I’m curious about the fire sale we’ve witnessed on the White House lawn. They’re offering public lands and federal buildings for cheap. They’re mowing down civil servants like roadside weeds. They’re liquidating whole agencies with utter indiscrimination. Are we that hard up for cash? Apparently not. — We have $45 million rattling around to pay…
DetailsIf they come after Stockholm, they’ll come after us. Stockholm. Sweden. Yeah, there. The White House says Stockholm must root out diversity, equity and inclusion — DEI — policies for any contractor with which the U.S. embassy there does business. What? As with so much that we’ve observed over the last 100-plus days, this stretches…
DetailsI wish I didn’t have the name “Witkoff” in my brain. Just as I wish I’d never heard the name of a certain brazen self-dealer who cheapens the presidential seal today. I wish my retinas were not burned by the sight of him. There he is in the one-time house of Jefferson, Lincoln and two…
DetailsIs it considered out-of-bounds to call a woman a goon? Whatever the protocol, in Kristi Noem’s case consider it done. A conscienceless camera-chasing goon. That’s the photo-op jockey atop Homeland Security. How proud she was in her ICE gimme cap, standing before a backdrop of head-shaved, shirtless Venezuelan immigrants who’d been shanghaied off to a…
DetailsHe tried this once before – running a university — or whatever he called it: “wealth institute,” “entrepreneurial initiative.” Argh. In 2011, over lawsuits asserting the institution’s bogus-ness, over a swarm of complaints by defrauded students, over investigations by the state of New York, it shut down. And it was on to another con. Now…
DetailsIf it weren’t so disastrous, it would be a comedy classic. The day of the great stock sell-off was like one particularly side-splitting scene in the movie “Airplane”: “Flight 209 now arriving at Gate 8 . . .” “Gate 9.” “Gate 10.” “Gate 13.” “Gate 15. . .” The Associated Press’s headline April 3 around…
DetailsFor those who haven’t left the bed since the morning after Nov. 5, it’s time to yank the curtains open. Time to open that window to a blossoming world. For those whose morning greeting has been, “All is lost,” time for some winning, like this: — Wisconsin voters turned back Heil-On Musk’s attempt to buy…
DetailsWe now can know the MAGA-fied, true-believer replacement force for federal workers demeaned and demoralized into submission by a president bent on destruction. Rats. When federal workers who had been doing their jobs perfectly well from home were forced to return to work by presidential edict, they found a field of horrors headlined by long-tail…
DetailsIt doesn’t matter what Pete Hegseth does from here to eternity. He can’t undo this. His Defense Department had Jackie Robinson’s story scrubbed from a department web page. America not being a closed society — not yet, anyway — we found out about the stupid stunt. So — uh-oh! – DOD scrambled to undo it.…
DetailsNot that I was sapped of outrage. There are, however, only so many minutes of any day one can be aghast. So, as I pored through the long list of words lusty totalitarians now deem verboten by our newly enthroned junta and its strongman, El Tangerino, my eyes grew heavy. (I write satire, but this…
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