My many undying thanks to my friend and reader Denis Eliot. In a comment on my recent article on Russia, he replied that he had seen an article that said that Putin had complete control of the special military...
You know, being the spokesman for a country's military, or any other large government agency is really not much different than being a politician. You craft your words to shine and highlight your positions and accomplishments, hopefully without letting...
I know Trump is an idiot. You know he's an idiot. Incompetent buffoon, racist, traitor, and that's just from the last few days. But it seems like every few days, we find out something new and horrifying about the orange Nazi shitbag,...
So, daddy’s widdle man whipped out his wallet, pulled out daddy’s credit card, and treated his farmer buddies to another free lunch today, huh? Before Trump waddled out to the podium to peddle his latest bottle of snake oil,...
Most tinhorn dictators, or in Trump's case, wannabe dictators, tend to celebrate "victories" by doubling down on their authoritarian instincts. Trump celebrated the commutation of the jail sentence of his accomplice in crime Roger Stone with a ridiculous and unenforceable...
Vladimir Putin is a moron. And he's proving it every goddamn day. The entire reason of fighting a land war is to come away with more land. But see, the thing is, the land still has to have some value to it! And...
I'm not making a prediction here, but I have a strong feeling that in the next 3-6 months we'll be seeing a communique from Moscow noting the tragic passing of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here's why. There's an old axiom, You...
Money laundering, a “Black Ledger” allegedly containing under the table payments made to Paul Manafort totalling $12.5Million, the sum which caused Manafort’s resignation as Trump’s campaign manager in Summer of ‘16, tax evasion and other charges of political corruption...
I have been chewing on this for a week now. Like most people, I  was stunned to see large numbers of the Cuban people rising up in the streets of Havana, and throughout the country as well. Watching the...
Say what you will about Hillary, but I don’t think she would have gotten us into a war with Canada, nor alienated the rest of our staunchest allies, let alone all on the same day. https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1004812693348511751 Swell. Russia got kicked out...

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