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Newsflash: You Really Can't Trust Fox News, Ever
Anyone who was cynical or dismissive about Fox News Channel before now has suddenly learned that they weren't cynical or dismissive enough. Astounding evidence emerged this week from the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox. → Read More
How Ron DeSantis Made Himself A Communist Dictator's Best Friend
Ron DeSantis never gets bored of telling us how much he despises communism. → Read More
What We Can Still Learn From Kenneth Starr
For anyone who criticized the late Kenneth W. Starr in life, it might be prudent to observe the ancient Latin injunction: Say nothing but good of the dead, or step by in silence. → Read More
How Many Of 'Her Emails' Were Classified? Actually, Zero
Nearly every day fresh revelations emerge in the federal investigation of the national security and presidential records that Donald Trump purloined from the White House. → Read More
How Many Of 'Her Emails' Were Classified? Actually, Zero
Nearly every day fresh revelations emerge in the federal investigation of the national security and presidential records that Donald Trump purloined from the White House. → Read More
Don't Compare 'Her Emails' With Trump's Brazen Misconduct
Ever since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s premises at Mar-a-Lago on August 8 to retrieve the boxes of files he kept there unlawfully, he has tried to distract attention by reviving his bawling about "her emails." → Read More
Why He May Not Get Away This Time
Most Americans have long believed former President Donald Trump perpetrated multiple felony offenses both before and after entering the White House, according to opinion surveys — and yet those same citizens have also assumed that Trump would never be held accountable. → Read More
Why He May Not Get Away This Time
Most Americans have long believed former President Donald Trump perpetrated multiple felony offenses both before and after entering the White House, according to opinion surveys — and yet those same citizens have also assumed that Trump would never be held accountable. → Read More
Viktor Orban Is A Racist Bully — And A Failed Leader
Nobody should still pretend to be shocked that the Conservative Political Action Conference, an entity no longer "conservative" in any meaningful sense, would feature an appearance by an authoritarian leader like Viktor Orban. → Read More
Viktor Orban Is A Racist Bully — And A Failed Leader
Nobody should still pretend to be shocked that the Conservative Political Action Conference, an entity no longer "conservative" in any meaningful sense, would feature an appearance by an authoritarian leader like Viktor Orban. → Read More
Why Don't Republicans Act Against Their Party's Neo-Nazi Infestation?
As the Republican Party gives off an increasingly strong stench of fascism — with the anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic attitudes inherent in that ideology — the party establishment looks more and more like the "Junker" conservatives of Germany in the 1930s. → Read More
Does 'Pro-Life' Have To Be Mean And Stupid? It's Starting To Look That Way
You’d think they’d be ashamed, these self-infatuated pundits and tin horn politicians who made bogus pronouncements on Fox News and elsewhere about the ten-year-old Ohio rape victim and the Indiana doctor who mercifully ended her pregnancy. → Read More
In January 6 Probe, Things Are Getting 'Real Bad' For Trump Gang
The stunning revelations from the last public session of the January 6 committee have not yet been fully analyzed. Side disputes concerning the details of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony have distracted from the emerging clues about Trump's coup plot. → Read More
On July Fourth, Appreciation For The Truly Patriotic Conservatives
When the flags fly proudly on the Fourth of July, I remember what my late father taught me about love of country. Much as he despised the scoundrels and pretenders he liked to call "jelly-bellied flag flappers," after a line in a favorite Rudyard Kipling story, he was deeply patriotic. I → Read More
The Big Lie, Wrapped In More Lies
Now Americans know for certain what many suspected since Election Day 2020, which is that Donald Trump, his enablers in the Congress, his publicists on Fox News and his co-conspirators in the White House were in on the Big Lie from the very beginning. → Read More
Do Republicans Really Want To End School Shootings? Not That Much
Before the next mass shooting, which is likely to occur tomorrow, someone should mention what is most obvious and disturbing about America's endless gun safety debate. Congressional Republicans are still unwilling to restrict their constituents' access to assault weapon. → Read More
Blood On Their Hands -- And NRA Money In Their Pockets
The gut-wrenching tragedy in Texas has turned into a thoroughly degraded political spectacle of corruption and cowardice. If anyone still wonders why America suffers from gun violence at a level unmatched by any other nation, the answer can be found on gaudy display in Houston. → Read More
If They're 'Pro-Life,' Why Did Republicans Vote No On Baby Formula?
In the long era of anti-abortion demagoguery, “babies” have been the enduring symbol of Republican caring. They want to defend the rights of babies as persons before they are born. Or, as former Congressman Barney Frank quipped, “From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth." → Read More
The 'Deep Roots' Of Justice Alito's Illegitimate Opinion
Not so long ago, the Supreme Court possessed sufficient stature that nobody — least of all its own justices — felt obliged to reassure the public of its legitimacy. Neither Chief Justice Roberts nor his colleagues had to promise that the court reaches its decisions based on law, not partisanship. → Read More
Who Are The Real Sexual Predators? There's A List
Of all the big lies that Republican officials and media personalities have deployed for partisan advantage over the past several years, the most sickening by far is their current campaign to depict Democrats as “groomers” – meaning that they are sexual predators who recruit underage victims. → Read More