This certainly gives a new definition to “red state.” A Senate report on Russia’s pro-Donald Trump disinformation campaign reveals something so vast that its tentacles reached into places where, seemingly, no slimy caress was necessary. Like Texas. Submitted: A Russian-created Facebook page named “Heart of Texas”…
Similarities between Watergate and the slime-storm swirling around Donald Trump continue to stack up. It was there in the Dec. 10 tweet from the misspeller-in-chief: “No Smocking Gun. No collusion.” Highly reminiscent, this is, of Richard Nixon’s Nov. 17, 1973 claim, “I am not a crock.” (OK.…
“Voter fraud is a felony!” So says the mega-decibel warning (did President Trump provide the punctuation?) posted in black and red in minority communities across the country. The billboards show how serious the Republicans who paid for them are about this stuff, more or less. We…
“For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia,” said Donald Trump on July 26, 2016. That “the record” on which he swore was Twitter rather than, say, before congressional investigators, ultimately may prove beside the point. Trump was lying to the constituents he sought to serve as…
For all his depth, a mark of Abraham Lincoln’s greatness was a deep humility. When saluted by Union volunteers in 1864, he remarked that he was “exceedingly obliged to you for this mark of respect.” He continued, “It is said that we have the best government world ever…
Since nothing that Donald Trump says can be taken seriously except as work for bone-weary fact-checkers, I didn’t take seriously his recent call for the creation of a sixth branch of the military: Space Farce. Now I acknowledge that I should have taken Space…
For the Party of Trump, it’s just a misty memory now – a celebration way back there in June. Republican Karen Handel had barely edged out Democrat Jon Ossoff for a vacant suburban Atlanta seat in Congress. It was the first special election watched nationwide to see how…
Jim Acosta did his job. It’s clear, even after two years, that Donald Trump does not understand his own. The CNN reporter asked the president about his “invasion” terminology of a bedraggled caravan hundreds of miles from our borders – justification for an election-eve rousting of enlisted…
Gnats. That’s what experts at crime scenes call gawkers who suddenly appear to leer at the event. Timothy McVeigh, later to commit his own horrible crime in Oklahoma City, was a gnat at the scene of the Branch Davidian tragedy outside of Waco. So was budding conspiracy monger Alex…
It was a bad day for President Fear and the folks at Fox News. They had planned jointly to set pheromones aflame with high-decibel sounds about a caravan of people headed to our borders from Honduras. Oh, my: people in brown skin coming to do terrible things…