eve of America’s 249th Birthday, the Senate Passed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act by a Single Vote; That of VP J.D. Vance.

As the Supreme Court Abandons America, It’s Not Wrong to Evoke 1933 Nazi Germany and Hitler

Voice of America Is Gone, a Voice Once Listened to from Under a Pillow

If Conservative Republicans Want to Survive, They Better Start Conserving Something

Kim Jong Un Trump Reviews the Troops

Sen. Padilla Thrown to Floor, and Handcuffed at Kristi Noem Press Event

Now Let the Courts, Including the Supreme Court, Try to Enforce Their Rulings

If the Amazon Rainforest Is Declining, Why Is Amazon.com Not Building a New One?

Whatever Happened to Patronage?

Nationalizing Boeing May be Its Best Way Out

Hypernormalization Is the New Normal

The Danger of Bezos, Musk and Zuck Is Not Their Wealth, It’s Their Separation from the 99% of America That Is Not Them.

How is “the expanding and holding of territories In Gaza” not occupation?

It’s Harry Trumans Birthday Today, and He’s a Taurus, Just like Me. I’m Rather Proud of That.

A Glance Back Is Sometimes Worth More Than Looking Forward, Distorted as Forward Is by the Fog of Today.

The Reopening of Alcatraz – Once Notorious as One of the US’s Toughest Prisons – Would Serve as a “Symbol of Law, Order, and Justice.”

DOGE Usurps the Constitutional Powers of Congress

4% Bureaucrats Face Off Against 42% Military Spending

Donald Trump, a Man-Made Crisis

When Does Manipulation of the Markets Become Insider-Trading?

Hegseth Delivers ‘Peace Through Strength Initiative’ Message to Pentagon

A Quick Link to a Video to Brighten You Take On the World

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Who the Hell Redefined What It Means to Be a Conservative?

An American Gestapo Is on the Streets and, Worldwide, Jews and Universities Should Be Alarmed.

Here’s an Article I Wrote Ten Yeras Ago and Nothing’s Changed

The U.S. Congress Can’t Cut Its Way to Avoiding a Debt Armageddon

National Security No Longer a Trump-Musk Administration Concern

Republicans Have Become 'Tired' of the War in Ukraine

“You Were Given the Choice Between War and Dishonor. You Chose Dishonor and You Will Have War”

Even People on the Liberal Side Are Starting to Worry About Going off a Fiscal Cliff. -Clint Eastwood

Mike Royko, the Genesis of a Writer (Part Two)

Mike Royko, the Genesis of My Writing Life

This Is a Speculative Column. Is It All Right to Speculate?

As in All Fascist Movements, First They Come for the Universities and Students. Trump Just Crossed That Line.

Chainsaw Elon Answers His Own “Demand to Respond with Five Bullet Points Explaining What All Federal Employees Did the Previous Week.”

U.S. Diplomacy by Extortion Gets Blindsided at Its Very First Crossroad

Vengeance Is Mine Saith the President

Extortion Is the New Diplomacy and Ukraine Is its Latest Victim

A Guest Post: Trump disgraces the world

The Threat of Tariffs, Intimidation Diplomacy, by an Intimidator

Trump’s ‘Own Goals’ Are Enabling China Worldwide

The Inspiring Eloquence of Elon Musk

Pay Attention to the CIA

American Government: Going Once, Going Twice, Going Three Times: Sold, to Elon Musk for 250 Million Dollars!

Forget the First Hundred Days, the Orange Man Throws All the Shit at the Wall Immediately

The American Kleptopresidency

Those We Neglect to Thank in Life

If You Torture Them Sufficiently, Polls Will Confess to Anything

2025, the Year the Economic 1% Planted Their Flag

The California Grid Ran on 100% Renewables with No Blackouts or Cost Rises for a Record 98 Days

In This New Year, we Can Have an Actual Uniting of the Nations of the World, or We Can Have a Five-Nation Veto, but We Cannot Have Both