About a month ago, a flock of unidentified drones swarmed over Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, a facility that houses nuclear-capable Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers. The news made headlines for a couple of days, then disappeared under an onslaught of other important breaking news. The following is an update…
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Umpteen Reasons Why Trump Must Be Impeached NOW!
Iran is controlled by one of the cruelest, most despicable leaderships in the world, so when the president of the United States says negotiations are happening and Iran’s leadership says they are not, and most of us believe the Iranians, something is seriously wrong. Among other reasons, it means we…
TELL CONGRESS: Their Failure to Impeach is Actually a Crime
If Congress will not impeach Donald Trump for all his impeachable offenses, it might be time to charge congresspersons with a crime and send them to prison. More on that later, but first some background. Treason is considered one of the most severe crimes a person can commit because it…
Saturday’s Protest: A Crucial Moment to Raise Our Voices
The largest political rally in American history will occur across the nation Saturday, March 28, as millions of people turn out to participate in more than 3,000 No Kings events that are planned for every state in the nation and in some foreign countries. Why are we doing it? Because…
War’s Unintended Consequences Are Sinking Trump
Donald Trump’s dream of neutralizing Iran with overwhelming firepower and quickly coming home to a hero’s welcoming is turning into his nightmare. Unintended consequences will do that, and they are doing it. Big time. What Trump said would be a short and surgical war with Iran appears to be a…
Trump’s Desperate War of Choice on Iran
Donald Trump ordered the United States to attack Iran because we had to destroy its nuclear weapons program. Or because Iran refused to make a deal. Or because Iran was about to attack somebody. Or because Iran threatened the United States. Or to replace Iran’s hardline theocracy with democracy. Or…
Why People Support the Evil Trump
Why would anyone want an openly evil person – meaning Donald Trump — to be the United States’ Fuhrer? It turns out that there are three definable groups of people who do, and who will follow him no matter what he does. I’ll get to those in a minute but…
Trump Cannot Stop the Midterms
Donald Trump makes it clear every day that that he doesn’t fear losing anything during the upcoming midterm elections, either because there will be no midterms or, if there are, he will rig them so tightly that Republicans will retain control of both houses of Congress. He told his followers…
Good News Galore!
The constant drumbeat of especially bad news in recent days and weeks has been so depressing that it’s easy to think nothing good is happening in the world. But that would be a terrible mistake. Despite all the bad news, especially those stories from Minneapolis, good people continue to do…
Has Humpty Dumpty Fallen?
I wrote a newsletter last September, published under the headline “Trump Is Heading for a Fall,” that predicted that he would fall and his fall would be like Humpty Dumpty’s: sudden and irreparable. It seems very possible, even very likely, that Trump’s fall has begun. The tipping point appears to…