Over at The Atlantic.com never-Trumper David Frum is celebrating perhaps the first major defeat that Republicans in Congress have handed to their dear leader, when 101 House Republicans today joined with every Democratic Rep. to pass the $60B Ukraine...
The next time a MAGA in your life asks, "Why didn't Putin invade Ukraine when Trump was in office," tell them, "Why would he bother? Trump was already undermining Ukraine and NATO and preparing to give them both to...
There's been news today about President Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu talking by phone today. It's seemed clear for a while the public frustration the Biden administration has with Netanyahu/Israel is at a somewhat higher temperature behind the scenes....
Twice this week the rumor mill has gone on high alert because of unverified reports that Vladimir Putin is no more. So twice one of his lieutenants has come forward to say that reports of the Russian dictator's death...
Early on in his Presidency it was clear Trump was Putin's Puppet. He was openly hostile to NATO and wanted the U.S. out of it. He was also openly disdainful of Europe in general with the sometimes exception of...
I don't think you need to study psychiatry in Vienna to see the quandary that Donald Trump Jr. is in. According to his cousin Mary, who has studied Freud, Jung and the like, Junior never became his own person....
Israel, or more to the point Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and those who've been propping him are grudgingly admitting they crossed a bright red line. That line being deliberately attacking some World Central Kitchen vehicles conducting a humanitarian aid...
We can pretty much surmise that House Speaker-by-a-nose Kevin McCarthy promised the former Resident and current idiot drumpf to boot Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off the House Intelligence Committee for their role as Impeachment managers, because he...
I gotta admit, President Biden's press conference brought a Gaelic tear of pride to my eye. The last time I saw an Irishman in elected office go off like that, it was back when I was growing up, when...
I've resisted writing about the outbreak of war in Israel. Several times today I thought about it and decided with all the moving parts (which I'll get to later) and the problem with getting decent amounts of verifiable information...
