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No one cares about Joe Biden’s lawlessness

Here we go again. President Joe Biden has, once more, claimed to find astonishingly wide-ranging authority to forgive student loans hiding in minute places deep in the federal code. Biden has already been rebuked for this practice by the Supreme Court, yet he remains undeterred. He’s ...

GOP is party of Putin

“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” That acknowledgement from Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was echoed a few days later by Michael Turner, the ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bizarre case against speaker

The first time that Republicans toppled their own speaker during this Congress, it wasn’t a particularly edifying spectacle, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is reaching for new lows. To paraphrase Marx: first as a farce, then as a more preposterous farce. Greene made her anti-Mike Johnson case ...

CIA wants more power to spy on more Americans

Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment — which protects the individual right to privacy ...

GOP’s Karl Rove goes off

Republican strategist Karl Rove has some excellent advice for Donald Trump, which, judging by his usual resistance to even the mildest criticism, Trump probably will refuse to hear. But that doesn’t stop the rest of us from paying attention, especially President Joe Biden and others in his ...

Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing

We live in a wondrous place. Even in the heart of “the city,” you don’t have to go far to see the stars, or to feel like you’ve escaped into the wild. We cherish our resident nature, but our species is prone to blunder — and sometimes little errors get amplified. Hard to imagine ...