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The government is hiding something about the “Havana syndrome”

You can’t expect transparency from our government. This is especially true when it comes to the so-called Havana syndrome – a generic term used...

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The ripple effects of Drowsy Don beyond the courtroom: The Trump trial is making everything weirder

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. In my mind, I was traveling through the hot, dry landscape of Nevada and headed toward the mecca of...

18.04.2024 5

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A total eclipse of Donald Trump: First felony trial could finally humble him

“So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the...

11.04.2024 7

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Say it bluntly: The president just moved heaven and earth

Ultimatum: n. a final proposition, condition or demand  Especially: one whose rejection will end negotiations and cause a resort to force or...

07.04.2024 8

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“They decided to get even with him”: Trump's revenge against Julian Assange broke the media

As divisive as politics have become in this country, there is one thing upon which most people agree: The media sucks. We’ve heard it all: The New...

04.04.2024 3

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It could boil down to a Snickers bar — or golden sneakers

Let’s call her Barbara. She doesn’t want to use her real name for reasons that will become clear. She lives in Virginia, has voted for Donald...

01.04.2024 20

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Biden just can’t stop stepping on his own good intentions

Anyone else ready for a time out for an important commercial message or a snack – because I’m worn out.  Tuesday showed the tale of two...

28.03.2024 10

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I got my own Trump document dump — and it makes clear why his election interference case is delayed

Our government lies. Two and a half years ago, while doing some research, I filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for information on former...

23.03.2024 30

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We have met the enemy and he is us

America has lost its collective mind.  Some will argue that we lost it years ago and they may be right. Today we are saturated by “truth...

21.03.2024 70

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There is only one thing that matters about Donald Trump — and it’s not his crimes or mental decline

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m already tired of the presidential election campaign and it’s just mid-March. And I like politics. ...

14.03.2024 4

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Biden's State of the Union speech is a historic challenge

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” Nikki is out. The race is on. For the second time in...

07.03.2024 5

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The media is missing the real battle — and Trump’s secret weapon

The real issue about this year’s general election is about to jump out and bite us hard where we don’t want to be bitten. Members of the Biden...

05.03.2024 9

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Good riddance to Mitch McConnell

Senator Mitch McConnell, the political Louisville Lip is finally giving up his spot as the top Senate Republican. It is a blessing and a curse as...

29.02.2024 20

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Joe Biden gives the media a desperately needed lesson about Donald Trump

The most disturbing thing I’ve ever heard a president say did not come from Donald Trump. It came from Joe Biden. Speaking with reporters in...

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Will Alexei Navalny's death finally break Trump's hold on evangelicals?

We live in a land of abounding quackeries and if we do not learn how to laugh, we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of...

22.02.2024 5

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Trump trials give MAGA a false sense of confidence

Just before Donald Trump stepped into a New York courtroom Thursday, he stopped and spoke with reporters. He ranted. He raved. He didn’t make much...

16.02.2024 6

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Biden and Trump are both too old – but only one is a traitor

If you are a partisan and you’re not angry by the time you finish reading this, then I haven’t done my job. After a special prosecutor recently...

15.02.2024 10

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Hiding Joe Biden won’t help him

Once, while standing in a press scrum at the Capitol many years ago, I watched Joe Biden take questions for about 20 minutes from a gaggle of...

09.02.2024 4

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Republicans are sticking to Trump — they're about to reap the whirlwind

Welcome to the whirlwind. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and constitutional lawyer, says he doesn’t believe the Republicans can win this...

08.02.2024 40

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MAGA is right (sort of)

Ecclesia semper reformada. One of the saddest stories I covered years ago in Texas reminds me of politics today. The local constabulary put down a...

01.02.2024 20

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There is no horse race -- it’s time to see that the stakes are too high this time

Fearlessly, the idiot faced the crowd, smiling Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning And who's the fool who wears the crown? ...

25.01.2024 4

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Greg Abbott is pushing Texas to the brink

To rule is easy, to govern difficult -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At the end of the day, you have to wonder if Texans are comfortable being a...

22.01.2024 40

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Trump's house of cards is starting to crumble

When you believe in things You don't understand Then you suffer Superstition ain't the way, yeah — Stevie Wonder Donald...

18.01.2024 70

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The GOP sends in the cowards

In the past, Iowa has been a presidential proving ground that separates the wheat from the chaff.  Iowa Januaries in the Hawkeye State can turn any...

11.01.2024 20

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Enough with the Big Lie

This country has not progressed, politically at any rate, since the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Nine deaths are linked to the...

06.01.2024 20

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Americans are tuning out. That’s a good thing

Welcome to 2024. What a brave new world. The White House conducted its first press briefing of the new year on Wednesday.Press secretary Karine...

04.01.2024 8

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2023, the year of sex, drugs and violence

The end of 2023 is beginning to look like the end of the first act of a Greek tragedy, but with the world being laid low, and not just a romantic...

28.12.2023 6

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Christmas in the “fear hole”

He's as blind as he can be Just sees what he wants to see Nowhere man, can you see me at all - John Lennon/Paul McCartney Moments...

21.12.2023 4

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A season of speculation: Impeachment, campaigns and Biden. Oh my!

It’s that time of the year. In New Hampshire, the temperature is hovering around the freezing mark. The halls are decked with boughs of holly. The...

17.12.2023 3

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The speech Joe Biden should give — and we need to hear

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires — Khalil Gibran I went...

14.12.2023 8

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America’s sick and tired of politics

“Every generation of Americans has had to fight to protect some aspect of our democracy in one way or another. Now's our time.”   – ...

07.12.2023 5

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My conversations with Henry Kissinger, a man I abhorred

The first time I interviewed Henry Kissinger, he began the conversation by saying, “I, of course, realize that you’ve read everything I’ve ever...

01.12.2023 6

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Trump is afraid of a rematch

Exactly one year from now, we will all be gathered for Thanksgiving. In addition to the traditional thanks offered for family, friends and loved ones,...

30.11.2023 3

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A perfect Thanksgiving - Donald Trump on the rocks

Each Thanksgiving my family goes through an extended ritual of talking about things we’ve been thankful for during the previous year. This all...

23.11.2023 2

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America's future demands hope: Is Joe Biden up to the task?

Everyone is angry. I’m watching people snap. Late last week, when I was stopped at a red light, a naked man streaked past me on the crosswalk,...

16.11.2023 10

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Cancel the Donald Trump reality show: War in the Middle East makes Don's courtroom antics irrelevant

Democracy is a legitimate form of government for one very important reason: It works. It worked to the detriment of the Republican Party in local...

09.11.2023 20

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Michael Cohen Says Trump Faces Ultimate Personal Doom: Penniless Imprisonment

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney, has been called a lot of things over the years. Today, he is primarily known as...

06.11.2023 3

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Michael Cohen: Trump will go broke and may face prison — "it's going to hit him hard"

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney, has been called a lot of things over the years. Today, he is primarily known as...

06.11.2023 40

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MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be

The world inches closer to a war that only psychopaths want to see. On Tuesday the FBI issued a warning that the chance of staged terrorist attacks in...

02.11.2023 6

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GOP finally picks a speaker: But the hellish chaos of D.C. won't end anytime soon

The clowns continue to burn down their circus. Late Tuesday, the clowns started whispering, “Who is Mike Johnson?” That murmur spread across the...

26.10.2023 3

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Joe Biden visits an actual war zone; House GOP tries to pull its pants up

It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth. Truth? Who knows. Facts? Definitely. The House of Representatives has been at war with itself...

19.10.2023 4

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Triumph of the goon squad: If Jim Jordan becomes speaker, the GOP can go no lower

I think I finally understand George Carlin. He said that when he finally came to a certain awareness about humanity it freed him to make observations...

17.10.2023 7

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Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree

At a funeral for a dear friend on Wednesday, his widow approached me and said she didn’t know who she was anymore. She was used to being a couple,...

12.10.2023 7

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Congress descends into comedy and chaos — but America's not laughing

The next time you get a chance to talk to a member of Congress, ask them who they think their peers are. If they answer "my constituents," you may...

05.10.2023 7

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Donald Trump's thrill ride is nearly over — but the media refuses to let go

This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend The end of our elaborate plans The end of everything that stands — Jim...

28.09.2023 1

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar on drug reform: Big Pharma "spent hundreds of millions — and the public won"

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is known for a lot of things. She is the author of four books, she's a longtime civil rights defender and she made an...

23.09.2023 7

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With shutdown looming, GOP's comic-book villains push America to the abyss

Every two weeks or so, some scientific journal publishes a new article that implies our reality might just be a computer simulation or a game on some...

21.09.2023 9

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Is Joe Biden in big trouble? It looks that way — and he's got nobody else to blame

Joe Biden appears to be in big trouble.  House Speaker Joe McCarthy — sorry, Kevin McCarthy — announced this week he will sign off on an...

14.09.2023 1

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Trump vs. Biden 2024 will be all-time ugly — and the media's making it worse

The fact that Donald Trump's Georgia RICO trial will almost certainly be broadcast on live TV should scare the living hell out of him. He won't be...

07.09.2023 40

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