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 First of all, the president of the United States had some horrible things to say about the head of the Catholic Church. This is particularly disheartening, since some church leaders in this country ignore Trump's irreligiosity on a regular basis. “Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID, when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else for holding Church Services, even when going outside and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do. He is very weak on crime and other things. He is catering to the Radical Left, and that is not what the Catholic Church should be about. He wants to talk about peace and tell the United States how to handle Foreign Policy, but...

 When Glenn Beck featured Eric Massa to  discuss  his claim that he had been silenced by the Obama administration, the interview spun into a bizarre and deeply unsettling ramble about tickle fights and other nonsense. At the end of it, Beck looked into the camera and said,  “America, I have wasted your time.” Understand, that is the  only  credit Glenn Beck will ever get from me. Not because it made him noble. Not because it erased the fact that he had put a half-baked story on the air in the first place. He gets that sliver of credit for one reason only: he did not keep marching in cadence as if the detail had not just marched over a manhole and dropped a soldier through it. He did not try to pretend the lunacy had not just collapsed in full view of the audience. He admitted, plainly, that there was no dressing it up. This was a straight  “well, that happened”  moment. That is what is missing now. When Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Rogan, and Tucke...

  In the final years of Fred Trump’s life, when dementia had robbed him of the ability to oversee his business, those around him reportedly built a fake office on his property and escorted him there each day, allowing him to go through the motions of conducting business while, in truth, he was being managed through a comforting illusion. Somewhere near the front end of that decline, Fred sent an aide to Trump Castle in Atlantic City, where roughly $3.5 million in chips were purchased in a transaction that helped rescue Donald Trump’s casino from immediate collapse. While the image of an aide leaving with a briefcase full of chips is sometimes disputed, the essential facts are not: the chips were never used for gambling, and New Jersey regulators later treated the transaction as improper financial assistance to the casino. Fred Trump appears to have spent his final years moving from helping rescue Donald’s flailing cash cow to being staged as if he were still presiding over the empi...

Sounds reasonable: “Deport the criminals.” No, it’s not that simple. I’ll give Charles Barkley this much: he tried. During a March Madness broadcast, he was reacting to a segment about Alex Karaban and his immigrant family, and he was moved to push back on some of the uglier anti-immigrant rhetoric being promoted by the Trump administration and, unfortunately, embraced by plenty of people in this country. For Barkley, that’s actually a decent swing. But he unfortunately stepped into the same trap everyone else seems to these days. He said there’s a difference between “amazing immigrants” and “criminal immigrants.” And there you have it. Right there, that framing doesn’t just divide people into two categories, it quietly sets the default. It establishes the starting assumption before any evidence is even considered. It doesn’t land as “most immigrants are fine, some are criminals.” It lands as “immigrants are a problem, except for the especially admirable ones.” Suspicio...

Ted Cruz and John Kennedy want people to believe they have a clever little two-step: fund TSA and the rest of Homeland Security now, then come back later and fund ICE through reconciliation with Republican votes only. Kennedy himself described exactly that plan, saying he and Cruz wanted to accept Democratic funding for everything but ICE, then use reconciliation later to do whatever they wanted on ICE. That sounds copacetic until you run it through actual Senate procedure instead of the Fox News noise machine. Reconciliation is not a magic word you can say five times like "Candyman" and make the filibuster disappear. It has to be triggered by a budget resolution. That matters. You gotta shoot your shot To get what ya want What ya got Shoot your shot      -Bootsy's Rubber Band The problem is Republicans already "shot their shot." They used the FY2025 reconciliation vehicle to pass the "One Big Beautiful Bill." So if Cruz and Kennedy want...

Though I believe Donald Trump is the strongest argument yet for repealing Godwin’s Law, I’m not going to make a direct comparison between Trump and Adolf Hitler. What I will ask is simpler, and much harder to dodge: setting Trumpism aside entirely, are you for or against the actual policies of Nazi Germany? Once you strip away the uniforms, symbols, and historical branding, what remains is a regime built on horrors no sane person should support. Dictatorship over democracy The Nazis destroyed free elections, crushed political opposition, and turned the state into a one-party authoritarian machine. Censorship and suppression of dissent They silenced critics, controlled the press, criminalized opposition, and made independent thought dangerous. State propaganda They flooded public life with lies, mythmaking, fearmongering, and leader worship to manipulate the population. Racism as public policy They built government around the idea that some races were inherently superior and others inhe...

When people say “make America great again,” the real question is: great for who? Because there were long stretches of American history when things were “great” only if you were in the right group, and not so great if you weren’t. Now let’s talk about that “again.” I gave eight years of my adult life in service to God and country. Voluntarily. No draft. No pressure. I stepped away from my place in the workforce, took up arms, and chose to serve. You don’t do that for a country you think is worthless. You do that because you believe it is worth defending. And not some gussied-up, paint-by-numbers fairy-tale version of America, either. I’m talking about the real America, the complicated America. The one that began with soaring language about liberty and equality while denying both to huge numbers of people. The one that had to be dragged, inch by inch, toward its own ideals by people who refused to accept less. Because America did not accidentally fall short of its promises...

Among the stranger details to emerge from Trump’s orbit is his reported habit of gifting dress shoes to cabinet members, a small act of patronage that somehow manages to be both absurd and par for the course. Apparently, he does not even bother asking what size the recipient wears. He simply decides what each man ought to need and has the shoes sent along, as though even their feet are subject to his personal authority. One of the more revealing images making the rounds is of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the guy Republicans like to point to as the supposed adult in the room, wearing a pair of those Trump-gifted Florsheims that appear to be at least two sizes too big. It is hard to project steadiness and gravitas when you look like you borrowed your shoes from a larger, more confident man. Trump is president. He can hand out whatever tokens of favor he likes. Most presidents settle for challenge coins, signing pens, framed photographs, or the usual ceremonial keepsakes, small symb...

 Trump has announced that Kristi Noem is out as Secretary of Homeland Security. First and foremost, in the words of my favorite urban poet, Fred Flintstone: Good riddance to bad rubbish. But let’s explore how utterly weird this is. We have normalized insanity so thoroughly that a president can announce on his own social-media platform that a Cabinet secretary is out, that a sitting United States senator will “assume office” on a date certain, and people react as if this is just ordinary government. It is not. Trump announced Noem’s departure on social media and said Senator Markwayne Mullin would take over on March 31. Normally, a president asks for or accepts a Cabinet secretary’s resignation and then moves through the usual nomination process for a replacement. Cabinet officers are not installed by post; they are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. And that is where this gets even stranger. Markwayne Mullin cannot simply “assume office” as Secretary of Homelan...

 I’m so happy that Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the pearl-clutching panic caucus told us in 2008 that Obama winning meant America was now post-racial . Turns out electing one Black president did not erase racism. It just gave a lot of people an excuse to pretend it had , and pretending is so much more fun than changing. Now, nearly 20 years later, people still won’t vote for a Black woman for president, even when she runs intellectually unopposed .  In Texas, Democrats still can’t get behind a Black woman for Senate. And once again, we hear that tired little word:  unelectable . But wait—Obama was supposedly unelectable too. And then he got elected. Twice , which should’ve killed the argument if the argument were ever honest. So maybe  unelectable  doesn’t mean can’t win. Maybe it means this makes certain people uncomfortable . Uncomfortable with Black ambition. Uncomfortable with Black authority. Uncomfortable with a Black woman who doesn’t ask permission to b...

Donald Trump is a lying liar who wakes up lying and lies all day. Donald Trump is a racist racist who rants about racism at every rally, rostrum, and retweet. On February 6–7, 2026, Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The post drew immediate backlash. White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt initially defended it, saying: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King.” In the same response, she added: “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.” As an aside, it amazes me how Donald Trump surrounds himself with so many self-described born-again Christians who will not hesitate to defend their forked-tongued mentor unapologetically at every turn … but I digress. Tim Scott posted on X: “Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House....

In late January 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice, acting through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, seized 2020 election ballots and records from Fulton County under a court-approved warrant—more than five years after the election was certified, recounted, audited, and exhaustively litigated. No new allegation of fraud was announced, no criminal charge disclosed, and no evidence surfaced that could alter the settled result. The most plausible purpose of the seizure, therefore, is not discovery but reexamination: an effort to enable a retrospective recount in service of a claim that has already failed in every legal forum. Even if such a recount were conducted, it could not change history or law; it could only provide an official-looking pretext to keep insisting that a concluded election somehow remains unresolved. So, let me get this straight. You LOST in 2020 to Joe Biden.  You went to court more than 60 times, arguing in front of many of the judges you yourself appointed, ...

 I have been a proud progressive for all of my adult life, although I admit that in the earliest part of that period, I’m not sure I fully understood everything that entailed. In those days, there were liberal and conservative Democrats, liberal and conservative Republicans, and liberal and conservative Independents, a reminder that ideology once described tendencies rather than tribal identities. At the very least, early in life, most of us get our politics from our parents. My father did not indoctrinate me with his politics, but he took us to marches and protests when circumstances permitted. I vaguely remember playing around the reflecting pool as Dr. King revealed his dream, unaware at the time that I was witnessing history rather than simply inhabiting it. I also remember my mother explaining to us one Christmas that we might not get all the things we wanted because some little girls had died in an explosion in the basement of a church. I remember not quite understanding exac...

 Our founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, not only created three coequal branches of government as a system of checks and balances, but made the Constitution a living, breathing document that could be amended to ensure not only that things they did not conceive of at the time could be properly addressed, but also so that law and order, peace and harmony may coexist at once. This deliberate adaptability ensured that the system could survive both unforeseeable challenges and foreseeable abuses of power. This flexibility was not an accident; it was a safeguard against both ignorance and ambition. When needed, the legislative branch could enact checks and balances within each of the three coequal branches to ensure that each branch works properly. In other words, no branch was ever meant to operate on trust alone, but on enforced restraint.  The Constitution assumes human fallibility, and it is precisely that assumption that gives the system its strength.  Other countr...

In 1942, during World War II, the East Wing was added to the White House to provide office space for the First Lady and her staff. Eleanor Roosevelt needed real working offices. Unlike her predecessors, she wasn’t simply hosting teas and entertaining the wives of foreign dignitaries; she was running press conferences, traveling constantly, and operating like a cabinet-level official. The interior of the White House was already overburdened, so the powers that be decided to erect a temporary wartime structure. As they dug the foundation, they used the construction as cover to secretly build a hardened underground bunker beneath it. That bunker later became the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), the place presidents go to plan all things wartime and, just as importantly, the place they go when everything else goes to shit. Until very recently, the East Wing housed offices for the First Lady, the Social Secretary, and the White House Corres...

At a White House press briefing, JD Vance claimed that the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good is “protected by absolute immunity” because he was acting as a federal law enforcement official carrying out his duties. He said: “You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action — that’s a federal issue. He is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job.” First of all, what he is describing sounds more like qualified immunity ( I know this from all the years I spent watching L.A. Law ), and JD Vance has a law degree from Yale , so he has necessarily been exposed to the concept and should therefore know this to be false . He framed his statement to mean that a state prosecution attempting to hold the agent accountable under Minnesota law would be inappropriate. Federal agents do not have absolute immunity from state criminal prosecution. Further, while everyone is conc...

It is deeply ironic, and more than a little infuriating, that Marjorie Taylor Greene is now poised to ride out of town on a moral high horse for her sudden concern about the victims named in the Epstein files. This is the same Marjorie Taylor Greene who entered Congress as an unapologetic QAnon devotee, peddling fever-dream fantasies about “Pizzagate,” secret tunnels, and Democrats supposedly running child sex rings out of government basements. The same Greene who, at every opportunity, brandished nude photos of Hunter Biden during congressional hearings, turning oversight into voyeurism and cruelty. The same Greene who has spent years amplifying grievance, hate, and conspiratorial rot as her primary political currency. Now, we’re meant to believe she’s enlightened. Right. I have to call bullshit. Let’s also be clear about what hasn’t happened. She has not apologized for a single one of her past positions. She hasn’t disavowed QAnon, or for that ...