For one so callow, Nick Shirley is an accomplished liar. At 23, you might call him tops in the junior circuit. Listen to the big-league liars: He’s not far from The Show — the future of today’s Republican Party. Hear JD Vance: ““This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners…
DetailsClearly he didn’t want you to know. Maybe he thought the war he started would all be over by morning’s light. A few bombs, a few missiles. You needn’t bother. So on his social media arm he announced it at just past 2 a.m. Were you up at that time? Me, neither. Did networks break…
DetailsBy now only the Thirders are clapping for him. The Thirders — and the trained seals on the right side of the House chamber, and on Faux News. The Thirders, you ask? I introduced them in this column back when President Obama had approval ratings in the mid-70s. I identified the fury of a calcified…
DetailsThe ignorance was exceeded only by the arrogance. “So I can destroy the country, but I can’t charge them a little fee.” ConMan the Destroyer was venting his fury after a Supreme Court majority read what the Constitution, in plain script, says about go-it-alone, contrived “emergency” tariffs. The court majority huddled around the document and…
DetailsIn June of 2004 the tiny mountain town of Granby, Colo., was wrecked, literally, by a man in a steroidal bulldozer. Believing himself wronged by a host of townspeople, Marvin Heemeyer turned a dozer into a monster armored vehicle by which he destroyed City Hall, the police station and several businesses. The crisis ended when…
DetailsI didn’t know him from Yosemite Sam. But here’s the thing: The only reason I watched the Super Bowl was Bad Bunny. I don’t dig his genre. I didn’t understand a word. And yet he was the only reason. I didn’t care about either team playing after my beloved Broncos bit it in the AFC…
DetailsTheir claim was self-defense, sir. Just don’t believe your eyes. It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies – Bruce Springsteen, “The Streets of Minneapolis” Stephen Miller went to Washington seeking fame. Now he has immortality — in a new anthem’s stinging verse. He’s made it. He’s…
DetailsOnce again Republican leaders tell us we didn’t see what we saw. We saw a punk squadron with badges pepper-spray a man for helping a woman. Then the lawmen Rodney King-ed him on a Minneapolis sidewalk. Then they shot him dead. Following, as before, administration officials stepped to the microphone, a bird-call contest of farcical…
Details“Enough is enough,” he wrote in his veto message. At least we must assume he wrote it. “My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies.” Oh, he did write it — he who dodged grade-school capitalization. It was his first veto of the term, and for what? To kill…
DetailsTo the tune of “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Tin soldiers and Kristi coming Discretion they’ve put on hold All year we’ve heard the drumming Masked men who lock and load I saw Kent State on my TV screen the other day, and not in retrospect. In blood. In horror. In real time.…
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