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"A Legacy of Chains and Other Stories" is Philip Kraske's lastest book. It can be found at his website: www.philipkraske.com OpEdNews Member for 561 week(s) and 1 day(s) 209 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 127 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls
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![]() Is America Planning a First Strike Against Russia? Do the Americans want to go for a first nuclear strike against Russia? They've certainly prepared the groundwork for it.
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![]() 9-11 was a national job This is a wider perspective on 9-11, starting with the widespead belief that the event was not brought about by Al Qaeda but Americans. The responsibility for the event, therefore, extends across the nation, not with a small coterie. ![]()
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![]() Republicans try to stop the Revolution of the Rubes On the spectacle of Republicans trying to head off the anti-government movement now led by Donald Trump ![]()
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![]() What if North Korea Turns off the Lights in America? What if North Korea has some power lines knocked out, water works shut down, and more forest fires started? Easy to do, and plenty of bang for the buck. The playing field of war just got more level.
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![]() The touchy-feely propaganda of 60 Minutes This is a reflection on propaganda, American-style. I talk about the nature of propaganda, comparing how the North Korean anchorwoman tearfully read the death announcement on President Kim Jong Il, and the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama last May, after the raid on Osama bin Laden's house. ![]()
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![]() Russia and The New Rome A satirical comment on America's dangerous provocation of Russia. ![]()
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![]() Is the Next President Too Important for Iowans to Vote on? Are other countries more qualified to vote for the next American president? They certainly wouldn't have voted in Trump.
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![]() Syria and sarin: such is politics On the nonsense surrounding the UN investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria. ![]()
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![]() I Was a Russian Asset and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt Now that Tulsi and Doc. Stein have been outed as Russian assets, I may as well come out of the borscht myself. But it wasn't all it's cracked up to be. ![]()
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![]() Which Crisis is Going to Get us First? Crises are coming in droves, and it's only a question of time before one lands on our doorstep. ![]()
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![]() Why the White House Staff Agrees Their Man is the Chosen One Trump's staff is sad he's so misunderstood as his accomplishments pile high, like tomatoes and onions on his Whopper. ![]()
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![]() Coronavirus: The Pain in Spain is Raining on the Brain Don't believe what they're telling you about Spain. Here it's total chaos: people running in the streets, robbing toilet paper, lynching politicians and looting banks. ![]()
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![]() When You Think About the Plague from L.A., Global Warming Doesn't Sound so Bad. Plagues, viruses, and infestations are coming out of California, and there's no money to deal with them. This situation gives global warming a better name. ![]()
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![]() High Noon in the Democratic Party The showdown at last between the pragmatists and Bernie. ![]()
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![]() Should Cell Phones Be Banned? If there's anything in human history that demonstrates the principle of "two steps forward and one back," it's cell phones. ![]()
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![]() Why is the News from China and Russia Always Bad? According to CNN, Fox, the Times, the BBC -- all of them -- the news from China and Russia is always bad. How can people live in places where the news is so consistently bad? Poor folks!
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![]() Was Osama bin Laden really there? (Part Two) The bin laden documents do more to obscure than to enlighten, more for the legend than the reality. ![]()
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![]() Don is "OK" with War or without It President Trump is "OK" with or without war on Iran. It's a level of flexibility rare in a politician. ![]()
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![]() Kyle Rittenhouse Shows Us All Why Guns Should Be Banned It was Rittenhouse's gun that got him in trouble: it drew the ire of rioters and made him use it. ![]()
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![]() What if The Second Coming is Fake News? The Second Coming of Christ is likely to be taken as the latest bout of fake news. ![]()
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![]() Brexit: Ruling the Waves Once Again The British won't know for ten years what a dumb move they've made. But they'll find out when they sit down to talk (pray for, beg?) trade deals with trading blocks several times bigger than they are. ![]()
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![]() 9/11: American Empire Begins its Final Phase What is 9/11 in the broader perspective of American history? It is nothing less than the beginning of the last phase of empire, the instinctive, frightened embracing of the military, which comes to dominate government. ![]()
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![]() Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory: The Total Skinny Was it the CIA? The Chinese? The big corporations? Turns out, it was all of them working together, everyone taking their little piece of the pie. ![]()
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![]() Let's Hear it for a New Cold War People who moan about the new Cold War ought to remember the last one. It was great! ![]()
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![]() Do 17 Intelligence Agencies Make Us More Intelligent? Our government is bursting, overflowing, abounding in intelligence. This is the apex of a thousand generations of human progress. Makes you glad to have lived this long. ![]()
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![]() Are Those "Adults in the Room" Still on the Job? Remember the letter from "Anonymous" in the NY Times? He/she mentioned "adults in the room" keeping Trump on the right track. What happened? Are they in the wrong room? ![]()
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![]() Iraq: The Conservatives Love It! Isn't that the story of our foreign policy? Again and again we try to win other people their freedom, and they don't appreciate it. At. All. ![]()
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![]() Drones: Coming soon to a strife near you The future of drones makes for an ever-more unstable world. ![]()
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![]() What if Bernie Wins it All? With the media and pundits and party all against him, what does it mean if this unelectable, too old, no-socialist-can-beat-Trump candidate ends up winning the presidency? ![]()
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![]() Am I a White Male? Let Me Check" I hear that tiimes are hard for white males, but fortunately I'm a member of the right-handed six-footer club, so that "white male" stuff doesn't really apply to me. Kind of a relief. ![]()
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![]() The Big Peach Will Go Splat The big peach rolling through Congress is soft and hollow, and is going to go splat. ![]()
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![]() 9/11 and Iran: Life Imitates Art America attacks Iran as the result of a false-flag attack. It's odd to have written the story long before it happened. ![]()
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![]() Don't You Just Love Trump Endgame Scenarios? Scenarios left, scenarios right. There's nothing like a good end-of-Trump read to ease the pain. ![]()
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![]() Was Osama bin Laden really there? The big questions about bin Laden remain unanswered. ![]()
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![]() Politics, Banks, Assange: Creating Your Own Reality Cures What Ails You I used to be skeptical of people who "create their own reality," but lately I've come to see that it has some real advantages, especially when plain old raw reality has you down. ![]()
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![]() What if Iran Attacks in America? How long will it be before one of America's victims realizes that it's more picturesque to derail a train than sink an aircraft carrier? ![]()
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![]() Is Sustainability Really Sustainable? I'd like to believe in sustainability, but it looks more and more like a fool's game. You can't have development and eat it too. ![]()
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![]() Trump Illegalities: The CIA Guys Didn't Catch Half Those CIA guys left the field of battle to early, figuring that Ukrainegate would be enough to shuffle Don off to Buffalo. Here's the rest of the story that I witnessed. ![]()
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![]() Max Blumenthal in Jail: They Haven't Done Him a Chelsea - Yet Us guys were sitting around after a hard day in Langley, wondering what to do about Max Blumenthal: a Julian, a Snowden or a Chelsea. You decide. ![]()
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![]() The Ultimate Racial Fight: "Standard American English" If you think the George Floyd matter made the pot bubble, wait till the mob sets its sights on "Standard American English." ![]()
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![]() Edward Snowden and the Gentlemen's Trash Talk Fareed Zakaria, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Haas, and Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal all ganged up on Edward Snowden last weekend. i thought these gentlemen of the establishment needed to be answered. ![]()
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![]() Iran Pulls Out: The Start of Big Things to Come With all the heavy weather knocking about in the international arena, thank goodness the sure hands of Don Trump and his crew are at the wheel: guys who can put Humpty Dumpty back together and drink a piña colada doing it. ![]()
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![]() The Raid on Saudi: Masters of the World's Great Game Ask What Went Wrong Drones! Who'd have thought? Masters of the global chessboard sip their whiskies and reflect on how they got it wrong. ![]()
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![]() Three Whistlers, One Tune This is why Assange, Snowden, and Manning rightly deserved a statue in their honor. ![]()
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![]() The Iranian Limpet Mine: the Scoop on the Lowdown on the Skinny This is the true story of the limpet bomb, and from sources so high only dogs can hear them. ![]()
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![]() Pre-Trump vs. Post-Trump: It's a New Country A short survey of the pre- and post-Trump America: think fizz. ![]()
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![]() Ukrainegate: Do You Get the Feeling that Wash-town Wants Don Out? That whistle-blower wasn't one of those lying, sneaky running dogs from the Dept. of Health, but the CIA, whose reputation for probity, transparency and honesty is unimpeachable. So how could it be that he fibbed about that call to Ukraine? ![]()
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![]() The Terminator School of Diplomacy The world's leaders have taken their measure of Trump and found that rather than a yardstick, a 12-inch ruler will do. ![]()
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![]() Was the Orlando shooting real? Too many massacres share the same pattern: actors as witnesses, big money, invisible blood, etc. ![]()
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![]() How I Sneaked into the Democrats' Debate In the first night of the last debate, I slipped into the lineup and kicked some serious Democratic ass. ![]()
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![]() Police Taking a Knee: a Great Moment in American History The pundits who decry police kneeling as a sign of the decline of America, the white race, European culture, and masculinity have it all wrong. It was a great moment in American history: the agreement between police and communities that things have gone wrong. ![]()
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![]() Danger in the Supermarket The supermarket is my weekly contribution to the demise of the earth. How'd we get into this mess? ![]()
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![]() The "Anonymous" Op-Ed is the New Chaos When in history - any time, any place - has a top aide published an article like the "Anonymous" op-ed in the Times this week? As a sign of the times, it dwarfs Trump's antics. ![]()
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![]() What Trump and Obama Learned, and Hillary Knew This just goes to show this ain't a democ', But more a volcano at which we but gawk. ![]()
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![]() Here's Why Trump Called off the Attack Now that all the dust has settled, the real story finally comes out: it's Ivanka who carries the big stick in the White House. ![]()
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![]() The World According to the Anchorman A satirical take on TV network news anchors.
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![]() The Touchy-Feely Propaganda of 60 Minutes A reflection on propaganda, American-style. I discuss President Obama's interview on 60 Minutes after the raid on Osama bin Laden's residence in Pakistan. ![]()
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![]() Trump Remakes America in his Image Meanwhile America gets greater and greater/As we spring out of our cultural crater/And politics reaches a John Adams level/ Renewing democracy in which we revel. ![]()
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![]() Saudis: From 13 Demands to Six Principles to One Trending Topic Everyone loves a success story, but Crown Prince Salman, who pushed his cousin out of the job, is starting to look as clumsy as Donald Trump. ![]()
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![]() Propornot: I Get no Respect, no Respect at all! There are 200 websites on Propornot's list of Russia-backed propagandists -- and mine's not there. What kind of deal is that? ![]()
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![]() Catalonia: Independence, man, that'd be like so cool As one who has lived in Spain for 30 years, I can tell you that the independence movement in Catalonia can hardly be taken seriously. ![]()
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![]() Why do conspiracy theories abound nowadays? When reporters neglect their work, conspiracy theorists step in. The more neglect, the more theories. ![]()
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![]() A Coup in Slow-Mo The Shakespearean power play against the new administration will be something the world has never seen in America. ![]()
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![]() The world consists of bumpkins and hicks A satirical take on bumpkins in the globalized world. ![]()
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![]() War with Iran Means Your Flight to JFK Gets Diverted to Boca War with Iran means that the draft is reinstated, your lights get turned out, your phone bill is wacky, and air transport stops after the first few incidents. War against a modern society is easy. ![]()
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![]() Putin Paid Bounties to Have Governors Misinformed about Covid-19 The real story is this: that snake-in-the-grass Vlad Putin paid for bounties on new U.S. infections, and as the stats show, his underlings really did the job.
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![]() A good old American tug on the fraying fabric of peace A comment on how helpless observers of the international scene are in the face of so many bad American decisions. ![]()
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![]() C.S.I. Ferguson A satirical poem on the difference between TV detective shows and the reality. ![]()
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![]() On U.S. P.O.W.s Abandoned in Vietnam A reflection on how the hundreds of American P.O.W.s left behind in Vietnam are a reflection of political rot. ![]()
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![]() The Inevitable Ying and Yang of Internet News The line between fake news and the truth is getting thinner as truth-tellers, especially progressive ones, are under attack. ![]()
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![]() What if an agreement favors Iran? A satirical take on a posible U.S.-Iran agreement. ![]()
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![]() Palestine: The Deal of the Penury The new capital of Palestine, according to the Trump plan? Ten ghettos in search of a city. ![]()
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![]() Whaddaya Mean, "There's no There There"? What can one say about this hunt for "there"? Aren't we there yet? And once we get there, will we know where we are? After all, there can't be theres just anywhere. I for one find this issue very distressing. ![]()
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![]() What Else Could Russia Have Done? The U.S. drove Russia into a corner, got mad when it reacted, but has not let this fine crisis go to waste. ![]()
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![]() Do computers have a future? Computers are getting too big for their britches. ![]()
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![]() Waiting for the Afghan McNamara Who will step up in ten years and tell the U.S. that in Afghanistan and Iraq, "We were wrong, terribly wrong"? ![]()
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![]() Nukes for Saudi Arabia: It's a GREAT Idea Why not sell nuclear-power plants to Saudi Arabia? NOTHING is going to happen: the guys in good suits say so. And these are guys who have been around the block, passed a football, shot at terrorists, and eaten greasy pizza: salt-of-the-earth types. And I for one trust 'em. ![]()
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![]() Helpless Assad faces the Fates - as we do Assad has no more control over his fate than we do over the neocons. ![]()
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![]() How I Got my Job at Trump's State Dept. Here's a how-to on how to get a job in the Trump Administration: posts there for the taking! ![]()
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![]() Afghanistan: Buying Peace by the Pound War has proven ineffective against Afghanis. We should have simply bought the country. ![]()
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![]() What if Obama Was a CIA Agent? Perhaps the distortion of history is the CIA's greatest crime. How can we know what has really happened in American history post-WWII? ![]()
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![]() A sick people sick of themselves Trump's revolution doesn't cover even half of the rage rolling across America. ![]()
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![]() Does Anyone Else Miss Muammar Gaddafi? Now that he's gone, Colonel Gaddafi's legacy doesn't look so bad. Overthowing him was a bad mistake, for which the Mediterranean world is paying the consequences. ![]()
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![]() War just ain't what it used to be After a long easy run, now war is coming home to us.
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![]() The Dark Side of Obama's Government This article is about the Faustian bargain that, somewhere along the way, Obama has struck with the military-security complex. ![]()
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![]() Venezuela's threat to my sweet land of liberty A skeptical take on President Obama's declaration that Venezuela is now a "national security threat." ![]()
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![]() What if the Democratic Convention Turns into Another 1968? No doubt the protests at the Democratic convention, if any, will be calm and dignified, even boring, much like people waiting to board a bus. ![]()
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![]() Will the Shutdown Go 60 Days? Nobody's backing down and nobody's going to back down, and nobody's thinking about backing down. Here's advice to Democrats: back down. ![]()
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![]() Nancy Pelosi is Off the Table If the re-election of Nancy Pelosi is a sign of where the Democrats are headed, the Establishment is leading America to another 1968. ![]()
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![]() The Malign Mystery of "It's" Writers who write on Internet won't believe this, but it is what it is. Or as they say in old Mexico: it's what it's. . ![]()
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![]() Why does Europe Follow a Trumped-up America? Stranger than the election of Trump is Europe's continued loyalty to America. ![]()
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![]() The Grassy Knoll Flu Conspiracy If the coronavirus was not leaked accidentally, it was leaked intentionally, which could have been done by either the U.S. or China. Is the Deep State getting desperate? ![]()
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![]() Mueller and Trump and the Hypnosis of Story The Mueller investigation goes on and on and on -- yet we're still hooked on it like kids at story time. Why? ![]()
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![]() Pompeo's Full Iran Sanctions Will Backfire How far does Pompeo think he can push Europe before it fights back? If he fines just one country over sanctions on Iran, he'll find out. ![]()
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![]() Catalonia's Declaration of Independence: Not Exactly a Jefferson-Hancock Moment The President of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, declared independence and then suspended it. Don't count on him to pledge "our lives and sacred honor." ![]()
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![]() Trump brings back the power of the word Trump's big mouth has lost him the election, but he's blazed a trail that a smarter Trump will soon follow. ![]()
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![]() Trump to me: "Could I take a bad fall?" It didn't happen to Obama or Bush, but it's happening to Trump. But that's what too big a Trumpet will get you. ![]()
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![]() Roosevelt for President, not Oprah The last type of person we need in the White House is another billionaire TV star. ![]()
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![]() America in the World: Less a King than Odd-Man-Out At the Munich Security Conference 2018, America's lead speaker, General McMaster, sounded not so much like a diplomat as a football coach giving his team a halftime pep talk. ![]()
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![]() Facebook's "Counterspeech" Campaign Hammered my Website Facebook's "counterspeech" program to censor websites has cut my weekly readership from 5 to 3: 40 percent! ![]()
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![]() Will Saturday Night Live Have Don Trump on Again? SNL had Trump on their show after his racist remarks about Mexicans in 2015. After his remarks about Charlotte, I wonder if they'll have him on again. ![]()
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![]() Why is Everybody Trashing Fake News? The real reason for the fall of the Empire State Building. ![]()
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![]() War, the National Pastime America swings from war to war like a monkey from branch to branch, and was as little care. ![]()
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![]() President Donald Trump to Xi and Putin: "You're Fired!" Donald Trump is just the guy to take on America's rivals. ![]()
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![]() That day is almost here The Obama Administration is very soon going to look like the good ol' days. ![]() ![]()
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![]() Ten Years for Climate Correction? Try Twenty. Or Thirty. Once we've goone through these ten years or so to correct climate change, don't worry. We'll get ten more.
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![]() When Reporters Call a President "Traitor," That's News Mainstream reporters speculating that Trump had been "bought" by Putin? That used to be Alex Jones's style, but maybe he's turned into a role model. ![]()
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![]() "Non-Binary" is a Little Too Binary Is it possible to say that you are neither male nor female? It seems to me that's one choice too many. ![]()
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![]() Afghanistan: At Least We're Good Losers Feeling low because of America's defeat in Afghanistan? Well, nobody else is, either.
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![]() How to Collect on a Bet Against Trump President Trump does pay off some bets. But being such a great man, he feels that he's obligated only to pay off on those that demonstrate his greatness. ![]()
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![]() Obama: the man who gets up as JFK and lies down as Cheney The Jekyll-Hyde nature of Barack Obama is fascinating. ![]()
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![]() Vlad and Bashar: They Can't Beat the Rap, and They Can't Fight City Hall Some advice to Putin and Assad about countering the fake news: if you can't beat'em, join'em. ![]()
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![]() Why Journalists Hate Truthers Journalists have a personal grudge against 9-11 Truthers. For a lot of reasons. ![]()
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![]() I've Been Censored Too! The censorship movement against the tellers of truth just came home to me. Here's the sad, sad story.
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![]() Yet another failure of the U.S. policy elite The Ukraine-Crimea matter is another failure of a foreign-policy elite that can do almost nothing right. ![]()
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![]() Who lost Iraq? The amoral 'Who lost Iraq?' is a less important question than 'Who destroyed Iraq?'. ![]()
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![]() Buy Qatari War Bonds Today! (tomorrow might be too late) If Prince Salman intends to stick to his demands on Qatar, we might well start to live in interesting times. ![]()
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![]() Hillary, let me count the ways... Ms. Clinton doesn't offer much for president except her gender. ![]()
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![]() Know the New Normal is Now the Normal New? It would be great to return to "normalcy," but the new normal is turning into the normal new, a societal house of mirrors. ![]()
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![]() If You Ain't for "Normalcy," You Ain't in the Game "Normalcy" is creeping back into Washington's foreign policy. Too bad. ![]()
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![]() Running for the White House? Buy the Pack Tulsi Gabbard! Your campaign for president isn't going anywhere if you don't invest in some bots. ![]()
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![]() 9-11 Started the Last Phase of Empire A wide-lens historical perspective on 9-11 in the continuing drama of American empire. ![]()
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![]() The Ted Cruz Blues A poetic analysis of Ted Cruz's candidacy for president. ![]()
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![]() So America's not Going to Rescue Ukraine -- Right? Every expert says that if the Ukraine goes up against Russia, neither the U.S. nor Nato will come to its rescue. It would be a truly stupid move. Right. But we're talking about America and its foreign-policy moguls. Je doute. ![]()
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![]() Taiwan: What Biden's "Absolutely" Was Really About When President Biden said that he would "absolutely" defend Taiwan, he didn't mean absolutely absolute, according to his team. ![]()
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![]() Russians, Al Qaeda, Saddam, and back to Russians So we're back to the Russians as bad guys. Is that the best we can do? ![]()
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![]() No countdown clock means no event A countdown clock is now a necessity for any public event, unless you want to be a wind sock. ![]()
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![]() Power's Just Another Word for Nothin' Left to Lose Is a country's power the same as its strength? it seems to me there's a big difference. ![]()
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![]() I've Been Watching How the Ol' Cookie Crumbles That distant crepitation is the rumbling of history. ![]()
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![]() Liberals: Free Speech is Great, but Let's Get Back to Normal The well-fed liberal's opinion on the protests of the last two months: we need a Covid vaccine! ![]()
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![]() Obama does Cuba - Halfway President Obama has done the right thing in Cuba, but has left unfinished business: making amends. ![]()
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![]() Does the News Have a Future? Probably not, but this is going to be a lot more fun for those of us who know nothing about journalism. ![]()
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![]() Exceptional, and proud of it A satirical take on American "Exceptionalism." ![]()
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![]() Omycron: the Newest Villain Why did the scientists pass over ten letters between the "Delta" virus and the "Omycron" virus? Everything is marketing. ![]()
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![]() Ukraine: Exceptionalism Will Out It's like Rambo, Bond, and Harry the Dirty: Exception will out when others get shirty. ![]()
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![]() My Life as an Influencer It's tough to be a top influencer, balancing trends and tweets, pols and plugs. Read all about it. Sympathize with me. Follow me. Live with me. Be me. ![]()
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![]() Amidst all this security, why do I feel so insecure? It's funny how all this security isn't making me feel more secure. ![]()
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![]() What Politician Will Sacrifice Growth to Reduce CO2? Will any politician make a serious dent in the GDP for the sake of climate change? ![]()
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![]() If Don Calls You Rude, Does it Mean You're Rude? The Acosta-Trump fracas is Washington in a nutshell: bad manners, aggression, throbbing egos, and posturing hotheads.
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![]() Is Sochi the "Sarajevo Moment"? An observation of how President Vladimir Putin's dream of the Sochi Olympic Games is going up in smoke, and the dangerous repercussions his anger might have. ![]()
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![]() Nuclear War Avoided! NBA Playoffs Begin! It was nice to see nuclear war avoided so that we could all get on with our day. ![]()
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![]() Guaido, the Self-Proclaimed/Made Man There's nothing like a self-proclaimed president to answer the prayers of American diplomacy. ![]()
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![]() Should You Vote for the Clean Bathrooms Party? There are some minor parties in the election that don't deserve to be ignored like the fat kid in gym class. These are the true believers in democracy. ![]()
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![]() The History in an Amazon Box To receive an Amazon package is to play your part in history. It is the story of our time. ![]()
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![]() A New Letter or Two for the LGBT+ Crowd I'm feeling oppressed, underappreciated, dismissed, cast off, and loathed -- and it's only Monday. It would be a big help if people added XP to that growing line of abbreviations that starts with LGBT+. A BIG help. ![]()
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![]() Been Mulling Lindorff on the end of the World... The big Methane Hen is going to get us in the end. Is it time to stop paying your mortgage? ![]()
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![]() Don't You Just Love a Good Sanction? Choosing good sanctions is in itself an art, Performed with cool head and a naughty boy's heart. ![]()
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![]() Obama's legacy: more chaos or more order? Calling all pundits: Which has prospered more under the Obama presidency: chaos or order? ![]()
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![]() Syria explained in 300 words Everything you need to know about Syria in 300 words.
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![]() It must be strange to be Israeli This article points out that since the Palestinians will not leave their land, just what does Israel intend to do? There seems to be national denial on this question, and national denial is an odd but global poltical phenomenon. I compare it with the 30 years of deficits in America. ![]()
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![]() Christmas with Covid -- Maybe The holidays are upon us, so I think I'll ignore these Covid symptoms. . ![]()
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![]() Yowza, yowza: The Rassling Blond v. the Queen of Wall Street Hillary v. The Donald puts a new spin on the phrase, "the lesser of two evils." ![]()
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![]() "This is not who we are" -- Or is it? Both future-Prez Joe and Donald Trump Jr. said it: "This is not who we are. This is not us." But what if it is? ![]()
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![]() A total unknown throws his hat in the ring A new presidential candidate on the Republican side who has great chances to win - seriously. ![]()
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![]() Santa's Heavy Washington Wish List Why did President Trump ask the Saudis to invite Robert Mueller to their consulate for a Christmas cocktail? Hmmm.... ![]()
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![]() The Cyclops Covers the Ukraine War The Cyclops looks at one thing and nothing else. Comparison is indeed the thief of joy. ![]()
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![]() Planning to think about trying to work? Not so fast! The 300K jobs created last month ain't all it's cracked up to be. ![]()
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![]() Trump's Quiet Steps Down the Path of Empire The latest phase in the decline of empire: when the military nudges aside the establishment. ![]()
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![]() 9-11 Why the comb-overs who planned it knew they'd get away with it. History will have a good word to say for the 9-11 Truth Movement. ![]()
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![]() Israel digs tunnels too Israel has prospered more through brain than brawn. ![]()
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![]() Do guns have a future? Guns will cede their place to a much worse general-usage weapon. ![]()
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![]() The Media giveth, and the Media taketh away The media has finally as one turned on Trump, though it certainly took them long enough.
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![]() Zero Light Thirty (or Twenty, Whatever) A very different take on the raid on Abbottabad, questioning the veracity of the event. The article starts with the observation that in seven months, the CIA neither saw nor heard OBL. ![]()
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![]() Hillary to bankers: "That just cost you 500 mill." This is how Hillary and Bill made so much money from bankers. ![]()
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![]() Democracy is Dying for Another Party If there were more than the two fat and complaisant political parties, passions might have channeled properly and people might not charge the Capitol. ![]()
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![]() If There's no Trust, the Social Contract Goes Bust Biden was right to call for a new unity, but unity begins with trust, and Trump fans aren't feeling much, having watched their man get the bum's rush. ![]()
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![]() After Biden, Le Deluge As much as pundits squawk and bearded guys assault the Capitol, the direction of the country is up to powers that operate in the dark. ![]()
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![]() With Corona Where Will We Be in a Year? In a year, we'll still be talking about Covid-19. It ain't over till it's over.
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![]() Why are the Russians so aggressive? A satirical comment on Russian-American relations. ![]()
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![]() Wikileaks: Allegations the Way Mom Used to Make 'em Me, I like my allegations with documentary support, but there's nothing written about tastes. ![]()
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![]() Rodney Russia: No Respect at All! Russia gets no respect at all from the U.S. I'm glad to see they're getting some from China, which knows a good bet when it sees it. ![]()
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![]() Was Covid Really a Planned Pandemic? Maybe the Master of the Universe planned the Covid crisis: the results will be this, and the benefit to us will be that. Or maybe, as usual, they just knew best how to take advantage of it. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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![]() How America went to the Ukraine A satirical take on America's dangerous entry into the Ukraine. ![]()
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![]() An Election as Empty as a Beggar's Pockets More than an election, 2020 was a referendum on Donald Trump, and more on his style than his work. ![]()
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![]() The world is NOT ending, They said so on TV. Worried about the end of the world? Read this. ![]()
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![]() MLK, RFK, JFK, or Why We Need Conspiracy Theorists What would history be without conspiracy theorists? These three men must certainly be grateful to them.
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![]() Charlie: Leave Islam alone with its prophet A poetic comment on Charlie Hebdo's bad manners with Islam. ![]()
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![]() Will the Election End in Chaos? The prospect of post-election chaos is real, and may even result in both candidates claiming victory. Maybe Afghan politicians can come and sort it out for us, as we did for them. ![]()
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![]() The year everything got worse On America losing prestige and Obama's expectations turning to dust. Not even Lazarus could come back from this one. ![]()
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![]() Toothless policies and toothy publics This is about the growing gap between governing elites and the public, mainly with regard to America, but also Europe. ![]()
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![]() Trump on Syria: Christmas Really Does Bring Miracles A broken clock is right twice a day, and a broken president about once every four years. Yes, it was a no-brainer, but how many no-brainers have the foreign-policy mandarins figured out in the last 20 years? ![]()
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![]() Why Are There So Many Movies About Hitmen? Hitmen and -women apparently come in all types: sensitive, cold, conscious-stricken, longing for retirement, vengeful. It's an amazingly well-documented profession. ![]()
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![]() The Campaign from Spain Looks Like a Pain The view of the American election campaign as seen from Spain: like your neighbors two houses down bickering over their back hedge. ![]()
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![]() "Now that we're shooting, is it okay?" A satirical comment on the upcoming vote in Congress to authorize the president to go to war against ISIL. ![]()
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![]() Trump: Godzilla with Soupcons of Dracula The Russian peace initiative over, all that's left of Trump is the full Godzilla. ![]()
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![]() This Wonderful World Awash in Capital Meet Timmy the lawn-mowing kid, hustling employee of Chad the Lawn Bard, a division of Scrooge Inc., part of Groupe Sluice, which has contracts with the Pentagon. ![]()
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![]() AOC Should Announce for the Republican Nomination She's not old enough? No prob: it's like kids who lie about their age to get into the Marines. She's not a Repub? Chill: only her hairdresser knows for sure. ![]()
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![]() When I See Pundits in Full-Court-Press Mode.... But when I see pundits in full-court-press mode, Methinks the full truth has still something owed. ![]()
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![]() Rubes cross Rubicon! Washington calm! The rubes cross their Rubicon and elect Donald Trump. Results delicious. ![]()
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![]() Is Anyone Feeling Humiliated? You hear a lot about America's humiliation in Afghanistan, but do you feel any? Does anybody? . ![]()
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![]() Is the FBI's problem with Apple for real? Some speculation regarding the FBI's problema with Apple encryption.
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![]() On FBI Entrapment: The Horrible Case of Joe's Bar A funny take on the silly spectacle of the FBI stopping its own terror ops. ![]()
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![]() Hillary the bleeding-heart peacenik Why are most conservatives so hard on Hillary Clinton? ![]()
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![]() Lemonade with sugar, or sugar with lemonade? A reflection on how narrow the American political debate is. ![]()
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![]() Would the Founding Fathers Want to Change the Constitution? In a high-tech world and among a people so highly disparate as to almost not be a people at all, the Founders would be the first to suggest changes to the Constitution. ![]()
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![]() Two degrees C? Try more like four! Don't listen to scientists on global warming. Listen to Uncle Phil. ![]()
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![]() How the Republicans will retake the White House in 2016 The race is shaping up to be decided in the House. ![]()
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![]() Saturday Night Low with The Donald SNL was a sorry attempt to wash Trump's image. He's still a racist. ![]()
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![]() What Happened When Joe Biden Wanted to Sit down at the Democratic Table Nobody pulled his chair out from under him -- that was fake news. The truth is that the chair, table, and room had all moved to the left. No problem: Joe stood up, grinning as always. ![]()
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![]() My Anti- (and I mean Anti!) Washington Campaign A satirical look at the anti-Washington political fervor. ![]()
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![]() The World is a Traffic Jam Like it or not, we're dependent on government to organize society.
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![]() The Terror Next Time What if the Boston bombers were two Pakistani kids whose family had been wiped out by an Obama drone strike? Americans might finally get an idea of the horror they've been responsible for.
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![]() NATIONAL PATRIOTIC SPLURGE WEEK This is a follow-up article to my earlier one, "9-11 WAS A NATIONAL JOB." In it I recap that guilt for 9-11 extends not just to those who committed the deed but to those who help to cover it up and those who have no stomach for the truth. So there will be no new investigation beyond the books and article on the Internet.
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![]() I wanna be Trump's running mate Nobody can support Don Trump like me. ![]()
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![]() Donald Trump and his Debate Rope-a-Dope Trump will do to Hillary Clinton what Ali did to Foreman.
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![]() I've always felt sorry for Vladimir Putin A satirical comment on Vladimir Putin and his trouble with the West. ![]()
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![]() Why spy on Israeli drones? Seemed like the thing to do... There are lots of top-secret Intel people in America, and like it or not, they all have to eat. ![]()
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![]() Beware the "Final" in Final Reports Whenever I see those words "final report," I find my credulity coming up short. ![]()
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![]() Check out The Exciting New Fragrance for Men: Legalite'! This #MeToo stuff is really cramping my style. Now instead of well-honed pick-up line, I just hand the girl a recent background check on me. And guess what? It works just as well! Page 1 of 11 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |