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Trump’s Iran war not likely the jaunt he’s trying to sell

Here we go again. What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war with Iran broke out? We have grown wearily familiar with President Trump's cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his tendency ...

Trump completely reverses Obama’s strategy on Iran

By RICH LOWRY Syndicated columnist Donald Trump has always been the anti-Obama. He rose in opposition to President Barack Obama and has reversed many of his Democratic predecessor’s policies. But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs more directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran ...

Supposedly easier way out of obesity may not be so easy

By GEORGIA GARVEY Syndicated columnist I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how it’s “taking the easy way out” to use GLP-1s to lose weight. That stands for glucagon-like peptide-1, a drug used for type 2 diabetes that has been shown to also help with obesity. It may be true that ...

Senate Six declare war on Iran war

Readers, does it seem we're going through one constitutional crisis after another? Six Democratic senators told a scrum of journalists that President Donald Trump's newly launched war on Iran, with Israel, pushed them past a breaking point. They vowed to force public hearings and debate on the ...

Republicans aren’t willing to call the war in Iran what it is

Let's state the obvious: We're at war with Iran. My evidence? Turn on your TV. U.S. forces, working with Israel, killed the supreme leader of Iran and many of his top aides. We sunk Iran's navy and destroyed most of their air force. We bombed thousands of military sites across the region. ...

Political parties on perilous ground

As Donald Trump's Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump Democrats hold up Homeland Security funding in what looks to some like prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens, one is tempted to ask, ...