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CNN’s New Year’s Eve If you’re like me, your days of ringing in the New Year at parties are long gone. Instead, I just channel surf for entertainment – until I fall asleep, invariably before midnight. CNN used to be the anchor for my TV revelry. That’s until it replaced the dynamic duo of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin with Cooper… Read more.
AI: the final human-made disaster? MAGA Republicans seem fixated on Trump’s quest to morph American democracy into an autocracy. They seem possessed of morbid curiosity or fatalism – the dangers a reelected Trump portends be damned. In a similar vein, the rest of us seem hell-bent on using fossil fuels until we destroy our planet. We seem possessed of morbid indifference or fatalism… Read more.
Biden’s ‘slow yes’ helped Russia From the outset, US President Biden framed the war in Ukraine as a tectonic battle between autocracy and democracy. Yet, the US and NATO have been helping Ukraine, a democratic country, fight merely to survive rather than win. Last week, Time Magazine published a definitive update with this striking headline: “The Biden Administration’s… Read more.
The 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump Yesterday, in a jaw-dropping ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court shocked the world. It found that Donald Trump incited the Jan 6 insurrection. Based on that finding, it ruled that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from being president of the United States. Here is how The New York Times reported on its historic,… Read more.
Fans boo Swift Remarkably, the biggest story in the NFL this season has nothing to do with the game. Instead, it has everything to do with the budding relationship between pop star Taylor Swift and tight end Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs. Every game Swift attends becomes more about her than the game. This holds even when fans… Read more.
Speaker Mike Johnson is flip-flopping on everything from single-party impeachment to FISA surveillance. And the liberal media are having a field day lampooning the self-righteous way he expresses his hypocrisy. It’s enough to make the Almighty God think Johnson is a delusional psychopath. Congressional Republicans are as animated by mutiny nowadays as they are by hypocrisy. Given this, he probably… Read more.
On December 5, the presidents from Harvard, Penn, and MIT testified at a congressional hearing on the rise of antisemitism on their campuses. Everyone expected them to field questions from those politicians with ease, like professors fielding questions from their students. University presidents failed That’s why everyone was shocked when one simple question made them all look so… Read more.
Biden warns Israel is losing global support The media are making much ado about President Biden warning Israel’s leaders on Tuesday that they were losing international support. Among other things, he cited the alienating policies of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s right-wing government. Foremost, he bemoaned Netanyahu’s refusal to even consider the two-state solution, which Biden maintains offers the only path… Read more.
Zelensky seeking more aid A year ago this month, President Volodymyr Zelensky came to Washington. He was seeking additional US aid to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s genocidal aggression. He addressed a Joint Session of Congress, where members hailed him as a hero. They viewed him as a beacon of democratic resilience. I duly commented on the Churchillian… Read more.
Musk reinstates Jones on X Elon Musk proved long ago that he is to business what Donald Trump is to politics. Both revel in defying norms and conventional wisdom. Yesterday, Musk proved it again by reinstating Alex Jones on X, formerly Twitter. Jones gained infamy by spreading wild conspiracies, including that: a “New World Order” is… Read more.
