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THE REPUBLICAN SUPRREME COURT IS ANTI-LIFE
The Roberts Court has completely distorted the Constitution to justify mass murder.
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THE UNBELIEVABLE BLINKERED STUPIDITY OF JEROME POWELL
No, Powell tells Sen. Warren, raising interest rates won’t impact gas or food prices, and it may drive the economy into a recession, but-hey.
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CNN DETERMNED TO ENABLE TRUMP’S TREASON
It seems to want to discredit itself as thoroughly as has CBS “News,” which is determined to propitiate the Republicans ahead of their presumed takeover in November (made more and more likely by the Democrats’ customary own goals). CNN’s decision … Continue reading
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THE GOP IS HAVING A LITTLE FUN WITH CHRIS MURPHY
They know naifs when they see them. They waited until Sen. Murphy went to the Senate floor to proclaim the existence of a “framework” for something or other allegedly concerning gun control. And then they pulled the rug out of … Continue reading
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DOES THE NAME JIMMY CARTER MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?
President Biden and his administration seem determined to shut down his pesidency and lose their Congressional majorities. They are now insisting on repeating Cater’s disastrous insistence on raising interest rates and tip the country into a recession. Robert Reich decries … Continue reading
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THE FEAT AND HEAD OF BEN BLISS
More correspondence: “Say what you will about Caruso, Bjorling, Tucker, none of them is recorded as having made a backward leap from a standing position onto a table top which, it shall be noted, Ben Bliss did not once but … Continue reading
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ONCE AGAIN, LANDMARKS BETRAYS NYC
I refer to the grotesque disfigurement of the landmarked Palace Theater at 47th Street and Broadway, humbled by developer and corporate greed, and a totally corrupt, feckless regulatory structure. A new tourist-targeted behemoth is being allowed to engulf the Palace … Continue reading
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FURTHER TO MY IMAGINARY PAPE-VAN HORN MATCHUP AND MORE ON GOLDA SCHULTZ
Of course no one can match Pape’s brilliant combination of resonance and sharp attack, which hits one over the head like a kind of sharp-edged blunt instrument, a kind of shillaugh with razor teeth. But Van Horn comes close and … Continue reading
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NEO-NAZI TRUMP IS BERATING THE JEWS AGAIN
The question is, why would any Jew vote for Trump? Supporting Israel’s militarist right-wing policies is ruinous for Israel.
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LET US PRAISE THE COMPLETION OF A MAGNIFICENT POST-COVID SEASON AT THE MET AND CLOSING PERFORMANCES OF STRAVINSKY’S RAKE’S PROGRESS
From an enthusiastic correspondent: “These are great days and the cast of Tuesday night’s moody, funny, and gloomy Rake’s Progress deserves mention. One can envision the likes of Golda Schultz, Ben Bliss, and Christian Van Horn joining a kind of … Continue reading
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