This is scary. I'm not sure how long people have known about this, but what you're about to see is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who is the leader of the far-right Russian populist party, which calls itself the Liberal Democratic Party...
A little while ago Donald Trump issued one of his cockamamie statements. This time he denied the fact that he took top secret material to Mar-a-Lago. He said, "I wasn't a filing clerk." He also said in the body...
Seeing a clip of Donald Trump looking foolish is like seeing grains of sand on the beach, there's too many to count. But a recent mash up by the Lincoln Project really captures the essence of who Trump is....
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....
Donald Trump thought that his shock jock comments about Kim Jong Un and what a great guy he was and how swell their rapport was ("he wrote me beautiful letters" "we fell in love") would amuse his base. Little...
This is one of those situations where an explanation only makes things worse. Benjamin Netanyahu, now the Israeli opposition leader, heard about Dingbat Donald's profane reaction to Netanyahu's pro forma congratulations to Joe Biden upon his election. Now Netanyahu...
Ahhh, ever the statesman. Ever the gracious being, as civilized and courtly in defeat as he is humble in victory. What's that you say? Of whom do we speak? Well, surely not Donald Trump. Here's what he had to...
Shortly after the second World War, we fought what became an unpopular war in Korea. Since then, we haven't engaged in a righteous war or achieved legitimate American goals, culminating in America's longest war, Afghanistan. American media has focused extensively,...
This was the next foreseeable development in the saga of the Marine who couldn't stop posting videos and criticizing his superior officers on social media. We have followed the saga here from the beginning. Just go to the magnifying...
"Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide." -- Martha and The Vandellas It fascinates me when people are riotously self destructive. We've all made bad decisions from time to time, that's why hindsight is 20/20. But Stuart Scheller, the...

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