Rudy Giuliani has done the nearly impossible; he has actually managed to single handedly plunge the national discourse into even greater depths of confusion and absurdity than it was in less than a week ago. Pundits are parsing through...
Donald Trump vowed to drain the swamp but instead brought the sewer. The sewer contains rats, which continually turn on one another, and today, it looks like Mick Mulvaney is out to gut Alex Acosta, because it's in his...
I gotta start buying stock in Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes band aids. Because, I swear, if I had a lousy buck for every time Emperor Numbnuts I shot himself in the foot, I wouldn't need my...
Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp." But any good surveyor will tell you, when you drain a swamp, the first thing you do is to expose all of the really nasty, slimy shit that was hiding at the...
You know, when I think about it, I'm really glad that John Kelly is retired from the army. Who knows what kind of lame shit he'd try to pull in a foreign country today if he was still in command....
It's an Orwellian axiom that "who controls the present, controls the past and who controls the past, controls the future." There is no better device to control the present and the flow of information than the internet, and the...
Alex Acosta is not only endorsing federal law enforcement pursuing Jeffrey Epstein for "horrific crimes," he is ignoring his own law-breaking at the time of Epstein's non-prosecution agreement in 2008. Acosta was then a U.S. Attorney in Florida and...
This has the blue check, so it’s not a parody account, right? https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1074829578886103040 How about we rework a few phrases, “Republicans should stand up to Trump and his tremendous corruption” -- he is after all the target of 17 investigations at...
I'll be honest, I am not loving this. As the unplanned dismissal rate in the Trump administration rises like the "Viet Cong body count" in an old Pentagon press release, more and more media analysts are bemoaning the fact...
Brett Kavanaugh apparently had a pretty wild youth, going from one drunken revel and sexual assault to another. Ronan Farrow, the New Yorker: A third male student then exposed himself to her. “I remember a penis being in front of...

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