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Drummonding Up Ridiculous Issues

The other morning, after putting my flag out and prepping my first cup of coffee, I sat down to surf through the inanities of...

Let Them Eat Cake?

  When it returns to session next month, the Legislature has two primary tasks: craft a 2025-26 state budget and enact policies aimed at making...

In Someone Else’s Shoes

The first immigrants to America in my family came to Pennsylvania in the 1600s with William Penn. Never once have I had a worry...

A New Trump Presidency Inaugurates An Old Con

Right before his inauguration, Donald Trump issued a $TRUMP meme coin featuring a defiant him pumping his fist after an assassination attempt. Shortly after...

Welcome To The Grifter’s Ball

Legalized bribery is still bribery – and there is no other way to describe the celebration that marks the second presidential inauguration of Donald...

The Reality Hollywood Can’t Change

We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing Florida's west coast. To the...

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