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Summer of Love Revisited

Ugly street protests, demands for law and order, inflation, wars, COVID, constitutional crises—many believe the US has never encountered today’s threats to its existence. Seriously? …

Case for a New Movement

I am weary of reading and hearing the laments from progressives that the Democratic Party is not taking more vigorous action against Trump’s outrageous and illegal policies. There are a couple …

They Doth Protest Too Much

There are things in this world that are so obvious that to assert them requires no supporting evidence. The sky is blue. Water is wet. Even your mother’s love hardly requires confirmation. …

Old-School Military Ethos Not a Winner

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is extremely inept, so it is fascinating that he is fixing people that he sees as being unqualified because they are products of DEI and “wokeness,” when he …

Megyn Fox Working to Get Back In MAGA

I was channel flipping and came across a “Turning Points” convention, which was being covered by C-SPAN 2; it was a rebroadcast. Turning Points USA is a Republican propaganda organization …

Weapons Make the War

“One war over, Netanyahu heading to D.C.,” Minnesota Star Tribune, July 7. If a super-superpower did a “war” upon the U.S., and the U.S. was defenseless to the …

Dress Code Dictators

The obsession with uniforms in schools is nothing but an authoritarian shortcut to control, suppress, and mold young minds into flesh-and-blood robots. We’ve been brainwashed for years to …

Rectify Disparity Amongst Nation’s Wallets

Professor Robert Reich’s double-column history (August 2025 TPP) of how the “Demos” ditched the working class neglects to mention blundering Bill Clinton’s ill-advised …

Trump’s Pardon Scandal Reporting: Who Makes the Grade?

Having been a two-term elected prosecutor, I am well qualified to judge the theft, shakedowns and especially money for presidential pardons during Trump’s first six months of his second term. …

Our Expiring Empire

Thank you to Don Rollins for helping to sound the alarm on the decline and fall of this empire’s manifest destiny (“A Nation in Decline: Somebody Has to Break the News,” September …

Trump Pokes Pointed Sticks in Our Eyes

USA operates the best observatories in the world, on ground and in space, that study our planet, Earth. That’s about to change. Trump’s budget, passed by the Republicans in Congress, …

Wastefraudenabuse

“Wastefraudenabuse,” a.k.a. “wastefrausenabuse.” I have been hearing this semantic flash-bang grenade all my life from pols running for office. And guess what? When they got …

By Any Other Name

According to the dictionaries, “trump” means overbearing falsifier/swindler and is a corruption of triumph, fittingly suggesting that the unholy “First” Family’s dumping …

Patterson’s Love for FBI Shows Is Naive

Contrary to Mr. Patterson’s effusive and embarrassing praise of the disturbing proliferation of FBI dramas over recent decades, permit this 40-year criminal defense attorney to disabuse readers …

Don’t Make Our Nanny Flee

My granddaughter, Sarah, just graduated high school.   She’s a good student, raised by two “mothers” who have given her a bright future.   When Sarah was a toddler, her …

What Republican Party?

The Republican Party was formed in 1853, mainly to oppose the spread of slavery and the states’ rights argument that allowed for it. But since the Civil War was fought and the Union restored, …

The Great Sucking Sound

“The three greatest untruths are lies, damnable lies, and statistics.”—Mark Twain On April 2, a.k.a. “Liberation Day,” Donald Trump launched a tirade against the world …

ABC’s Terry Moran Fired for Honesty

If you want to work as a journalist for ABC, then you had better not speak out honestly. Long-time ABC correspondent Terry Moran was suspended then fired for doing just that. A more perfect …

The Problem With Equating Presidents

Our mainstream media distorts the view of our dire situation by often reporting on the new Trump administration as just more usual political news. I never expected Ted Rall to contribute to this …

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