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that it’s Rand Paul unequivocally opposing Pompeo and Haskel, and not Chuck Schumer.

Richard Silverstein at Middle East Eye warns us that: “With the accession of figures like Pompeo and Bolton to positions of power in the Trump administration, we face a nightmarish Dr Strangelove scenario. As you may recall, that film ends with … Continue reading →

Can you believe, well, yes, you can, this unconscionable woman says that a vote against torture doyenne Gina Haspel is a vote for terrorists! It might as well be 2002 again. And until the Democrats begin to grow a spine … Continue reading →

And Sen. Schumer is OK with that. Unbelievably, even Rex Tillerson seems to have a greater grasp of geopolitical reality than Mike Pompeo. Trump wants Pompeo in as head of State so that he breach the nuclear agreement with Iran … Continue reading →

Mike Pompeo, Trump’s new State Department plant in his perpetual game of musical secretaryships, is another bought-and-paid-for Koch junkie–and that has terrible implications for our foreign policy.

Predictably, the gun fanaticism-for-profit freaks bring Trump to heel in just no time at all.

OK, it’s forty-plus years later, but I suddenly had a flashback to Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera singing “My Own Best Friend,” at the end of act one of Chicago. They grabbed you by the throat and looked as noir … Continue reading →

who tweets: “[Bret] Stephens et al are just playing their role in a very old parlor game, where Serious Conservatives tell liberals they are bad and wrong (that’s what ‘intellectual diversity’ means to elite center-lefties) and liberals proceed to engage … Continue reading →

The Manhattan Borough President has to know that she can’t just talk the talk but must indeed walk. Somewhere. In some direction. We need to demand that she take a stroll. I hope she walks down Broadway from 14th street … Continue reading →

On development issues as well as public education, there are now, at best, distinctions w/o a difference. Diana Ravitch describes De Blasio’s betrayals of public education and capitulation to private charters.