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A requiem For privacy

When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of ...

For Trump, it’s a color-blind man’s world

President Donald Trump is definitely color blind, as he can only see white, and as far as gender, it is men in all key roles. Maybe it has something to do with how Trump amassed large vote totals. White men carried Trump into the White House. Now, he's still defending an Anti-Weaponization ...

The perverse genocide charge

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza. It's nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker — radical influencers on the right and left ...

Trump’s message to farmers reveals a tractor-sized reality gap

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — "We love farmers. We love everything about you," U.S. President Donald Trump said to a group of Wisconsin farmers. Maybe because farmers, who deal in dirt-under-nails reality, are everything this administration vows to be — but consistently fails to ...

Platner wants redemption, others want a refund

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna conceded at a rally for the Maine senatorial candidate that Graham Platner's actions have not been sterling. Voters considering Platner don't like his "shameful" actions against women, the Californian said, but "they are willing to extend him grace and ...

Here to ‘Help’

Politicians promise they'll "help" us. President Donald Trump says he'll "create the jobs and future you deserve." President Joe Biden liked to say, "Help is on the way." I prefer President Ronald Reagan's: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the ...