It took till almost after lunchtime, Day 1 of this reign, for fact-checkers to start losing track of the torrent of lies flowing from President Donald Trump’s lips. Similarly, one loses track of the progression of his policies that judges have declared half-cocked, presumptive and unconstitutional. The…
DetailsNo one has the Trump administration figured out like satirist Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker. Here’s the headline to his post last week: “Sarah Huckabee Sanders offers to lie for free during shutdown.” It’s a tough job, carrying bucket after bucket of…
DetailsRenaming federal departments is nothing new. The Defense Department was the War Department. The State Department was Foreign Affairs. And in 2016 the nation’s steward of public lands became the Department of the Inferior. And with it the Environmental Pillaging Agency. Take bad science, add ethically malformed leaders, and…
DetailsFifty years ago, just before he became the first man to plant his feet on an astral plane, Neil Armstrong wrote that from space, one perceives “a much bigger universe than we can normally see from the front porch.” “Perhaps going to the moon and back isn’t that…
DetailsThis 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”…
DetailsSimilarities 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.…
Details“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…
Details“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…
DetailsFor 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…
DetailsSince 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…
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