“January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump made that statement. Yesterday. Congressional Republicans weren’t any better. Their reaction to the first session of the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection was to hold a press briefing blaming …
I certainly hope all the work Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are doing to rejuvenate the Ku Klux Klan is being appreciated by their fewllow scum. Boebert and Greene are two of the most famous female Trumpanzees, and neither of them have particularly distinguished themselves in the House of Representatives. Boebert first became known …
What’s the one thing that has the greatest effect on a president’s popularity that he has least effect on? That’s easy. Gas prices. A little more than two years ago — at the depths of COVID-19 — I was able to fill my gas tank for less than $20. I didn’t find myself praising Donald …
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“One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. …
I’m a sucker for clickbait. Show me a list on Facebook and there’s a better than even chance I’ll waste some time looking it over. Some of them are ridiculous, posted by people who think the world started when they were born. Imagine a list of the top 40 actors ever where Tom Hanks and …
It was 54 years ago today that Robert F. Kennedy died, one of the few assassinations that truly changed history. It doesn’t matter who killed him or why, but Kennedy’s death gave us Richard Nixon as president, five more years of the Vietnam War and probably even the horror of Ronald Reagan and his aftermath. …
I don’t think I could ever have more respect for anyone than I do for the men who made up the first wave hitting Omaha Beach in the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. When they went ashore at 0630. they had to know their life span was measured in minutes rather than years. Indeed, …
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“long ago, I used to be a young man …” I love that line from Michael Peter Smith’s lovely song, “The Dutchman.” It’s a song that has been covered many times people and groups as varied as Liam Clancy, Jerry Jeff Walker and Celtic Thunder. The line is from the chorus of a song about …
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A rotting, maggot-infested corpse? A seriously wounded man with a gangrenous leg that will require amputation? An old woman slipping further and further into dementia? There are doubtless other metaphors that would work, but all three of the above describe at least partially America 2022. A dozen or so years back, a historian in Russia …
Comedian Tim Wilson was interacting with his audience. “Youngster, did you play Little League?” The young man shook his head no. “What? You a puss?” For some reason, that was what came to mind when I heard about the disgraceful performance by the Uvalde police department while 19 children were being murdered in their classroom. …
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