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MARCIA BLACKBURN’S “TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN VALUES” INCLUDE MAKING THE ROADS MORE DANGEROUS
and destroying a future for America’s children. Blowsy NRA moll ($1.3 million in contributions to date) Sen. Blackburn was at her hypocritical worst in the Oval Office yesterday, promoting with fake-solemnity a roll back of automobile safety requirements and fuel … Continue reading
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SEN. WHITEHOUSE CALLS OUT THE DEGRADATION TRUMP HAS UNLEASHED ON THE KENNEDY CENTER
Whitehouse reads Richard Grenell, Trump’s totally unqualified choice to head the Center: “Documents obtained by Environment and Public Works Committee Democratic staff indicate that you have turned the Kennedy Center away from its mission. Contracts, invoices, and facility use agreements … Continue reading
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THE ANTI-NYC DEMOCRACY BALLOT MEASURES THAT MAMDANI VOTED FOR
Village Preservation explains: “In a monumental shift, the recently-approved ballot measures 2, 3, and 4 moves unilateral land-use decision-making authority to the Mayor for a broad range of land use decisions. This cuts the City Council and the public out of much of … Continue reading
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WHY NO PUSHBACK FROM DEMS
to Trump’s daily defamation and lies about Biden? Don’t they understand that the refusal of Biden himself to answer Trump’s smears is what cost the Dems the 2024 election (as, of course, did the disastrous hijacking of Harris’ campaigning by … Continue reading
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CHRIS CUOMO DEMONSTRATES WHY HIS BROTHER LOST TO MAMDANI
when he calls the Mayor-elect the “far left.” And he demonstrates how stultifying and reactionary the Democratic Establishment has become, and why it is loathed by by the party’s base.
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HAVE THE DEMOCRATS GONE SILENT?
They warned for months that Trump’s militarization of the National Guard in support of his war against Democratic-led cities was escalating tensions. Now what they warned about has led to disaster. Trump is trying a George W. Bush-style exploitation of … Continue reading
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RISING CANCER RATES GO HAND IN HAND WITH NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
NUCLEAR POWER = CANCER should be the banner credo of the anti-nuclear movement. Beyond Nuclear reports on how Minnesota’s aging nuclear plants are destroying public health. . . and flirting with further calamity.
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MUCH OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE WANTS 1 OF 2 THINGS
Either policies that demonstrably improve their lives, or, failing that, a grotesque circus providing mindless entertainment, one that they hope will include the license to hate and scapegoat the most vulnerable.
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“WHATEVER SEX YOU WERE, SHE WAS THE OPPOSITE”
That would be Tallulah Bankhead, as described by cellist and composer Alan Shiulman. Shulman played in the orchestra of Bankhead’s “Big Show” on radio, and composed “A Laurentian Overture” that he dedicated to her. His son Jay Shulman shared his … Continue reading
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OUR ARMED FORCES NEED TO BE TOLD
that if they follow the illegal orders of Hegseth and Trump they will be legally liable. That sick jamboree that the Gold Dust Twins convened on September 30 was about getting military heads as well as rank and file feeling … Continue reading
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