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Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.
EU leaders led the world in condemning the president of Belarus for ordering a truly extraordinary caper on Sunday. In a piece on May 24 titled, “A State-Sponsored Skyjacking Can’t Go Unanswered,” the editorial board of The New York Times began its condemnation as follows: _________ Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, has gone too… Read more.
All of Washington is marveling at how Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has the Democratic Party twisting itself into pretzels trying to appease his “moderate” sense and sensibilities. To put it charitably, this is playing out like the idiomatic tail wagging the dog. After all, despite this appeasement, Manchin is pooh-poohing the likelihood he’ll… Read more.
Yesterday was Armenian Remembrance Day. It commemorates the killing of as many as 1.5 million people in Turkey, by Young Turks, from 1915-23, marking the first genocide of the twentieth century. 106 Years of Denial and Counting… Despite Turkey’s impassioned insistence that there was no genocide, instead labeling the Armenians as casualties of warfare and traitors… Read more.
Starting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News. The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for ‘storming’ state, local and federal government… Read more.
Everyone in New York has known for decades that Trump was a lazy, dumb, rich kid who squandered the hundreds of millions he inherited, and then proved so inept as a businessman that he managed the arguably impossible feat of bankrupting a casino … five times. ‘The house always wins’ was the motto that had… Read more.
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I picked the Biden-Harris ticket way back in January 2019 – when nobody thought Joe had a prayer, and Harris was just an exotic wonder. Therefore, I feel obliged to go on the record now, especially given that the ghost of 2016 suddenly all pundits hedging their bets. But I say to you, America: Fool… Read more.
I appreciate people like Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, insisting on talking through their face masks. This, even when physical distance and being outside make it perfectly safe for them to take off their masks. But I find it irritating to the point of utter distraction to watch Biden adjust his mask after every… Read more.
Donald Trump has spent a lot of time and money trying to convince the American people that Joe Biden is a senile old fool who needs drugs just to remember his own name. This even had Trump feinting this manifest absurdity: I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to,… Read more.
