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@Crash- if you watched PBS News Hour tonight (Friday) do you still think that there hasn't been a definite change in the tone of their reporting on the White House?
C'mon now- they just got their asses chewed real good for that 80-pager that they filed against... hell, I don't even remember who anymore, they've filed so damned many. Maybe they're just trying to stay out of trouble.
Anyway, it should cost Comey…
"INSTANTLY, Zoe flipped the Political Correctness switch: she turned the Orange Words around to mean that HE intended that there should be no autistic people."
@Crash- Yes, I caught that and thought that it was degrading to her comments.
Have you…
A bit more from The Guardian:
Trump celebrates James Comey indictment as ex-FBI director says ‘I’m innocent: let’s have a trial’ – as it happened
“I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either,” Comey said in an Instagram video statement. “My heart …
And this, from The Guardian:
Trump directs FBI and justice department to investigate supposed funders of 'organized political violence'
Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the justice department and the FBI’s joint terrorism tas…
And here are excerpts from a current New York Times report:
Democrats on Thursday condemned the threat by Mr. Trump and his top aides to fire droves of federal employees during a federal closure, and said they would not be cowed into dropping their …
At the rate we're going it's just a matter of time until the DC bunch wind up with all of the money from the Monopoly board. What happens then? Maybe print more money and start over?
From hank's WSJ article-
"The risks of lending to subprime car buyers has also been amplified in recent weeks, after auto lender Tricolor Holdings filed for bankruptcy following fraud allegations. Many of the more than 100,000 borrowers who received…
It's pretty hard to pretend that Putin isn't seriously testing NATO responses to military aircraft incursions across a fairly broad geographical front. Anybody familiar with the runup to WW2?
The following is extracted from a current commentary by Heather Cox Richardson.
On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation…
“Trump has handed Europe the greatest opportunity.”
And, speaking of which...
UK considers visa fee cuts for highly skilled as Trump hikes US charges... Starmer’s ‘global talent taskforce’ examines plans to …
I've long envisioned a giant laboratory somewhere in the universe with a large room with many shelves. On the shelves are many, many large glass containers, each containing an experimental world. Ours is in the section marked "Failures".
As YBB explains, there are a lot of available options to that plan, but it might be beyond the purview of a general news reporter to even understand that. There are good financial reporters around (Paul Solman of PBS comes to mind) and it would like…
Free link to a current commentary from The Atlantic:
It would be awful to live in interesting times, but, fortunately, we don’t.
What a beautiful fall day it is. A beautiful day for saying nothing! That chill you feel in the air isn’t Pam Bondi sa…
In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times. This should be a free link, and these excerpts are just a small sample of the NYTimes report, which is is quite lengthy.
A…
It's the first time in my life that I've found myself in agreement with Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz, of all people. Cruz called Carr’s threats “right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happene…
"Trans."
Look- does anyone really think that "trans", "gay" or any of the ever-multiplying permutations of sexual identity are anything new? That all of this just happened in the last ten years?
Let's get real. All of this stuff has been with us …
"I have to consider that the shooter was in a romantic relationship with his "trans" roommate. That would apparently indicate left-leaning political sympathies."
An interesting concept. It had never occurred to me that sexual preferences were influ…
