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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 2, 2024

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For Republicans, It’s 3 AM In An After-Hours Bar

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In Joe Biden’s America, it’s morning. For Republicans, it’s now 3 a.m. in an after-hours bar. The people are wasted, hollering about their “enemies,” some working to repurpose their bad behavior into grifting opportunities. The sun in Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” pitch set long ago. America, in the official Republican view, is something of […]

Who Taught George Santos To Be Such A Self-Serving Fraud?

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People are baffled by the surreal saga of George Santos, the bizarre Republican congress critter who is a bottomless sinkhole of lies. How could he think that he, a highly visible public figure, could get away with such blatant fabrications? Perhaps he thought he was a corporation. After all, these multibillion-dollar brand-name outfits routinely lie […]

Social Security On The Cutting Block?

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“We have no choice but to make hard decisions,” Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern recently said. He leads the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 160 Republican lawmakers that recently called for making cuts in Social Security. Among other things, the group wants to raise the age at which a worker can collect full […]

What Does Charlie McGonigal Know About 2016?

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The arrest of Charles McGonigal, chief of the FBI counterintelligence division in New York from October 2016 until his retirement in 2018, reopens festering questions about the troubled election that put Donald Trump in the White House. Among the crimes charged against McGonigal in two lengthy federal indictments is a secret financial relationship with Oleg […]

The Goose And The Gander

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What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. It’s the latest game in Washington, being played out every time a document is found in a garage or a room near a garage in Wilmington, DE, as the relics of 40 years in public life are searched for random classified documents. And so the […]