This is one of those rare occasions when a letter is a work of art. Attorney Matt Sanderson set a new high bar for brilliantly-composed and utterly devastating letters when he penned a 3-page legal response to Rudy Giuliani...
Tony Schwartz authored "The Art Of The Deal" and is an astute observer of who Donald Trump is and what makes him tick. Several days ago, before James Comey's op/ed dropped Wednesday in the New York Times, Schwartz made...
Wingnuts roasting on an open fire, Mike Pence talking to his toes, some people in Louisiana simply do not like other peoples’ concepts of holiday cheer. A Christmas lawn display of inflated dragons wearing Santa Claus hats aroused the...
Just when one tries easing their way back to real work on a really bad back, a headline pops up that simply has to be addressed, and the one found in Rawstory this morning certainly qualifies. Historian Stephanie McCurry...
We all know that everything we've assumed can change quicker than an instant, the speed of recognition must be faster than the speed of light because there have been many times in my life when I've had precognition -...
As Charlie Pierce asks, what does this man have to do to prove to the world he's a Russian agent, puppet, asset, - put on a fur hat and dance the chechotka on the Truman Balconey? It appears that Donald Trump...
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden summed up what you and I have always believed about what it means to immigrate and become a citizen, beautifully: “It’s pretty simple, You read the document, you understand the document, you pledge allegiance to...
The Guardian published a story on the British Government's investigation into the role Facebook played in the Brexit vote, one that is hauntingly familiar in its overlap to that Facebook played in the election of Donald Trump, such that...
We don't auto-publish every Trump tweet each morning. One cannot give a platform to the dribbles of an unhealthy mind. It can spread diseased thinking throughout the body politic. But, we don't ignore tweets that function as proclamations from...
This is not going to be some well-earned shot against Trump and the role he's played in devaluing the United States around the world. That is taken as a given, it could take a generation, best case scenario, for...

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