I 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…
DetailsSay you had a gripe over a parking ticket. Say you had enough big-shot clout in town to resolve the matter by shutting down all parking enforcement. Say you thought your company’s water bill was too high. You had it dissolved. The water department, that is. In either scenario, that would make you Elon Musk.…
DetailsTo mortified Americans everywhere — you who still cannot expel the hurt from your minds: This president has done many horrible things: conspiring to undermine a U.S. election; inciting a bloody insurrection; breaking the law and skating past felony indictments. As aghast as you’ve been at all that and about every stunning action since November,…
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