About the Storage of Transcripts of Trump’s Calls with Foreign Leaders
New York Times: The White House concealed some reconstructed transcripts of delicate calls between President Trump and foreign officials, including President Vladimir V. Putin and the Saudi royal...
View ArticleSunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 75, Part 1
It is the sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Bach cantata is the first part of the cantata “Die Elenden sollen essen” (The miserable shall eat): Today’s Gospel reading is Luke 16:19-31: The Rich...
View ArticleSo Was Shokin Still Investigating Biden When He Was Fired, Or Not?
There are a lot of different narratives floating out there about Viktor Shokin. Washington Post: Trump has claimed that Joe Biden in 2015 pressured the Ukrainian government to fire Shokin because he...
View ArticleDonald Trump Must Be Removed from Office
Donald Trump on Twitter last night: His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber. He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton To Victims Of Inappropriate Handsiness By Powerful Men: “Get...
[guest post by Dana] Just days after he launched his new radio show on SirusXM, a military veteran has become the ninth woman to to accuse Al Franken of groping her in 2006: “I was just out of college...
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Bogus Claim That IC Changed the Standards for Whistleblowers Debunked;...
This is a distraction from Trump’s behavior but a useful discussion of how conservative “media” operates these days. Sean Davis, whom I used to respect but who has turned into a Trumpist hack like his...
View ArticleTrump Congratulates China on 70 Years Of Communist Party Rule Hours After...
[guest post by Dana] Good morning from the President of the United States: Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China! — Donald J....
View ArticleHmmmmm: Rudy Giuliani’s Clients Would Benefit Financially from the...
I know Trump superfans are all very upset about the total corruption of Hunter Biden, even though 99.9% of them could not begin to tell you what Burisma’s alleged crimes were, much less Hunter Biden’s...
View ArticleTrump Putting Tariffs on Scotch Now
Great: The Trump administration slapped 25% tariffs on French wine, Italian cheese and single-malt Scotch whisky — but spared Italian wine, pasta and olive oil — in retaliation for European Union...
View ArticleDisgruntled Worker Stabs Four Co-Workers To Death At Paris Police Headquarters
[guest post by Dana] Horrible news from Paris: A deaf civilian police worker who had recently converted to Islam was shot dead in Paris today after murdering four colleagues with a ceramic knife...
View ArticleCNN Declines To Air Trump Political Ad; Trump Floats Idea Of A ‘State-Run’...
[guest post by Dana] Ratcheting up the animosity with President Trump, CNN says no to airing new Trump 2020 campaign ad: CNN is declining to run a new Trump 2020 presidential campaign ad, citing...
View ArticleNew York Times: President Trump Suggested Shooting Migrants In The Legs to...
[guest post by Dana] We all know that President Trump ran on immigration reform, and that central to his campaign was his promise of securing the border and building The Wall. Now, according to a...
View ArticleWeekend Open Thread
[guest post by Dana] Feel free to talk about anything you think is newsworthy or might interest readers. I’ll start. First news item: Mitt Romney criticized President Trump and the issues surrounding...
View ArticleSunday Music: Bach Cantata BWV 75, Part 2
It is the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Bach cantata is the second part of the cantata we heard the first part of last week: “Die Elenden sollen essen” (The miserable shall eat): Today’s...
View ArticleOh No He Didn’t: “Pompous Ass” Mitt Romney Spends Quality Time With His...
[guest post by Dana] Enjoyed the pumpkin patch with my sweetheart and the two little pumpkins we brought with us! pic.twitter.com/0lMyUFQQws — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 5, 2019 Who does he...
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Federal Judge: Trump Will Have to Disclose His Tax Returns to Manhattan D.A.
The New York Times reports: A federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, a ruling that allowed the Manhattan...
View ArticleNBA General Manager’s Support For Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protesters Sets Off...
[guest post by Dana] To its shame, the NBA has chosen profit over moral rightness by kowtowing to the Chinese government with expressed regret for the Houston Rocket’s GM’s public support for Hong Kong...
View ArticleTrump Announces US Troop Pullout In Northern Syria Ahead Of Turkey Military...
[guest post by Dana] This happened last night: The White House said that United States forces in northern Syria would move aside in advance of a planned Turkish military offensive. The move marks a...
View ArticleTrump Blocks Interview of Ambassador Sondland
The Failing New York Times (which is actually doing quite well): The Trump administration directed a top American diplomat involved in its pressure campaign on Ukraine not to appear Tuesday morning for...
View ArticleAs Turkey Begins Its Military Offensive, Trump Faces Criticism From Prominent...
[guest post by Dana] Last night, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius tweeted: A bad situation in Northeast Syria is about to get much worse. Sources tell me that US officials have just informed...
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